Temple Trail

Most of the first week we devoted to the cities with all the temples and tombs - the famous parts of ancient Egypt short of the pyramids. I left this section to last, and it seems I've run out of steam... But the short version that won't communicate amazing I found it all to be:

From Aswan the first night, we caught the police convoy (no other choice) at 4am down to Abu Simbel near the Sudanese border, and by early afternoon we had come back to the island of Philae near the Aswan Dam. The temples at both locations had been moved (no easy task) when the dam caused their original sites to be submerged by Lake Nasser. After a couple of days in Aswan, we took an overnight felucca cruise up the Nile to Kom Ombo (more temples), and a bus to Luxor - the old Thebes (many, many more temples and tombs)...

Photos from Abu Simbel, Philae, Kom Ombo, and Luxor...