| Page Views: 968 Last Visit to Qina: April, 2007 | From Hurghada to Luxor via Qina by Kuznetsov_Sergey - last update: Dec 12, 2007 |
Tourists traveling between the Red Sea and Luxor will assuredly pass through this City. Its ancient name was Cainepolis. The city is the busy capital of Qena Province and lies on the east bank of the Nile in a distanse a mile or so from the river.
The town itself has no features of tourist interest, but it is the nearest place to the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. There is a huge modern mosque of Sheikh el-Qenawi in the main square which attests to its importance. We saw it when were passing by the city.
You can see my 2 min 10 sec Qena Luxor road VIDEO clip with music from my YouTube channel . |
|  | My other Egyptian pages out of the April,2007 Trip:
1) Egypt,
2) Hurghada,
3) Bur Safajah,
4) Qina,
5) Al Karnak,
6) Necropolis of Thebes,
7) Thebes,
8) Luxor,
9) Esna (Isna),
10) Edfu (Idfu),
11) Temple of Horus in Edfu,
12) Kom Ombo,
13) Abu Simbel,
14) Philae,
15) Aswan,
16) Pyramids of Giza,
17) Cairo,
18) Alexandria. |
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craic Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:18 UTC
well the mosque looks interesting | Yaqui Tue Jun 23, 2009 17:58 UTC
Oh Sergey, great shot even if it was passing by. The Qina - Mosque would had been fun to see, maybe next you visit. Lovely page! | tiabunna Fri May 9, 2008 13:45 UTC
The frustrations of public transport and not being able to stop! Interesting though to see the 'real world' for locals and not just the 'tourist' places. I was struck by the amount of traffic there. | JLBG Wed Oct 24, 2007 21:17 UTC
Haha, I was going to write the same thing than Lori! Yes, it is a shame that tours focus only on ancient Egypt and leave aside nowadays country! |
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