South of the Nile – Five Visits
Posted by Eva de Lourdes on October 19, 2024
- Karnak – the Egyptian bark carries Amun Ra from sunrise to sunset. There are 134 columns in the temple to guide the day, year, and life from birth to death.

2. Luxor Temple. Has 2,800 sphinxes on each side of a long path connecting both temples.

3. The Edfu Temple honors Horus, falcon and son of Isis and Osiris. They travel together in the sacred bark.

4. Temple of Abu Simbel. Close to the Nile sources, it was partially drowned during the Aswan Dam construction. It was moved to higher ground.

5. Temple of Hatshepsut Engineering marvel that blends with its surroundings. The pharaoh who was told that she needed to be a man to be a pharaoh so she became a man. She’s depicted with a beard and with bronze colored skin, as opposed to the white skin of females next to bronze skin male pharaohs.

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