West bank Luxor,farms & Working camel

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Water buffalo calf  2 days old.

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calf 2 months old
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Milking buffalo 
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ewe looking rather sheepish. waiting for ramadan
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goats the pen is made from date palm frons
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The sacking type material from the trunk of the date tree is used for making brushes and used as a cloth for washing.
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the male date tree  the white/yellow stems when in flower will be cut and used to pollinate the female date palms usually by climbing the tree and doing it by hand. 

Mud bricks  are still widely used here they will be left to dry and bake in the sun for a week then used to build walls.
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usually the bricks are much better made than these  


Poor donkey they work it to death then give it a cut like that.

and the flies are still here.

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irrigation channel across the canal, 

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Most of the farm animals are kept near the lanes. making it awkward sometimes to walk through.
 not sure if it was to hot today but I never got stopped once for money.  only mad dogs and even madder Welshmen go out in the midday sun.  or something like that from the 1931 Noël Coward song.

Sugar cane  is now in cropping season

once the field is cleared of the cane  and the green  leaves used for fodder the rest is burnt on the ground  once its burnt they flood the field and the new crop will grow,  sugar can has a four season cut and  grow. then its plowed in and a new crop will be planted.
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this is the way they cook what is known as fool. its a mixture of beans and spices and used as a morning meal with  falafel. flat bread,   the fire does not usually go out  the pot is taken off the fire after its cooked over night, and replaced with the next days cooking pot.

West bank, Luxor, Egypt

I got up very early this morning,  no real reason but something I do not often do,    as I was making a cup of tea  I noticed the sky was a pink glow, so got dressed to take some photos  from my roof balcony problem is we are not the highest house in this area , the shots are restricted to one area and always have the new belfry towers of the new build Church or the mosque minaret in the view, so I went back to my humble flat to get dressed to go out. ( will not do to go Out and about in ones underpants)  to take shots from near the Nile. so today I am going to show you what I saw of God's amazing creation, because I feel he woke me up especially to see it,
the view on leaving my home. with the new dig Avenue of the sphinx on my right.

looking back again as I decided I was going on the Nile River Itself if the ferry boat was waiting.

And another shot of the sky back to my home and over the Temple of Luxor  sun rise will be to the left in the next but one frame..

and again the same shot but half way across the Nile
 sun up over Medinet Habu Temple   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medinet_Habu_%28temple%29

The early bird catches the worm  or the fish  as these two boys set out on a mornings fishing.

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The 3 new ferries that are used from 6.00till 24.00  to ferry people and goods from the East to the west bank across the Nile in Luxor Egypt 
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One of the patrol boats  and the old night ferry coming in . 
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%.35  and already people are off to work  

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A full view with my pocket olympus camera. 
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and again  after landing on the west Bank.   before I got in a minibus to my destination  I had decided to go to see my friend at the Temple of Medinet Habu,     and what is Medinet Habu.

 



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Pigeons basking on the first pylon at Habu Temple 
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looking across the new dig to control the rise in the water table this water is then pumped into the irrigation canals. 

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breakfast  fool ( hot beans)  being delivered  1/2 kilo is 1 egp. 

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The tower from which the plot to kill a pharaoh took place, 

A new pigeon house has been built next to the temple to try and stop the pigeons sitting on the walls  we all know what pigeons no  after eating. same as we all do  but they do it on the Temple walls.   no I never said written on the walls.
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looking  behind the Temple towards the last remaining houses of the tomb robers  the village has been emptied of its inhabitants, and some say it will stay as a museum some of these houses date back to the first tomb robbers. 
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looking towards the Tombs of the nobles area and the Valley of the Kings. 

      This one made me laugh !   reminds me of  Gran   when dementia set in,  she thought she was an angel ( which she was)

Thought Bop her husband of 75 years  was a famous footballer because football was the only sport he watched on TV.   that mans got a big head  keeps looking at himself on tv.   Bop was almost 100. dementia is something that can and does happen to most of us.

Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other," Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?" "Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techniques: visualization, association, etc. It was great." "That's great! And what was the name of the clinic?" Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember. Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that flower with the long stem and thorns?"
"You mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife, "Rose, what was the name of that memory clinic?"

Looking at Seven thousand years of History from my roof.

