Wednesday, July 16, 2008

LUXOR...the city of the GODS

Luxor (Arabic: الأقصر ) As the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, Luxor has frequently been characterised as the "world's greatest open air museum", the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor standing within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the Nile River, lie the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank Necropolis, which include the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor

So here is a little background info of the following: I get to the beautiful Luxor. I get dropped off at the hotel, check-in, and then go out to see the sites. As soon as I walk out of the hotel I had about 200 towel heads all over me asking for money and bugging me. So I got very mad and decided to pay for a tour guide the next guy. I told the guy: I pay you $30 for the whole day but make sure no ones comes near my sister. Mind you $30 is a lot here. HAHAHAHA. So no towel heads coming up to my sis for 2 days.
So our tour guide for an extra $10 dollar tip he took us into Tombs that have been discovered 5 years ago and there's still work being done. He is an egyptologist, which has 2 PHD's in egyptology and works for the government for a great salary of $75 dollars per month. He gets payed that much to study the great and amazing egyptian culture. Foreign people come to Egypt to find new things and he is in charge of studying what they found. So for $40 for the day you don't think he cared about taking us to these Tombs, of course not. Thank God for 3rd world countries with bad governments. So the story begins....


One of the new Tombs. For Queen Tumbosis. Married to King Ramses II.


King Ramses II loved to fight. He told his army. For every hand you bring me from our enemies, I will give you a coin of Gold. HAHAHA.



A new Tomb they found 3 years ago. He let us take pics. They are still studying who was there. I had to tip the 6 military man $2.50 to let me take pics and scort us underground. They were super happy and one guy wanted to kiss my hand... Trying to keep this PG-13.


Here you can see my belly.... I mean that is the UNKH: ( Key of Life). For good luck i put my forehead against the wall. We'll see if it brings me Ms. Right and not just Ms. Right now.


These fools are here to protect the Valley of Kings. Apparently they didn't do a good job because a lot of things were stolen from there. HAHAHA.


Yeah!!!!!!!!!!! I saw King TUT. This fool was a Stud in Acient egypt. Became king at 9, married at 12 and died at 19.


Actually Ramses II was the Stud. So he married NEFERTITI and loved her very much. She dies. So he decided to marry about 45 women and had over 200 kids. He wanted to find NEFERTITI again. He ruled Egypt for 67 years.

I'm here with Sadam Husein's nephew. The guy charged me $.50 cents for the pic.


The stud Ramses II


OK yes I love Ramses II. He had a lot of fun time.... I wanna be like him.


The Luxor temple entrance. Where the King walked through to pray to AMUN God (God of Upper Egypt).

Wanna see me in a camel??? HAHAHA





















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