Here are more pics from day nine. Our last stop for the day (before the LONG train ride back to Cairo) was to Karnak. Karnak is Egypt's second most popular tourist site (the pyramids at Giza are #1). Here's what we saw when we approached...
Here's what we saw when we got closer....
The place is just MASSIVE!
Baby Sphinx everywhere...
Some people believe that this temple is the place where Moses addressed Pharaoh and said, "Let my people go." Amazing.
From Karnak we headed to do a little last-minute souvenir shopping at the marketplace. Then it was off to the train station for another 12 hour train ride back to Cairo (no sleeping cars this time...think 12 hours on an airplane). But we made it. Day ten (our last full day in Egypt) tomorrow...
2 comments:
I'm glad I got to see all the pics on my rss... the Ohio one was hilarious... better than the touchdown jesus version... :)
Incredible trip... been lurking and reading... now I want to go! LOL
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