The Temple Of Hatshepsut At Deir El-Bahri| Egypt Travel Blog: Day 6 (Part 47) 05D19

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The Temple of Hatshepsut At Deir El-Bahri sits at the foot of the mountains. The first thing I noticed from afar is its structure. It’s a three-storey temple stretching long to the left and right sides, but not too wide.

Unlike other temples that were built of sandstone, The Temple of Hatshepsut was made of limestone. There were three terraces. It was a good walk to reach the site and then the sloping ramp to reach the upper level drained our energy.

Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh, but she was pictorially represented as a male. I saw lots of big statues of Osiris on both sides. There were lots of columns inside the temples along with the usual reliefs, sculptures, art-works, and so on.

The Hatshepsut At Deir El-Bahri temple is astronomically aligned in such a way that around the 21st or 22nd of December each year the sunlight first illuminates the god Amun-Ra and then shines on the kneeling figure of Thutmose III, and finally illuminating the Nile god Hapi. There were many other amazing aspects of this event the guide explained; this is just a very brief summary.

Another striking thing I noticed was that the mountain cliffs were so steep behind the temple that it felt like the mountains would fall on it any moment. I had a feeling it was made this way, so people in the ancient times felt like the Gods would stop the mountains from falling on this place.

From the top terrace of the temple, you get to see elevated views of the surroundings, with mountains stretching as far as you can see.

From here, we would go to a restaurant for lunch.