Today we see Karnak temple in Luxor and then fly back to Cairo for one night and meet up with anyone who did not take the optional Egypt extension. It was so so so worth the extra time and money and we have seen and learned so much. We are so grateful for this experience and are so looking forward to the Israel trip.
Karnak was amazing and the largest Temple in the world. There is a Scarab (beetle) statue that is huge on the grounds that is an ancient symbol. They said that a dung beetle was representing the resurrection in that they would roll it in a ball of manure and bury it. Then it would lay eggs and then the baby beetles would climb up out of the dung ball and have life and that the sun was usually found between the antennas of the beetle in most hieroglyphics because it was like the ball and the sun rolls across the sky and keeps going forever representing life eternal. The Scarab statue saying is that if you walk around it seven times your wishes will come true. So we did. This temple is on the eastern side of the Nile and represents life and eternal life. and Luxor temple to all the other temples that we went to are on the western side representing death. All of the hieroglyphics tell a story and the names of the gods and how they want the gods to bless them. They show feeding the gods food, sun god, fertility, Strength, etc. Michael Wilcox is a great knowledgable teacher. Our guides are Engie, Ahmad, Mohammad and Wahel plus Lindsey Tyndale who is a daughter of the owners of Fun For Less. She is also an owner at such a young age in her 20's. She is so dang cute and fun and the Egyptian guides just love her like family. She traveled there many times. They are all Muslim and Lindsey is a Mormon from Utah. We have such a different feeling about the people form Br. Wilcox point of view and from getting to know these guides. Vendors at the sites are sooooo ridicules but we managed. They do not represent all of the Egyptian Muslims. There are many good faithful people here. We are on the flight now ready to land in Cairo. We went to dinner at the attached mall that is one of the largest, if not the largest in that we have ever seen. There were seven floors and each floor spread out from the center and had every kind of store you could imagine in it. Very modern. We ate with Claralyn and Ross Palfryman (our great new friends) at Chilies of all places. Good company but not the best food however it was at least American. We went to bed around midnight again.
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| Day 6 |
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| Layton couldn't resist jumping off of the bus and giving candy to these cute boys- they were in heaven as they skipped off before we pulled away! |
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| Another way to show the 6th day lol |
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| Good bye Luxor, we shall probably never see you again. |
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| Good bye Nile River |
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| This is a model of the Luxor Temple grounds, and what we are about to see. As you can tell, it is massive. |
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| This was inside one of the temples in the Holy of Holy room. So cool !!! |
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| Yea, we totally got in trouble by some guards for these next photos. Apparently, you are not allowed to stand on the ancient rocks...who knew.... |
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| One last look at the Luxor Airport |
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| We had to walk out to our small plane to take us back to Cairo. |
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| Engie |
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| Hum. what shall we eat today? A whole suitcase of food that most of it went to people on the bus and children. It saved us on some days though I will admit. |
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| Gorgeous Hotel and breakfast on day 7. |
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| Our TV. (We were able to get FOX at one point, interestingly enough.) |
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