{"id":3371,"date":"2026-01-26T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolbarton.uk\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:53:22","slug":"egypt-day-10-abu-simbel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolbarton.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/egypt-day-10-abu-simbel\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt – Day 10 Abu Simbel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sadly we left our cruise ship and took a short flight to Abu Simbel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abu Simbel is two huge temples hewn out of the rock, in the 13th century dedicated to Ramases II and his favourite wife Nefertari. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the construction of the High Dam in the 1960s it was realised that the temples would flood as the water rose. Many countries offered solutions to save the temple and the Swedish engineering company, Vattenbyggnadsbyran, came up with the best solution. They cut the temples into huge blocks and raised them 64 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This picture was interesting as the extra legs of the horse and arms of the man appear to be to show movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the smaller of the two temples, dedicated to Nefertari, the God of motherhood is shown as a cow with cows ears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We flew back to Aswan and remained on the plane as some passengers got off and others got on. Then we flew back to Cairo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traffic was very busy when we landed and it was a long time before we finally arrived back at the Sheraton Hotel, Giza, on a different floor but with the same view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadly we left our cruise ship and took a short flight to Abu Simbel. Abu Simbel is two huge temples hewn out of the rock, in the 13th century dedicated to Ramases II and his favourite wife Nefertari. Following the construction of the High Dam in the 1960s it was realised that the temples would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,17],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-foreign-holidays","tag-egypt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t