The Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt
number 62 tomb of toot unom man that is wild it's crazy that yeah the mummification of his body is still here look wow something new huh another tomb how many how many years will you dig one years one year of digging good morning guys welcome to a beautiful day here in Luxor Egypt now today I jumped off the cruise ship right on the n and I was told I had to come right to the West Bank to the Valley of the king so I waved down a van jumped on in I didn't even negotiate a price I just gave the man 500 lb because I was like man it's very very far and he was happy to take it so I'm blessed that I found him because there was no one on the streets this morning but yeah we're in the Valley of the Kings now you can see all kinds of ruins a hot air balloon they do hot air balloon tours here early morning if the weather permits and this here is the Valley of the Kings how incredible is this place now the Valley of the Kings is super famous because this is where some of the most um important Pharaohs were buried now I believe that um several of the Kings Ramses have been buried here King uh toot tutun was buried here um his tomb was actually one of the most recently discovered that was untouched that's why so many of the artifacts are on display in museums around the world and of course there's also the Valley of the Queens here I'm kind of curious to see how we get around I don't have any tour books so um this place looks huge I'm kind of curious to see if there's like a form of transportation or someone that can take you around or maybe you can rent um some sort of vehicle inside I'm not too sure but definitely right off the bat I can tell you guys I think that the best way to come here is with the tour or else it's goingon to be quite difficult to access I mean uh I was literally waiting on the side of the road from where the cruise ship dropped us off because the cruise ship actually docks not in Luxor City maybe in if you're right in the Heart of the City it's pretty easy to get out here but man if you're coming off a cruise ship definitely book The Tour because you might have bad luck and not even find a ride so um right now we're approaching the gates as soon as we get there I'll talk to you guys about entrance prices and fees and then yeah we'll go from there but man I'm so excited it's going to be a good day I've been wanting to to visit this place for a very long time I think that's the Pyramids of Giza and the Valley of the Kings were the two sites in Egypt that I had to visit uh during this trip okay so I got here and I figured I I just have my driver bring me one way and I'd figure out a ride back but no there's all nothing but torque companies here it's not like you can hop into a taxi or yeah even a carriage and get back so definitely you got to come out here with a rental car or a tour just hire a taxi for the the day so the gentleman's actually waiting for me he's parking I'm going to come on over here purchase a ticket and then yeah we'll be in the park hopefully we can actually purchase a ticket through here okay so this here is the visitor center we should be able to purchase our tickets in here yeah think there are more yeah okay okay so this here is the visitor center and this is where you can actually purchase the tickets let's have a look at this map right here wow so this is a little layout of the valley and yeah look at all the tombs that lie in between it's pretty unreal huh all right let's go check out the ticket prices and see how this works I tried finding some videos on YouTube about this place but they're all like National Geographic histor videos and none of them actually show you the place on the ground like this like the whole process so why not let's explore together so I purchased my ticket and to actually enter I think it's 6 00 Egyptian pound and that includes three tombs and then the most expensive tomb is actually of seti the first it's 1,400 lb but I actually only added King tutan Kum so that one was an extra 500 lb and there's actually a tram that takes you to all of the different tombs so it should be a very very good day out here let's see how we actually board a um a tram you got to buy the ticket for the trm okay thank you hello hello yes or one ticket please you want to change a small money 20 huh 20 20 yeah that's all I have not I don't have small thank you sir to yes I know which ones I got the picture thank you did you need I'm okay right now thank you you don't thank you thank you okay so the electric vehicle is actually 20 lound more above the ticket but in my opinion totally worth it all right let's jump on as I was driving in here I was looking at all of these Rock faces and just giant yeah mountains of rock and I was just thinking about man how much probably still lies underneath this bedrock and this or or this these Rock structures it's awesome it's awesome being here it's like a surreal feeling you know there's a lot of places that you spend years dreaming about visiting and um once you actually make it to them it's like yeah it's hard believe you're here now you know I'm really liking the system about the golf carts I think that they should actually have this Pyramids of Giza instead of using all those animal powered vehicles because as you guys um have probably seen