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It's 2.2.2020 the last day in my 22nd year , tomorrow I shall turn 22. I have never spent my birthday far from my family and my friends, but here I am 1052 km far away from them, in the far south of Egypt, with a bunch of people I never met before, in the fabulous Aswan, I have been here many times but what I am going to tell you now is the first to see in my whole life. Abu simbel temples considered to be 281 km far from Nubia " where we were staying at that time " and it was an optional thing to do alongside the actual program, so 281 km means that we will be travelling for like 3 and half hours and will be staying there for 2 hours so that sums up the duration of our trip to be 9 hours before we start our day. So, we wake up at 3:00 am and at 3:30 am we were ready to go! Honestly I did not know I love late night road trips until that moment, it was fascinating, the road alongside the Nile was everything I wanted and more, I enjoyed only 1 hour with my playlist and I didn't help it falling asleep as I was sleeping that night at 1:00 am which gave me only 2 hours of sleep till we get going. And then! I wake up to find myself passing by Nasser Lake with a little tiny shade of sunlight trying to wake me up just to catch my first dawn at a road trip and it was almost 6:30 am and we were getting closer to the temples. And finally we're here! At 7:00 am we arrived and it was freezing! almost 5 degrees. We got our tickets, met our tour guide and went in there to see what everyone was talking about. The temples were everything I imagined and more. I saw a lot of temples in Luxor, also in Aswan! But never like this one. These temples are a life story of a king who adored his wife, but he loved himself more than anything in the world and that was obvious in every little detail in there. At that moment I knew that ancient Egypt will always be a part of who I am and who I want to become. The greatness I felt at that moment was never comparable to anything I ever felt before. My mom was always talking about her trip to Luxor and Aswan and how she enjoyed every bit of it, also how she regretted missing Abu simbel. And that fact that I didn't want to get out of my bed that night not knowing it only takes a little bit of working my ass off to experience all the firsts I mentioned makes me so glad I had the power to grab my blanket with me wherever I go, not to feel I am not capable of doing a thing because of some cold or for a few hours of extra sleep. And then I realized after that trip that travelling is the only constant thing I want to be doing all my life alongside some other thing. "Happy birthday to me!"