We're killing a little time before we board a train back to Cairo. As I mentioned before, we're taking the sleeper train (fingers crossed that we get some sleep) back up north and then catch a bus tomorrow morning to St. Katherines. Once we get there we drop off our big bags, get refreshed and pump ourselves up to climb Mt. Sinai. We start at like 2 am and are supposed to be at the summit for sunrise. Our legs are tired just from walking around today (plus Ive got a head cold...booo) so hopefully we'll make it. ha. After we climb we get on another bus and head to Dahab. There we are going to lay on the beach and try and do some diving in the Red Sea - which is supposed to be amazing. We've heard really good things about both Sinai and Dahab so we're really looking forward to it. Will also be a nice change from temples and tombs.
Today, after checking out the Luxor museum, we explored the amazing temples on the East bank in Luxor - Karmak and Luxor temples. Karmak temple has been my favorite site so far. Its huuuuge and so many of the stories and figuers we've heard about over the last few days have all come together and built things here in onor of the god Amun. Its too hard to describe, but its very impressive. Luxor temple was smaller but had some goood statues made by Ramses II and a frescoe painted by Christians inside. Joining the two temples is Sphinx Avenue, which is a long line of sphinxes - great site.
The only bad thing about today and our trip really is that we've been harassed alot by Egyptians. Not like the pople selling things - but regular men and younger people who want to talk to us and take our picture. Most of the time its ok, but today one man followed us around and creeped us out. At one point a group of men was either videoing or photographing us and out guide had to tell them to stop. Made us feel pretty uncomfortable and I personally (even though I am dressed modestly) ended up walking around a lot of the afternoon with my arms across my chest. Hopefully Dahab will be better!
Location: Luxor (about to board a train to Cairo)
Temperature: 29 °C
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment