UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

The entrance to the Egyptian sand sculptures cost £6 and after buying our ticket we walked through the entrance straight into...
 

...the gift shop!  Funny, the gift shop is usually at the exit.  Various Egyptian artefacts could be brought in the shop, we carried on through to the...

...Egyptian village.  Where to start in this 40,000 sq ft sand creation?  We ended up wandering around the wrong way.
 

Mike standing next to Osiris, the god of the dead and underworld ruler.  Mike's used to ancient monuments, so felt quite at home here!

With a modern accommodation block as a backdrop to the sand sculpture village, it didn't quite feel real somehow.  We had Egyptian type weather though.
 

Some hieroglyphics carved in the sand.  The Egyptians were quite chatty with their hieroglyphics (holy, engraved writing), this was one of many in the village.

In a tented area in the village, we think (the guide booklet was rather vague) this scene depicts the moment Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter back in 1922.
 

Mike posing again, this time by a sand sculpture of a crock.  All the sculptures were made entirely of sand and water, but a special type of sand that doesn't fall apart in the rain.

Belinda takes a picture of some more Egyptian gods, these ones between the pyramids.  The sand artists must have spent hours sculpturing them all.
 

We took tons of pictures as we walked around all the Egyptian sand sculptures, resulting in having to sort through some 300 images!

The refreshment area was very welcome on a hot August day, where we enjoyed an ice cream after the sticky walk around the sand sculptures.  Now, just the gift shop to visit again then!

This shot was taken from the marina wall and only shows part of the Egyptian sand sculpture village.  Please see our UK tourist links for the website.