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The bus departs at 4 p.m., and there are Egyptian police officers to register passports before getting on the bus, and return to Aswan at nearly 9 p.m. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The train arrives in Luxor at 8 am and arrives in Luxor at 11 am. Exit the train station, fend off a crowd of passengers, walk north along the Shariaramses road in front of the station for more than 100 meters, turn into the Endrawasaasha alley and less than 100 meters south is AL, a small family inn mixed in the residential area.

The double room is only 50 Egyptian pounds, the house is very clean, and it would be more perfect if there was a ** bathroom.

Put down their luggage and go out to the south and go straight to the west bank, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo plan to go from far to near, first to the valley of the kings on the west bank, and find something to eat on the way. Luxor was the capital of the former heyday of the empire, with a population of more than a million people, after the Islamic sack in the seventh century.

In the end, it fell into a large tunpu, and finally developed a little under the support of tourism in the last century, and now it is only a small city of two or three hundred thousand. In the palm size, according to the map, Suoji crossed the filthy city from his residence and circled around the majestic Luxor Temple.

It's only about 20 minutes to the East Coast Pier. From the east bank to the west bank, you have to detour from the Luxor Bridge, which is eight kilometers upstream, which costs people and money. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo decided to take a ferry, a white motorized boat with a canopy, and a ticket of one Egyptian pound per person, which was cheap and convenient.

If you want to charter a car in the West Bank parking lot, it will cost you 120 Egyptian pounds for the last half day. The parking lot is further west to the end of the square. There are bicycles for rent at the roadside shops, one for 25, and two for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo for 40 Egyptian pounds. Leaving a passport as collateral, I picked two slightly better broken cars and rode them on.

Wearing arabesque headscarves, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo rode unusually windy on the country road, along the Al-Qarna road, past Newguma, the village of New Gurna, which is next to the aqueduct, and west along the Al-Tmaslyn road. On both sides of the road are fields of crops. Under the huge sun, there are farmers who are still hoeing at noon.

After about ten minutes of riding, you will reach the statue of Memnon, which is a small flat area under the roadbed. The 18-meter-tall two-seated statue is dilapidated, and the upper body on the right looks more like a piece of stitched together. No one knows which pharaoh the two statues are.

They are only the last vestiges of the temple of Amenhotep III, the largest in Egyptian history, whose former glory has finally been reduced to dust. Later Greek rulers mischievously called the stone statue Memnon. What is Memnon? Homer's epic. He was the king of the Ethiopian Ethiopians.

Living on the easternmost shores of the Great Ocean, in 1250 BC in the Battle of Troy, Paris, who helped kidnap other people's daughters-in-law, finally died at the spear of the Greek Achilles. More than 100 years later than Amenhotep III. Therefore, the Greeks named this stone statue after these two enemies, which is to disgust the Egyptians.

A small piece of flat land, no one charges, has become a favorite of tour groups, and from time to time there are buses coming and a group of tourists coming down like locusts. After taking a photo with a crackle, he coaxed away again. The little donkey on the ground next to him stretched out his head through the low wall, staring at the people in front of him.

Ride west to the ticket office at the foot of the mountain. In addition to the Queen's Temple, Valley of the Kings, and Valley of the Queens, tickets for other West Bank attractions are sold here. From here, turn right and continue north, past the Ramses Temple.

On this side of the road is the ruins of the back hall of the temple, which is simply surrounded by a wire fence, and the foundation of the criss-crossing temple wall is encircled inside, and there are several temples built in the front hall. It's still the simplicity of the people of Egypt. The wall tiles will not be removed and sold to tourists.

A short ride north up the hill, turning left around the village of Old Gurna and riding a straight avenue leading to the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the monastery of Bari Deiral-Bahari. It took almost twenty minutes to ride this distance. There are many people in the parking lot.

Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo rode the car all the way to the ticket office. The eyes of all the tourists looking at Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo were full of envy, jealousy and hatred. The entrance fee for this is 30 Egyptian pounds. Enter the gate and then change to the ferry battery viewing car inside the scenic area until you reach the main square under the temple. The temple is divided into three levels, and is built on the mountain.

A steep and huge mountain encircles the temple half-encircled. In fact, the temple itself is not big, but the temple is integrated with the mountain, and the south and north of the mountain are secretly combined with the feng shui, which is very emperorly.

