Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Egypt - Monday 19th May - Part 2 - Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut and Cruise Activites

Its not even lunch time and we are back on the bus for our next stop which was Howard Carters house which I didn't take many photos so leaving it out of this post altogether.

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut.

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معبد حتشبسوت

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortuary_temple_of_Hatshepsut

I mentioned the Pharaoh Hatshepsut when we were at the Museum on day one. She was the most important female Pharaoh, who wore a mans ceremonial beard. After her death her predecessors tried to wipe her out of existence by destroying her statues and defacing her portraits on the walls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsut

Then after avoiding the avenue of Vultures, (one dolla American lady, 3 shirts five dolla, nice scarf suits your pretty eyes, one dolla), it was back on the bus and back to the ship by 1:30 for lunch. Everyone is very hot and tired.

The ship sailed for Esna as soon as we were all back onboard. That is our cabin circled in blue.

At 3:30 Graham went to a backgammon lesson. I tried to update my blog.

At 4:30 we had Arabic language lessons.

Here is Grahams worksheet, can't find mine, may have tossed it out.

Kim is easy to translate. Although the i becomes a y.

كيم

Graham's name is soft and was some thing like

جراهام

Caroline tried to teach the class to count 1 -10 with a children's song which the bar people thought was hilarious. Americans and Egyptians can't pronounce Graham, they say Grey-Ham. Some people can't run all those soft sounds together.

Arabic is a very pretty written language.

Then that night there was entertainment. Whirling Dervishes.