Egypt travel--about Africa, go to Egypt (7)

October 1, 2007 East coast — of Luxor Karnak Temple (karnak) — Temple of Luxor (Luxor)

Today we want to leave a cruise, but wait to visit all the attractions and check-out.

We first came to Luxor, one of the most famous monuments of the Karnak Temple (karnak), also known as the Temple of Amun. Here are the main God of Thebes-Sun god Amun, founded in three thousand years ago 17 dynasty, after 130 years of continuous expansion, additional repair 10 towering Palace, three magnificent Hall. We passed the buck road, there is a magnificent gates, Gates up to 38 meters, awe-inspiring. Door stood metres of Rameses II of stone carving, his legs between engraved with a statue of Queen Rania, a small, harmoniously integrated.

And then into the Temple of Amun is most famous in the stone Hall, an area of 6000 square meters of stone pillar Hall, arranged a total of 134 root 6 individual pillars can be hold, every 21 metres, the top is said to stand a hundred individuals, column residue has described the Sun God story of painting, the middle two rows of columns are bulky, heavy up to 12 tons.

These columns after years without a dump, not admiration. Speaking of stone pillar Hall, seen the movie "Nile" never forget that the movie towering stone pillar, the magnificent temples and huge stones from the top to bomb falling pillars, the Group of the adventure of the lens is in this place.

The temple spires Tablet such as the forest, stone statues can be seen everywhere.

Cylinder walls and walls are inscribed with exquisite relief and bright painting, they record the myths and legends of ancient Egypt and the people's daily lives. In addition, the temple was also famous obelisk and the Pharaoh and the statue of Empress. El otsep Sudal Queen dedicated to God Amon, Obelisk of two, is the temple's highest building, it is a block of stone carving, the old Egypt history's only female Pharaoh ruled Egypt 34 years after leaving the room, which overlooks the obelisk, but seemed to today's people tell her extraordinary life. But Pharaoh and Imperial concubines were most of the statues was badly damaged. A garden in the temple with a statue of scarab statue, is said to wander around it will give their generation to good luck, and I turned around the statue of three rings. Statue in front of a small lake, which is the famous Lake. I think it looks and ponds. But thousands of years ago, the Temple of water are taken from the Lake. Kanak Temple is the world's most magnificent historical buildings, is also one of the largest temples in Egypt.

In the past long years, the King of Egypt's ancient and powerful Kingdom in Luxor, built palaces and temples, it is said that the construction period is the peak of the architectural art of Egypt, Temple will Egypt imagination play to the extreme, and Luxor in Arabic meaning is in the palaces of the city.

The Sun and the Nile represents Egypt this ancient peoples ' life and death on the Nile of all given their source of life, also gave birth to the generation of brilliant civilization.

Unfortunately, as the Millennium years went on, Luxor most magnificent building has largely consisted overwhelm, regarded as the sun rises in the East-East coast of the Nile "living city" of the Palace Group, now there are only two Karnak and Luxor Temple, Hexi — the Sun end of "dead city", the Temple of the sacred dead last, most of the mausoleum is the theft of a blank, but here the aftermath of many monuments, the Luxor Museum of the history of the "Egypt's reputation and fame meant".

Luxor Temple from the Kanak Temple not to a km is Thebes, the God Amon, his wife MUT Temple, the largest Karnak Temple (karnak), was built in the 14th century BC.

It has astonishing majestic, each pillar represents the Pharaoh's Majesty, in which will enable people to temporarily forget the passage of time, in writing. Here's most of the works is the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh ' Monroe Dreyfus III, later of Rameses II and built the gate and yard, and gate to erect a statue of six look up to him, the existing three old. The temple was originally two tip party tablet, one of them was Muhammad · Ali gave France, now Paris Concorde. The temple includes yard, Hall and side rooms. Courtyard surrounded on three sides with double row of papyrus strapping-shaped stone pillar (Note: the Papyrus is ancient Egypt-paper of a kind of aquatic plants), the umbrella roof is very beautiful, inflorescence form. Outside the walls of the temple is the nineteenth dynasty Pharaoh Rameses II, built by another courtyard, where you can see the tall, the Tower door Emboss and at the popular Obelisk. In the front yard, there are a hundred squatting on Sphinx side of the road along the Nile stretches for two kilometres, the road leads to the Northeast, in ancient times it is connected to the Luxor Temple and the Kanak Temple.

Read the two temples of Luxor and after going live, guided tour of the hotel with my students before they go to the hotel, check in, I was waiting in the car, my hotel is just next door to them.

This guide also ended his entourage tasks, the next trip tours by travel agents in addition. Because only half the journey, from tomorrow I become one trip, the heart is beating. Oh, want more than one anywhere, out in the end. The tour back to the bus after asking me for tips, I gave 10 dollars, he said that too few refused to go, also said that my classmates to 20 dollars, I think they each gave 20, cannot help but feel they do it secretly whisper to so many, I'll call my classmates would like to ask if she had not received, no solution had to take out a sheet of 20 dollars, because no other change. I gave it to the Guide and want to get back to that 10 dollars, didn't think that it is a guide to his tips, it shrinks back his hand, I was struck dumb, but I'm sorry to ask the tour please back it was injustice, lost 10 dollars. Guide to the tips after telling me not to leave the car for a while it was taking me to buy a plane ticket to fly to Alexander 's. Not a man to take me to go to hotel check-in and then drive me to buy a ticket to the car around in a circle down I was bewildered, and this is my classmates they hotel next to it, I'm completelyTo the confused. In the shop after the man had a fetch me, make me wait and went, I get the number is 58, this screen is only 48 10 individuals, I have to wait 1 hour before the turn, and there is no direct flight ticket, you need to turn in Cairo, not expensive fares only 370 pounds total. Set up after I went to the next door hotel for my students, their rooms are on the Nile, and my hotel room still do not see how such a difference in the Nile? only makes me feel funny is the hotel elevator looked very old, but the elevator doors make a response means off, so much fun. I asked a tip, they said two people gave us $ 20, at first only for 15 dollars, then the tour too few have 5 pounds, I hear the guide after you crawl too tricky, usually see him a fool not to Board-like cord, to small time-consuming really unambiguous and I have many wrongfully 10 dollars.

Because the night not to worry, we want to visit the Museum and the Mummy Museum of Luxor.

I didn't think of Ramadan, visitors to the time changed, eight to ten o'clock at night is, visit the time should be for am to 5 pm, 9: 00 pm o'clock. We can only be wandering around the street, and then to eat at McDonald 's. Because it's too late, went to the Mummy Museum, this is the May 1997 to open the new Museum. Walk down the stair is the ticket office, the Museum is small, but the atmosphere is very special. Dim, as if the world after death. Here are the lion, crocodile, fish Mummy, and the roof tanks "and when you use the mummification of the scalpel, and other tools.