Your guide will receive you in the hotel lobby and transfer you to Abu Simbel in a private air-conditioned car. The guide will provide you with information such as that there is a small Abu Simbel temple located 100 metres from the first temple, which is dedicated to the goddess Hathor and Queen Nefertari, the main wife of the king, King Ramses II dedicated it to Queen Nefertari, his wife and lover, and 6 huge statues of equal size represent the king and queen in a clear manifestation of the high status the queen enjoyed with her husband, adorning its facade.
The temple extends 24 meters deep into the plateau, and its interior walls are adorned with a series of magnificent scenes depicting the queen worshipping various gods either with the king or alone.
You will return to Aswan to see the High Dam, which was finished in 1902, after your trip. Originally just 54 meters high, it was subsequently raised in two phases: from 1907 to 1912 and again from 1929 to 1933.
In 1946 this low dam was about to overflow, so it was decided to build another dam 8 kilometres upstream. In 1952, Adrian Daninos, an Egyptian-Greek engineer, proposed the construction of the Aswan High Dam to capture the Nile flood, store its water and generate electricity. In early 1954, two German engineering companies submitted a design for the project, and in December of the same year, an international committee approved the feasibility of building the High Dam.
After that, you will be returned to your hotel, where our service will come to an end.
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