those animals get uh treated quite bad all right so here's the tram oh this is where it drops us off oh man yeah it should have just walked in I guess it just drops you off here okay whatever that was a pretty that would have been a pretty long walk so it is what it is I'm see tickets okay and we are in the Valley of the Kings so there's toilets there and then I think this is the entrance to one tomb but I wonder where the numbers are all marked off okay look you can see tombs out into the distance man it feels like I'm on the moon or something now I was quite shocked the whole way up here man Luxor is very green compared to the rest of what I've seen of Egypt so far here everything is green I saw so much agriculture going on and then you just have this landscape that is like the complete opposite of that let me figure out what I'm doing where I'm going how you navigate around here and then we'll go from there but I see a lot of people over in this direction so I figure you know there's a lot more people here that know a lot more about Egyptian or egyptology than I do so I'll just you know follow the crowds cuz they know where the good stuff is at okay so this one here says kv5 sons of ramsy II it says that this was built around the 19th Dynasty and it was actually discovered by James Burton in 1825 and the mapping that you see here was created in 1995 and it says that it is the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings unusual plan in a family mosam interesting but it is closed right now but think I show you what the entrance to one of these looks like how cool is that huh but yeah it is closed right now however this one wasn't even um one of the ones included on the list I can imagine so many are closed because of ongoing yeah research so here's another tomb kv6 ramsis I'm not sure what that is six I'm so bad at the r Roman numerals guys but this was built in the 20th Dynasty it's pretty interesting that they were all a lot of them are built like side by side huh hello sir oh okay all right come on in Hell on thank you where you from the United States California welcome thank you wow this is awesome okay I got to take off my glasses for this one wow you know um so I've seen a lot of hieroglyphics this strip so far but I haven't seen many like this that are just like fully still in color because um the Egyptians once they uncarved all of these stories they would actually paint them in super vibrant colors look at this Reds Blues yellows man this is wild man let me know what you guys think of this right now now like I said I don't know I'm not um a historian so I'm walking around sharing my experience with you guys and sharing this moment with you guys but if you want to learn more um definitely do some proper research and watch a a more informative video wow how people created these things is beyond me it is cool to see that they have this glass here though because at the Temple of U that we were at yesterday there was nothing protecting the hieroglyphics and there was people running their hands through them people like sticking their finger inside the grooves and all of that damage is I mean this incredible history it be it suck that you know if all of these things survived thousands of years just to get destroyed in 2023 by tourists how awesome is this well look at this one you got like a bunch of arrows on top of a boat I wonder who these guys are the thing is is you know a lot of the inscriptions are of you know Builders pharaohs different people in the communities that existed at that time to complete the stories okay so you might notice that it's flashing well I tried to adjust the camera settings and I just asked the guide in front they actually do that inside of the tombs it's a certain light they do that so that you know you can actually get professional video smart people all right now we're coming down into the chamber a little bit further down and to be honest with you guys once we make it down here I think I'm going to turn the camera off and I'll just show you bits and pieces of each of each tomb that we enter awesome so it looks like this here is the end of this tomb but wow it is beautiful see if we could get a little bit closer real quick so this here is a map of the Valley of the Kings we actually just got out of this tomb we're standing right here right now and I was told that two and one are some of the best ones so I'm going to go back to number two but right in front of us is um King toots tomb so I think that's actually what we're going to go into next why not since we're right here actually it looks like a group came out of there so it might be a perfect time to walk in there let's go check it out let me grab my ticket and I'm definitely saving this ticket as a souvenir look at this Valley of the Kings King toots tomb let's head on inside and explore now according to everything I read and watched online King toots isn't the most special tomb but obviously he's the most one of the most famous and um his tomb was one of the ones that was um found completely unlooted number 62 tomb of toot uncom all right let's come on down okay we got to come on down now this is exciting stuff huh inane wow look at this that is incredible wow man that is wild it's crazy that yeah the mummification of his body is still here look wow okay King Toot's uh