My trip to Luxor and Aswan

by Peter anas (Egypt)

A leap into the unknown Egypt

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Since childhood, I have only seen the charming cities of Luxor and Aswan, with pictures, and I hoped to see them on the ground until I grew up and I had the opportunity to visit these ancient cities, which have more than a third of the world's monuments, so I traveled to it by train, which took 10 hours until I reached the land of civilization, It was called in the past the city of the hundred door or the city of the sun and it is located in the south of Egypt and its area is 2960 square meters and its population is about one million and 300 thousand people . one of the most famous temples that I visited It is the temple of Karnak which was named after the city of Karnak Because the Karnak Temple is distinguished by its impressive sound and light shows that are held in the evening, in The end of the first enjoyable day and my tour around the Nile and the generous hospitality of the people of Luxor. They were very nice people. After that, the next day I visited the Monastery of the Deir Al-Bahari temple, which we learned was called so because there is a monastery that had been built , and hadn't been discovered until the eleventh century and There is Hatshepsut, the only woman to rule Egypt , and she is from the eighteenth family and I saw there "sphinx" -body of a lion and the head of hatshepsut- unlike the sphinx of the pyramids, he was the guard of the temple, it is worth to mention that the World Tourism Organization chose Luxor as the capital of the Arab culture in 2017, where Luxor gathered between the past and the present at the same time, so it's no doubt that The city contains the greatness of the ancient Egyptians. General Egypt, and the next day I visited the Valley of the Kings And it is 63 cemeteries of kings and nobles, entered the tomb of Ankh Amun, which was discovered by the scientist Howard Carter and his tomb of Ramses III for its discoverer, Giovanni Battista 1816, and she visited cemetery 14, which is a common cemetery between "Tossert and West" the last property of the nineteenth Dynasty and "Six Nakht" was the first king of the twentieth family, and at the end of my trip, I went to the city of Aswan, which is close to Luxor, and you worked in Nile cruises in the sailboat, and I saw the high dam, this great project that saves water and protects them from flooding. In addition, it generates electricity and visited the great hospital of Dr. Majdi Yaqoub, and was fascinated by this great edifice, and I walked and imagined on the suspended Aswan Bridge, and one of the most famous things there is the Dome Mountain, which is a rocky mountain located west of the Nile of Aswan and its height is about 130 meters, you can reach High carved graves N two roads towards the Nile slashes on the eastern side, straight, rise and temples for the descent of groups of people and each of them two walls Hjrien. The tombs of the ancient Egyptians were found in three layers at a height in the middle of the mountain. The number of tombs from the era of the ancient Egyptians exceeded 100 cemeteries, and about 1,000 people, men, women and children, were buried in them; most of them date back to the era of the old state and the modern state, , then visited the Temple of Abu Simbel decorated with ancient obelisks, and there is Ramses II and the sun perpendicular to Ramses II twice a year: November 22, the coronation feast and 22 October is his birthday. How beautiful is this city? Meh and clean and eating it tastes special and tastes beautiful, if falsified days City Luxor the great or Aswan Stnbehr history and stories about life, love and a witness to be the ritual of the ancient Egyptians in the holidays and the wedding and you will feel great pride that is eager millions to see.