Day 6 El Kab and Edfu (make sure you see day 5 also)

Isis and Nephtys on donkeys heading for El Kab

Mud walls of El Kab, an early capital of Egypt.

Donkey Ride to El Kab tombs




El Kab Tombs


This is the donkey that I fell off of. The donkey wrangler rode
him back, as I did not feel like trying again.



Everyone except Jules of the Nile walked back to the river from the El Kab tombs.
I know the wranglers were saying "Yeah the americans
paid for a round trip and they are walking
and we are riding. Go figure?"

Edfu is the most intact temple in all of Egypt.

Most of the rooms still have roofs.

The facade (darker areas are pylons where flags were flown)
amazing symmetry

The acoustics are such that a priest standing at the

altar can be heard by the rabble

who were kept in the outside open area.

exceptional carving of the gift of the water of life,

defaced by christians (see the chisel

marks on the face of the pharoah. )

Carving of Horus

This was a very interesting carving,

it has a snake, baboon, three swirls

this is an exceptional carving of the

ram headed god Khnum

papyrus and lotus, indicating unification

of upper and lower egypt

Huge carving of the Pharoah and Horus

You have to look closely,

but this is a hippopotamus

Hippo captured by the Pharoah

and being towed to shore

This is dark, but a forest of columns!

Sekhmet, Lion Goddess

In the Momesium, Isis is suckling the

young Horus, defaced by Christians

Me in a touristy pose in front of the

statue of Horus wearing the double crown