Ana Maleziy, Luxor

Ana Maleziy, Luxor

Salam. This is going to be a boring post. Bear with me, and you shall succeed (finishing reading it)

A few days ago I went on a trip to Old Egypt, a few hundred kilometers south of Mansoura. It was eight hours by train with no thermostat, so the whole ride was cold as hell. In Luxor, we went to visit a few temples and tombs like Karnak and Luxor Temples, Valley of the Kings and Queen Hatshepsut's temple. 

Luxor was a small city south od Egypt. It was unlike Cairo, Luxor was a lot more calmer with less people living in it. Other than that was fairly similar, the entrance fee for non-Egyptians were ridiculously expensive, the food was koshary and takmeya in the Delta, and it was the same here. The people and the language, however was different.

Egyptians in Luxor were mostly have darker skin than their brothers up north, and their dialect was a little smoother with several deiffent ways of pronounciations. Orang utara sebut jim jadi ga, orang Luxor sebut qaf jadi ga, jim jadi jim.

Gambar ditangkap menggunakan Sony Xperia X10i *winkwink*

The trip was mind blowing. The massive architecture, the perfect symmetry, the detailed writings, the strong materials, the existing colors on the walls after at least 3000 years. The gods, the holy animals like cobra, dogs, baboons and cows to name a few. It was hard to imagine such an advanced civilisation with such primitive or pagan beliefs, but there's the truth (or is it?) Still there are mysteries shrouding the temples that needs to be revealed.

Imagine, as we thought most of the mysteries have been found, Egyptologists have just recently unearthed a path that stretched  three kilometers between Karnak and Luxor temple with thousands of sphinx on each side which was before buried under roads and buildings of modern day Luxor. Could it be just a pagan belief? Or was those ingenious designs were a product of some sort of heavenly guidance? Where was the Prophets of the times whose names have been mentioned in the holy Quran? At which point in those 3000 years worth of civilisation were Jacob, Joseph, Moses and Aaron (p.b.u.t) alive?

We may never know, but that doesn't mean we should stop digging, does it? For all we know, the written history was a lie haha. Of course, although the trip was fairly educational (well it was), some of the stories were also damn funny and ridiculous. Of all the places I've been to, in Luxor I've learnt a few things.

One, new kings usually smashed older kings' statues and temples. Apparently, out of jealousy because you don't want to be overshadowed by the greatness of a dead person.

Two, even though they were thought to be a few thousand steps behind us in technology, they really do took their religion serious even if it is pagan to a point of stupidity. I mean, baboons guarding hell, seriously? Even so, what they believed made those structures still standing today, and that is saying something.

Anyway, all in all it was a great vacation.The only regret I got from the first half of the trip was not able to visit other sites such as Medinet Habu and Valley of the Queens. :( At least now I could cross out one of my bucket list yay