
卢克索
丹德拉与阿拜多斯神庙一日游(卢克索出发)
埃及保存最完好的两座神庙,彩绘天花板尚在,多数游客却错过了这一天。

埃及保存最完好的两座神庙,位于卢克索以北的尼罗河公路旁。
丹德拉(卢克索以北 60 公里)是屋顶尚存的托勒密–罗马时期哈索尔神庙,有清洗后的彩绘天花板、黄道十二宫和克利奥帕特拉浮雕;阿拜多斯(160 公里)是塞提一世神庙,有埃及最精美的浮雕和阿拜多斯王表。两者合起来是卢克索出发的 9 小时一日游;单独丹德拉是半日。
Abydos was the burial place of the first kings and the pilgrimage centre of Osiris for three thousand years. The temple Seti I built there has an L-shaped plan with seven sanctuaries for seven gods and reliefs carved in raised relief so fine they look modelled in wax. In a corridor at the back, the King List names every legitimate king before Seti and omits Hatshepsut, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. Behind it lies the Osireion, a granite hall built as the tomb of Osiris.
Dendera is thirteen centuries younger and complete: the hypostyle hall with 24 Hathor-headed columns and a ceiling that shows the sky goddess Nut swallowing the sun each evening, the sanctuary, the crypts with the "Dendera light" relief, the staircases up to the roof chapels for the New Year, and, on the rear wall, Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion making offerings.
The road between them runs along the Nile through the villages of the Qena governorate, and the day is as much about that as the temples.
最佳时间: 十月至四月。