We left early for our bus trip afrom Safaga. It was through a mountain range who would
have thought it was so rocky to go to Luxor.
Once were we near the Nile and there are irrigation channels coming off
the Nile there were all these funny little villages. There was always a bridge across the canal, a
mosque and a significant police presence.
We had different theories on it. The government here has just sentenced
13 of the Muslim Brotherhood to death the day before but our guide tells us
that it has to do with the sentence.
We met our Egyptologist tour guide Bilhail who was
excellent. His children speak Arabic,
English German and French. He gave a 15 minute talk on the history of Egypt
until the present day which excellent given the recent political complications.
We went to the temple of Luxor and we were told that wasn’t
only five people we there and we swarmed there with hundreds. It was also Easter Orthodox Monday and there
many locals out. 90% of the country are
Moslem but the 10% of Christians, about 8% are Coptic.
We had lunch at our hotel and after we went of the Valley of
Kings, which was a much smaller in area that I Imagined. They only have three
tombs open because of the humidity of people’s breaths. They would have been fabulous in pristine
condition.
Our tour guide told us not to bother with Tutankhamen’s tomb
as there is nothing in it.
We went through some villages with sugar cane, from a
distance, and if you swapped date palms for normal palm trees it reminded me a
lot of North Queensland.
Our Hotel overlooked the Nile dotted with feluccas, quite
amazing…let’s face it was fabulous!
We then went to the night Sound and Light show
at the temple of Karnak. It may not have
passed WPHS but it wasn’t too bad.
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