Showing posts with label 2005 Egypt Tour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2005 Egypt Tour. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 29, 2005


Alexandria - Greco-Roman Museum. Has a statue of Cleopatra and many other cool stuff, not posting them here though. Go visit Egypt, its nice. But wait till Cairo Museum (new one) finishes, it may be better ^_^. Posted by Picasa

Alexandria - El Morsi Abu El Abas Mosque. Couldn't go in, but the outside looked pretty. Posted by Picasa

Alexandria - Pompey's Pillar. Posted by Picasa

Alexandria - Some museum. Statue of Ramses II even though he did not make Alexandria his capital. Posted by Picasa

Saqqara - Some walkway. Inside it, the recess has golden statues and at some time of the day, the sun's ray will fall onto these statues. Cool eh. Posted by Picasa

Saqqara - 1st Pyramid. Build for King Zoser. Called Step Pyramid. Posted by Picasa

Giza Plateau - 1 Pyramid and 1 Sphnix. Posted by Picasa

Giza Plateau, Near Cairo - Big Pyramids, the 3 famous ones. Posted by Picasa

Abu Simbel - Temple of the favourite wife of Ramses II, Nerfertari. The previous one was Temple for Ramses II.  Posted by Picasa

Abu Simbel - Outside the most famous temple for Ramses II, cut up into pieces and then replaced the whole temple here. The temple was cut out from a mountain. Posted by Picasa

Philae/Egelika - A view from some place in the island. Posted by Picasa

Philae (Formerly Egelika) - Temple of Philae was cut up into pieces and moved to the island of Egelika cause' it was in danger of being flooded by the River Nile and thus UNESCO and the Egyptian Goverment salvaged this temple and moved it here. Cool! This temple is devoted to the favourite goddess Isis. (Pronouced I-SIS [Not IS-IS, like me >.<]) Posted by Picasa

Aswan - On the boat towards Temple of Philae. The houses belongs to the Nubians. Posted by Picasa

Aswan - Tree. Don't know which type but it's the only tree I saw there. Posted by Picasa

Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk. The Egyptian Engineers found fault in this Obelisk and thus abandoned this dude and left it lying where they constructed it. Yes, they carve the Obelisks from the granite quarry itself and later erect it to stand upright. Posted by Picasa

Kom Ombo - Temple of Sobek and Haroeris. I don't know which one is which. But Kom Ombo has 2 temples ^_^/. Posted by Picasa

Kom Ombo - Temple of Sobek, the Crocodile god. They respected crocodile that they mummified them. See their scales? They are much older than you. Much older. Posted by Picasa

Nile Cruise - After Galabeya night. They don't give up. Our room had a swan, some had crocodiles. This is made by room towels by the way. Posted by Picasa

Edfu - Temple of Horus. Another pic of the outer region. Posted by Picasa

Edfu - Outer look of the Temple of Horus. Posted by Picasa