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“Travel through Egypt July – August 2011”
From Egypt II, posted by Arlo Midgett on 8/04/2011 (118 items)
- Sunset in Luxor
- These sphinx statues used to stretch all the way to the Karnak temple
- Entrance to Luxor temple
- Obelisk
- From behind the throne
- Closeup on the statue
- Serious
- This temple and Karnak were the only ones that were actually crowded when we visited
- Since the temple was originally built, an actual mosque has been built inside of it
- At another point in time, a Coptic Christian church was also built inside the ancient…
- Posing with statues
- Sunlight on the columns
- Tutankhamun and his wife
- "Two Tank Jamón." That’s how I remembered how to pronounce his name the Egy…
- Smoke break
- The sheer size and number of columns amazed me. And to think they pale in comparison…
- Looking up
- Sunset
- Hole in the wall
- Luxor temple is smack in the middle of the city. There’s a McDonald’s right outside …
- Beautiful sky
- Rows of columns
- Purple sky
- Sun goes down, lights come up
- You can almost see the Nile
- Groovy lighting
- Big head
- Looking up the obelisk
- Luxor Temple
- She looks photoshopped in
- They wouldn’t even let us take our cameras out of the car at the Valley of the Kings …
- A view of the kind of terrain in the Valley of the Kings. There was an amazing displa…
- Hatshepsut temple From afar, it looked like it was built into the mountain. It wasn’…
- Hatshepsut temple
- They’re proud of this stump, I guess.
- The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
- Hatshepsut temple steps
- Statues
- Lots of cow carvings at this site
- Queen Hatshepsut, I think
- Not all the statues remained, but many of the ones that did were in decent condition
- Normal
- Jaunty angle!
- I’m ignoring you.
- Waiting in a slightly cooler spot under a ceiling fan
- The Colossi of Memnon Fairly well damaged, but cool in the way you can see how they w…
- Briefing a group for the Karnak Temple Tour
- Dragonfly!
- Waiting in the shade for me to finish taking pictures
- So. Many. Columns. More than in any other single place in the world.
- Columns leading to one of many obelisks
- Walking among columns
- Fallen obelisk
- No idea of the players, but the story behind the discoloration was that a later ruler…
- Altar room
- Statues Karak is another temple in the middle of a modern city. I can’t remember if …
- Oksana cool off in the breeze She got a bit of heat stroke, we think, and almost thre…
- Depth
- Shadows
- Bedouin
- Mini Me
- Before sunrise on Mt. Sinai
- Waiting for the sun to rise
- Contemplative
- First view of the sun
- Sunrise
- Sun
- Shadowplay
- Photobomb’d!
- Portrait, with sunrise
- Kiosks near the top. I thought it was a bit insensitive for such a holy (Christian) s…
- Hiking back down
- Do a little dance!
- Sir, yes sir!
- Our hiking group for Mt. Sinai. We were called Ramses Group. "RAMSES! RAMSES!&…
- Looking all the way back down from where we came
- Hiking back down the 750 steps
- The winding trail
- St. Catherine’s Monastery
- Camel
- You want to ride camel? Sir? You want ride camel?
- THE Burning Bush (there on the right!)
- That other place is okay, though.
- Diving in the Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba, to be exact)
- Giant clam
- Wall of bubbles rising from the underwater Canyon
- Looking up from below in the canyon
- Tight squeeze
- Flash hit the wall and the light shows its true colors. The deeper you go, the more …
- Another view of the canyon
- Argh! My most frustrating photo! There was a whole school of Lion fish that were ba…
- Fishies!
- More Fishies!
- I call him "Spot."
- A normal fish
- Oksana cruisin’ on by
- Technical diver practicing for a deep dive
- He hovered in place, perfectly still. 9 tanks, who knows how many dive computers. O…
- This would be a good senior class portrait… if high schools were under water.
- Lots of divers in the area
- Protection among the coral
- Driving to the next dive site
- This is where we entered the water for our Blue Hole dive. We went straight down thi…
- Moray. We need to figure out a better camera flash. You can see here how much our u…
- Big coral
- Nemo, flash
- Two Nemos, couldn’t pull much red out of the photo, though
- Cleaning fish! Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW-gvdzy0w0
- Oksana above
- Lots of fish
- "Skydiving" over the Blue Hole
- Freedivers
- Freediver going down
- Back to back
- If I owned this cat, I’d call her Heterochromia Iridium
- Actual working laptop! This beast was serving up the restaurant’s wifi
- Lots of people reading their Koran for Ramadan
- I hate this departure lounge
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