Egypt 2
Bondi Tram
Peter Colquhoun and Sandra Colquhoun
Fri 4 Apr 2008 11:23
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There are something like 500 riverboats plying the Nile between Luxor
and Aswan. This
was the one we went on, the Nile Commodore.
    Karnak temple
 Luxor temple
    Part of Luxor Temple was used as an early Christian church, hence
the frescos of the apostles.
 Valley of the kings.. Tutunkhamen's mausoleum is just to the right of
people.
 Temple at the entrance to the valley of the kings
 Nile bank village
 A rare working felucca..this one with a load of rocks
 Tourist felucca
 Roman temple at Aswan on the site of the Egyptian temple of Phillae
 The god Horus
 Abu Simbel. Both temples were removed from the hillside
and rebuilt metres higher up to protect them from the
rising waters of Lake Nasser after the Aswan High Dam was completed.
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