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Date: 04 Apr 2008 12:23:13
Title: Egypt 2
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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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