We cruised from Aswan to Luxor over 3 days… this was very nice and chilled. We had buffets for three meals a day, a splash pool on the roof and towel animals in our room every day… From the cruise boat we visited, the High Dam of Aswan, which was built in 1971 to prevent the Nile Floods and then made it necessary to relocate several famous monuments including Temple of Philae (pic) which we visited. You can still see the colours they used in the carvings! The temple was moved becuase it was under water, so it was relocated to a new island and re assembled over 10 years… it is amazing that they could do this… The early Christians visited a few of these temples and chiselled out faces and specific scenes and the French had scribbled over it when they came. The temple of Isis, the goddess of Love… such a beautiful story which after the information overload I have had, I cannot remember…

We also visited 2000 year old Kom-Ombo Temple (temple of the evil crocodile god Sobek and the good falcon god Horus) which has two of everything, yet all inside one temple and overlooks the Nile River.

After some serious chilling and relaxing we walked around the Temple of Luxor where we saw some revolutionary graffiti on the walls. The next morning, early we visited the biggest temple in the world that is 3500 years old - Karnak Temple. The wake up call, was worth it, as we saw the temple when there were hardly any people there and we thoroughly enjoyed this temple.