Philae Temple

This temple is located in on an island in Lake Nasser, about 200 meters away from it's original island. When the High Dam was built, the temple had to be shifted to avoid destruction - you can see the original location only as a bunch of posts sticking out of the water, and even where it is now, the waterline is dangerously close to the temple in some places.

We got out there via motor boat, and had an obnoxious guide. I've found I'm not good with guides, because they set their own pace ... I actually got lectured twice about slowing down to take pictures, which I thought was quite classic since he was only there because we were paying him! But whatever ... the temple was pretty amazing, although it's one of the Egypt sights that has a sound and light show, which means it's wired for electricity and stupid power boxes kept getting in the way of good pictures! The temple is one that'd been defaced by Christians, which is always interesting to see - they would destroy the carved images of gods by chiselling a billion dents into them.

Since it's defintely low season in Upper Egypt (CRAZY hot), the temple wasn't swarming with tourists, which was nice. And the location in Lake Nasser was great to visit. All in all, though, it wasn't the best temple I've seen. And in the last few days, I've seen a lot ...