Day Six

Another day in Luxor, showed around by Remonda, our sweet tour guide, in our private car operated by Sara transport :) First up were the Karnak Temples, a huge space with additions by multiple kings. The most striking thing were the gigantic columns, over 100 of them, that used to form a temple. We also saw the famous obelisks, and the empty rock where the obelisk stood that now rests in Place de Concorde in Paris. We also visited the Luxor Temple, another sweet piece of history.

In the afternoon, we went off exploring with Remonda, with whom we'd bonded over the two days. She was 23, so the three of us got along really easily. She secretly whisked us away in this odd Luxor bus thing, that's actually just a panel van with no doors that you flag down and hop into. We walked all around her neighborhood--having someone who spoke Arabic made for a very different experience than the day before. At the end, Hannah and I went to a bazaar to find some last minute souvenirs, which somehow turned into this whole big adventure with one of the shop owners to a papyrus musuem.
That night, we headed back to the hotel and watched the cruise ships on the Nile at dusk before catching an overnight train back to Cairo for one last day in Egypt.
Karnak Temples

Obelisk
Rames II
Hannah scoping out some guy's yard in Luxor, moments before all those geese attacked me. You can see them eyeing me in this picture...
The people we saw in the streets were happy to have their pictures taken, and loved seeing them afterwards.
One woman invited us in to see the interior of her house.
The kids loved posing for us.

Cruise ships on the Nile