Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Karnak, Malqata, Temple on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Tuesday 3 November 1998
After meeting my friends at the Amoun Restaurant for a breakfast get-together, Kit and I took a caleche to Karnak, where we bought tickets for the open-air museum. It had been a couple of years since I last had a good look around here and there were many changes. [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, tombs on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Monday 2 November 1998
At the beginning of our third week in Egypt and following a hectic weekend in Aswan I decided Kit and I needed a restful day, so a leisurely breakfast on the hotel roof terrace was stretched out until lunchtime. Catching an arabeya from outside on the street, we went [...]
Posted in 1998, Aswan, Egypt, Travel, tagged Philae, Temple on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Sunday 1 November 1998
On Sunday morning Kit and I were up early and leaving our bags in the hotel reception to collect later, we took a taxi to Philae Port. I had been to Philae several times before, but only with a tour group, so this visit was a journey into the [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Aswan, Egypt, Travel, tagged Museums, tombs on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Saturday 31 October 1998
Once again Kit and I had made use of our ISIC cards, this time to buy half-price train tickets to Aswan, splashing out all of LE 15 (about £1.50) to travel first class. We were at Luxor railway station bright and early to catch the 6.30am train, which for [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Temples, tombs on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Friday 30 October 1998
After our problem with the police two days ago at Medamud, we wanted to avoid any mishaps this time by seeking permission to visit the temple at Tod, which is around 20km to the south of Luxor and then to go on to el-Moalla, a little further south. We went to [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, Nefertari, Queen's Valley, tombs on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Thursday 29 October 1998
While we had been off in the countryside yesterday my friend Nubi had been busy. He had arranged with Dr Mohammed Sayed for our party (myself, Kit, Sam and Robin) to visit the famous tomb of Queen Nefertari as his guests. Kit and I had already had the honour [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Golf, Temple on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Wednesday 28 October 1998
Although Medamud is only a few kilometres from Luxor, it seems to be a difficult place to get to. Permission is needed from the tourist police, who will escort any visitors to the temple, which is in the countryside beyond the road block on the northern edge of Luxor. [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Deir el-Medina, Luxor West Bank, Temple on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Monday 26 October 1998
Deciding to spend the whole day of the West Bank, Kit and I were up early and caught an arabeya to the Colossi of Memnon, where we stopped for a while to look at the gigantic statues of Amenhotep III which once graced the entrance to his mortuary temple. [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Karnak Temple on January 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Sunday October 25 1998
The strange thing about staying on the West Bank of Luxor is that we seemed to be spending much of our time travelling back and forwards over the river. When I’ve stayed on the East Bank it was always the other way round, crossing to the West. Today, having [...]
Posted in 1998, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Medinet Habu, Student Card, Temple on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Saturday October 24 1998
Being an Egyptology student meant that I was eligible for an International Student Identity Card (ISIC), which I had held for the past couple of years and which gave a 50% discount on site tickets and travel. I had recently heard that young people, even though not students, could [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, Rameses II, Temple on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said–”Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert….Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, Ramesseum, Temple of Seti I on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Thursday October 22 1998
This morning Kit and I had arranged to meet Sam and go to visit some of the West Bank temples - Kit’s first taste of Egyptian archaeology. After stopping at the ticket office to buy our tickets we went first to the Qurna Temple of Seti I, which is [...]
Posted in 1998, Egypt, Luxor, Travel on January 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Tuesday 20 October 1998
Despite having had little sleep for 48 hours, Kit and I were up at 7.00am. Outside in the street the dogs were barking and the morning bustle had begun with the gas-man banging out tunes with a stick on the sides of cylinders on his heavily laden donkey-cart. We [...]
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