Today we woke up and had breakfast in our hotel before driving to the Karnak temple which our guide described as a complex of temples because several kings had added to it. There were gates facing every direction connected by a mud-brick wall surrounding the complex. There was a room of columns with probably 20 columns in each row and there was scaffolding set up around about half of them where people were restoring them. We saw the lake where priests would be purified before giving blessings in the complex and we saw several smaller temples inside dedicated to different kings and gods. We also saw very impressive obelisks and a statue of a beetle where we watched tourists walking around it in circles because their tour guides had told them that it brings good luck. I thought the whole complex was very cool impressive but I was glad we saw it before the huge amount of tourists filled the whole thing.
Then we got falafel sandwiches for lunch before resting at our hotel for a little while. I then walked around with my dad and we found the grocery store where we got some snacks as well as wandering around a department store before we walked back through the market to our hotel.
Later tonight we will meet with our group for our farewell dinner before we fly to Israel tomorrow. The majority of the people in our group will remain but we will have a new guide.
⁃ Magnolia
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