Abu Simbel

We crossed the river again to get on the bus, go across the small dam built by the British and head back to the airport where we caught a puddle-jumper to Abu Simbel. I got this shot of Grace coming down the steps off the plane, which she was very enamored of, because she looks like a famous movie star :). In reality, all flights end this way - even at Cairo International Airport, you leave the plane on the steps and take a bus to the terminal.

We then took another bus up to the dual temples built by Ramses II in the 13th century B.C.E., one for himself and the other for his wife, Neferteri. You see the famous statues here which face Sudan intentially to intimidate his Nubian neighbors from any thought of invading. It was excrutiatingly hot and a very long walk from the bus to the temples and back again, but oh, so worth it.