Day 4, mondag 12 december 2016.

Program today: Wadi Hammamat.

Today got up at 5 o'clock again, the breakfast was neatly prepared for me in the fridge, then I was picked up at 6 o'clock and drove towards the Wadi Hammamat.

The Wadi Hammanat is a dry riverbed in the eastern desert of Egypt between El Quisier and Qena, This area used to be an important trade route and an important mining area, the three thousand year old rock inscriptions and graffiti make it an interesting tourist attraction.

On the way to the Wadi, our expert guide Tayeb had the car stopped "in the middle of nowhere" near a rock, on this rock there appeared to be some graffiti work.
After some looking at the rock we arrived half an hour later at an old Roman well, also nice to see.

On the way to the Wadi Hammanat Click on the picture to see more.

For an impression of the Wadi Hammamat, click below.

After having watched as much as possible, it was time to thank the guards, so a tip and to drink a cup of tea with them. After these duties, we drove on, the intention was to see a gold mine, but this was closed due to the army because of the unrest in Cairo.
10 minutes later by car, we stopped at a truckers stand for a drink and to see a Greek / Roman work village across the road, here the workers of this mining area stayed, somewhat similar to Deir El-Medina.

Greek / Roman worker village Click on the picture to see more.

A further 10 minutes by car, we see a Roman fort.

Roman fort Click on the picture to see more.

After the visit to the Roman fort we turned around, to start the journey home, underway we encountered a number of places along the way where the necessary inscriptions are located.

On the way back.

Superb, again something to remember, worth the day trip. It seems that there is much more to see in the Wadi, but you can not get there by car and you will have to use a dromedary or camel, something that I will probably do next time, but that is future music.

Back in Luxor first we drink a beer with Mohamed, where we were obliged to have a farewell dinner the next day.

	Mohamed Abdul Rasul, with his grandfather, on old and young life time.

At 1900 it was time to join Claus the manager of the Marsam hotel and his guest Dr. Bruno Sandkühler. Can say that I am glad that I accepted this invitation because Bruno turned out to be someone who already started in 1958 with a number of others to photograph all the tombs in the area of Luxor, a gigantic job but very nice to do, just imagine what it looked like then, everything without glass plates in front of it. He has tens of thousands of these images recently released to the public and are published on a website, if you want the web address of this, just send me an email and I will pass it. I can tell you that this is very worthwhile. It is great to get to know such interesting people and the best part is that he did not show any arrogance or anything like that, but is very ordinary and nice.