Day 2 in Luxor

Our hotel recommended a tour guide to us and so, we woke up on our second day in Luxor to meet Aladdin (I kid you not). Aladdin was pretty awesome. He spoke Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese fluently and several other languages partially. He also teaches scuba diving in Australia and all around the world.


We started off the day with the Valley of Queens. There, we visited the tomb of Queen Tutti and a tomb with a fetus in it. The fetus was not mummified because it was never born.


Next, we went to the huge, valley of the kings. There are 62 tombs here and they rotate the tombs that they open every 6 months to allow the tombs to rest. Here, we visited the tomb of King Ramses IV,2. He ruled for 4 years, so it took 4 years to build the tomb. This was considered to be a short period to rule so his tomb was not very elaborate. The hieroglyphics on the wall mostly come from the book of the dead. The second tomb we saw was that of Ramses IX who ruled for 6 years. Our last stop was the tomb of Ramses I who ruled for 16 years. This tomb was a lot deeper that the other two and was very hot inside.


After the Valley of the Kings, we went to the temple of Hapsheptuh (you all know that I can't spell)....and saw the tomb of Monthemhat (sp?).


After our tour, we took a boat ride with our guide across the Nile from the west to the east bank.
We arrived back at our hotel around 2pm. This is when it is the hottest so we took a 2 hour siesta.
In the evening, we went to the temple of Karnack that was built by 50,000 people over 1500 years. We had a very busy day!