Egpyt 4.1 -Karnak-

Muhd suggested we visit Karnak before we checked into the hotel, so we agreed lorr since we don’t wanna miss a thing because there will not be a come back trip for me. This is what I called "Once in a Life Time Xperience!" Muhd asked if any of us has a student card and Trev did (What? Their Hongkong Uni Student CArd didnt has an expired date on them). With that student card, Muhd got a 50% discount for ONE entrance ticket and he pocketed it. What was the point of giving him the student's card, since our entrance fees has been included in our tour packages.

There were Sphinxes at the entrance of Karnak but Sphinxes in Karnak were different from those in Giza. Sphinxes in Karnak were made of Lamb Heads and Lion bodies, isn’t a lion's jaw with razor teeth much dangerous than a lamb's head? Actually, the reason for Ram’s head was because Karnak is the home of the god Amon, He was represented in his original state as a ram. Each sphinx protects between its forelegs, a standing statue of the Pharaoh.

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

The Hypostyle hall is 54,000 square feet, that's the size of a football field with its 134 columns is still the largest room of any religious building in the world. We really need to learn from these guys about maintenances of buildings, this vast complex was built and enlarged over a 1300 year period. I can imagine KLCC will looks something like Wisma Sandakan after 130years, not even 1300years.

The hall would have been about more than 5storeys high,

It was hard to imagine that I walked between these huge papyrus like columns that originally held up a roof.

The Karnak temple complex or more famously known as Karnak was amazing, it managed to wake up from my dream. There were lotta signboards explaining stuffs but the best part about this place was that, photo and video were allowed. Hooray!

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.

Columns these sizes are only used for super structures like KLCC, Burj Dubai and Dam. These columns were amazing even to today engineering standards but clients definately wont approved these over-design columns, mother of all wastage.

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.

This is the last of four obelisks “The Obelisk of Thutmose I”, the other three has migrated to New York, Istanbul and Paris. Egyptians are generous people, they gave the best three away and kept the worst one. Courtesy lorrr. So what the tour guide told me in Istanbul was true lorrr.

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!

Beside the Kheper Statue was actually a lake. All Egyptian temples had a sacred lake, Karnak had the largest but it looks like a pot hole to me. I read some where, in ancient times there were actually goose here lorr for that Ram+Lion God also can transform into Goose. So, is he the Apocalypse in Transformer?

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!

So who is better?