Day 8 Part I: Valley of Kings aka Donkey Day

Having missed out on my camel ride experience at the pyramids, today I arranged for a camel ride around town. But before that, we visited the valley of the kings... travelling by donkeys! Yes... hee-hon! hee-hon!... I rode up the hills and rocks w/ my trusty donkey, and it was a blast! I must have rode on it for a total of 1 or 2 hrs... cantered w/the donkey (sometimes/mostly not of my free will) and it was sooo fun! Down the hill, up the hill, racing on the open road w/ other fellow donkey riders, it was great! And to think, later in the afternoon, I'd get to ride a camel as well!


But back to the Valley of the Kings, this was a tomb for Pharaohs in the middle kingdom days I believe (King Tut, Ramses III, etc.) We went to see 3 tombs and well, to me, they all looked the same. The more I go to these temples and tombs, the more I realize I should have learned more Egyptian history prior to coming over here. Our tour leader did give us some background info, but don't really remember too much :). This place had color this time (for the previous places, the color on the walls had already faded)... imagine all the paint they used... for the outside AND inside walls. These old Pharaohs sure valued their afterlife all right!...