These holes in the area above the Tombs of the Nobles are  pre Pharaonic

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The Howard Carter house. standing on a hill  to the entrance road of the Valley of the Kings
 and the New Gurna Village,   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter
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last standing House of the tomb robbers  out of  sight behind them  is the village of the workers.
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The funnery Temple of Queen Hatshepsut .  my photos are on  http://myegypttours.blogspot.com/2009/08/hatshepsut-temple.html
This site will give you a detailed account of who was?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsut 
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What is in Thebes   go to this site  and click on the links.http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/thebes.htm

• Asasif Necropolis
• Nobles, Tombs of the
• Valley of the Kings
• The Valley of the Queens

Tombs

• Akhenaten, Tiy (Tiye) or Smenkhkare?, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings (KV55)
• Amenherkhepshef, Tomb of - Valley of the Queens (QV55)
• Amenhotep II, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Amenhotep III, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings (WV22)
• Amenmesses, Tomb of and King - Valley of the Kings
• Ay, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Benia (Pahekmen), Private Tomb of
• Hatshepsut-Meryetre, Tomb of (though not used) - Valley of the Kings - KV42
• Horemheb, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Inherkhau, Tomb of Foreman - Deir el Medina Necropolis
• Khaemhat, Private Tomb of - Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
• Khaemwaset, Tomb of - Valley of the Queens
• Kheruef, Private Tomb of - Asasif
• Khonsu, Private Tomb of - Sheikh Abd el-Qurna (TT31)
• KV 39, The Tomb of Amenhotep I?
• Merneptah, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Nakht, Tomb of - Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
• Nefertari, Tomb of - Valley of the Queens
• Pashedu, Tomb of - Deir el Medina Necropolis
• Ramesses I, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Ramesses II (Ramesses the Great), Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Ramesses II's Sons, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Ramesses III, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Ramesses IV, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Ramesses VI, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Ramesses VII, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings (KV1)
• Ramesses IX, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Ramesses X, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings (KV18)
• Ramesses XI, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings (KV4)
• Ramesses-Mentuherkhepshef, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings (KV19)
• Ramose, Private Tomb of - Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
• Rekhmire, Private Tomb of - Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
• Sennedjem, Private Tomb of - Deir el Medina Necropolis
• Sennefer, Private Tomb of - Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
• Seti I, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Siptah, the King and his Tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV47)
• Sitre In?, Tomb of in the Valley of the Kings (KV60)
• Tausert and Setnakht, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Tutankhamen (King Tut), Tomb of
• Tuthmosis III, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Tuthmosis IV, Tomb of - Valley of the Kings
• Userhat, Private Tomb of -  Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
• Yuya and Tjuyu, Private Tomb of - Valley of the Kings

Temples and Chapels

• Amenhotep III, Temple of - West Bank, Luxor
• Deir el Bahari, Temple of - West Bank, Luxor
• Horus, Temples of (at Thoth Hill) - West Bank, Luxor
• Karnak, Temple of  - Luxor
• Luxor, Temple of - Luxor
• Mentuhotep II, Mortuary Temple of - West Bank, Luxor
• Merenptah, Mortuary Temple of - West Bank, Luxor
• Other Temples on the West Bank at Thebes, Part I
  Temples belonging to Amenhotep I, Amenhotep II, Siptah, the Colonnaded Temple of Ramesses IV, the Ramessid Temple, the Chapel of the White Queen and the private temple of Nebwenenef
• Other Temples on the West Bank at Thebes, Part II - Temples of Ramesses IV (mortuary), Amenophis son of Hapu, Tuthmosis II, and the North and South temples at Nag Kom Lolah
• Other Temples of the West Bank at Thebes, Part III: The Temples at Deir el-Medina - Temple of Amenhotep I, the Hathor Chapel of Seti I, the Ptolemaic Temple of Hathor, and a small Temple of Amun.
• Other Temples of the West Bank at Thebes, Part IV - Mortuary Temple of Tuthmosis III, and the temples of Tuya and Nefertari, Tuthmosis IV, Wadjmose and Siptah and Tausert
• Ramesseum - West Bank, Luxor
• Ramses III, Temple of - West Bank, Luxor
• Red Chapel of Hatshepsut at Karnak - East Bank, Luxor
• Seti I Temple of Millions of Years - West Bank, Luxor
• Tuthmosis III, Temple of Amun at Deir el-Bahari - West Bank, Luxor
• White Chapel of Senusret I, The - East Bank in the Open Air Museum, Luxor