Monthly Archives: January 2020
Egypt, Part Eleven
November 6 – 17 A short ride later we arrived at the house for our lunch. As in Aswan, here the street in front was not paved, dirty and dusty; likely the lack of rain makes this tolerable as you don’t have to deal much with mud. Inside though, the house was nicely decorated and […]
Egypt, Part Ten
November 6 – 17 We left the Valley of the Kings for our next stop, the mortuary temple complex of Hatshepsut (also Hatchepsut) which was located about three miles away. At the beginning of the tour Mahmoud had advised us to pronounce the name as Hat-Cheap-Suit, certainly an easy way to remember. The fifth pharaoh […]
Egypt, Part Nine
November 6 – 17 The first tomb I entered was that of Ramses III, the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty who is thought to have reigned from 1186 to 1155 BC. Considered to be the last great monarch of the New Kingdom to wield any substantial authority over Egypt, his long reign saw the […]
Egypt, Part Eight
November 6 – 17 After I finished my beer, I set out in search of an ATM to get some cash; one of the downsides of travel in Egypt is that not many places take credit cards. When you combine this with the need to purchase the additional side trips we’d been taking with our […]
Egypt, Part Seven
November 6 – 17 Later, arriving at Karnak Temple, we walked to the entrance, entered, and began our tour. As he has throughout the tour, Mahmoud spent the first hour or so with us explaining the significance of the temple complex, going into great detail in the areas with hieroglyphics that told a particular story. […]
Egypt, Part Six
November 6 – 17 Before dinner I made my way down to the bar area of the hotel for a beer that put an exclamation point on a full day of sightseeing, having visited Abu Simbel, one of the sites in Egypt that had been at the top of my list. We’d hit the halfway […]
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