January 2, 2005

At 2 AM today we headed to the airport to fly to Upper Egypt and begin a week's vacation that includes a cruise down the River Nile. As the plane was descending into Abu Simbel shortly after dawn, we circled over Lake Nasser which was impounded by the High Dam in the late 1960's. I took a picture from the airplane and found out afterward that the picture framed the temple itself.

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Aerial view of the temple. The Abu Simbel Temple of Ramesses II.