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RE: Amateur Adventures #26: Amazing Karnak - Monument to the Pharaohs
Love the post! I am incredibly jealous of your trip. Ancient Egypt has always been an interest of mine and hearing your story and seeing your photos has me in awe. While you were there, were people respectful of the history? My fear is that due to tourism and the lack of care in a lot of people the artistryand majesty of ancient Egypt will be lost. May seem silly seeing as these monuments have been standing for thousands of years but I picture people touching the statues and climbing all over them.
If you could pick one monument to be your favourite what would it be?
In general I would say pretty respectful..the tourists numbers even when we went in 2012 (admittedly right in the middle of the election) are very low. Most places are no flash photography and you can't touch a lot of things. The pyramids you can the Sphinx you cant so they are fairly aware.. but to be honest there is just not the numbers of people. Its actually very sad. I'd be more concerned they are going to get destroyed like many of the shrines in Syria. which is heartbreaking to lose that history. There were so many amazing things its hard to pick a favourite. If I was really pushed maybe Abu Simbel. Philae was also amazing. A big highlight and I will cover in an upcoming post was hot air ballooning over the valley of the kings at dawn!
Can't wait for the next post.
It is really sad that people aren't visiting. One day I shall get there! Thanks for sharing again!
hey @necromortis thanks for your support.. the hot air ballooning post is now live.. thanks for inspiring me to pull out my finger and write it :)
Thanks for pointing me to the post @shellyduncan I loved it