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.

There are actually hundreds of sphinxes once lined the road to nearby Karnak Temple but they aren’t dig up because lot of modern buildings has been build on top of them, some more there are mosques and churches. Nobody dared to touch this religious building.

Notice anything missing?

Y0! This was the original place of the obelisk that Egyptian (represented by Muhd Ali) gave to the French in return of the broken clock. I think because of this bad trade, Muhd Ali’s body is still kept inside the Saladin Citadel along with the French broken clock so that he will be reminded of that bad deal he made till eternity. Notice how cacat this temple looks. The temple looks like man with one testicle, woman with one breast, imbalance!!!

Muhd said when the one obelisk was lowered, in order to be transported to France, Ramesses name was also found inscribed on the bottom. Pharaohs were known to be notorious for usurping other pharaohs’ monuments and Ramesses was determined that this was to remain his own.

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

Italy even overtake Egypt as the country with most obelisks, unbelievable pick pocketers. Actually in older times, Egypt was giving away their ancients relics like christmas presents. They thought those relics were of no use, so if any "stupid idiots" wanna clean up the mess for them, they willing give them away. So dont throw your old underwear away, one day it might be priceless! That's USA, Russia, China and India also rushing to the moon. One day human might make profit from the moon.

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.

The character on the left is actually Ceasar, the great roman emperor. Roman empire are much more new than Pharoah time but because Ceasar also admire Egyptian Mural, he also wanted his pix to be upload to this ancient wall. Roman mural in an inner chamber !!

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!