Tourists at the entrance to the Abu Simbel temple in south Egypt

A number of tourists at the entrance to the Abu Simbel temple in South Egypt. Even though the Abu Simbel temple is located far away from Aswan, it is very popular and a large number of tourists do try to get there. Once you get there however, the whole view of the temple and the surrounding can be done in 2-3 hours (and by road, it takes 3 hours to get there and 3 hours to get back). But you get a sense of awe at the location, based on the structure of the temple and the engineering effort it took to move the temple to a safer location (as it was going to go under the water with the increase in water levels with the construction of the Aswan dam).

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