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#Karnak

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Jomes
Still working my way through my #Egypt photos. This is one of my absolute favourite shots. It was the Light and Sound show in the #Karnak temple and we had the incredible luck to have a full moon shining down on us as an addition to the light show. It was utterly stunning and breathtaking to walk through the smartly illuminated temple. We had the last show of the evening and were only 30 people instead of three thousand. It was incredible beautiful.

#LightAndSound #KarnakTemple #AncientEgypt #travelling #vacation #Moon #FullMoon #sky #history #LightInstallations #light #dark #obelisk #night
Vertical colour photo. It's night and we're standing in darkness between the giant columns, looking ahead to a path between them. The darkness gets interrupted by bright floodlights hidden behind the last two columns. They're throwing bright lights, illuminating two high columns on each side in a soft orange light and creating a criss cross shadow pattern on the ground. The light beams don't reach us. In the far back are a single obelisk and a broken wall getting hit by indirect light. Between the obelisk in the back and the column near us the bright glowing disk of the moon hangs low in the sky like a blue whisp hovering in the temple ruins. The rest of the visible sky is pitch black. The contrast between the orange sand stone or lime stone and the glowing moon with a wide spread very blue halo creates a fascinating visual.
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Stephen ✈️📷

My photos of the columns at the Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt.

At the heart of Karnak, the Nineteenth Dynasty pharaoh Sety I (reigned ca. 1291-1279 BCE) erected his Great Hypostyle Hall, a colossal forest of 134 giant sandstone columns supporting a high clerestory roof and enclosed by massive walls that after 3300 years remain substantially intact today.

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Stephen 🇵🇭✈️📷
My photo walking towards the Karnak Temple Complex, Luxor.

The 2nd photo is a miniature-scale model of the the Karnak Temple Complex.

The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (/ˈkɑːr.næk/),[1] comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I (reigned 1971–1926 BC) in the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000–1700 BC) and continued into the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305–30 BC), although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places") and the main place of worship of the 18th Dynastic Theban Triad, with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes, and in 1979 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List along with the rest of the city.[2] Karnak gets its name from the nearby, and partly surrounded, modern village of El-Karnak, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) north of Luxor. --- Wikipedia

#UNESCOWorldHeritageSite #Egypt #AncientEgypt #ExperienceEgypt #Karnak #Luxor #Travel #TravelPhotography #Tauck #TauckTours
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