In November 1997, six crooked-eyed mongrels of the Islamic group, shouting slogans against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, rushed down the hillside south of the temple, lifted their robes, exposed their murder weapons, raised their guns, and killed 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians on the spot. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo walked around the square, bypassing the dead souls.

Step into the middle of the platform. Hatshepsut was the wife and sister of Thutmose II, and the stepmother and mother-in-law of Thutmose III. Her husband has been frail and sickly since he was a child, and Hatshepsut has been participating in politics with a curtain, and after becoming a widow, he is not happy, so he finds a little dragon as a puppet, that is, Thutmose III.

If he has nothing to do, he disguised himself as a man and put a fake beard in the hall to command blindly, seeing that the emperor was getting in the way, he directly took advantage of his fledgling wings to match the frontier, and got a group of monks to swagger for his ascension to the throne. During his reign, he made no achievements internally, and as a leader, sometimes not tossing is the biggest political achievement.

The common people were at ease to farm and do business, and the country was still rich, and the old widow built temples everywhere in gratitude for the support of the monks. Externally, it was a loss of power and humiliation of the country, and a large area of fertile land in northern Xinjiang was lost. So don't compare her with Wu Zetian of the Yunluo Dynasty, Wu Zetian has been in power for more than 40 years, and he has been in power for 20 years.

Fifteen years later, Thutmose III led his troops back to kill the old widow and remove all the marks associated with the old woman. Later, the Christians removed the pagan mark.

So a lot of things in the hall aren't quite real. The highest level is a small open-top open-air temple, and the temple of Amun in the innermost cave is rarely enclosed by a wooden fence.

On the contrary, it made Yunluo a little uncomfortable. In the south colonnade of Zhongtai. While there was no one around, he took a group photo with the police holding the gun. To the south of the temple is the temple of Montuhotep, who was the founding pharaoh of the Eleventh Dynasty and who moved the capital to Thebes to achieve the glory of Luxor. But his temple was in a dilapidated state.

When I went out of the scenic area, I met a beautiful Egyptian female tour guide. Asked where Nalan Shiqi and Yun Luo came from, opening their mouths is standard Chinese, which makes Nalan Shiqi and Yun Luo feel that she is as beautiful as a fairy.

Hurriedly replied, "From Huaguo." I have long wanted to take a photo with an Egyptian girl, but I was afraid of the inconvenience of religious etiquette, so I just took the opportunity to take a photo with the beautiful woman. The beauty readily agreed, and Nalan Shiqi and Yun Luole were like flowers.

Out of the Queen's Temple, turn back to the left and follow the road along the valley and wind up the valley. Riding this flat road is better than a leisurely walk, not to mention that Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo also rode the Qinghai-Tibet Line and the Yunnan-Tibet Line when they were young. Half an hour to reach the Valley of the Kings, in fact, is to go around to the back of the mountain of the Queen's Temple.

The entrance fee is 80 Egyptian pounds, and you can only see three tombs, and there is an additional fee for more. The Tomb of Ai and the Tomb of Tutankhamun are charged separately. Since moving the capital to Thebes, the emperors seem to have changed their hobbies, looking at the good feng shui in the valley on the west bank, digging a hole in the cliff and drilling into it can make a sunset in the west.

Much better than the pyramids, later emperors followed suit and gathered in clusters over the centuries to form the valley that currently has 63 tombs. The trees are so big that the imperial tombs in the western suburbs can't escape the fate of being stolen, except for the humble tomb of Tutankhamun.

As soon as it was opened, it alarmed Huanyu. Isn't it even more amazing to think about the stolen ones? There are a lot of people in the scenic area, and some tombs even have long queues, and some tombs are not open. There are staff working inside to clean up. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo took out their long-planned headlamps and picked Ramses IX Ramsesix.

The mausoleums of the three pharaohs, Seti I, Thutmose III Sisiii, and Ramses IX, are the best preserved frescoes and the most visited; The mausoleum of Seti I is more than a hundred meters long; Thutmose III, the Napoleon of Egypt, was most troubled and deep in the Valley of the Kings.

The structure is complex. Although the cemetery has its own characteristics, it is basically the same, and there are many murals such as the Book of the Netherworld, the Book of the Earth, and the Book of the Cave on the four walls. I was afraid that the emperor would not be able to cross the bridge and lose his way. The LP of the underworld version of the picture book allows them to learn and use it now.

