A Visit to Hatshepsut Temple

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A Visit to Hatshepsut Temple

It was already well into the morning, and there wasn’t a single tourists in sight at the gorgeous Hatshepsut Temple in Luxor. Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and regarded as one of the most successful pharaohs. Her mortuary temple is also one of the most stunning and timeless places to visit. But my favorite aspect is the immense mountains that enfold it.

Not long after I arrived, a throng of school children arrived, followed by busloads of more and more Egyptian youths on a field trip to the sites.

In no time at all, the temple was filled with people, all of them Egyptian.

As a lone tourists, I garnered a lot of attention, especially from an extremely colorful assortment of girls from the town of Armant, about an hour south of Luxor. Their teacher was rather frustrated: I was more popular then Hatshepsut herself!