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As part of our travel to Egypt last October 25,2025, we flew from El Cairo to Luxor. We stayed at Jolie Ville Hotel.
Our first day was an exploration of Luxor Temples and Karnak. Our guide Mohamed Ali introduced us to this magnificent historical site: Karnak Temple.
Karnak Temple is located in Karnak, Luxor Governorate, on the east bank of the Nile River in southern Egypt.
It lies about 3 kilometers north of Luxor Temple and is connected to it by the famous Avenue of Sphinxes, a ceremonial road recently restored and reopened.
As he told us, it's the largest columned temple in the world: it was built by more than 30 different pharaohs. Its construction began 4,000 years ago.
To access the Karnak Temple, you must cross a kind of bridge flanked by ram-headed sphinxes (symbol of the god Amun).
Inside the Karnak Temple, there are three main temples:
The central and largest, a sanctuary dedicated to Amun-Ra (God of creation).
To the left, a sanctuary dedicated to Montu (God of war).
To the right, a sanctuary of Mut, represented by a vulture (Goddess of creation and wife of Amun).
The importance of Karnak was that it's a major religious center,a royal treasury, an administrative hub, also a political stage for royal ceremonies and served as a center for priesthood power.
My experience while Iwas walking through this area feels like traveling through centuries of ancient Egyptian history. Its reminds me my Universal History class.
It was a dream come true!