Abu Simbel Aswan and the temples of Nubia

The modern traveler on the lower Nubia, the legendary kingdom of "Black Pharaohs", heading for Abu Simbel, will inevitably be captive by the magic and full contrasts of the panorama, opening in front of his eyes: endless sky, wide, almost "sea" smooth water, in the fruitfulness truly endless desert where black volcanic rocks are visible there, as if sharpened by the course of centuries. A huge lake located between Egypt and Sudan (length - about 500 km, of which 150 km belonged to Sudanese territory, the width is 5-10 km), which has become the main acting person of events, which changed the appearance of these edges, has the name of the Egyptian "Nasser" , and Sudan residents are "Nuba". It has become the most epochable result of the construction of the Asuan dam (Saad-El Aali) The construction of the dam led to another epochable result - it awakened the entire civilized world