Quick Fact...Karnak is an enormous open air complex and the largest ancient religious site in the world.
I call these my wicked angle shots of photography...learned from my daughter-Jenny!!
After Karnak we visited the temple of Hathor close to sunset, had it virtually to ourselves. It was a beautiful temple and I will let the pictures explain this place. But that seems to be a major problem because I can't get my iphoto to open-it keeps saying server rejected on my pictures!
On Tuesday, we started the day early with a trip to the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (Hot-cheap-suit). One of Egypt's true pharaoh queens to rule as a true pharaoh & not just Chief Wife. This Queen was one of the first to work hard to bring home the bacon (oops, I mean chicken, since I'm in a Muslim country) & fry it up in da pan, all while carrying her crook & flail.
We visited the Valley of the Queens...where we saw tombs of the Queens. Then, we proceeded to the Valley of the Kings. No photography was allowed, and all cameras had to stay on the bus. I have two pictures from a distance of the valley before we entered, and one of Howard Carter's house outside the valley. We explored the tomb of Seti I, The tomb of Tuthmosis III, two other tombs, and of course the boy-king-Tutankhamun. In all his royal boy glory. He looked pretty good for a 3,335 year old mummy.
Valley of the Kings
Howard Carter's House
Off to an alabaster workshop, then home again jiggety-jig.
Not really getting the connection of Father Christmas/Noel & Bob Marley but I'm not a marketing expert.
We ended the day with a night visit to the Temple of Luxor. It was lit up which set a glorious mood with a colonnade of Amenhotep III's 14 papyrus-headed columns, 50 feet in height & 32 feet in circumference. These guys know how to build a temple. All without the wheel or pulleys!
Melissa Jan. 11 10:22
LOVE LOVE LOVE the "wicked angle" pics!! Go mom!!!!! I want those for myself!! :)
ReplyDeleteWe learned about the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut last quarter!! wooo!!