Luxor at last, that was %$£XO*&^ of 16 hours ride. No Pain No Gain? My body and mind were in pain but I gained nothing and loss a lotta precious time. Luxor is the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, known to the world's as the greatest open air museum. I was hoping LuXor is worth the 16hours agonies, LuXor has to make herself better than Cairo to compensate up my precious time! Friday, October 31, 2008
Egpyt 4.0 -LuXor-
Luxor at last, that was %$£XO*&^ of 16 hours ride. No Pain No Gain? My body and mind were in pain but I gained nothing and loss a lotta precious time. Luxor is the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, known to the world's as the greatest open air museum. I was hoping LuXor is worth the 16hours agonies, LuXor has to make herself better than Cairo to compensate up my precious time! Egpyt 4.1 -Karnak-
The roads to this temple used to be continuously linked with sphinxes but now most of them are buried underground now due to thousands years sandstorms. Anyway most of the sphinxes werent in good shape, lat tau lat kuat. LuXor was hotter than Cairo
Child Prono?The temple's Columns were massive, wonder how the ancients erect it with out Crane? Viagra or Tongkat ali?
Some parts of Karnak were actually built by brother of Alexander the Great and one part of this Temple was used as church. I think it will take at least 5 men to link hand at the bottom of these columns.
Karate girl??? I couldn’t believe it when I saw people making child pronography and kicking the columns publicly in Karnak! If this was the way egyptian protect their ancestor properties. No wonder no europe countires are willing to return egyptian artifacts to egypt.
No! The Kawaii Girl didnt manage to kick this structure down!This top of the pylon fell down due to earthquake long-long time ago. Moreham did say something about the tip of the obelisk were wrapped of 80% Gold + 20% Silver Materials to make it shine like the Sun but not a single hair of gold left.
This is The Obelisk of Hatshepsut, the second tallest obelisk after the Lateran obelisk in Rome. It is 29.6m high and weighs approximately 320 tons. Hatshepsut was the woman pharaoh and after her death, her successor tried to erase her from history but he daren’t to touch this Obelisk for Obelisks are considered structure of God. Thus he built a high wall around her obelisk. This wall hid the lower two-thirds but left the upper towering above, that’s why there are remaining block works around this obelisk.
Sculptures and statues were no less impressive than what they have in Cairo and Giza but why do Luxor allow pixs? I dunno the reason but I got a good time snapping pix of structures as well as homo sapien.
Before we left, I walked round this Kheper statue seven times so that my wish can come true. I wanna walk many 7 times but after the first 7times, I almost pesan pusing2! So I only managed to make one wish and that was getting Ten Million by year end but I forget to mention the currency, if its give me Indonesian Ruppiah then sei lol!
Here once stood the world's tallest obelisk, The Lateran Obelisk at 32.3 metres. Emperor Constantine ordered that the obelisk to be moved to Constantinople but it ended up in Rome instead, that’s sum up the quality of mail service during Roman Empire. It fell over at some stage in its life and was re-erected in 1588 in the Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano.
We only spend like 30minutes here because we were so tired and hungry. MoreHam was a totally different guide to s0ohai! S0ohai talked 20mins and let us took pix for 5 min, Moreham talked for 5min and let us took pixs for 20min. He even shown us the best angle and took groups pixs for us, many times. Following Moreham way, I learnt little about places I had visit. I only known this place is call Karnak after I search for it from www!
Egpyt 4.2 -Perfumes-
Then came the most interesting part! According to the so called perfume experts, their perfumes were actually the same as some of the famous brands. Due to marketing licenses and other regulations, they couldn’t name their perfume accordance with those international names. I think its same like buying LV, Gucci and Prada from China made factory. I was not interested in perfumes; I never bought any perfume in my life and not intended to start here. I got my God given perfume, my odour! She who loves me, must love my odour too!
Beside perfumes, they also sell oils for headache, body aches and etc. The super expensive version of Tiger balm, VICKS, Deep Heat and yokoyoko. S0ohai advised us not to buy anything from Luxor or Aswan as things are more expensive there and her words were quite true.
Then, a shocking discovery! They think that the bottled soft drinks are not of its original state. The bottles have been opened when they presented to us and there were no bubbles in the bottle. Sei lol! They sounds right le, it must either refilled by them or leftover from others!
Piuk! Piuk! Piuk!
Errrr, I am immune to Hepatitis but not sure about others illness!
Don’t care la, die die la!
We didn’t buy anything from the "Perfume Museum" and Muhd must be starting to dislike us, LOL!
Egpyt 4.3 -Breakfast-
On our way to have our "4PM breakfast", Muhd tried to earn some extra bucks from us again. Promoting Hot Air Balloons to us! Can’t remember exactly how much it cost, but it’s around 100euro per person. I was slightly interested (maybe 23% interests) but when I was told I need to wake up at 4am! Sorry la, even if that's free I still need to consider but I was not going to pay for my own suffering. I have enough of 16hours train and I want to get as much rest as possible!
So muhd failed again to rip us off again, I thought he must be very pissed off with us now. I don’t buy the theory of shopping sphere in Egypt! In our group, Cherrie contribute most to Egypt economy, she never stops buying.
As usual Lunch was "paid" by the tourguide but we have learnt a lot since Day 0ne. We only ordered three big bottles of soft drinks, to lower the impact to our pocket. Again! Muhd failed to rip us off again! He must be verrrrrrrrrry pissed off by now but he was still smiling!
Egpyt 4.4 -Bath-
Because of that so0hai, everything was messed up!
Egpyt 4.5 -Temple-
When Muhd said we gonna have a night trip to Luxor Temple, there was 10% of me wanna stay in the hotel after 16hours in the 2nd class train but since everyone was going, I follow lorr. When I saw the entrance that light up with such perfection, I was glad I didnt give it a miss. This is Luxor Temple; it wasn’t big in size but definitely big in ego especially at night! This temple was dedicated to some ancient Egyptian god that I couldn’t remember. 
Search on the net shows that there are 29 known ancient Egyptian obelisks in the following locations: Egypt 9, France 1, Israel 1, Italy 11, Poland 1, Turkey 1, United Kingdom 4 & United States 1
Does this place looks familiar? Oh... yeah! This place has features in few movies and documentray. The most famous one should be James Bond film, “The Spy who Loved Me” ! This lightings were superb, who ever came up with this idea is brilliant. When I passed by this area in the morning, it looked ordinary.
During that tour, I heard some Arabic guide talking in mandarin. Very impressive indeed, sounds quite clear and accurate. Sign of Chinese gaining strength in the World economy! When will there be Malay Languages Tour Guide From Egypt? 10years? 20years?
The most beautiful, magnificent, pretty, bombastic, fantastic, charming, stunning, striking, gorgeous, superb, wonderful, superlative, best, appealing, pompous, unbelievable, extraordinary, dazzling, spectacular, elegant, fabulous, marvellous sights of my whole Egypt trip. Is Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah to the extreme! Is Woowwowowowow till the end! Is still fresh in my memory BUT I dont remember a thing about history in this Temple LOL. Too fascinated with its magnificient lightings!Egpyt 4.6 -Dance-
An entertaining night indeed…