A day for sweethearts to express their feeling toward one another with cards, chocolate, flowers, gifts or a simple “I love you”.

At sunrise on February 22 every year, the crowds that have assembled at Abu Simbel temple in the darkness look for shafts of sunlight making their way across the complex. They gradually illuminate the stone images of Ramses II, Ra and Amun. The stunning is spectacular sight also occurs in October.Ramses II, an Egyptian pharaoh, wanted to attain immortality, or at least guarantee that he would not be forgotten. So he decreed that the astronomical spectacle coincide with his birthday—February 22—and again on the date of his coronation—October 22. In the early 1960s, in order to allow for the construction of Aswan Dam and creation of Lake Nasser, the entire temple was painstakingly taken apart stone by stone and rebuilt on higher land.

The first day of spring in Egypt is celebrated with a grand event that translates as sniffing the breeze. It is celebrated the first Monday after Coptic Easter. Egyptians mark the event by holding picnics and other outdoor activities in the countryside are along the Nile River, Red Sea or Mediterranean Sea.