Templeneckititis

The day concluded with a visit to the Luxor Museum, with its treasures displayed in a modern, sleek setting, and then to the famed Temple of Luxor itself, which they very conveniently built right next to the Winter Palace Hotel... :-)

I didn't spend as much time exploring there as I could have, but knowing I would be back in a week, I didn't linger on the details. The Temple is quite magnificent, mostly the work of Amenhotep III and of Rameses II, with a bit of decoration by TutAnkhAmun thrown in for good measure. Unlike Karnak which is a hodgepodge of additions and revised buildings done over a good thousand years, Luxor temple follows a master plan. The great colonnade is simply breathtaking. So is the effect all this temple viewing is having on my neck. Looking up at the top of columns 90 high certainly takes a toll on one's vertebrae!