Backpacking My Style by Cristina Grau

Author:Cristina Grau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: travel, europe, middle east, asia, egypt, house sitting, traveling on a budget
Publisher: BHC Press
Published: 2018-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

LUXOR TEMPLE

The Luxor Temple was built around 1400 BC under the reign of Amenhotep III, but it was not until 100 years later when Ramesses II expanded it into the grand temple it now was. This visit cost 30 EL or $3.38.

By now, we all know that Ramesses II did everything in grand scale.

As you walk in the temple, you’ll find a road enclosed by Sphinxes that will lead back to the Karnak Temple.

There are many pillars and statues of Ramesses II around the temple. There used to be two 25 meters (82 feet) high pink granite obelisks, but now there is only one; the other is in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France.

This temple was built in honor of the gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, and it was where the most important annual religious event was celebrated: the Opel Festival. For the celebration, the statues of the gods Amun, Mut and Khonsu would travel from the Karnak Temple to the Luxor Temple. Some scholars say that the statues traveled by boat on the River Nile, while others say that they were carried on the Sphinx’s road. To me, it makes sense that they used the Avenue of Sphinxes, but no one really knows. In any case, the statutes somehow arrived in Luxor for the celebration.

On this site, there was a Christian church, as well as a Mosque that’s still in use.

There are many pillars, and in the walls, you can see the engravings of daily life and some of the Christian murals painted over them.

It was a wonderful site to see the twilight peeping through the pillars as the sun descended into the Nile.

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