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Tourists line up to watch the sunrise enter the temple in Abu Simbel.
Tourists flock to Abu Simbel to witness solar phenomenon
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Feb 2013
Thousands gathered on Friday to witness a unique solar phenomenon that occurs twice yearly at the Abu Simbel Temple...
Cruising down the river: A leisurely Nile cruise also takes in Abu Simbel’s Sun Festival
Rachel Adams 02 Dec 2012
Brought up on a holiday diet of camping, caravanning and self-catering countryside cottages, my preferred mode of...
Tourists line up to watch the sunrise enter the temple in Abu Simbel.
1,300 tourists witness sun illumination of Ramses II statue
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Oct 2012
The sun illuminated the Ramses II statue in his temple in Abu Simbel Monday morning in a phenomenon that takes place on...
Tourists line up to watch the sunrise enter the temple in Abu Simbel.
Abu Simbel farmers release tourists held over water shortage
Al-Masry Al-Youm
Egypt Independent
03 Jun 2012
Dozens of farmers in the Abu Simbel area have ended a sit-in and released 204 tourists they had held hostage inside...
Cairo-Fayoum road blocked after a car accident had took place leading to the death of two and injury of 15. Inspection revealed a truck had hit the concrete barrier that divides the road in front of a primary school due to crazy speed. At the same time another truck hit workers on board of a third truck who went down trying to save the driver of the first truck.
Three tourists injured, driver dies in highway accident
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Mar 2012
A driver died and three Danish citizens were injured in an accident after their tour bus turned over on the highway in...
Light falls on the faces of statues in the Abu Simbel temple during the Sunrise Festival.
Aswan governor: Abu Simbel temple celebration to go on as planned
MENA 21 Feb 2012
The governor of Aswan has decided to go ahead with the annual celebration to commemorate the biannual solar phenomenon...
Tourists line up to watch the sunrise enter the temple in Abu Simbel.
Tourists prevented from visiting Abu Simbel
Egypt Independent 08 Jan 2012
Hundreds of villagers blocked the road to the famous Abu Simbel temples in Upper Egypt and prevented some 375 tourists...
Tourists line up to watch the sunrise enter the temple in Abu Simbel.
Rift floods 15 houses near Abu Simbel
Arabic Edition 28 Dec 2011
A power outage at a station in an Aswan village on Wednesday caused water from a nearby canal to flood about 15 houses...
A giant column of volcanic ash spews from the summit of Mount Sinabung reaching at least 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) during its eruption at 6:30 am (2330 GMT) on August 30, 2010 seen from Tanah Karo in North Sumatra. Airlines on August 30 were warned to avoid remote Mount Sinabung in northern Sumatra as the volcano spewed a vast cloud of smoke and ash high into the air for a second day after springing to life for the first time in four centuries on August 29
Eritrea volcano cancels Egypt's Africa-bound flights
MENA 14 Jun 2011
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday canceled all flights to Africa following the eruption of a volcano in Eritrea....
Effects of collision accident on Cairo-Ismailia desert road on 10 January 2010 ,where 7 vehicles collided which resulted in close of entry gate of Ismailia
Bus accident injures 40 Sudanese
Mahmoud El Gaafari 24 Mar 2011
Forty Sudanese nationals were injured Wednesday night in a bus accident in front of Sidi Suleiman Square on the road to...