Sun Set Hotel Luxor

Welcome to Egypt. Welcome to the land of civilization, history and originality. Here, history stops to salute the greatness of civilization of all ages starting from the Pharaonic eras and its several great monuments and the sparkling great pyramids, which are considered one of the Seven Wanders of the World. We should not forget to mention the young King (Tutankhamun), which dazzles the ...

... a bit we visited the largest Temple in Egypt, the Karnak Temple. It was built for the God Ra and another famous one was the Luxor Temple. Check out the pic of the last supper painted over hieroglyphics and next to a mosque at this one...very cool! It is the only place in the world that contains remnants of the three religions: Christianity, Islam, and Amen-Ra (the Egyptian Sun God). <br> We were feeling a little bit homesick during a lot of our ...

... was the Edfu temple, the best preserved temple in all of Egypt. It was a monument to the falcon god. Lindsey didn't have a student ID that would work, so she waited outside instead of paying the full price. The temple was very interesting, but a creepy security guard tried to lure us up a stairwell. We grabbed Tom for protection and found there was nothing at the top. <br><br>We tried to buy water and icecream, but the shops around the temple were selling them at extremely high ...

... carvings and heiroglyphs were amazing and the best preserved that we have seen. We tromped around in the heat, I was pretty hungry by the time (not to self, remember to swipe a breadroll from breakfast for morning tea) and I had at least 2L of water by this time..so no headache at least. <br> Before we could stagger to lunch, we stopped at a the 2nd on the big 6 shopping list- a government run Papyrus factory/shop. To be honest, I didn ...

... of conflict there are still many people who want to fight, including many from within Egypt. I haven't taken a poll, but I suspect that there is a significant number of people who do not share Khalid's view that ultimately making peace with Israel was a good thing.<br><br>Which of course led to the most interesting quote of the night. "But you know, some groups they want to destroy the country, you know you can't let them, so you have to be under emergency," Khalid ...

So here we are in Luxor...today we visited the great temples of Karnak and Luxor. Both temples were connected at one time by an avenue of sphinx statues of which some are still intact today (aprox 2.5 miles between the two). We really got to see the intricate details of the Egyptians with their hieroglyphic carvings and statues. Most of the temples are immense in size and their methods of ...

... drunk on Guinness. Even when the game was on, he tried chatting to some unfriendly Irish people at the next table, telling us the guy was a "typical Irish *******" from a "craphole of a town" where they're all as boring as batshit. Luckily Ireland won the match, and we were all drinking Guinness and eating potatoes as we celebrated with Colm. Egyptians stoop to new lows After the match I went to use the internet, where last night the guy charged me a fair price of 10 ...

... reliefs and hieroglyphics amazingly are still on the stone after all this time.Mohammed showed us that the sandstone in the area has deposits of color, over ten colors, ranging from bright blue and black to different shades of yellow and red that the ancient Egyptians used as paint. He demonstrated this by sticking his finger in cracks in the rock and applying different colors on Katie&#8217;s arm for everyone to see. Every time he wanted Katie&#8217;s attention to apply a ...

... tant ses dimensions impressionnent. Intestable, le temple ! Et dire qu'a l'epoque, une allee de sphinx le relait a Karnak (3 bornes au nord).. L'oeuvre egyptienne qui m'a le plus emu ici. La bouffe claque, aussi. A la main, avec des assiettes un peu partout ; la franchise et le sourire des quelques egyptiens avec qui j'ai passe un peu de temps. Ahmed, cab driver, Akim, deja presente, comme la bande de djeunz du temple d'Hatchepsout, avec qui je restai un bon quart d'heure ...

... br>The last visit of the day was to the Luxor Temple. It was built by Amenophis III, and had originally been connected to Karnak by the alley of the sphinxes, part of which has been excavated. This temple complex is much smaller than Karnak, but of very graceful composition. It also received additions by later rulers including Alexander the Great. Just before the entrance pylons, stood two great obelisks. Only one is ...