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The Temples of Luxor/Thebes & Karnak

The Temple of Isis. Day 5.

Another angle.

Inside the Temple.

Greco-Roman influence?

On Philae Island.

We took a boat ride to get here.

Bond bottom right.

 

Feluccas!

The film 'Death on the Nile'.....

This Temple was a little run down.....

The Entrance.

Taken from one of our own.

....was filmed here.

....but has plenty of air-conditioning.

One at a time, please.

The Main Courtyard.

From another angle

 Day 9. Karnak Temple

Walk around this 3 times for luck....

It was hot here too!

But thankfully not too many tourists.

This was a big place.

...or 7 times for fertility. I did 3.

Self-explanatory.

Directly above.

This Temple was also quite big.

Self-explanatory.

 

Note the colours.

My concentration started to flag at....

....this point. Sorry.

Evidence of the attempted............

..........eradicaton of Rameses II

Rameses III

Map of the Temple

Note the cucumber.

It was a hug Temple.

There were 10 Rameses altogether.

 

Self-explanatory.

Lines of Lions.

Alexander the Great's cartouche.

We arrived here by horse carriage.

 

These stretched out for over a mile.

Slightly blurred.

 

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