Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Temple of Hatshepsut
On day 3 we went to the Temple of Hatshepsut. Our guide was excellent, his name was Hassan and he told the kids to remember it as the Temple of "Hot Chicken Soup"!
Egyptian night on the cruise
The second night on the cruise was Egyptian night and people dressed up. I dressed up as Cleopatra. I had a head dress and a skirt I bought from Edfu. See, now I know there was a purpose going to the temples!! It was so much fun. We also bought raffle tickets during the day and the prizes were drawn at the party.
I won two prizes, a jewelry box and an Egyptian outfit for a man. To claim the prize, each person had to do a dance so that was fun. I did the "dance like an Egyptian". Tom and I made a deal that if he won something and had to dance then I would join him and we'd do the jitterbug. Would you believe he won a gold pendant!! We danced to the cheer of everyone at the party while Aakash laughed his head off!
Edfu Temple
We set sail to Edfu around 10.00am. The Kom Ombo was only a two minute walk from the cruise ship
. When we got to Edfu, we got to take a horse carriage from the cruise ship to the temple. It was so cool to see a whole line of horse carriages taking everyone from the cruise ship to the temple. I didn't tell Emily since she was just having fun with Chandra and Aakash but I was already getting "templed out". They are all starting to look the same to me... I like the shopping though. We've been buying stuff along the way. We now have two straw hats a whole bunch of T shirts and camels...
Aswan Philae Temple
We went by boat to see the Philae Temple which was relocated to an island in the middle of Lake Nassar. Due to the Dam, this temple would have been under water if it weren't relocated. It was a great temple. The first of many we would see on this trip. As I'm writing the blog after the trip I truly believe this was one of the best temples. Being in the middle of the lake gives it that much more mystery and charm. We really enjoyed it. Me, Mrinalini and Tom are just going crazy with the cameras. Tom mainly focused on the architecture and I encouraged the kids to do crazy poses. we all had a great time and we were starved by the time we return to our ship which set sail in the middle of the night for Kom Ombo.
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