Egypt: Day 5 (Kom Ombo Temple)

Day 5 was an early start. We were out of the door by 7 am. I was caught by surprise when the temple we were to visit was already there. The temple was jampacked, as you can imagine, with all the cruise ships.

The Kom Ombo Temple was built during the Graeco-Roman period (332 BC - AD 395). The temple is also very unique because it housed two gods. The southern half of the temple was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, while the northern half was for falcon god Horus.

The temple's columns and walls and ceilings are full of relief and petroglyph and hieroglyphics that are well preserved. One thing worth noting here is the calendar that had survived all these years.

For me this temple was extra special. There were walls to inspect and columns to pay attention to. The temple ruins itself for me was very pleasing. I cannot get over how incredible this temple was. However, it was very crowded as I mentioned earlier. I should have anticipated that there would be a large crowd due the many cruise ships present, but I was a bit impatient when we had to wait for our group's turn to see a particular area. It also got hot pretty quickly, which is probably why we started to tour this place quite early.

I wanted more time here, but the heat and the crowd were just too much. Down the hill is the crocodile museum. The museum is small with a gift shop attached to it. There are very interesting exhibit especially the mummified crocs.

Lining the shoreline are shops. We carved a little time to do some shopping for the traditional Egyptian clothing called galabaya, which we wore the night of the party.


It was around 9:45 - 10 am by the time we returned to the ship for a little break before visiting the next temple in the afternoon.


Temple is along the Nile.


Double entrance.










The calendar.


Closer look at the calendar.












Ceiling






















Mummified crocs

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