Tour guides at the site relate the legend that `` Abu Simbel '' was a young local boy who guided these early re-discoverers to the site of the buried temple which he had seen from time to time in the shifting sands .
Tour guides at the temples tell a story that `` Abu Simbel '' was a young local boy who took Burckhardt and Belzoni to see the buried temple . He had seen the temples from time to time in the shifting sands .