Wide view of landscape with a solitary security guard visible, at Abu Simbel in Egypt

The security situation in Egypt was very tense some years back, when there were a few terrorist attacks on tourists and many of them also died in these attacks, which caused huge damage to the tourism industry. After that, there was a lot of emphasis on ensuring the protection of tourists with a special tourist security force being setup, and this was effective in ensuring much more security to the tourism industry. For example, for Abu Simbel, tourists are allowed to go there on regular convoys, and not allowed to venture on their own.

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