Abu Simbel Temple Complex - At 8:00 am, your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Aswan and drive you south, approximately a 3-hour journey, to enjoy a day tour of Abu Simbel in an air-conditioned vehicle.

Temple of Nefertari - This article is about the Egyptian queen and wife of Ramesses II. For other individuals with this name, see Nefertari (disambiguation).
Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses the Great. Nefertari means ‘beautiful companion’ and Meritmut means ‘Beloved of [the goddess] Mut’. She is one of the best-known Egyptian queens, alongside Cleopatra, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut, and is notable for not having reigned in her own right. She was highly educated, able to read and write hieroglyphs, a rare skill at the time, which she used in her diplomatic work, corresponding with other prominent royals. Her lavishly decorated tomb, QV66, is one of the largest and most spectacular in the Valley of the Queens. Ramesses also built a temple for her at Abu Simbel next to his colossal monument there.

Abu Simbel - Ramesses II, also spelled Rameses or Ramses, meaning ‘Ra is the one who bore him’ or ‘born of Ra’, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often considered the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, the most powerful period of Ancient Egypt. His successors and later Egyptians referred to him as the “Great Ancestor”.