Rise and shine early and prepare for a 3-hour trip down south Egypt to visit

• Abu Simbel

  which is probably the most stunning monument in all of Egypt. It is here that Ramses II, the most powerful and longest-ruling Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, ordered two temples to be carved from the Limestone Mountains at Abu Simbel in the 13th century BC, as a lasting monument for himself and his queen Nefertari. The former’s façade is dominated by four 70-foot-tall statues of the pharaoh. Between 1964 and 1968 the entire temple has been moved to higher ground because it was threatened to be flooded by the waters that would rise with the completion of the High Dam.

An unbelievable story as one of the greatest challenges of archaeological engineering in history. Approximate duration of the visit to the temples is an hour and a half.