The Forbidden Karnak Temple.....

The highlight of Luxor can only have been The Karnak Temple.

Its colossal size and excellent preservation makes it a wonder to see.

Funnily enough i think that we may have been slightly

over-excited by the whole thing,

seeing as on numerous occasions we had people coming p to us telling

us what we were doing was Forbidden.

I guessed they were just after Baksheeh (tip)

for hush money, but now i look back on the pictures

i think that they probably had a point.

For example -

Cuddling with ancient monuments - FORBIDDEN

(i'm of the opinion that James Cameron may have got his inspiration for the blue skinned folk of Avatar for these hieroglyphs)

Standing on top of ruins -FORBIDDEN

(apparently when Obama came to Egypt he pointed out this hieroglyph and said it looked a bit like him)

The workers took some time off for lunch so we thought we'd help out -

FORBIDDEN

Sitting on ancient relics- FORBIDDEN

Danny and Ksenjia act out a scene described in tour guide book of human sacrfices - FORBIDDEN

Touching Broken Statues with string around them - FORBIDDEN

Swimming in the Sacred Lake - FORBIDDEN

Posing on the giant pillars -

FORBIDDEN

but it was so

amazing to see how detailed and preserved

some of the hieroglyphs are....

Sometimes

I wonder if ancient Egyptians built their statues life-sized

and human beings have just got smaller over the years.....