Luxor - East Bank

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I'll need a train ride to catch up on these blogs, haha. I figured I'd keep the pictures coming though. Here are some pictures from our day in Luxor. Karnak temple is the largest ancient temple in the world. The magnitude is incredible. The Luxor temple, though it is much smaller, is equally as cool because the condition of the statues are so much better. Also, you're able to see the Roman influence and the temple walls where Roman paintings were chipped away to find the ancient Egyptian carvings underneath. One of the coolest things of today was a group of Egyptian women traveling from Alexandria stopping to thank us for traveling to Egypt. A man at the temple translated for us, because Michael and I did not understand, but the women wanted a picture with me because I was wearing a head scarf. They said that tourists are rare these days, but tourists that wear head scarfs are impossible to find even in busy times and they wanted to be able to show their friends back home because they thought it "was pretty cool". So I took a picture with them gladly. I couldn't help but smile. I like feeling accepted in their culture.

Tomorrow we visit the Valley of the Kings. It also just happens to be my birthday :-)

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Photos

Steigenberger Nile Palace Hotel
The view from our Nile front room. We got a free upgrade :-)

Kissing on theSphinxes
The man asked if we were married and when we replied yes, he insisted on this picture.

Karnak temple
All to ourselves

Comments

[the w d]

Nice photos and have a nice trip