Sven and Eric's Egypt

Small friends having big adventures

Eric was very interested in Ancient Egypt. He had been there a few times on holiday and the warm weather and friendly people never failed to impress him. After he was stolen from the Kenton house hotel in London, Sven vowed to continue his adventures in the land of the pharaohs, and after loads of preparation Sven finally set off to follow in the little Penguins webbed footprints
Click on the penguin mummy to find out more about why people were mummified, and how the mummies were made.

Ballooning over Egypt
Eric gets a birds-eye view of Thebes

Updated - Deir-el Bahri
The temple of the king who was really a queen

Edfu Temple
Sven the Ostrich meets Horus the Falcon

Karnak
The biggest religious site in the world

Kom-Ombo
The temple of the Crocodile god

Luxor Museum
Eric misbehaving

Luxor Temple
Sven's favourite temple in Egypt

Medinet Habu
Home of the REALLY deep carvings

Philae Temple
A temple on it's own island

The Pyramids at Giza
Eric's guide to Egypt's most famous landmark

The Ramesseum
Ramesses the Great's mortuary temple

The Valley Of The Kings
The tombs of the royal mummies

Egypt is a country on the north coast of Africa

People who study Ancient Egypt are called 'Egyptologists'

The kings of Ancient Egypt were called 'Pharaohs'

All we have left to remember Eric by are his holiday snaps from his adventures. See his photos from Egypt and Cyprus in Eric's Travels