this morning i bummed around the west bank of the nile river, visiting the valley of kings, the valley of queens, the temple of hatshepsut, and the colossi of memnon. i don't know if you guys were aware of this, but this county is littered with all this giant old crap. back by cairo, they had these awesome big triangles, like in giza and shit. every time i saw them i though: "damn, that's a big triangle"
luxor doesn't seem to have triangles. they got big buildings like palaces (thus the name الاقصر) and stuff. and they got these big holes in the ground for storing dead people. all the dead people are gone. first they were turned into mummies and then they shuffled off after people, arms stretched straight out in front like we've all seen in the movies. at some point most of them shuffled their way to the cairo museum (though many were also kidnapped and shipped to places like the british museum). so now the tombs are mostly mummiless.
nature, however, abhors a vacuum. and so, instead it has filled the tombs with tourists, packing them in at a far greater rate than those ancient egyptians ever did. that means the tombs are hot and humid from all the body heat. you know it's bad when you can't wait to get back into the sun to cool off and you're in the sahara.
