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If you are lucky, you might see a JACKAL!

Fondest memory: AL Karnak Temple ---- We were on our way out of the Chapel of Sekhmet, the lioness goddess, which at the time was closed and under renovation but my guide bribed the caretaker so we got in --- when all of a sudden, a jackal appeared!

There were no tourists around and so maybe the jackal found that opportunity to snoop around! If you look closely in the middle of the picture, I did get a shot of him leaving. My guide says he never saw one there and that was arare thing to happen.

So, just keep your eyes open for some animals , specially when there's not too many tourists around. That's when they come out.

You will see some images DEFACED permanently!

Fondest memory: The Egyptians believe that the preservation of a person's name and his image guarantees immortality and life beyond death.

However, when you had some enemies left behind, they might cause trouble by erasing your name and defacing your images....

I remembered this ancient custom as I was looking throught my pictures and saw this picture and I wondered why I took it -- and if you look closely, the image was meticulously removed, eradicated, erased, caput! I think it might have been the image of hatsepshut who was so hated by her stepson.

So, watch out for these defacements --- there's a lot of them at Al Karnak.