Egypt
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Luxor – the world’s largest open-air museum
Luxor is also called the world’s largest open-air museum. Indeed, there are so many tourist attractions that you could easily spend a week or even longer here. The city was built around 1400 BC and was better known as ancient Thebes. Observing Luxor and its surroundings, you can imagine that this place must have been very impressive at that time. Even now, despite the fact that several thousand years have passed, you can still feel the power of ancient Egypt. Thebes was an important religious centre as evidenced by the number of religious objects that have survived to this day. In the eastern part of Luxor there’s the Temple of…
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Abu Simbel – Egypt, buried temples and mirage
Abu Simbel is one of the greatest tourist attractions of Egypt, right behind the Pyramids of Giza. It’s located on the far southern part of Egypt, just below the Sudan border, actually in the middle of nowhere, or more specifically, in the middle of the Sahara desert, far from any civilization. Reason enough to be here as life here is very different than in the rest of Egypt. Abu Simbel consists of two temples: Ramses’es II and his wife Nefertari’s. The Temple of Ramses is dedicated to the sun gods Amon-Re, Re-Horachte and to Ptah – the god of arts and crafts. The entrance to the temple makes an amazing…
