03/02: Karnak Complex
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
The cruise ship altered its schedule leaving first thing in the morning instead of in the afternoon thus arriving in Luxor early in the morning instead of in the afternoon. What that means for our tour is a more relaxed three days in Luxor.
Today we visited the Karnak Temple Complex. Karnak was built, added to, dismantled, restored, enlarged and decorated during its colourful history of over 1,500 years. In certain points in Egyptian history, the temple was the most important in all of Egypt. A portion of the site has been restored but much of it is rows of organized rocks waiting for someone to put the puzzle together. Our Egyptian guide is amazing and tells us the names of everything we look at, reads a lot of the hieroglyphics to us, then translates what he just told us into English, tells us all the dates and I just can’t remember it all. So you’ll get pictures with maybe a little information ---- it’s the best I can do.
Our group walking towards the temple. There were a lot !!!! of people there.
There were lots of tall objects …. Pillars, statues, obelisks, walls, gates, etc.
Our Egyptian guide giving us lots of information.
A couple of the obelisks
Looking over the relecting lake at Karnak complex
Looking across the rows or organized blocks. The crane in the background is used to lift blocks when the workers are reconstructing a building.
We were taking a temple that was not open to the public, but our guide new the correct person so we were able to go inside and take a peek at the beautiful rooms.
Amazing colours.
Today we visited the Karnak Temple Complex. Karnak was built, added to, dismantled, restored, enlarged and decorated during its colourful history of over 1,500 years. In certain points in Egyptian history, the temple was the most important in all of Egypt. A portion of the site has been restored but much of it is rows of organized rocks waiting for someone to put the puzzle together. Our Egyptian guide is amazing and tells us the names of everything we look at, reads a lot of the hieroglyphics to us, then translates what he just told us into English, tells us all the dates and I just can’t remember it all. So you’ll get pictures with maybe a little information ---- it’s the best I can do.
Our group walking towards the temple. There were a lot !!!! of people there.
There were lots of tall objects …. Pillars, statues, obelisks, walls, gates, etc.
Our Egyptian guide giving us lots of information.
A couple of the obelisks
Looking over the relecting lake at Karnak complex
Looking across the rows or organized blocks. The crane in the background is used to lift blocks when the workers are reconstructing a building.
We were taking a temple that was not open to the public, but our guide new the correct person so we were able to go inside and take a peek at the beautiful rooms.
Amazing colours.