El Sitio Más Impactante de Egipto 🇪🇬 LUXOR

Luxor is the favorite of all of us who travel to Egypt, and the truth is that it doesn't surprise me. There's the Temple of the Only Woman Pharaoh, the Tomb of Tutankhamun, and some of the colors that have endured the passage of time the best. If Egypt is already in pact, Luxor is its ultimate expression. Stay to discover Luxor and see one of the most secret tombs in all of Egypt. This is the facade of Medinet Habu. Here, these reliefs tell the story of the people of the sea, who were dominated and conquered by Ramses III. Look at the little people and look at the door. This temple is the funeral temple of Ramses III and Ramses II. The funeral temple, as we have seen in previous chapters, was the temple where the pharaohs were mummified. It was only used for their mummification, and that's it, just one use. Then, it is true that during the time of Habser Sud and Thummosis III, we'll see who they are later, it was also used to honor the god Amun. In fact, this temple was still used until the 9th century. I think they made it so big that they said, let's use it. There were different uses, but the most important are those. Why is this temple important? Well, basically for its conservation, for the colors, because you can see a lot of colors, and it is one of the best-preserved funeral temples of the time, of the new era of the pharaohs. Passing under the main door, the ceilings are still in the original color. The truth is that, I don't know, I said it with a monotonous voice, but it's the other way around. It's super exciting to be here. Amazing. And these are giant arches, after giant arches, after... Boom! Columns engraved. Look, look, there he is, picking up his enemies by the hair, about to slaughter them. A story not for all audiences. Here in the column they repeat it to you. Look, class of hieroglyphic Egyptian, with travel notebook, part 1. If there's a circle, it's Ra. But in this case, it goes with a bird. So this is the god Horus. If they appear together, it's a new god, Horus-Ra, who was the god in charge of freeing the land from chaos. And then, the hieroglyphics, many times, the names of the pharaohs usually go like this, in cartridges, that are read three by three. It's always read in the direction in which the bird is looking. For example, imagine that this bird had to read the hieroglyphics. Well, it would have to be read starting from here, like facing the bird. And, apart from that, the symbol of the god is always read first. Look at the depth of the cut. In the temple, security guards or people who are cleaning will probably talk to you to show you areas that, if you give them a tip, they'll show you areas that are actually closed. We don't recommend it. One, because the area is probably not so cool and you've already seen the same thing from the outside. And two, because if it's closed for rehabilitation... They wanted us to go to a scaffolding. It doesn't make much sense to go to a scaffolding when you're on a trip. We're in the Valley of the Queens. There's the Valley of the Nobles and also the Valley of the Artisans, apart from the Valley of the Kings, which is famous. There are four valleys. The Valley of the Queens has a stone of worse quality than the Valley of the Kings, so I guess it's a bit worse preserved. Well, the tomb of Nefertari. Nefertiti. Nefertari. There's what Ibas wants to see from Nice in the world. Here I just wanted to see two things in Egypt. Hatshepsut and the tomb of Nefertari. So, after this, we can go. We'll see. Is it a video? Yes. Let's see! The tomb of Nefertari. Awesome, really. Something very curious when you enter... It's the first tomb we've entered. Maybe it has impacted us a lot, but... But, man, the colors are perfect. It's amazing. In fact, the colors have been restored practically since they discovered the tomb. The tomb was discovered in 1904 and in 1906 they started restoring it because they realized that when they opened the tomb, with the oxygen and everything, it was deteriorating very fast. But it's incredible, really. There are very curious things. Apart from the fact that they show you all the funerary beliefs and life after death, the beliefs of ancient Egypt, Nefertari is also at the same height and is just as big as her husband, which shows how important she was. The fact that the woman was represented with the same size as her husband is extremely rare in ancient Egypt. So, thanks to the size of Nefertari's images, we can know how important she was. In the next video, you have a typical example where you can see the difference in size between the statue of a pharaoh and that of his wife, so that you can understand the contrast. Look, here is a colossus and in ancient Egypt, representing the great ones was the symbol of power. So, the pharaoh, you have to represent the statue or the biggest drawing of all. And down here at the feet, look what he has on the right. He has his wives, sometimes they are women, sometimes they are his children. They usually are his wife. And as they have less power, they symbolize her much smaller. However, although this may be very controversial, if you look for other hieroglyphics, here there is none, you will find that women are usually far above when they are powerful, of the peasants, for example. So, it is not a sexist system, it is only a classist system. The tomb of Ramses III, the son of Ramses III, is also very well preserved, the colors and all that, amazing. Now the Nefertari tomb has been processed, I think it helps to process it, to see the other tombs later. Basically, coming to the Valley of the Queens is to see two tombs, if you don't pay the extra Nefertari. Yes, the one of Titi, which is quite poorly preserved, the truth is that you can see the colors a little, and then there is the one of Ramses III's son. A prince who died young. Ramses III's son is much better preserved, and you have a surprise, we are not going to say what it is, but you have something interesting there. But I say one thing, I don't know how much it costs to enter, because we bought the Luxor Pass complete, I don't remember the price of the entrance of the Valley of the Queens right now, but if you really want to see something cool, two tombs for I don't know how much the price is, I don't think it's worth it. It's only worth it if you come to see the Nefertari tomb. Surprise! Another son of Ramses III. There is one more tomb, we had spoken very quickly. Although it is called the Valley of the Queens, you have two of princes, two tombs of open princes, and two of queens. And one of them is that part of payment. It could really be called the Valley of the Princes. These are one of the most beautiful because of their colors. One more proof that the ancient Egyptians were aliens. Alibi! We have arrived at the Ramesseum, after the Valley of the Queens. The truth