You might have seen them in a thousand pictures but the temples of Abu Simbel still overwhelm you when you come face to face with their majesty. Photo: Sudha Mahalingam Awe-inspiring scale: The Temple of Ramses II. “My name is Mohammed Atta and I will be driving you to Abu Simbel today,” says the portly young man who comes to receive us at Aswan railway station. We pile on to a comfortable van and head to our hotel in the far corner of the town. The river front is cluttered with cruise boats and feluccas. Aswan is a neatly laid out town, the southern-most in Egypt. It was once at the crossroads of the silk route and is now the gateway to Nubian Africa, as distinct from Arab Africa. The town boasts a Moorish-style heritage hotel called the Old Cataract where Agatha Christie stayed and where one of her books — Death on the Nile...
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