Egypt Day Five: Drive to Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, Unfinished Obelisk

This day was another very interesting day as we drove through the countryside and desert.

Above:  These were all the carriages lined up to take people from their Nile cruise ships to Edfu.  We were so glad that we had not taken the Nile Cruise or the carriage rides.

Below:  Sites at Edfu

Below: The Temple of Kom Ombo, is a double temple constructed in the Ptolemaic dynasty, it celebrates crocodiles which in ancient times were plentiful in the Nile River.  I must have been on photo overload, because this is the only picture I took at Kom Ombo.

Below: On the way to the Unfinished Obelisk, which was ordered by Queen Hatshepsut.  It shows how obelisks were carved directly out of bedrock, but this one began to crack, so the project was abandoned.  

Below:  On the river cruise to Philae Temple, which was dismantled and moved to higher ground before the 1970 Aswan Higher Dam was built.  There had already been a great deal of flooding in the area and this move protected the Philae Temple from further damage.