Life changing experience

PART 1


day 1


Excitement was building increasingly when friday came and i keep rechecking continuously my luggage just to make sure that i brought everything. Then, night came and we have to go 2 hours early to have our luggages checked in, and because cab fees increase tremendously after 12 so we have to leave super early. And thus, we have to spend waiting in the airport for 3 hours. Since i'm always hungry we went to have MCDEEES again while waiting. So, after enduring 10 long hours of pain suffering and butt aching with another 3 hour transit from Doha to Luxor, we finally touch down in Egypt. Halllelujah!!! hahaha


After that, have to travel again for a distance to experience Nile River Cruise which were organized by Wingz corporation together with GTT tour group.

Our cruise name:
i know, i don't even know what it stands for but thats what stated there. Maybe its some egyptian words meaning love or paradize or whatever it is it stand for happy cruising! haha
Inside the cruise where they have 2 sections of the bar, one is situated in the main hall
and the other one is at the deck where you do tanning and sunbathing there!
After an hour of resting from our tiring journey here, we were brought straight to our first destination which is Karnak Temple. Here you get to see masses of obelisks, pylons, colossi and courts. or should i say the remaining courts and whats not that have been preserved.
These obelisks are situated outside the temple to guard and protect its owner.

You can see from the pictures that some parts of the statue have been ripped off. Our tour guide told us that it have been stolen by thiefs to sell it off to buyers interested! but, how could you sell the statue body parts with high price when people want the whole thing! its seems pointless to have to scrapped the whole nose like the picture below just so you can sell for a fair bits of money, so why don't you just preserve the statue and earn your country's honour rite?


You could see there is a statue underneath the King where the Queen is situated. In Egypt, it is said that women here are meant to serve their husband and be loyal to one male in her life. So, we hardly see any woman in this country hence even toilet cleaning and room services are all done by males. Women here are describes as pure and delicate hence there are all covered from top to toe so that they can maintain their "suci-ness".
The remaining parts of King Ramses. In the temple, every empty walls and bricks are inscribed with heirography to explain their country history and god-worship story.

What amazed me deeply is that one would spend so much time scrapping and drawing the graphic on one by one so that the next generation would continue believing their god and goddess.
Here, it is said that if you circle the obelisk which looks like a frog 7 times and repeatitively chant your wish, it would come true in the end. I did as told and in the end.....

ITS ALL RUBBISH!!! it never came true. I don't believe i fall for that! sigh


Actually, i kinda expected that since i saw our tourguide were smirking at one corner.
Next, we went to Luxor temple. Egyptian's build this temple in honour of King Ramses for his great leadership and commandments. Thus, you can see alot of Ramses statue everywhere in order to worship him. This is by far the most perserved statue i ever seen. I present to you!!!!!!!!

The upclose of KING RAMSES!!!
And his whole head!!

Day 2

After a day of refreshing and night stay on the cruise, we got up early to proceed our hectic schedule. Firstly, we went to Necropolis of Thebes and see the twin, which is 63 feet high Colossi of Memnon.

It was freezing cold out there in the early morning that you will be shaking your heads offf shivering. Some girls even wore thin cloths with pantyholes under that wheather which is so terrible that you can hear these girls making sounds like OOOooohhh Aaaaahhhhh that sounded so XXX making your back head of those tiny hair stands!!! So without enduring the strange things further i straight away ran back to the bus. On the way to the next diestination, we saw lots of helium ballons "flaoting" on air but our schedule was tight so we have to forgone it for the time being and admire the beauty within our small cubicle of spaces.sigh!!!Next, we procced to the Valley of the king, site of some 62 tombs. It was here that the tomb of Tutnakhamen was found, among those of other notable Egyptian pharaons. Here, you get to see the tombs of every king buried inside with carvings of the kings history and story you will understand after you interpret it! For a 20 year old girl who couldn't understand a thing was the most impressive thing and hierography i ever saw as it was beautifully inscribed even a dummy like me was impressed.

After that, we went to Alabaster factory to understand and see the technique and process of it creaction. Here, you see tons of alabaster vases, pots and momuments which glow in the dark. Next, we went to the Temple of Hatshepsut which is also known as Dier Ei Bahari. It was establish by the first queen who ruled Egypt in the Pharaonic history which consists of 3 impressive terrances. I present to you!!!

Queen Hatshepsut!!!!!Here, you see lots of statue representing the rows of king standing guard for the Queen!!!

After we got back to freshen up, we went into this creation done by room services!After lunch, we went upper deck to admire the views and scenery of Nile river. We were playing pokers till bullshit which was kinda fun.

Us and our Malaysian tourguide.During our cards session, we heard an American lady running amock screaming PIRATES PIRATES HELP!!!!! i was quite panic when i first heard it but after i carefully rethink, where does a pirate exicts at modern age rite?

So, curious, i went to the edge of the boat and found out THIS!!!!!!Lots of sampan-ner selling stuff. After that funny incident, we went sailing to cross the Esna lock.
It felt cage like to be inside. They will pump water so that the sea level on that side and this side levels.you see the thing open!!!

it was a breath of fresh air man!!! hahaha.. not that i'm exxagerating. After that, 5oclock strikes and the scenery above is amazing!! For that, bye for now and i try upload my next post soon!!

Ciao!!!!