Contractor got the grills to the house today . I will go back to Muar with Ana on 21st of this month and have a look. I also, need to sort out the documents with the Muar Town Council . Been lazing about instead of working on my emails as I am now afraid to…

We visited this temple after the Valley of the Kings . This temple is nearby but we missed the Valley of the Queens . Hatshepsut Temple is at the side of a cliff and looks spectacular .She was the Pharoah at that time eventhough she was female. Hatshepsut was a woman and she was well-known…

We stayed a night at Ana kato Nubian Houses, before flying from Aswan to Cairo . This is like a boutique hotel comprising of 5 bedrooms . There is another premise which had 7 bedrooms under the same hotel. The road into the Nubian village before the old dam of Aswan, was not a tarred…

The second part of the temple consist of a separate temple for Rameses 11 favourite wife Nefartari. This temple which is much smaller lies around 500 metres from the bigger temple . This is a smaller temple compared to the other one .Nefartari died and Rameses 11 married 2 of his daughters . All these…

We started our walk from the entrance to the temple . The temple was carved from the cliff . Due to relocation of the temple as a result of the creation of Lake Nasser , they moved the temple in the same site but on higher ground. This had great challenges as one can imagine…

We got a faluca ride back to the boat . Faluca is a sail boat on the Nile . Just for information , 80 % of the Nile that flows into Egypt comes from the Blue Nile whose origins are from Ethiopia . Only 20 % of the Nile that flows into Egypt comes from…

After the Aswan Dam , we took a short , pleasant boat ride to visit the Philea Temple situated at the Island of Philea . This temple’s original site has been submerged under water . Therefore , this temple has been relocated to Philea Island not far from the original site but on higher ground…

Today, we woke up and the boat has docked at Aswan . Aswan is a town of 1 million population . We went to visit Aswan Dam today ; to see the old Dam made by the British and the newer dam that provides hydro-electric to the whole of Egypt . There are challenges when…

We visited another temple today besides Edfu Temple today . This temple is Kom Ombo Temple sits upstream at the banks of the Nile . This temple is very near to the banks of the river, as we could walk from the boat moorings for about 500 m to the Temple. This temple is also…

We had spend another night in the boat and reached the town of Edfu . There was a magnificant temple of Edfu which is about 2000 years old . I am finding it difficult to get my head around these 2000 years old thingy . This means like 200x of 100 centuries , the mind…