Temple of the Cat - Climbing to the Top of the Cat Sphinx

The western room, behind the metal bars, contains a gray block staircase. Climb to the top.

Drop down into the next room, and pick up some Uzi ammo (62) near the barred doorway. Then climb up to the the ledge with the cat faces, turn left, and climb into the small, square opening.

Step out onto a ledge overlooking the area. From here, you'll get a nice clear shot at that panther (42) on guard in the cat sphinx's mouth.

Take a running jump onto the gold block to the right of the sphinx's head, then a standing jump to the longer gold walkway beyond.

Move to the end of the gold walkway and jump into the alcove on the right. Continue to the other end of the alcove and jump from there to the carved pillar with the small medi pack (63) on top.

If you've collected all the other items in the two Egypt levels, you'll unlock the "Gifts of Wonderland" achievement/trophy when you make this pickup. Take a running jump from the top of the carved pillar to the next gold walkway. Continue to the end.

Then take a take a running jump to grab the top of the northeast corner pillar. Pull up.

Turn left, walk to the edge, and jump straight up to grab the edge of the opening above.

Pull up, and ready weapons to kill the mummy (43) that approaches from the northwest over the walkway. Here I like to use Uzis, and as soon as Lara gets a lock on the mummy...

...backflip over the hole...

...and keep firing until the mummy explodes. You can also run forward along the walkway to meet it, then backflip away firing (not shown). When it's dead, follow the walkway forward and around to the left toward the sphinx.

Climb on top of the carved stone pillar. (This is the same pillar described in the corner bug shortcut in the last section.) From there, jump onto the flat spot in front of the sphinx's right eye.

Pull up and take a step forward to draw out the mummy (44) lurking beyond. If you're low on health, or just want to play it safe, you can carefully hop back down to the flat spot in front of the eye. Then kill the mummy by jumping up and down while firing.

Follow the steps down between the sphinx's ears and pull the switch...

...to extend the cat's tongue. (Again, if you destroyed the 2 mummies in the TRAP ROOM earlier, the tongue will already be extended.) Slide backwards down the nose and grab the end. Drop to the tongue.

Kill that panther (42) now if you didn't earlier. Enter the mouth, minding the gap in the floor, and pull the switch to open the gold door opposite.

Jump back across the gap, cross the tongue bridge, move out onto the ledge overlooking the desert, and step off to end the level. The "Miu" achievement/trophy, for finishing the Shadow of the Cat levels, unlocks on the stats screen. Nice work!

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