is that in the end, although we started late for everything that has meant going to get the Luxor Pass, the Valley of the Queens is ----. It's not bad, it's not bad, it's not ----. What happens is that it seems to us that if you are not willing to pay the extra for the Nefertari tomb, do not pay for the Valley of the Queens. Because although the other tombs are cool to see them in colors, they are not so amazing, and surely in the Valley of the Kings they also have tombs with colors to freak out. Well, there is the Ramesseum, and surely when Ramses II was there, it would be amazing, and now it is still amazing, but it seems that nothing compared to what it was at the time. This was surrounded by jackals representing Anubis, the north, east and west sides that have been found, because the south side has not been found any decorations. They were full of decorations, of sphinxes with the heads of Ramses, of colossi and everything, and yet the temple was abandoned in the year 1000 BC. And when the artisans who had worked in this temple, cut the stone blocks that they could reuse and took them to build new things. So you can not see the ruins of everything that was known. And now, this was a whole walk of jackals, a bit like the walk that you will see that they have restored of carnations in Karnak. And now it seems that after a lot of effort they have managed to restore only one jackal, taking pieces that were worth different. The head of Ramses. This was practically the same height as those. What happens is that he was sitting, but this has not been the history or the passage of time that has broken it, it has been the money. At the end of the 19th century, the British Museum basically stole the chest, all the bust of Ramses, and left only the head, and you can find the bust in the British Museum. Because the law of before said that if you found it, then now you can not ask for it back. We are in the Luxor Temple, which is the only temple that is open until 10 at night, so they illuminate it and it is super nice, you can also see the sunset, although we have seen it more on the Nile than on the temple. And if you come to see it at night, it will be quite full of people, because it is the only open temple, everyone else closes at 5 or 5.30. We are going to see this temple with the cruise that we will have in a few days, tomorrow or the day after, but we are going to see it better, the guide will explain it to us, so today we are just going to walk around with the temple lit at night. We have come to Al-Sahabi Lane, it is quite curious, Al-Sahabi is the name of the restaurant, but it was so famous when it was opened by the grandfather, that the mayor of Luxor put the name of the restaurant on the street. It is a little expensive, but not so bad. The water is big, for example, 15 pounds, maybe in other places it would be 10, but we have chosen food, which I think we are going to spend about 250 Egyptian pounds, something like that. Unless now they take out very small portions and you have to buy more, I think it's not so bad, to change a bit, because this restaurant has a lot of variety, that when you have been like us for about 11 days in Egypt, we were seriously considering eating in a McDonald's or something, because you start to get tired of so much rice, so much vegetables, that in the end what we have ordered are also traditional Egyptian things, except a pizza, that like the other day we ate Egyptian pizza, today a normal pizza. We are already in the hotel, we finish the video here, because tomorrow you are going to have some spectacular images, that I don't know, I haven't seen it yet, but I know it. We have already returned to the balloon, the truth is that the experience has been incredible, perfect, very very beautiful. They have given us this, which are certificates that we have passed a balloon flight and everything has gone well. But we already have a drama, we had also hired a cruise to go from Luxor to Aswan and be there for three nights, one because it is a super cool activity and two because it was the best way to get to Aswan and they have canceled it today at one in the morning. I don't know, we are freaking out that a cruise that leaves at eleven in the morning they cancel it at one in the morning and they stay the same, you will get the money and that's it. The money that we had originally spent was 400 euros for two people and they are asking us for 600 dollars per person. Of course, high season and above start it in the new year and buy it on the same day, it's a barbarity. And on the internet it seems that there are some options but since they have already canceled that one, what happens? If I spend the money again and I cancel it again, I stay at zero. I don't know, they have broken the whole plan. Let's see what we do. What are those eyes? I'm going to cry from the emotion of the sadness and emotion that we have had today. It's two to four. The last video you saw was at seven and a half. But we have a new cruise. Sometimes the days traveling are like this and you lose all your time looking for a solution. Happy to have a cruise again, we celebrate the new year and we prepare for the next day's visit. Perhaps the best known of the luxury. Look, this temple is dedicated to Amon. You can see the sun there and Amon represented by a carnation. That's why all the carnations. I was saying that I didn't find this temple so impressive but the truth is that when you get to this room, 23 meters high, are the central columns. The others are a little lower but above them there is more structure. This room is huge and there are some that keep colors and this area is super impressive. Look, look, all the colors. Of course, a lot is said about the pyramids but here they say that they were carved in blocks and then they put a block on top of another. How? Finally, what's your opinion? Well, it's impressive because it's an Egyptian temple and they always impress you but within this general impression I think there are other temples much more amazing. You have seen in the video, for example, I don't know if it was yesterday or the day before, when we went to the Biosphere, that for me are the most amazing of all we have seen here in Luxor with the Nefertari tomb and we haven't seen the Valley of the Kings in Phapsetsut, right? For me, they are the most amazing I have seen here in Luxor, in my opinion. So I think this temple is overrated. It's because of the importance it gives because it's the oldest religious temple and because of all the pharaohs who built in it but I think that right now it's not in such a good level of conservation and it's not so amazing. The room with the big columns, yes. And almost everyone stays there? Yes, yes, because in fact, in the other part of the temple that we have seen, which is the oldest, there is almost no one. Everyone stays in the first room.