To start out my blog today i thought i would share with you some of the beautiful views that i had from the hotel that we stayed in in Luxor. The Nile was right behind us and it was gorgeous looking out everyday we were there. One night we just sat there and watched the sun set. It was so nice.

One of the temples that we went to was the Karnak temple. It is the biggest temple that was built. This temple wasn't built for any Pharoah in particular but every Pharoah wanted to make his mark. It was built for the Egyptians greatest god Amunra the son god. Like i said each Pharoah wanted to leave his mark on it someway so each Pharoah would build their shrine to the god AmunRa making sure of course that everybody knew who the person was that added on to it. This is the temple had a lot of symbolism connected to the temples. They had a holie of holies that had an alter in it. It was for the god AmunRa but it was interesting to see the comparison to our temples. they had a holy of holies that was considered the most sacred place. Only the High Priest and the Pharoah (because he did whatever he wanted) could go into the holy of holies. Our tour guide said that the alter had power in it and he wanted all of us to touch it before we left. Yes my hand is the one right in the front with the watch on. I thought it was a little funny because our tour guide said that every time that he touches it he feels the power shoot up through his arm and then all over his body. :)

Everywhere we went in Egypt we always had security gaurds with us. As you can expect a while ago when they were having all of the suicide bombers tourism went way down and as i said before tourism is their number two source of income. So to help with this give security to all the tour buses that come through Egypt. They all dressed in nice suits and ties but underneath their suit jackets they were packing.

One last story that i thought was really amuzing was at the last temple we went to which was the temple for Ramses II me and my roommate Bre went to take a picture by Ramses head and when we got over to it our tour guide asked us to take a picture of him next to it so we did. Then i went over there and while my roomie was taking a picture of me i noticed that our tour guide took a picture of me too! kinda weird!!! I thought it was pretty funny though too!