Catching up....

I will add a bunch of pics from the trip from Aswan to Luxor on the next post. Each temple was more dramatic then then one before -- how these Egyptians built these massive structures is just mind blowing. Most of the temple carvings were painted with paint made from crushed gem stones and then covered in an egg wash. The colors are still visible in many of the temples and on the walls of the tombs. In the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens the tomb walls are epic tales of the daily life of the Pharaohs.