The only way to get there, if you do not want to pay $100 (R680) for an armed guard, is to join a tour group. The tour group will travel with other groups in convoy through the surrounding desert.

Al-Masry Al-Youm February 3, 2021 In a new attempt to raise archaeological awareness while abiding by coronavirus precautionary measures, a number of virtual tours were conducted within Upper Egypt’s ...

The second phase of the walkway is in Edfu, and the third is in Abu Simbel, she said. The Abu Simbel tourist walkway includes the construction of interlocks, upgrading the city’s central islands, the ...

Egypt’s antiquities minister, along with a number of Egyptian ministers and foreign and Arab ambassadors, visited on Sunday Aswan's Abu Simbel Temple in a tour to celebrate the biannual solar ...

Several ministers and African ambassadors toured on Thursday 21/02/2019 Abu Simbel Temple in Egypt's Upper Egyptian governorate of Aswan. Minister of Tourism Rania el Mashat, Minister of Antiquities ...

The site of Abu Simbel is one of the most recognizable ancient sites in Egypt. For 3,000 years, it sat on the west bank of the Nile River, between the first and second cataracts of the Nile ...