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Day 6 - Abu Simbel

March 12, 2009

This morning we took a 30 minute flight to Abu Simbel

Abu Simbel only has one thing there - the temples!

This is Ramses II's temple

Shot of our group (Amun-Ra Habibi)

It's gorgeous inside the temple. No pictures allowed

It's also right on the lake, which is very cool

Much bigger than it looks in pictures!

The temple right next to it is the temple for his wife, Nefertari

Close-up

With Blair in front of Nefertari's temple

Far away shot of Ramses II's temple

All the people are gone!

Very cool temples

Horus! Love the falcons; they are so cute

Matt with Ramses II

We sailed on a felucca over to Elephantine Island

LOTS of boats

Erin and Matt on the felucca

Lots of pretty scenery

Enterprising boys singing for cash on the Nile

This kid was floating on a piece of styrofoam

Docked at the island where the Nubians live

Goats on our walk to the Nubian house

I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't a little sketched out

We're eating dinner where?

It seems that we're eating dinner in this family's house

Dinner. Surprisingly tasty.

Soup. We ate on the floor up here (there is no roof either)

Yes, I got a henna tattoo

Group shot of all of our tattoos