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Temples and Sites
by Orlando A

So the guidebook points Karnak as being beyond the map of Luxor which meant to me a few miles down the road, somewhere between three and thirty miles. We are chillin' this morning and go up to my landlord's apartment for tea - who is this English woman. She is cool, although you would have to sit with her for a minute to tell how cool.

So we are talking and she asks if we have gone to Karnak Temple yet. We are like, not yet, because we are just settling in and we will have to call a cab to get a ride over. So she says, get a cab? You can see it from here. She takes us out to her balcony and points a block away to the temple. Both our jaws drop. It was partially obscured by the park next door. Plus we hadn't ventured in that direction yet thinking that was where town ended.

Then she adds, actually you are on Karnak now, because the temple stretches beneath us. Luxor and Karnak were one originally, but they excavated those two parts. So yes, beneath us is Karnak. Earlier she had explained that the land the building we reside at now, sits on a spot that when the Nile was inundated, the royal family would use to enter on and off from the Nile. She advised us of the energies that we could expect to experience because of this fact. Hmmm....

She told us to walk around a few blocks behind the property and observe the bricks in some of the older houses there. They used the stone cut from the Temples and so many old homes have the hieroglyphs embedded in the bricks in their homes, just like the Mosque in the center of Karnak was built over the Coptic Church built over a part of the temple, using materials from the temple. Just like the religions. Pictures tomorrow.