ALL M&I

We are leaving Luxor and our fabulous guide Mina; we spent the evening walking around the city, including right past the Temple of Luxor lit up splendidly!

Medinet Habu is yet another temple complex, and here we visited the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III with another huge and amazing collection of temples, again many have original color …

Another day, and another temple! The Dendara Temple Complex actually has multiple temples together, including some with an incredible amount of original color still present, and others where the color has been damaged mainly by smoke from people in the past that occupied the abandoned temples – there was some active restoration work in some parts.

There were a number of “broken through” tomb chambers available to crawl into for a few dollars, and so I did. Of course there’s no coffin or grave goods there any more but the walls are amazingly covered in story art and other pictures … the passages are quite easy to stand up in, the only challenge is getting through the “break through” which is maybe just a couple feet wide to minimize smashing the temple walls!