At the tomb we were missing our regular company conversation and tour guide so we made up our own.
Clive do you think all this is still getting excavated? (The answer is NO but we didn't find that out till later.) It was actually the only portion of the cliff that was not original. It was put there to provide support for the front of the tomb.
The tomb was impressive and so different from the others. It had also been moved from it's original location because of the building of the dam. It had been 64 meters below the water not to far from where it stands now.
Clive I think it use to be right there!
What was different was that size of everything. It was all huge, the statues, the hieroglyphs, the stones inside. And they were all still so well preserved because yes, they had been under sand, only to be discovered by a peasant walking by.
We tried to interpret hieroglyphs to feel lie we were back with Amir but it just wasn't the same so we left the temple to fly back to Aswan to sleep the rest of the day.
Check me out...this just shows true enormity of the statues. I am standing by Ramses II at Nefertary's tomb.
Nefertary's Tomb. Ramses was a smart man. He built her tomb first in order to allow for the architects to practice building before tackling his tomb.
This is a view of both tombs set into the cliffs. From this picture you can really see the task that had be tackled to move them from under the water.
This was the first day that we really felt uncomfortable and pressured to tip. All the guides have been very forward asking for money as well as hitting on us or making comments about our looks. It may have been because we were tired or it had finally gotten on our nerves.
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