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Chapter 457 Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
It turned out to be the case.

At that moment, Ye Kai thought that Egypt was too poor to have money to build roads, but it is not much better now, this road has not been cleaned up, and it is almost impossible to see how the road goes without being covered with sand.

"Take it easy," John Stein said.

Ye Kai was actually not very nervous. There were no cliffs or railings around him. Even if he drove out of the road, he could find the route through navigation... It seems that there is no point in building roads?
There are no mountains here, only continuous stretches of sand dunes, and you can avoid these sand dunes in any way, and there is no need to follow this route all the time.

Thanks for the navigation, I sent these three Americans to my face, thank you!

Ye Kai breathed a sigh of relief, listening to the three of them chatting about interesting things at work... They all have their own jobs, but taking advantage of the lack of work during this time, they asked for leave to travel to Egypt

"Where else have you been to?" Ye Kai asked.

"Island, Russia, Italy..."

Ye Kai didn't hear Huaxia, and asked with a smile: "Huaxia is also very good, you can go to Huaxia next time you have time, the scenery is beautiful."

Sean Colt asked Ye Kai: "I heard that Huaxia is also very poor, just like Egypt. Is this true? Huaxia seems to have received a lot of attention from pigs in recent years."

For a while, Ye Kai didn't understand who the pigs were referring to. After Robert and Ye Kai, Ye Kai didn't understand.

"Haha, doesn't this mean that China's development is very good? Although some places in China are also poor, they are still a minority. Most cities in China are better than Cairo."

Ye Kai doesn't dare to say that Chinese people are definitely better than Egyptians. After all, it hasn't been many years since China's rise, and many people's thoughts are still stuck in the previous version.When Chinese people get used to a well-off and wealthy life, their quality will definitely improve.

After all, the poor and the rich grow a conscience.

In fact, if you read more ancient books, you will find that many things are clearly written in the books, especially the principles of life, which the ancient Chinese people really studied thoroughly.

In less than two hours, the pale yellow BMW arrived in Luxor.

The place they were going to was different from Ye Kai, so they left Ye Kai in the city and drove to the deeper part of Luxor, while Ye Kai wanted to find his own place to live in this new city.

I didn't deliberately look for a five-star hotel, but I still found a hotel with a higher security level to stay.

The hotel is on the east bank of Luxor, which was regarded as a living area in ancient times, while the west bank is the world of gods and the dead. To travel here, of course, you must go to the west bank first, so Ye Kai crossed the river to the west bank after getting out of the hotel.

The west bank of Luxor is famous for its magnificent pharaoh's tombs and sacrificial temples. It preserves precious ancient Egyptian art, which is ancient and heavy. Modern buildings are also here, and the combination of modern and classical is perfectly symbiotic here.

Egyptians often say that if you have not been to Luxor, you have not been to Egypt, so Ye Kai came here.

The first is the Queen Hatshepsut Temple.

It sits at the bottom of a semicircular hill facing the Nile.The mountains and it are wheat-yellow, while the Nile River not far away is hazy with blue mist. In Chinese language, the feng shui here is excellent.

The design of the three floors of the temple is simple and enlightened, with a very modern design style. The entrance ticket is very cheap, only 50 Egyptian pounds, which is about 25 yuan in Huaxia currency.

The queen is a peerless beauty, which can be seen from the prominent murals of the temple. However, in order to show his mighty power, the murals try to make her closer to men.

Wearing a fake beard, wearing men's clothes, corsets, and holding a scepter, she looks extremely majestic. This is the usual attire of powerful female pharaohs in Egypt.

The three-story building is pushed inward layer by layer, and the third floor has been dug into the mountain wall.

Each floor is lined up horizontally with 29 square stone pillars, connected up and down by a wide ramp in the middle, which is neat and magnificent.It looks like a modern building with innovative ideas.

However, he has been standing here for more than 300 years. It is said that the person who designed this temple for the queen deeply liked the queen, and he poured all his love for the queen into his own design.

Ye Kaixin thought when he saw this story: "Isn't this just licking a dog?"

This person did not lick the queen in the end, and the queen rewarded him by allowing him to be buried in the Valley of the Kings after his death, which was a very high treatment at the time.But now it is not the queen who has made his name immortal, and the temple is full of tourists, but himself.

Many of the buildings inside are dilapidated, and the Egyptians don't seem to have deliberately repaired them, nor did they prohibit tourists from touching the walls or some unimportant statues.

The Hathor Chapel on the left doesn't even have a ceiling, but the Egyptians still didn't find a way to shelter the gods inside from the infrequent rain.

There used to be reliefs on the stone pillars, but now they have disappeared, but with the introduction on the sign, Ye Kai can vaguely see who is depicted on the murals and reliefs.

On the colonnade on the second floor, there is a relief carving of the scene of the gods taking care of the queen's birth, clearly declaring the queen as the incarnation of the gods to prove the legitimacy of her succession to the throne.

"The sights of the Egyptians are really simple..."

If this temple had been restored long ago in China, although it looked similar to ancient buildings, it was made of modern materials inside and out, and modern craftsmen might only retain the design.

But is design really ancient?Not necessarily.

Standing on the third-floor terrace, most of the things you can see are ruins. Stones are placed in disorder on the flat ground, and only a little bit of foundation can be seen, but you can also imagine the magnificence of the temple at that time.

The square before entering the temple just now was actually a garden in the past, and it is said that there was a fountain. Although this is just a legend, Ye Kai has no doubts about the beauty of this place.

Walking down the steps in the middle of the temple, there are many vendors selling things beside him. Ye Kai stepped forward and asked, "Are there many tourists here every day?"

"Not as much as before. There used to be more white people, but now there are mainly Asian people. Are you Chinese? You Chinese people have money, so buy some..."

Who revealed the news that the Huaxia people are rich...

In order to correct the peddler's idea that Chinese people are rich, Ye Kai bought a big turban after haggling for a long time, wrapped it around his head and floated away.

But after leaving the temple, I didn’t have time to go to other scenic spots. Seeing that it was getting late, I went back to the hotel directly... Now Ye Kai is smarter, he doesn’t eat outside, and if he wants to eat, he can eat Western food in the hotel, or see if he can eat in the hotel. I saw a Chinese restaurant on the street,

Although the taste of Chinese restaurants opened in foreign countries will change, the bosses are generally Chinese. After knowing that their own people come to eat, the dishes are not the kind of Western-style Chinese food that fools people, and are quite authentic.

(End of this chapter)