This was the easiest day as we were up a little later at 7am to go to Edfu Temple and had all day to relax until 4pm when we would arrive at Kom Ombo Temple.
In order to get to Edfu Temple (Temple of Horus), it is a short drive or – a 10 minute horse and carriage journey. We didn’t have much (read: any) choice in this as it is a ‘done thing ‘but I didn’t enjoy the carriage ride at all. I inspected the horse and it looked the healthiest as it was the only one whose rib cage I couldn’t see. But they just don’t look like they are treated well at all.
Despite the arrival and departure being not so great, Edfu turned out to be my favourite temple. It’s a temple dedicated to the God Horus and was really beautiful, possibly because it is so well preserved being not as old and also being hidden under centuries-worth of sand, mud and silt. When it was excavated in the 1800s, only the top parts of the temple were exposed!
It had been lived in during antiquity, that is why the ceilings are black and some of stoned carvings of people’s faces have been chiseled away (change in religion to Christianity).
After another chilled out afternoon, we made it to Kom Ombo just before sunset. The temple also has the small Crocodile Museum next door included in the ticket which has mummified crocodiles found from the temple – the crocodile would have had the spirit of the god Sobek inside it and people would have come to give offerings and see the God in crocodile form! This temple is unusual as it is dedicated to two gods: Sobek and Horus. Normally a temple is dedicated to just one god.
Nowadays, no crocodiles in this part of the Nile, only after the High Dam past Aswan.
It was our final night on the boat, so we watched the beautiful sunset from our balcony while we set off for our final stop of our journey through Egypt – Aswan. What we didn’t know at this point, was that there were even more spectacular sunsets still to experience in Aswan!
Robyn
ROBYN BOBBING ALONG 
Your photos of Kom Ombo look beautiful!
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