Unknown Temple

As I was on one of my outings Just get on a microbus and decided to stop anywhere that looks interesting usually to photograph the life in the village.the place I asked to get off was about 10 kilometer from Luxor On the Quena Rd and quite near the Nile. the village itself as about 200 meters from the main road along a dirt track and I was thinking this should be interesting and as there was a canal running through it maybe I will get some wildlife photos,I headed along through the village no one said nothing only in answer to my Good morning I arabic )Silfachacher) and answered silfachanoor, most likely thought I was an Egyptian, ( there are white ones here) heading towards the Nile I came across this Temple visitors are not allowed in but if I would see my way to giving the guard 100egp I could go in and take photos. from what I could see from where I was it was not worth it its only 70egp to go into Karnak temple. I just took these shots by the time I was ready to leave all the village was out there looking for money from the tourist that happened to come across their temple. we need money. we need your money. No thank you I said I do not need your money. they looked a bit stupid at me when I said that, then the one girl came out with no we no give you money, we need your money. so I put my camera away and legged it out of there. these toe rags really know how to spoil ones day,

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Karnak Temple

Barque Chapel of Seti I in the first court yard

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http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/karnak2.htm

4 views of Hatshepsuts obolisk

Karnak sacred lake

I reckon they also had flower tubs

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View of Hatshepsut Temple from Karnak

Luxor temple is so small after Karnak temple

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The escarab beetle looks over the sacred lake

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Pyramids of Egypt

Pyramids at Giza one of the seven wonders of the world.



12/1/2002




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What is in the white building http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/aboat.htm

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I built you ships, freight ships, arched ships with rigging, plying the Big Green (the sea). I manned them with archers, captains and innumerable sailors, to bring the goods of the Land of Tyre and the foreign countries at the end of the world to your storage rooms at Thebes the Victorious.
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Gebel el-Silsila

These tombs are between Comombo And Esna
Taken from wikipedia,

Gebel el-Silsila is 65 km north of Aswan, where the cliffs on both sides of the Nile narrow. The name Kheny (or sometimes Khenu) means "The Place of Rowing". It was used as a quarry site from at least the 18th Dynasty to Greco-Roman times.

On the west bank is a rock cut shrines for Horemheb, Seti I, Ramesses II and Merenptah.

Many of the talatats used by Akhenaten were quarried from here, and used in buildings at Luxor and Amarna. Akhenaten's sculptor Bek oversaw the opening of a stone quarry here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talatat

This is the pylon in Edfu Temple most Temples have two some have three,
also a few of the pylons have been demolished some say the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
was destroyed by the Pharaos others say by earthquake. most of the stones from the Gebel el-Silsila where used to construct other buildings. but originaly sat inside these huge pylons the smallest is 100 ft high

Comombo Temple Komombo Temple

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/komombo2.htm