San Diego Community Newspaper Group’s publisher Julie Main holds her Peninsula Beacon while in front of the Abu Simbel Temple in Egypt. Abu Simbel Temple is actually two individual temples, both rock-cut structures, and both built during the reign of King Ramses II sometime in the 1200 B.C. time period. One temple is dedicated to King Ramses II, and the second temple is dedicated to his beloved wife Queen Nefertari. Widely regarded as a feat of pharaonic engineering, the biannual solar alignment sees the sun passing over the face of the statue of Rameses II at Abu Simbel for about 20 minutes, once on Feb. 22 and again on Oct. 22. Email your vacation photos holding the Peninsula Beacon to [email protected] to be featured at sdnews.com and in the newspaper. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO