Today it was time for Abu Simbel!
The hotel staff woke us up about three in the morning. After a small breakfast, we drove off in a small micro bus. We were 12 persons sitting in this micro bus (collected from three different hotels). Two swedes (Tobias and I), three self-destructive girls from Germany, a family from Poland and two girls and two guys from Korea.
After a speedy, sweaty, hot, 44 miles long journey we were finally in Abu Simbel.
The area was full of tourists. The entry fee to the temples was 61 pounds (adults with no student card).
The Abu Simbel temple was impressive. I like temples partly built into mountains :). I was also impressed by the work my grandfather's company did when they saved these temples from the water masses in the sixties.

After about two hours in Abu Simbel we continued to the Philae-temple. A pretty nice temple situated on an island. This is also a temple that has been saved from the rising water masses. The temple was bigger than I had thought.

After Philae we continued to the "unfinished obelisk". A 42m tall stone. A crack in the granite stopped the work and the workers left it there on the ground. In comparison to Abu Simbel this wasn't that exciting.

After this we drove back to our hotel.

Heading for Cairo. 17:45 we stood at the Aswan train station and entered the 18:15 wagon-lit train to Cairo. We sat on the train for about one hour before it departed... We ate a nice dinner and in the club-wagon we had a jam-session with the train staff and some children.