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| Sun Festival at Abu Simbel |
Complete more than 3000 years, one of the extended miracles has been taking place at
the Great Abu Simbel Temple with the shafts of the sun cutting into the sanctuary and informative the sculptures of pharaoh
Ramses II and 2 statues of Ra-Hurakhti, God of the Sun, and Amun, God of Thebes on the back wall. Only the statue of Ptah, the god connected with the Underworld, remains in the dark. This phenomenon takes place in 2 large days of the year; on the dates that mark the pharaoh’s birthday (October 21) and his investiture day in February 21.
Through that two days, thousands of tourists from all over the world come to Abu Simbel to watch this phenomenon during the the Sun Festival. The festival plan includes music performance and story about the era after Ramses II ascended the throne of Egypt in nine languages; Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Deutsch, Russian, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
