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Every Temple is Special in a Different Way
This posting is a bit longer since it covers 3 days spent around and in Luxor. Overall, Luxor is an order of magnitude smaller than Cairo, which shows by its lack of pollution, traffic or very poor areas. Yet competition is fierce for tourists' money as it's essentially the only source, but despite the warnings of overly aggressive tout behavior it …
The Queen Nobody Wants to Meet
... inside a temple not nearly light enough to take a picture unfortunately. Staring up at a picture of someone whom I had read and learnt about at school; from the bible classes. It was all coming back... and with stuff to make it so real.
All too quickly the week passed, or should I say sailed by. Kitchener Island was planted with hundreds of trees by Lord Kitchener who had been sent out by the British Government to go to the rescue of General ...
Cruisin' Down the Nile
... I am struck by the absence of barge traffic on the river - we didn't see one barge all afternoon; only other cruise ships that looked to have between eight and fifty passengers each. We tried to discuss the political situation with Dina, but it was not very fruitful. If the Egyptians don't get their act together soon, the lack of tourists will destroy the economy. Did you know that Egypt gets the highest amount of US aid of any country - they have no oil, but ...
The donkey version of the Melbourne Cup
... names of the tombs we visited, but it is possible that they were all named Rameses. One of them was beautifully painted until about halfway through. It is believed that the King died suddenly and this is why the tomb is unfinished. This tomb also accidently broke into the tomb of a previous pharaoh, so it suddenly changed direction part-way in. All 3 tombs were still very colourfully painted, and the colour still bright after 3 millenia.
The journey back ...
A Day of Heat and Antiquities
... dessert. We both said no, whereupon the waiter told Bill, with a suggestive leer, that perhaps I could be his dessert. (Bill's, not the waiter's--hopefully).
That's about it for our first full day in Luxor. Tomorrow we will be visiting the Karnak and Luxor Temples.
Please see the link below for an amazing panoramic view of one of the tombs at the Valley of the Kings. It really gives a great impression of what it is like to be inside a decorated tomb.
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