Egypt: Luxor Temple

The third temple of the day, and it’s sunset by the time we get there! The Luxor Temple complex is huge with once again columns everywhere; there is also an obelisk that used to have a twin (which is now in Paris!)

The row of Sphinx statues in the last photo was once a lined-either-side walkway that ran the approx 2 miles between the Karnak and Luxor Temples. Recently the government has taken back the land and made it a walkway, but of course it’s missing most of the Sphinxes because they were cleared to allow people to live there.

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