Monday 6/21/10 - Valley of the Kings and Queens, Hatchepsut Temple, Karnak Temple and Luxor

This was a great day to end our tour of the city of Karak and to finish up our Nile River cruise.  We were able to visit the Valley of the Kings and Queens where we actually entered 3 tombs DEEP into the mountains of Karnak.  Some of us actually were able to go into King Tut's tomb as well.  We saw his sarcophogus and actually saw King Tut himself as a mummy.  We were not able to take pictures here - so sorry!  We then traveled to Hatchepsut's Temple - one of the only female pharoah's of Ancient Egypt:

From Egypt - Day 8 - Valley of the Kings and Queens, Hatchepsut Temple, and more . . .

We then went and briefly visited the Colloses of Memnon.  Each one of these statues weighed 1.4 million pounds each:

From Egypt - Day 8 - Valley of the Kings and Queens, Hatchepsut Temple, and more . . .

From there we went to the Temple of Karnak and saw an unbelieveable temple to say the least.  Here is a quick pic of the columns with the Temple of Karnak.  There were 134 total columns just like these and the top of each column can hold 100 people.  Quick math shows that 13,400 people could fit on the top of these columns alone - not to mention the rest of the temple!

From Egypt - Day 8 - Valley of the Kings and Queens, Hatchepsut Temple, and more . . .

Here is a short video clip to show how massive these columns actually were:


We then visited the Temple at Luxor - here is a quick view of this magnificent structure at night:

From Egypt - Day 8 - Valley of the Kings and Queens, Hatchepsut Temple, and more . . .