Goodness, this is so challenging writing about our trip! Imagine if I took a whole month off traveling. I so need to bring a laptop if I do! So helpful to write notes down during this trip hehe. If not I'd get lazy :P

Back to our wonderful journey story...we had to wake up at 6am to leave on schedule for our next trip. The moment we woke up we had cooked breakfast and was already on the shore. We left a nice tip to the wonderful crew and left in a van with our luggages on the rooftop. While unloading and reloading, we saw 2 herd of cows swam pass the Nile. It was such a cool site!

Kom Mombo Temple aka Crocodile Temple
The next Temple stop we went to is the Kom Mombo (Crocodile) Temple. I find this temple to be most interesting and by far the prettiest one I've seen compared to the others. This temple is actually divided into 2 where one is dedicated to God Horus and the other to God of Crocodile.

We learnt about new different symbols on walls as well as the Egyptian Calendar which was quite interesting too. Apparently there are 10days in a week, 3 weeks in a month and 12 months in a year. That makes 360 days. The 5 days are actually dedicated to the 5 Gods : Osiris, Isis, Horus, Seth and his Wife. This is quite spot on to our recent calendar. Amazing. Oh and there are actually 3 seasons to the Egyptians: Flooding, Seeding and Ploughing.

And with this temple, the Egyptologist found out that the priests was actually more powerful than the kings as when the barrier came down, there was a secret passage found which routed to the opening. So it was concluded that these priests were acting God when the Pharoahs seek them for help. So movie like isn't it? ;)

Edfu Temple
The next stop is the Temple of Edfu in which we saw an 8 minute introductory documentary about this temple. Our Zizo joked saying it saves him the efforts of explaining. Funny though that it was a National Geographic show lol.


This temple is solely dedicated to God of Horus and is perhaps the most preserved temple and the 2nd largest in Egypt and only Pharaohs and Priests are allowed inside. Every New Years eve, the priest would take the Golden Falcon Statue right through the spiral staircase up to the roof top. Reason why it's spiral is because they mimc the way a Falcon flies off. Interesting. It felt like a 3D effect when I walked up the stairs as the walls had pictures of the priests carrying the statue up over and over again.



Once at the top, the sun would shine on this statue and it would shower rays over the land. This somewhat depicts the unison of God Ra (the sun) combined with God Horus to overlook the Egyptian land. There was also large carvings on the wall of the story of how God of Horus defeated Seth.



Luxor City - Hotel check in



It was then an hour before we finally check into the best hotel ever in our trip. Stegeinberger. And wouldn't you know, we were one of the few people who had an ensuite!


It wasn't back to reality but reality with a pamper bite. I don't know how we got it but I'm not complaining. We had the rest of the day of free time before we head out to an Irish Pub at night.

And something else magical (I like to use this word, it's so cheezy haha) happened. We booked our Hot Air balloon separately to our tour because we found a cheaper price online. And so we contacted the person. I can't believe such luck, his office was opposite the hotel! OMFG. And this was done online over the phone. So we headed there to sort out the payments and schedule before we went to get a late lunch.

Lunch was absolute yummy as it was at Maxime, where Zizo recommended. Food portions were huge and delicious and price was reasonable (5GP for a reasonably high steak and chips dish, yum)


Went out to 'celebrate' or get together with the other people as we split up since some were doing the cruise and overland to exchange stories at an Irish pub that didn't really sell Irish Beers. Zizo also brought in a guy who makes original Kartush pendants (your name in Hebrew) at really good price so both of us got one each, as our souvenier gift :). It was only 8GP hehe. Headed back early for another 4am start.