cats-of-cairo:Early winter morning on a mountain ledge above the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el Bah
cats-of-cairo:Early winter morning on a mountain ledge above the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el Bahari. It is 7 or 8 am so it is still “cold” but the temperature in the morning changes rapidly especially when you are in the middle of a white limestone amphitheater which works like a frying pan.The running gag of our Egyptian colleagues in February was “Welcome to Alaska” as early mornings in the desert can be really cold. Like seriously, I was wearing two hoodies and still shaking like crazy, hoping for a bit of hot coffee from the thermos. The joke was quickly out of date: in the middle of March the temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius at 8 am… in the shadow. It was the day all Europeans wanted to die and Egyptians started saying that it gets “a bit warm”. I was curious so I asked the boss of workers one day: -“Ya Rais, what is the highest temperature you have ever witnessed in the area?”-“You know Binti (means daughter in Egyptian Arabic) the work stops at 60 degrees Celsius.” - he answered without emotions. Like, guys, 60 degrees Celsius, what the heck? -- source link