We got off the boat, permanently and our guide picked us up to take us to the quarry. Once we got there, she explained that Hatshepsut had an unfinished obelisk and when she died, her son did not use the obelisk for him self. It had a crack in it so he said he couldn’t use it. Although the obelisk could of made a nice altar. The process was the same as sand stone, although since granite is harder, it took longer. After the quarry, we visited Philae temple, dedicated to Isis, wife of the god of paradise, Osiris and mother of Horus. The temple was beautiful, although there was almost no color. But like Horus’s temple we saw in the front, the hieroglyph horizon. It was very well preserved under all the sand. All the temples had to be relocated to higher ground, where the inundation could not get them. We saw where the flood had risen up because there were lines indicating where the silt had been. Though they tried to wash it out they couldn’t. We had lunch at a restaurant called El Dokka, and I had a great lunch. Then we went back to the hotel, relaxed, then had dinner there, and went to bed.
Eliza Green 