Next morning we went to Aswan Airport to fly to Abu Simbal to see the great monuments of Rameses II. He was the Pharaoh who drowned in the Gulf of Acuba in the Red Sea with 277,000 soldiers. He was the only Pharaoh that built temples for the worship of himself, claiming to be a god. At Abu Simbal he built two temples, for himself and his wife. He built four huge statues of himself at the entrance to his temple. The temples went deep into the mountain and were decorated with hieroglyphics, pictures and statues. On certain days of the year the sun would penetrate the temple and light up more statues of Rameses. When Egypt built the dam in 1973 they employed experts from 51 countries to dismantle the entire structures and move them to a position above the new water level. They meticulously numbered and shifted 49,000 pieces and built two mountains. Abu Simbal was very hot!