EDFU– the temple of Horus

We spent this morning floating down the NILE… I can still hardly believe that we are ON THE NILE….even after being here for 8 days..it just seems unreal. The Nile is not as big as The Mississippi River was when we were in Memphis, TN…but the fertile area surrounding the Nile is as thin as I thought it would be….you can always see the dessert behind the geeen strip.

Where I had the Latte–still wide awake

Our guide says there are 20,000 antiquity sites in Egypt

This was a wide area

This is what is looks like mostly

After lunch we went to our second Temple of the day…we took a horse and carriage there….I have to say, I have always avoided goofy things like carriage rides….and yet it was SO much fun.

And then another amazing temple….seems like everyone we see is more complicated then the one before. This was built by the Ptolemy’s who were the Greek Pharoahs…they ruled for about 400 years, but only the last one, Cleopatra learned Egyptian! But they wanted to support the priesthood so they continued the old religion and business lt some big temples.. this one was buried in sand for the most part, so the cArvings are very clear.

Here is Horus

dscn1956 And then a few pictures of the temple …I think for this one and the next two days all I can do is give you an idea of the beauty of the art work…the size of these complexes is just impossible to convey..,as is the feeling of peace that you get in these temples..they really were sites of worship.