To get to Abu Simbel from Aswan must travel about 280 km along a dual carriageway running through the desert. As there is indescribable heat, visits begin at dawn, so you have to get up at about three o’clock. The drivers of the coaches know the path to perfection, if we add this to the innate recklessness Egyptian driver as there is too much traffic the result is that the trip is done at speeds that would make your hair stand on end to the very Fernando Alonso. Another curious aspect of the trip, which often is the first to make the newly arrived visitor on
Egypt travel is to perceive directly the exceptional security measures taken by the Egyptian government, deeply concerned about the possibility of terrorist attacks, in fact, have already hurt their tourism market enough. All buses leave at the same time and formed a long caravan to the destination. In addition, each bus travels a policeman (ours was the incredible rubber man’s neck, step all the way unlikely absolutely sleeping positions.) Well, first person after living in a remake of the beloved cartoon “Wacky Races “bus version and enjoy an extraordinary sunrise over the desert finally comes to Abu Simbel on
Egypt Tours. The amazing thing of this temple is that it manages to fulfill the expectations. Since childhood I have seen in books, documentaries and bundles of all kinds, imagining it as something great, something special. And it is when one has spent many years waiting for something, imagining and wondering how it will be in serious danger of that reality, however beautiful, is below our dreams. As I say, is not the case at Abu Simbel, when I arrived at the foot of the huge temple and me face to face with three huge giants that have survived for over 3,000 years, I was speechless, in awe
seattle printing and graphic design. And it’s not just the shocking size of the set, but also for its beauty and the feeling of serene majesty it conveys. And if this is not enough, is also inside the temple, with its reliefs, statues, original paintings still preserved, and for the most imaginative, the secret place and environment, so to speak, “Pharaohs curse” (crowded with tourists, of course).