点评:A WARNING to fellow tourists. Both Abydos and Dendera temples are well worth a visit. And very well preserved they are. Two hours for the first one and one hour and a half for the second should suffice. At Abydos don't forget Ramses 2’s Temple nearby, it's very good, too. Have some small change for the toilet. 1. These days you can buy entry tickets either online or on site but only with a card. NO cash. 2. The temples are 1h and a half one way from Luxor (Abydos) and just one hour drive for Dendera. We booked a car online and paid $150 for Abydos and about $70 for Dendera. Both ways. Here is a catch: though handsomely paid the driver drove only at 90 km/h or less while the limit on the motorway is 110. That cost us an hour lost to Abydos and back instead of a lovely afternoon by the pool. Why? To save a few E.Pounds on petrol of course, even though petrol is cheap in Egypt. Dendera the other day, with the same driver, was even worse. Not only did he drive slowly but also chose a motorway on the eastern side of the Nile instead. Half as long again. The reason being, having a good fortune of carrying such affluent (in Egyptian eyes) passengers as ourselves he was expected to share his good luck by paying a bakshish to the police at the road blocks which he didn't appreciate of course. In the end, faced with such meanness I told him to drive faster within the limit and take the short route back, which he did. Consequently we lost only half an hour. Needless to say, the little fart was tipped on both occasions as is the custom in Egypt. Trust the Egyptian to spoil a good impression.
翻译:给其他游客的警告:阿拜多斯和丹德拉神庙都非常值得一游,而且保存得非常完好。参观阿拜多斯神庙大约需要两个小时,参观丹德拉神庙则需要一个半小时。在阿拜多斯,别忘了附近的拉美西斯二世神庙,它也非常壮观。记得带些零钱,以备上厕所之需。1. 现在你可以在网上或现场购买门票,但只能刷卡,不收现金。2. 从卢克索(阿拜多斯)到神庙单程需要一个半小时,而到丹德拉只需一个小时车程。我们在网上预订了一辆车,去阿拜多斯花了150美元,去丹德拉花了大约70美元,往返都是如此。但这里有个陷阱:虽然司机付了不少钱,但他的车速只有90公里/小时甚至更低,而高速公路的限速是110公里/小时。这让我们白白浪费了一个小时往返阿拜多斯,而不是享受一个美好的下午。为什么呢?当然是为了省点汽油钱,尽管埃及的汽油很便宜。前几天去丹德拉,还是同一个司机,情况更糟。他不仅开得很慢,还走了尼罗河东岸的高速公路,绕了一大圈。原因嘛,他觉得载了我们这些(在埃及人眼里)富裕的乘客,就应该在路障处给警察小费,分享他的好运,他当然不领情。最后,面对这种小气,我让他限速范围内开快点,走近路回去,他也照做了。结果我们只耽误了半个小时。不用说,两次都给了小费,这在埃及是惯例。埃及人真是会搞砸别人的好印象。