Karnak and Luxor Temple

After Cairo we flew down the nile to Luxor. This is the place that is famous for the Valley of the kings, Karnak, and Luxor Temple.















This is my first ride on a camel!! It's name was Sonja and I will never forget it!
I couldn't believe how high you are when riding a camel. Everything else was the same as a horse, which I am already pro at,of course! It was a fun ride.















Here is part of our group that all rode camels. We look like a caravan...















Here is the nile river and all the sail boat that run up and down it. It is really cool though because the water flows south to north and the wind goes north to south. So it would have made it easy for them to trade back in the day.















This is probably the coolest picture I took while in Egypt!! I absolutely love the sunset and sailboats on the nile.















This is our first get away into Luxor to go bargin with the traders. It was hilarious and we had a great time trying not to get ripped off. We got some cool cheap stuff though. The general rule of trading is; no matter how good you have bargined the price down and think you are getting a good deal, you are still getting ripped off! Don't worry it happens to everyone.















This is a model of Karnak, the coolest place on earth!!! This place blew me away at how grand and big this place is. It is the biggest building on earth. Streaching across 52 acres of land!!! It was great!



















Here is one pillar of the 96 that are found there. This column represents the lotus flower and is huge. We learned when we were there how they built these massive columns, oblisks, and great statues. It really is stunning how they did all that in that day.















Here we are with eight of us one pillar! These are huge and so of course we had to make a james bond movie while we were there!! It was fun to run and play inbetween all the columns!










This is a little part of Karnak. The picture doesn't give it justice but really was a cool place.



















Here is an obelisk built by Queen Hatshepsut that was taken down by her son again!! It is amazing how tall these are. Our tour guide drew in the sand describing how they built this massive peice of one rock!















Here at Luxor Temple they have these sphinx gaurding the entrance of the temple. 5000 years ago the entrance was 2 miles long lined with these things. The archeologist are still uncovering these things.















Here I am in front of Luxor Temple! It was a pretty great place but I think Karnak spoiled the greatness of it.














Here we are in front of the statues of the pharoahs. My pharoah's head got lobbed off and defaced by the muslims

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