Leaving the Cruise - Off to Hurghada

While still in Luxor, we debarked from the cruise and made a stop at the Luxor Temple before leaving for Hurghada. The temple was very unique as Christians inhabited it and made it a church centuries after the temple was built; christian style paintings are plastered over the original art work and cover some of the walls. There was also a mosque built above the temple's pillars before the temple was uncovered.

Christian Paintings

Mosque

The temple's columns are built to resemble a temple garden of papyrus flowers, with short, closed flowers on the outside, and much taller, bloomed flowers on the inside.

(Left) Closed Papyrus flowers on the outside (Right) Open, taller Papyrus flowers on the inside

Sphinx Avenue is a road that covers a two-mile stretch from Luxor Temple to Karnak Temple. The road is guarded by 2 rows of sphinx, one on each side.

How cool is that? And they're still demolishing buildings and uncovering more of the street!

(It's absolutely amazing the things they still haven't found in Egypt today. So much history still remains!)

Sarah and I being rebellious by touching and jumping off of ancient history

Following the temple, we took off on a three hour bus ride to Hurghada. When we arrived, we gawked over the beauty of our all-inclusive, five-star resort, and took a walk to the beach. The beach wasn't exactly fit for swimming as there were numerous star fish and jelly fish covering the shallow surface. Check out the place on TripAdvisor!

Massive lobby

Jellyfish on the rocks

After exploring the hotel, we got suited up for a gala dinner by the pool. I'm still in shock at the amount of food they had; especially the dessert table! The table of desserts was probably just as large as the table for the main course. Overall, we had a wonderful first night in the beautiful Hurghada.

Alex, Me, Chloe, and Jamison

Sooo much food!