Egypt - Hatshepsut's Temple

This is one of the most spectacular temples in Egypt. Hatshepsut was a fiesty chick. She was Pharo when women didn't really do the job - managing to take and then secure the job. She was also a big builder, this being her biggest achievement. And she also completed and recorded a trade mission into sub-Saharan Africa. You go girl...

The whole complex. Her idea was to connect this temple to her burial chamber - the other side of that cliff is the Valley of the Queens. Geology buggered up that idea but at least she had a go.
There she is. If she looks a bit blokey, that was on purpose.
Horos keeping watch.
Kim on the ramp up to the second level.
OK, at some point - after the temple was built - the local bigwigs got hacked off with all the tomb-robbing so they go all the remaining mummies from the Valley of the Kings, put they into these Sarcophagi and reburied them here. When discovered, this was a big source of Pharo's mummies for the museums.
Hatshepsut feeding the cow god Hathor.
Some of the original colour is very well preserved.
This was to be the back entrance to her burial chamber if it had all worked out.