Saving a world cultural heritage

The original site of these temples was due to be flooded with the building of the High Dam in the 60's. The temples would have been deep under the waters of Lake Nasser, had not saviours of world heritage taken up their cause. A Swedish engineering firm (oh yes!) devised a way of carving them out block by block and reassembling them, now on a site overlooking Lake Nasser.




And let there be no doubt - they are HUGE! It was also the only site on our whole trip that was actually in the tropics, on the ride south from Aswan, we passed the Tropic of Cancer (not that we noticed it much, but still!).