Dec 20, Valley of the Kings
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December

  1. Saturday
    In Norway 
  2. Sunday
    To Paul 
  3. Monday
    To Luxor 
  4. Tuesday
    Valley of Kings 
  5. Wednesday
    Horus at Edfu 
  6. Thursday
    Obelisk 
  7. Friday
    Botanical Garden 
  8. Saturday
    Christmas Eve 
  9. Sunday
    Karnak 
  10. Monday
    Tanya leaves 
  11. Tuesday
    FirstDayHilton 
  12. Wednesday
    Snorkelling 
  13. Thursday
    LoafingAround 
  14. Friday
    Restaurants 
  15. Saturday
    NewYearsEve

January

  1. Sunday
    2006
  2. Monday
    BackHome

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This day, we went to the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's burial site, the alabaster factory and we set sail for Edfu.

To the left, we have the part of the Nile we passed on our second day.

To the right, part of the Nile that we passed.
Crossing the Nile for a trip.

To the get bus for our trip to the valley.
Typical Nile boat.

Hatshepsut's big guardian stones to the entry of the valley.
Hatshepsut's temple where the massacre of tourists happened in 1996. 57 persons killed by AKs.

Tanya and Jorunn on the steps to the temple.
On route to the temple in small carriages.

Work in progress. Stones collected for reconstruction.
Working with alabaster. How to make pots.

The boss of the Backstreet Boys, singing as they work.
Daddy got offered 150 camels for Tanya by Mark, an oldie with 3 wives already. Tanya said no thanks.

Abrahm, our Egyptian tour guide.
Guided tour to the Valley of the Kings. Anna leading the way.

Tanya at the entrance.
The barren valley of the kings.

Outside the grave of one of the Ramses' graves.
Tanya and big stones.

Normal transportation in modern day Egypt.
AK boy standing bored. His job is to shoot back if the tourists get shot at.

At the exit of the valley.
Back to the starting point of the valley.

Rice fields watered by the Nile. Without the Nile, Egypt would only have been a vast desert.

Crossing the Nile on a bridge.

Outside the boat, the locals have a quiet smoke from their water pipes.

Back to our boat. Bottom right, the big Danish tour guide, Sten.  

The next day, we visited the Horus temple at Edfu and set sail for Aswan.
 

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Last updated on November 22, 2009 at 14:49 hours.