Egypt Photos II

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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 Egyptian way…

: 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!” Our …

: 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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