We left our hotel in Luxor, with its beautiful view of the Nile, and travelled to Luxor Temple.

The temple was built around the time of Tutankhamun, and later, Ramesses II.

An avenue of Sphinxs joins Luxor Temple with Karnak temple 3.5km away.

The walls and columns of the temple are covered with hieroglyphics and drawings which would have been very colourful when new.

The Romans added a church inside the temple around 5AD. They reused some of the stone from the original columns resulting in some drawings being upside down!

One picture shows a gathering around a table that looks similar to the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.

The drawing below depicts the one armed and one legged fertility god. The story goes that all the men except him were killed which made him very popular with the ladies, who bore him many children.

We carried on to our ship, ‘Sunray’, and enjoyed an excellent Moroccan buffet.

After lunch we were off again – to Karnak Temple.

Karnak Temple followed Luxor Temple, begun in the middle kingdom (2000 – 1700 BC) and developed for another 2000 years with around 30 pharaohs contributing to it.

It is a massive site, the largest of all temples.

After our visit we headed back to our ship, stopping briefly at a papyrus art gallery.

We are back on the ship looking forward to dinner.