tomb was awesome now up here they actually have like a restaurant souvenir shops of course the usual things they also got a lot of security here on the premises and it looks like up in this direction there's more tombs and yeah I still got entrance to two more so I don't know exactly which ones I want to beer off to the gentleman told me that one and two are the best ones but they're right at the entrance so I'm trying to see where we should go from here on out but yeah definitely a great time of year to come out here between um yeah November to March the weather right now in January is lovely but I can imagine that you know July August you do not want to be walking around here the pyramids anywhere at that matter now I'm really impressed though because you know the pyramids if I got to be completely honest with you the whole archaeological site is very badly maintained there's trash everywhere they got abused animals everywhere um man I'm out of breath uh it's just very not well taken care of as it should be because of its importance and here you can tell it's very wellmaintained they got cameras everywhere glass to protect you from touching the hieroglyphics which is extremely important and it looks like down here there's a gateway to another tomb as well but it looks like they're going under going some probably some excavations right now Woo You don't notice it but you're walking uphill the entire time and today I'm wearing a sweater but it is 28° guys yesterday was 29 so about like what is that 85° but it's very windy it's it's more on the chillier side of things let's see if we can see what they got going on maybe I can hand out 100 Salam how are you you guys are working you're trying you're your is this a new site something new huh another tomb how many how many years will you dig one years one year of digging wow that's crazy yeah you want to here thank you thank you bro family something man this is awesome that's all I have right now thank you thank you brother take care okay okay how many hours you do this for five hours oh 5 hours oh okay and what is that what what do those ones do that that bag this from drink water from oh okay okay W it's very interesting how they're doing that take care okay guys man that's a lot of hard work but yeah anytime you're uncovering an archaeological sites I mean you see people with like brushes and shovels man it can take years to find even a lead but yeah obviously there has to be a lot more left to be discovered here I mean it goes deep into the valley these Rock structures are incred incredibly beautiful too nice SI is the nice one yes nice one good okay okay same as the beard okay thank you okay so the set the second tomb I'm not going to actually be going on into I just got done talking to um this French man who's actually really into the egyptology and he told me that he's been here for the last week and he's visited a lot of the tombs but that his recommendations are Ramses 9 I guess that's nine not six rams's 9 that we entered earlier today and then here's King Tuton coming but right next to it there's uh me Meda and um he said Meda and ramse is six and seven I believe oh no Ramses four and six no four and seven are um the recommendations he gave me so let's go to mea and we'll also visit the other Ramsay's tombs I'm super excited now um it does help to probably you know be here several days if you do want to visit all the tombs because man there is a lot of walking that has to be done but beyond the walking I mean each tomb you spend what 20 30 minutes in if you're sitting there admiring all of the details so you definitely would want to come here rushed so there's King tuts tomb and here is kv8 MM and it says that this here was built built in the 19th Dynasty so now we're about to walk on into this one and I just overheard a tour guide saying that this is um one of the few tombs in all of these grounds that actually has a well that is over 6 M deep and he said that this one is actually one of the steepest tombs as well that it's super easy to enter but that it takes a little bit of effort to come on up and as you notice I took off the sweater cuz even in January it starts to warm up quite bad but good thing I'm going to be out of here well before um that extreme heat of the day around 2 3 p.m. hello come on thank you thank you thank you wow this is incredible okay so it's a lot fresher inside of here man but look at all of these hieroglyphics please let me know down in the comment section what do you guys think about this video I mean I know usually when I make videos about like historical sites like this they don't perform too well but you know at the end of the day I enjoy sharing these places with you guys so keep making them but yeah in this tomb they don't have none of the um the flashing lights that's hinder uh the video formats all right let's keep coming down wow this one is incredibly steep but it's awesome that they put all these um like foot pths and all the tombs never in my life did I think I'd ever be able to walk around a place like this this is crazy wow this is beautiful so yeah this one is definitely a lot larger than the Ramses um tomb that we entered in the beginning wow I'm so glad I asked that french guy for his recommendations cuz this is awesome wow it looks like this here is like a tomb maybe it was