We took the night train from Cairo to Luxor. I don’t really recommend the night train. It is more comfortable than the night train we once took from Barcelona to Madrid, but it is noisy and a little bit of a rough ride. We did not get a great nights sleep.
But the one big bonus of taking that train, at that time of year, with the unexpected one hour delay, is that we arrived in Luxor just after sunrise.
Which allowed me to get this photo:
That alone made the train trip worthwhile.
A small collection of photos from Luxor Temple is available here.
4 replies on “Luxor Temple”
That can’t be the Luxor – where’s the big black pyramid with the giant beam of light coming out of the top?
Jack: HEATHEN! The light bulb was burnt out, and they had to send to asia for a new one. It will be here next week, Insh’allah.
I like the shadow of the bird.. cool…
Jack: Thanks.
Like many of my favorite photos, there is an element of the unintentional in it. I took that shot first and noticed on the little screen of the camera that I got a “goddamn bird” in the frame. Snapped off a few additional shots. Took me several tries to get one with out a bus or a taxi or bird in the frame.
When I got home and went through the photos, 2 or 3 without the bird in them and the one with the bird. I liked the one with the bird best. If you look closely there are 3 elements of flight in that photo
The balloon, obviously
The bird in flight.
The bird resting on top of the lintel.
I thought it is a cool photo.
so.. do the archeologists leave the roman era painting or do they destroy the roman era history to get to the egyptian era history?
or does it depend on which country is sending the archeologists?
Jack: very good guestion. I don’t know. I think, based on looking at while I was there, that they saved the best preserved part of the roman stuff and then removed the rest of it.
Or perhaps they removed the part that obscured some hieroglyph that they wanted to see?
Jack, anything with the name “Night Train” will be a rough ride whether it be locomotive or cheap wine. In the morning, you wish you hadn’t.