If you have time, it is recommended that you go to the city of Habu Medinathabu and the temple of Ramses, where it will certainly not be crowded, and bicycles are highly recommended for visiting the West Bank, which is very convenient, especially if you want to go to some of the more remote places.

I returned the car to get my passport, crossed the river and returned to the east bank, now thinking that the Luxor Bridge could only be built as far upstream, because the west bank is a temple that can be dug and dug at will.

Luxor Temple ple, entrance fee 50 Egyptian pounds. The Luxor Temple began as a small temple of the Queen, and was built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II. The prosperous Amenhotep III had a great influence on the overjoyed Ramses II, allowing him to find a way to vent his swollen face and become fat.

At the entrance is the Sphinx Avenue under renovation, leading to the temple of Kenak to the north. The front of the temple is a huge tower gate, the statue of Ramses and the obelisk on the left, and the obelisk on the right is still on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, where the Governor of Egypt Mohammed was established in 1831.

Ali Dali took it and changed it with Louis Philippe I Louisphilippe for a small bell tower, and did not chirp on the hour, and hit a small figure out of it.

When Dangdang struck the gong, he stretched out three fingers and said, "Silly boy, it's three o'clock!" The thing is still in the middle of the courtyard of the Muhammad Ali Mosque at Saladin Citadel in Cairo. The Egyptians beat their chests and spat at the mention of this.

The entrance is the courtyard of Ramses, surrounded by columns, and around the corner is a mosque that does not fit in place. The Greeks, the Romans had merit for the construction of this temple.

They were also newly civilized, their religious beliefs were chaotic, and they were not polite wherever they went, and it was precisely for this reason that Christianity and Islam, which were monotheistic and extremely xenophobic, destroyed many local religions and spread rapidly. This is followed by a large colonnade, which gives the entire temple a strong sense of depth. Further down is a multi-columned hall, reception hall, temple... Deep in the city and make the apse a lot less atmospheric.

Had a pigeon meal at Sofra, which tasted quite good, near the intersection of Dfarid and Al-Manshiya. The inside is full of Egyptian food, and the decoration is also very oriental.

Watching the sunrise on the Red Sea, the taste is completely different from usual, in the mist of the vast sea, the first thing you see is the hazy orange-red on the horizontal line, that is the dawn, that is the dawn. As the seconds wiggled, the eastern skyline grew brighter and brighter. Soon a rising sun appeared in the brightest place.

At first, the silhouette was not clear, but then the figure gradually became clear, slowly rising from the other side of the sea, hanging in the air. The waves reflect the orange-red light, which is very beautiful.

Yunluo thought that the name of the Red Sea (Theredsea) probably had something to do with it. The rays of the rising sun are soft, and the colors are of course natural. In the soft light of the rising sun, the pergola of the house shows a variety of figures, and the date palm trees in the breeze dance with the wind and leaves, which is even more graceful.

When I turned around and looked at the city buildings illuminated by the red light, it seemed to add a layer of brilliance, making it even more rich and gorgeous.

I ran to the front desk early in the morning to implement the diving thing, because I didn't have a diving certificate, so I could only arrange Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo to snorkel. It was a little cool after breakfast, but there were already white Russians buried in the sun in the chaise long.

Each hotel in the resort area has its own pier and cruise ship, and the same boat is full of colorful and colorful Tsarist Russian rich second generation. The Red Sea has changed the impression of Egypt as a messy mess, with deserts in the east and west, the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the north and south, and no industrial pollution around, resulting in exceptionally clear waters.

Every time I arrived at a snorkeling area, the polar bears on the boat couldn't wait to scream and jump into the sea, although I have been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for many years, I am still a sullen Oriental in my bones, and I am shy to go to the sea like a concubine bathing as reserved. At first, there were not many fish, and there were no corals to be seen, so the boat changed three areas in a row, and as the cruise ship deepened.

There are also more fish, and there are large crowds of coral flowers, dotted with strange and colorful sea fish, just like the Dragon Palace Garden, but unfortunately the camera is not waterproof, can not leave this beautiful picture. Swimming further, the sea water suddenly changed color and was bottomless, and Nalan Shiqi and Yun Luo suddenly felt cold and hurriedly swam back. (To be continued)

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