Egypt adventure

Early morning this morning- 3am for the drive to Abu Simbel in Aswan. I couldn't sleep on the coach but wasn't as tired as I had expected. We ha a police convoy escort us a major leg of the journey. We arrived and Micky, our tour guide told us all to watch the Nile river as we climbed down to view the temple. We did as he requested and at the bottom turned our heads to see the giant statues that made up the entrance to the impressive temple. Inside were two rows of massive statues forming a passage way to the back of the temple where four statues sat with one, the god of darkness, being hidden in shadows with the other three being illuminated by sunlight. There were little wings in the temple filled with pictures of gods and offerings and slaves and kings, sometimes feasting. There were hieroglyphics on the big walls inside the main base sections and two separate rooms which looked they would have been filled with treasure at one point. It was quite impressive. Next to this temple was another temple, created for his most important wife which was similar but smaller than than the temple of Abu Simbel. 

After this journey the weather had begun to pick up and we headed to the high dam which makes the electricity for Egypt. It was massive and quite impressive. After this short stop we made our way on the coach (where brett enjoyed holding a gun) to Philae temple which was on an island so we had to catch a boat to see it. It was fun having the Nubian men transport us on wooden boats to a temple made in the honour of the God Isis who turned into a bird God to procreate with her partner who had been killed then bought back to life for a few moments to make a baby: Horus II. The temple had been converted into a Christian church do had imprints of crosses and an alter which was a bit bizarre. The temple had a sanctuary which in ancient Egypt held a maximum of two people in it. It was awesome to be able to explore this temple and I appreciated the intention and meaning behind some of the artwork.