Egypt_2019

EGYPT.
NILE & CAIRO. 

05/Jan/2019 to 13/Jan/2019.

Highlights :
Karnak temple - Luxor temple - Thebes site (tombs of the Valley of the Kings & tombs of Craftsmen & Colossi of Memnon & Ramses III temple) - Edfu temple - Kom Ombo temple - Philae temple - Aswan dam - Felucca sailing - Abu Simbel temples - Giza pyramids and the Sphinx - Egyptian Antiquities Museum (Cairo).

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Saturday 05/Jan/2019.
(Day 1).
Home to Luxor journey.

Departure from Paris.

Arrival at Luxor.

Sunset (Luxor Temple).

Luxor streets.

Security gate for St Michael's church.

St Michael's Christmas crib.

Luxor Temple.

Evening dinner dessert.

– ASL Airlines flight FPO601 from Paris (CDG) to Luxor (LHR), 07:30-13:20, 4h50, B737.

|---| M/sTarot (vessel), docked 15km South of Luxor.

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Sunday 06/Jan/2019.
(Day 2).
Karnak & Luxor.

Along the Nile.

Along the Nile.

Along the Nile

Karnak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnak

Part of the temple became a church,
one can still imagine the painting of the Saints.

Luxor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor

|---| M/sTarot (vessel), docked 15km South of Luxor.

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Monday 07/Jan/2019.
(Day 3).
Thebes & start of the Nile Cruise.

Thebes - Theban Necropolis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebes,_Egypt

Valley of the Kings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Kings

Colossi of Memnon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossi_of_Memnon

18m tall statues of Amenhotep III.

House of  a muslim having pilgrimaged to Mecca.

Restaurant.

Tombs of the Craftsmen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina

Sennedjem tomb
(Picture stolen from the internet).

Sennedjem tomb
(picture stolen from the internet).

Mortuary temple of Ramses III.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medinet_Habu_(temple)

Sailing along the Nile.

Nile bridge pillars.

Sunset.

Esna lock.

Entering the Esna lock.

|---| M/sTarot (vessel), sailing and later docked at Edfu. 

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Tuesday 08/Jan/2019.
(Day 4).

Edfu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Edfu

Arrival at the Horus temple of Edfu before anybody else.

Horus temple of Edfu.

Nile Cruise (cntd).

Boat landing at Kom Ombo,
after a five hours sailing.

Kom Ombo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Kom_Ombo

Temple ceiling.

Nilometer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilometer

Sunset.

|---| M/sTarot (vessel), sailing and later on docked at Aswan.

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Wednesday 09/Jan/2019.
(Day 5).

Philae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae

Crossing the lower Aswan lake with a tiny ferry
to reach the temple island (part of the Elephanta Islands).

Graffiti.  One can read :
" L’an 6 de la République, le 12 Messidor, une armée Française commandée par Bonaparte est descendue à Alexandrie.
L’armée ayant mis, vingt jours après, les Mammelouks en fuite aux pyramides,
Desaix, commandant la première division, les a poursuivis au delà des cataractes,
où il est arrivé le 13 Ventôse de l’an 7 ".

The temple was for a while used as Christian church.

Aswan Dam (Nasser Lake).

Monument for the "Eternal Soviet-Egypt Friendship.

Felucca sailing.
(From Aswan to the cruise ship).

Reaching the cruise ship
(third one counting from the left).

|---| M/sTarot (vessel), docked at Aswan.

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Thursday 10/Jan/2019.
(Day 6).

Abu Simbel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel_temples

Sunrise, first visitors of the day,
to get around quickly !!!

Managed to be the first in front of the Abu Simbel temples.

Historical graffiti.

Last glimpse on the Ramses II Colossi.

Temple of Hathor, also built by Ramses II,
now for his  favorite wife Nefertari.

Nasser Lake.

Along the road.

Desert.

Lower Aswan Lake.

Copt church.

|---| M/sTarot (vessel), sailing from Aswan back to the Esna Lock.

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Friday 11/Jan/2019.
(Day 7).

Sunrise at Luxor airport, when leaving for Cairo.

Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza

Sharing this memorable moment with Chantal.

At the right hand side the "Great Pyramid" (pharaoh Khufu, 138.8m high, 2500BC),
even if it appears smaller than the central one (pharaoh Khafre, 136.4m).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza

Pyramid of Khafre, the Great Sphinx, and the Great Pyramid (Khufu).

The Great Sphinx of Giza,
20.2m from the base to the top, 2500 BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza

Egyptian Museum of Cairo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum

Triad with pharaoh Menkaure (central) and goddess Hathor (fertility, left),
proof of the level of Egyptian craftmanship 2500BC.

Wooden statue representing priest Ka-aper, 2500BC.

Guide explaining about female pharaoh Hatshepsut, 1500BC.

A staircase overlook on the dusty old fashioned museum.

The only discovered 3D picture of Khufu (just 7.5cm high !!!),
the pharaoh of the Great Pyramid of Giza, 2500BC.

Death Mask of Tutankhamun, 1300BC
(Picture from the Internet, as no photography permitted).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Tutankhamun

Servant girl figurine, 2000 BC.

- Egyptair flight MS63 from Luxor (LXR) to Cairo (CAI), 06:30-07:40, 1h10.
- Egyptair flight MS64 from Cairo (CAI) to Luxor (LXR), 22:30-23:30,1h00.

|---| M/sTarot (vessel), docked at Luxor.

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Saturday 12/Jan/2019.
(Day 8).
Return-home journey.

- Fly Egypt flight FT3301 from Luxor (LXR) to Paris (CDG), 14:45-19:00, 5h15, B737.

|---| Paris.

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