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Tour to Luxor.
The trip to Luxor was awesome - even if it was a very long and tiring day.
The shop was docked in Safaga on the Red Sea. From there it was a 3 hour drive
through the desert to Luxor. Once again we had a police escort. We even had
2 security guys on the bus - guns and all. Alot of protection they would have
been - they were the first people to fall asleep on the journey there and back.
First stop was the Valley of the Kings. This was where the Pharoahs had their tombs built
so they wouldn't get robbed like those buried in the Pyramids had been.
This valley was chosen as there was a mountain in the shape of a pyramid
overlooking it. Even though the Pharoahs didn't have their own pyramid
they still wanted the protection that they felt a pyramid would give them.
The detail and paintwork on the walls of the tombs were unbelievable. To think that the paintwork
was done 1000s of years ago and supposedly haven't been touched up. The paintwork explains
the journey that was taken through the underworld by the dead.
I find it amazing that there could be all that detail when there was
no electricity to keep the tomb lit. I can't imagine that it would have
been easy even with candles. We were only here for about 90 minutes and it
was not enough. You could easily spend all day there.
