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RSS Feeds5,000 tourists visit Abu Simbel for solar phenomenon
(World News Egypt)

 
 

21 october 2017 00:22:09

 
5,000 tourists visit Abu Simbel for solar phenomenon
(World News Egypt)
 


As part of EgyptAir`s efforts to enhance tourism in Egypt, the company is organizing 50 additional flights to transfer tourists to Luxor to celebrate sun rays weaving through stones and glazing the statuettes of Ramses at Abu Simbel temple, said Chairman of the Holding Company for EgyptAir Safwat Muslim. Ramses II built his temple at Abu Simbel so that the internal chamber would light up two times a year: once on the anniversary of his ascension to the throne on February 22 and once on his birthday on October 22. Every year, crowds gather before sunrise in a celebration known as the sun festival to observe the stream of light gradually sneaking through the stones and lighting the statuettes...


 
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