Cruising Lake Nasser on board of Prince Abbas Part D

We started our tour on Wednesday afternoon ,crossing the lake to the shore where we could spot three sites. The first was the oldest among them as it dates back to the reign of both kings, Tutmoses lll and his son Amunhotep ll which is around 1400 BC. The temple of Amada was rescued by the French team once they had come up with a sophisticated plan to transfer the temple before the water to reach. First of all they built a track meanwhile , they had sawn the temple up from the base then managed to chain and left over a flat car in order to drag it across that track. They were able to bull it at least for 1.6 KM ,then it took the lake less than three month to cover the original site. Amada temple is an outstanding one with it's vivid colours and scenes as well as the amount of the Nubian graffiti which represent their tribes and soldiers on their way to fight the Roman garrisons northward. In addition to the interesting offering scenes.





Temple Of Amada.Thutmoses III in the presence Of god Rahorakhat.


Temple Of Amada.King Thutmoses III presents the Heb-Sed ceremony.

The second temple at Amada site was El Derr which was built by king Ramasess ll, around 1300 BC. El Derr is an exact miniature of the great Abu Simble, where you see the battle scenes and the typical offering scenes.


The Derr Temple.


The Holy tree where god Thot writes the family names of the king on it's leaves.


Derr temple. Kneeling Ramasses receives the Heb-Sed sign of throne renewal.

Derr. Ramasses presents flowers to the gods

Presenting the sign of justice to god Amun

The divine marriage boat

Our last visit at Amada site was to the tomb of penth "pentu". Pentu was a high official appointed at that area by king Ramsess vl and was rewarded by the king two precious silver vases.

Tomb of Penut

Intact scenes with vivid colours

Offerings to Penut

A wonderful sunset.

Then we couldn't miss the wonderful sunset at the hills of this nice area of Egypt. Then Prince Abbas moored the whole night at Amada site.