Nur el-Gurna Hotel
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Valleys of eternity
The bus to Luxor left at 9.30am, give or take a couple of hours. We couldn't have air-conditioning going up hills because it diverted too much power from the struggling engine. The desert was barren and rocky with almost nothing living holding its own. Along the road, at desolate little shack bus stops and end of nowhere cafés, devout Muslims had …
The Queen Nobody Wants to Meet
... from the Greeks, but this is really gargantuan. I don’t know how large an area it coves, but took two thousand years to complete. It has pillars full of hieroglyphics that are so huge in girth that it would take at least twenty men with their arms outstretched and holding on to each other to go round just one of these pillars. In fact, in one of the James Bond films they used this as a set. I can’t remember exactly which film, but they had ...
Cruisin' Down the Nile
... at a gas station. Hundreds of cars, buses and trucks were blocking both sides of the street around a gas station. The explanation of the protest was not very coherent, but it sure was a mess. The next stop was Kom Ombo where we toured the ruins of a dual temple honoring two gods - Horus the Elder and Sobek, the crocodile god. In hieroglyphics, depicted gods with heads representing their deity. Horus was the raven and Sobek the crocodile. Our final stop of ...
The donkey version of the Melbourne Cup
... not open to the public). There are a total of 63 tombs (so far) in the Valley of the Kings. Over the hill is also the Valley of the Queens which we didnt visit as there is only 1 tomb open to the public.
Many of the tombs have been open since antiquity. In some tombs there is graffiti from the early Coptic Christians who used the tombs for shelter. I found a piece of graffiti reading 'Alexander 1799' which I later read was the date of ...
A Day of Heat and Antiquities
... employee to have dinner at one of the nicest restaurants there at the hotel. Apparently they were having a live show that night. We declined because the restaurant served only Egyptian food, and since we'd already had Egyptian food for lunch, we thought we'd try a different type of meal. It was very unfortunate for us to have made that decision because later that evening, after dark, we could see the restaurant from our room (tables set up outside) and a colorful whirling ...
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