Dec 25, the Karnak Temple
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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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Summing it all up.

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This was one of the most tiring days of all. Up early and covering two temples and a papyrus factory.

The Luxor temple entrance with the double crown and stuff.

And all over the place you had these kings sitting on their thrones. The biggest king of them all, Ramses the II, ruled for 67 years and died at 92, leaving 111 sons and 67 daughters behind to fight over the throne.

Obelisks were all over the show. The most popular piece of stone to carve.

Tanya and our guide Abrahm. Tanya listening intensively to all the kingdoms of ancient Egypt.

One popular outing was a balloon ride early in the morning to watch the sun rise. They flew during the day as well.

And talk, Abraham did in his broken and hard to understand English.

And all over the show, we looked at stones and stones and stones. Great.

Here is column alley. Stacks of goodies for the special interested ones.

This is sphinx alley. All these figures sitting there for eternity all lined up. In the papyrus factory where we were taught the skills of how to make papyrus the old fashion way as the Egyptians did it.
Then it was off to the Karnak temple complex, the biggest religious complex in the world.

And here it was even more stones. At this point in time, most of us had reach the saturation point. Stone is stone.

Tanya wandering around in the temple courts as the rest of us feeling rather empty and tired. She slept for four hours after coming back on the boat. It was very strenuous to walk the whole morning like this.

All the nice girls in our group lined up to listen to a cock story about Ramses' II and how he lost his battle.

And wandering we did among thousands of columns in all sizes and heights.

And the most favourite stone figure to make was the obelisk as seen here.

Not only put they obelisks on the ground, but on top of old buildings as well.

And the tallest of the all was made by the only female pharaoh of the all, Hathsepsuts. Impressive.

And when up to 10 000 people needed a drink in the heat, they had to have a big cup. 140 by 80 meters long cup and some four meters deep filled with bilharzias water from the Nile. Today, 80% of the farmer in Egypt is suffering from this disease, caused by a snail in still water. Bilharzias. Not nice. Slowly eats up your inside. Who needs HIV? Not Egypt.  

The next day, we went off to Hurghada in the morning.

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