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Our trip starts in Cairo, the largest city in Africa.
Cairo is a chaotic city, noisy and polluted but without doubt it is a fascinating city.
The Egyptian museum is not to miss and the city streets are an explosion of colours and different cultures.
The Egyptian museum in Cairo hosts the treasure of Pharaoh Tutankhamun that takes the better part of the first floor of the museum. |
The enigmatic Sphinx in Giza. In the background we can see the pyramids of the greatest Egyptian Pharaohs: Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. These pyramids were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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| Terraces pyramid, the grave of the Pharaoh Zoser |
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Monumental Complex of the Luxor Temple:
Temple of Amon:
1. Pylon of Ramses II
2. Courtyard of Ramses II
3. Mosque of Abu el Haggag
4. Chapel of the boats of Thutmosi III
5. Pylon of Amenhotep III
6. Gallery of Amenhotep III
7. Great courtyard of Amenhotep III
8. First ipostila room
9. Second ipostila room
10. Chapel of the sacred boat of Amon
11. Ipostila room
12. Sanctuary |
| The temple of Luxor has been built by the Pharaoh Amenophis III on the site of another Theban temple and has been enriched by Tutankhamun, Ramses II, Nectanebo, Alexander the Great and from the Romans. |
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Monumental complex of Karnak:
1. First pylon of the great temple of Amon
2. Temple of Sethi II
3. Great courtyard
4. Temple of Ramses III
5. ipostila room
6. Sanctuary
7. Room of the parties
8. Sacred lake
9. Propilei of the South
10. Temple of the jubilee of Amenhotep II
11. Temple of Khonsu
12. Temple of Opet
13. Avenue of the sphinxes
14. Temple of Mut
15. Sacred lake
16. Temple of Amenhotep III
17. Temple of Ramses III
18. Temple of Montu
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The Temples of Karnak are a series of monuments, devoted to the God Amon, that form an articulated
architectural complex, they were the most greater place of cult in Theban times, they are constituted
from:
Temple of Amun,
The greatest Temple of Mut, on the South side
Temple of Montu |
| The Temple of Ramses II |
The Temple of Ramses II is, probably, the most beautiful and most interesting site in Luxor and Egypt.
The hieroglyphs are splendid and well preserved despite they are 4000 years old. |
| Queen's Hatshepsut Temple |
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Queen's Hatshepsut Temple in Deir el-Bahri.
Queen Hatshepsut proclaimed herself Pharaoh at the death of her husband Thutmosi II.
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| If you think that the Egyptians temples are thousand of years old, think again. As you can see the
constructions are in progress at this very moment (in the photo some masons at work in the construction of a temple). |
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Memmon’s Colossuses are two enormous statues found on the road that takes to the Valley of the Queens.
The two statues represent the Pharaoh Amenhotep III sat on the throne. |
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In Aswan we have romantically sailed the Nile on a felucca just before sunset.
Too bad that the captain of the felucca was not very experienced and we almost sunk!
The picture on the right shows our felucca on a collision course with a large ship. |
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| Aswan’s market |
The stand of the local butcher |
| Phile Island |
Phile’s Temple was originally located in the homonym island, but its actual position is on Agilika Island.
After the construction of the dam on the Nile the Temple was submerged, because of this, a few years after the
dam construction, the Temple has been moved on the new island. |
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