LUXOR FROM THE BOAT - SONESTA NILE GODDESS

We got on the boat yesterday.  After we settled down, we read the information and found we can use internet on the boat.  For a short time ($10 a half hour) but this is worth it.  We took a tour of the Karnak temple and the Luxor Temple yesterday from 3 to 6.  The thing that's missing from the photos is the temperature.  We've been on a lot of tours - but it was 45 ° C (115 ° F)  GAK!  I can't remember ever touring in such heat.  The sights are amazing, and we're actually learning a little Egyptian history in the bargain.

This morning we took a tour on the West Bank of the Nile (stuff yesterday is all on the East Bank).  Setting sun is saved for dying.  Hatshepsut's Temple first.  It looks like it's built into the rocks - it's not.  We then toured the valley of the kings, valley of the queens, and stopped by two stone colossi.  We weren't permitted to take photos in either Valley of the Queens or Kings.  These are a cluster of tombs built down into the rock.  We went into three Ramses tombs.  One very deep, one beautifully decorated and one that was bent.  As they dug the last one they began to dig into someone else's tomb.  In the Valley of the Queens we went into the tomb of Titti (not Nefer..) and Nefertara first wife of Ramses II.  Beautiful colored hyrogliphics on the walls in all of these.  We began to tour at 6:00 am to avoid the heat.  By 11 we could feel it begin again. 

Here are photos from the tours and along the road.