View of Lake Nasser from near the parking area at the Abu Simbel temple

Abu Simbel is a magnificent temple located deep in the south of Egypt, located at a distance by road of 280 km from the nearest large city of Aswan. It is located on the Nile, which was almost its undoing, since the construction of the Dam at Aswan led to a huge project in the 1960's to move the endangered monument a bit higher up (this movement was done stone by stone, a remarkable feat of engineering). So, now when you are the Abu Simbel temple, you are actually at a higher point than where the temple was located originally, and the current location of the water level of Lake Nasser (visible in the photo), hides the original location of the temple, which is now under water.

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