Holy Land Journal, March 19

We met in the lobby after breakfast at 8 am for our trip to the Valley Of The Kings.

On the way we saw a group of six hot-air balloons.

In the reception of the Valley Of The Kings they had this relief map of all of the tomb sites.

We first watched a video explaining the tombs and what we could expect to see.

We were not allowed to photograph the inside of the tombs. We got to go into three of them.

This is one that we had to climb up to the entrance and then down into the tomb.

Next we visited this temple built into the opposite side of the mountain. It was built in memory Pharaoh Hatshepsut who was the daughter of Kink Tut and Nefertiti.

This is a close-up of the upper two stories.

These are some of the columns on the front of the temple.

We got to take a sailboat ride back to our hotel. It was a great day for sailing and the captain did a great job.

Here we are enjoying the ride. We stopped for lunch at our hotel arriving by water.

We next went to Karnak Temple just north of Luxor. This is the front wall of the temple.

It was built in 300 BC and has the largest columns ever built in the world.

There are 134 columns in the temple. The obelisk here is the largest one ever made from a single stone.

This shows one destroyed by an earthquake with the two still standing in the background.

This was the Holy Of Holies that only the Pharaoh was allowed to enter.

Then we went to the restored Luxor Temple in the downtown Luxor.

These statues are supposed to be guarding the entrance to the temple.

These are some of he many columns in the temple.

These are a couple of locals that wanted their picture taken, for money of course.

These are five of the twelve statues in this chamber.

We are leaving Egypt Thursday and heading for Jordan. We have to get up at 4:00 am, put our luggage out in the hall at 4:15 and the bus leaves at 5 am. We will fly to Cairo then to Amman Jordan. We will spend the night at the hotel in Jordan and start home on Friday. We should arrive in Sarasota sometime after midnight on Saturday morning.

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