Day Six
Ahoy my lovelies.
A very early start today at 2am. Very tired and it is only now 10am. Just got back from our early morning adventure from Abu Simbel. Caught flight in the dark, arrived in the dark and left Abu Simbel at 8.15am to fly back to Aswan for now we are on board our Nile cruise ship.
Well Abu Simbel was awesome. We were only 40k from the Sudan boarder. Abu Simbel was carved out of a solid cliff in the 13th century B.C. The Great Temple of Abu Simbel and a smaller Temple of Hathor. The Great Temple was built to honour Ramses 11. As in the pic, the broken colossus lost its head in and earthquake in 27B.C.
Temple of Hathor – Dedicated to the goddess Hathor, is the smaller temple of Abu Simbel and was built by Ramses11 to honour his favourite wife Nefertari.
Now on board our cruiser, Noel is very tired so he is having a kip until we are called for lunch at 1pm. After lunch we’re off to find our guide we booked yesterday for a trip up to see the unfinished Obelisk.
A gigantic obelisk, dating from the New Kingdom, lies semi-finished in an ancient granite quarry. If completed it would have weighed 1.8million kg & 41mtrs high. A flaw was discovered so they abandoned it. Now on to Temple of Philae. Built in late Ptolemaic & early Roman periods, this huge temple combines ancient Egyptian & Graeco-Roman architecture. To the west of the temple lies Gate of Hadrian, this was inscribed in 24th August AD394, with Egypt’s last hieroglyphics.
Thanks for keeping all of us posted. Some amazing experiences which we cannot wait to hear more about. We send our love. Jack was delighted to see your photo wishing him a happy birthday.
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