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Light in its 19th century glory
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About the Winter Palace gardens
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Morning in the Old Winter Palace garden
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The garden includes trees from many places... I know the papaya from Senegal
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Blooms from the red silk floss tree on the Old Winter Palace lawn
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Looking toward my room
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One of the ram-headed sphinxes that lined the road to Luxor Temple
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The Hypostyle Hall's 134 columns once supported a sandstone slab roof
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Cartouches of pharoahs and carvings of the Theban gods, Amun, Mut, and Khonsu predominate on the columns
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The obelisk of Tuthmosis II behind our guide
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Apparently lit by clerestory windows
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Ramses II with the boxes representing the years of his long reign
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Ihab and Maria discussing the Sacred Lake
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The obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut
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This fellow let us into a closed off area after being tipped for a photo
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Presumably insufficiently restored to be open to visitors
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What 3000-year-old paint looks like
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In the oldest central court, looking back to the entrance
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Pharoahs sometimes gouged out their predecessors
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Now back in the forecourt of Karnak
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A last look back at the Temple of Karnak
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Coptic graffiti at the entrance to Luxor Temple
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The mosque of Abu Haggag is now built above the Court of Ramses II
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About restoration of the Great Colonnade Hall
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Early Christian murals from a 4th c Coptic church inside the temple
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Scenes of the Opet Festival run around the walls of the Court of Amenhotep III
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Currently blocked by modern streets, the roadway between Karnak and Luxor temples is being restored
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Sphinxes with slightly varied faces of Pharoah Amenhotep III
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Formerly, a basha owned this villa that looks toward Luxor's West Bank and the Valley of the Kings
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Luxor taxi stand
