My Dream Egyptian Cruise - Dendura

Lets take a little ride down the road or a small push up river to Dendura as our next stop. I love how complete the temple at Dendura is. It was built by the Ptolemy's who ruled from the Greek to the Roman period of Egyptian history. And you will see Cleopatra VII (the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Cleopatra) and her son from Mark Antony called Caecerian. Make sure you check them all out on the Back wall. PLUS you get to walk the stairs up onto the roof of the complex and see the Zodiak on the ceiling of the small room upstairs. PLUS, as an added bonus it has one of the few full sized sculptures of my favorite Egyptian god Bes, the dwarf

My Dream Egyptian Cruise Fifth Stop

After leaving Tel Amarna, we might stop in Minia to visit the farm Ahmed Nagy's father to see how the crops are doing. Then we would collect back up on the cruise ship and head up river to Abydos. Probably one of the more famous temples in Egypt because of the alien conspiracy theories about how the temple came to have sculptures of a helicopter, blimp, submarine and even a jet airplane.But it is also one of the oldest sites where it is believed that Osirus was buried, so when you go in the temple to see the alien scupltures make sure you go around back to see the REALLY old (pyramid age) ruins behind the more modern (18th-19th Dynasty) temple

My Dream Egyptian Cruise Fourth Stop

We move on just up river a small journey and we will find the ancient city of Ahkentaten, Tel Amarna. There is not much left of this capital city from the 18th Dynasty because it was built by the heretic pharaoh Ahkenaten. HIs emence wealth allowed him to pick up the capital city from Cairo area and move the whole city to a new place in the desert. This is one of my favorite sites in Egypt. Unfortunately is off the normal tourist path and you need a special tour to visit it because it is so far from the other tour sites. That is why it is on my DREAM Egyptian Tour

My Dream Cruise

The next stop on my DREAM cruise would have to be after an overnight sail south, UPstream on the Nile we would come to the tombs of Beni Hassan. You see so many tombs painted for kings but there are not many tombs with paintings of everyday activities, even wrestling and trading with Semites

My DREAM Egyptian Tour Second Stop

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The next stop on my DREAM Egyptian cruise would be a layover in Saqqara and Dendura. I love the Step Pyramid complex, (did you know there is a vast tunnel system there that only a "special" group gets to enter?) I love the modern Imhotep Museum. I would go into a few of the tombs: Kegemni is my favorite. Finally I would stand in one place and just take in the panorama and from there you can see 70 Pyramids across the desert. AMAZING

My Dream Egyptian Cruise

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The first stop on my DREAM Egyptian Cruise would be to board our ship right behind the Cairo Museum. Where I would spend a lot of time in the Amarna Room, the Merneptah Stele, and finally behind all the King Tut gold you will find coffins made out of silver, which at the time was 10x more expensive than gold. Egypt had a lot of gold but they had to import silver from Mesopotamia.

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