This week, with frigid weather touching so many areas of the United Sates, I decided it was time to visit someplace warm!! Join us for a tour of Egypt.
Fourteen years ago this week I was just returning from a three week trip to Egypt. Although I had traveled to the British Isles and France several times before, my trip to Egypt was an entirely different experience! The sacred places, the markets, and the culture left a lasting impression on me.
A couple of my favorite sites are included in this tour!
Abu Simbel - After arriving by plane from Aswan, we rounded a corner and found ourselves looking at this! The guard in white shows you the scale of this immense temple. What's particularly interesting is that this entire monument was relocated and reconstructed before the area was flooded when the Aswan Dam was built. Block by block this entire monument was moved to higher ground. When you take this tour you actually walk down the path way to the inner area of the temple. The scale is astounding.
Philae - Our tour guide was a graduate student when this temple was relocated to a larger island to prevent it from being flooded. Each block was numbered, moved, and put back in place. Can you imagine!? What struck me the most about this particular temple was the silence. Located as it was in the middle of the Nile, the only non-natural sounds you hear are the periodic boats that bring visitors to the island.
I also enjoyed this photo of dates drying in a palm grove. Reminds me a bit of some of the decorative images we saw on the tour of India.
Have you been to Egypt? What intrigues you about the photos in this tour?
Please note that Yann Arthus Berthand has updated his site. Unfortunately, the write up for vertical photos is someone obscured. I'm sure they will fix this when they realize this effect of their redesign.