It was barely 4.30am when I found myself in a bus thudding along the dusty road towards a remote Nubian village.
It was day two of our trip to Egypt and we were on our way to the Abu Simbel temples. With four colossal statues of Rameses II hewed into the mountainside, the monument is a sight to behold.
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