a cover to you know whatever light inside there's people from all over the world here too guys it's awesome to see wow look at this Corridor look how huge it is the opening wow this is impressive holy cow look at this actually I think I got to stand up there to show you guys this is insane man thank you I'm okay thank you how insane is this place huh looks like this here is a this is probably the main tomb it does look like at one point it had a lid on top of it wow all right I'm going to enjoy a bit of time in here and I'll catch up with you guys I'm going to make it on out okay mea was awesome I spent about 25 minutes inside of that tomb and now we're going to head over to I believe it's Ramses 4 this is the one that the gentleman recommended me that I enter and I see that most people are walking in that direction so let's actually head over there and explore that one before getting on out of here now I definitely recommend coming on out here with the tour it's a lot more informative I'm reading information online but it doesn't do it justice and personally well I spent a thousand by the time I get here and back and that's not what the taxi driver charged me I offered him 500 to bring me here and 500 to bring me back and he's not a taxi he's just like a guy with a van um but I have a feeling that if I would have just like booked a tour I probably could have got even like a tour for like you know 70 80 bucks but at that point 50 $50 more would have been worth it for this excursion so that's my advice for you guys come come on out here definitely get a guide you'll get a lot more out of the experience but of course if some of you guys are like me where you know guides tend to be sometimes a little bit um well they give you a little bit too much information than you're looking for then you know come on out here screenshot a bunch of facts and roam around them on your own okay so yeah this here is Ramses the fourth says that this one here is from the 21st Dynasty okay there's too many people let's head on this way this was the one according to the French guy this was his favorite this is Ramses 4 yes thank you hey ramse to Ramsey's to amazing okay yeah this one here is super beautiful but yeah the only only the rams's 9 was the one with all the the glass but that one was at next level but hopefully they install that everywhere because yeah it suck to see these things get destroyed have you guys ever been to Egypt before let me know down in the comments section and if you came here what was your favorite tomb that you visited and if you're planning on coming out here when are you planning on making the trip happen is it a 2024 trip is it next year or is it just sometime in the near future however I would say I think Egypt is going in my top five countries thank you you thank you yeah this one's super beautiful I mean look at the roof the ceiling guys I'm so sorry for the flashing but they literally install those lights for that reason I asked somebody about that so bear with me you know what I might try and actually um switch over to the phone maybe that'll help no I think you guys can still enjoy it even with the flashing I'm sorry but um the US California yes thank you thank you I love this place so much so yeah this here is the tomb of rams's floor incredible wow what a place okay well this year is the rams's for Tomb I think this one is by far the most impressive in my opinion it is incredible I mean look at the ceiling wow all right guys well I think I'm going to put the camera down now and I'll see you guys once we make it on out of here time for us to say bye to the Valley of the Kings honestly I didn't um Well Visit time for us to say bye to the Valley of the Kings I spent about two hours here and now I'm curious to see if this ticket actually gets us back to um the parking lot as well but man what an incredible experience this was seriously a place you guys should all visit it is truly beautiful thank you oh it is included okay well I think this is going to be it from the Valley of the Kings let me know what you guys thought of that video down below hopefully I was able to teach you guys a little bit of something or at least show you something new but like I said man watch some of those National Geographic uh documentaries on YouTube or the history um Channel on YouTube I was watching some of that last night and man it really shows um how how these T how they believe these tombs were constructed um they get a lot more in- depth on the history of this place and I feel like you guys would definitely find it a lot a lot interesting if you had never heard of the Valley of the Kings before prior to this video so yeah give that a look for now I'll leave you guys with another look of this area it is super beautiful I'm so grateful for this tram and for 20 what is that $1 us it is totally worth it and yeah if there's anything you're going to take away from this video is that you should probably book a tour to come to this one the pyramids you can probably do without this one I would recommend it to the fullest all right well I don't know if I'm actually going to go into the luxur city center today quite possibly will um I'll see you guys again soon for another video from from somewhere in Egypt you always I was the one to take love I remember how we started
2024-02-01 15:25
