The next morning we left to see the West bank side and the Valley of the Kings and Queens. We had asked about the trip from our hostel but it was way too expensive what they asked for, so we had decided to do it by ourselves with Marc. We had made sure to him that this was the last day travelling with him and that he needed to continue his trip on his own. He really tried to ask our plans and which cities we were going next and stuff what we made things up and lied to him.
We walked to the bank of the river and took a boat across after, of course, haggling the price down. There we were offered many car rides for crazy prices to our destination! It took quite a while before the driver really understood that we weren't going to give up on our price and ended up getting a nice airconditioned car with a nice driver with a good price. It just took a bit patience.
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| Walking to the Valley of the Kings |
First it was time to see the famous Valley of The Kings. Kurt had told us a good tip that we don't have to pay an entrance ticket because it just allows you to go to three tombs were is nothing to see. He also told us that there is this small tourist minitrain going up right in front of the valley gates (taxis and buses have to leave you further away) but it only takes less than 5 minutes or so to walk there without paying anything. So, we only bought tickets to the tomb of Tutankhamon and Ramses the 6th (I think it was 6th..). They cost us 50 (6,8€) and 25 pounds for students. The guy at the entrance really tried to get us to buy the entrance tickets but I was really strict to him and just told him that we know we don't have to have it and walked past him.
The tomb of Tutankhamon was really small. When we got the small steps down and underground on the left side was the mommy of King Tutankhamon resting in his tomb. It gave me chills. On the right side was his burial chamber with walls painted with hieroglyphs. It was really breathtaking that something like that has been preserved for so long. It felt so real. And greepy. The tomb of Ramses the 6th (not entirely sure it was this one 'cause there are so many different Ramses tombs) was huge, it was like this long corridor with walls and roof full of hieroglyphs and the corridor lead to some room. It was quite impressive with all the colours and little detailed drawings on the walls and on the roof also.
After we were done with the tombs Marc secrectly wanted to climb to one of the sandhills surrounding the valley. First I was like no way, there are guards with guns and it's not allowed. When I saw him climbing there my inner competitive me woke up and I thought that we only be young ones (well at least some of us were young..) and the rebel me started climbing there after him with flipflops on.. The view to the Valley of the Kings was quite something! It was also a bit challenge to get down from there. It was much easier to get up. But we managed to do that by no one seeing us (except couple of young guys trying to sell us something while they climbed after us and told us not to go there).
Next we headed to Al-Deir Al-Bahari (also many other names) it is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs. There was a temple of Hatsepsutin which I had seen in history books several times. It cost us 15 pounds (2€) and we had to past couple of shops and the men were really annoying! When we came back we hopped over the fence 'cause we didn't want to walk past them again. The temple was really nice looking from far away but in my opinion there wasn't anything to see inside it. The view was nice. :)
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| The temple of Hatsepsutin |
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| The Valley of the Queens |
The last sight was the Valley of the Queens and we visited tombs 52,55 and 44. It was 20 pounds for students. The tombs were smaller and but the colours were magnificent. We were really exhausted! We could barely walk with Saija after seeing the last tomb. Our really nice driver drove us back to the river and we took a boat cross and went to take a nap. On every sight there were only few tourists with us. On the Valley of the Queens we were actually the only ones there! No one else.
After the nap we took a shower and left to eat by the River Nile and to drink some beer at the local restaurant which sold beer. It was so relaxing just to sit and watch the river even though Marc was with us. I had so much fun teasing Marc without him even knowing. I asked him difficult questions like what year did you graduate and that way he had to carefully count the years because he was still lying is his age. We bought beers to go and quickly stopped by at the internet cafe and after that we went back to our hostel were me and Saija watched King Kong from tv. After having enough of it we went to the hostel roof to smoke some strawberry Shisha (again, not a good idea.) Where we were joined with one local guy who didn't speak english and we had no idea who he was. He just sat with us smoking our Shisha. :D Nice evening! :)
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| At the restaurant drinking Stella |
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| Saija smoking Shisha and the random guy at the roof of the hostel |
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