Luxor Temple

The title pretty much says it all. We started out early and beat most of the tour buses from Hurghada. Met a fine young man from Ireland, living in the U.S. He shared the mini-van and guide with us.

Mo, our guide, was a bit of a peacock. We think he was a little tired of the tourist trade, though he did a good enough job of explaining what …

Entry containing 24 photos titled: Luxor Temple in the early morning mist, Valley of the Kings, Hatshepshut's Temple, The pharaoh who loved to cross dress, Karnak, our awesome guide, Gad, at the Hypostyle Hall, Hypostyle Hall, Hatshepsut;s Obelisk, Ramses II and his daughter wife, Luxor Temple

Once I leave the ship at port in Luxor I find a hostel and then its off to Temple Karnak. This temple is close to the city but still requires some sort of transport and I can not seem to find a minibus. So I am about to walk when I am approached by a young man to type a text message in English, which has happened before and so I am skeptical. I …

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We were up at 6:00am, for our last day of adventures in Luxor, Egypt. The city of Luxor is 675 km south of Cairo; the city itself is split by the Nile. The East side is called the City of Living, where you will find all the Temples, and the West side is the City of Dead, where you find all the tombs. It is very dry here, it rains …

It was a relatively sedate start to my first morning in Luxor. My tour guide wasn't picking me up until 10.15 so as a result I managed an extra hour in bed, a leisurely breakfast and still had time to go and buy water. Thankfully Ibrahim and his caleche were not still outside waiting to fleece me out of the rest of my money.

Breakfast was …

We didn't have too much on the agenda for Friday, so we slept in a little, ate breakfast, and got packed up. It was still before check-out time, and we wanted to hang onto the room as long as possible, so we wandered across the street to the Luxor Temple. Luxor Temple is in the center of the city, and was literally across the street from our hotel …

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There was an emergency this morning! Kim went to the ATM to get a little more cash before we left on the cruise. She started screaming that the card was not returned. She got the money and the receipt, but no card. I had heard of schemes where thieves could rig an ATM to keep the cards and return later to get them. Last night, we noticed that the …

Christmas day once again brought us more temples - this time the largest temple in the world - "Karnak Temple" for the sun god Amun Rah. The first thing that gets you as soon as you enter this temple is its sheer size. The temple property is a whopping 60 acres and has been developed over several centuries B.C. by various kings and queens of Egypt …

We spend the early hours of Father’s Day gliding along the Nile River on the M/S Nile Dolphin, mooring in Luxor before we wake. Today will be full of tours, tombs and temples. We have breakfast in the dining room without our usual companions, Mark and Janice. They have chosen an optional hot air balloon ride with a 4:00am wake up call …

... to give as presents on our return. Fortunately, our tour rep, decided to take the tour to a pharmacy, (located behind Luxor Temple) where she encouraged everyone to buy Antinal, just in case of stomach upsets, seemingly this is the wonder cure for ...

... told, there hasn’t been much trouble here, except a policeman was caught red handed trying to steal some artefacts from Karnak Temple last week. But is it just so quiet and peaceful here in Upper Egypt. However the demonstrations and chaos in Cairo ...

... court. I spent bout 4 hours wandering around in amazement and snapping of about 5 rolls of film. At around dusk I then headed to Luxor Temple in the center on Luxor by the Nile. This place was small in Comparison to Karnaks many temples but was also ...

...  was also visited, he was the father of Ramses 2, it was up to Ramses to finish the building of this temple complex.    The workers village at Deir El Medina was also very interesting, they certainly lived in rather cramped surroundings, ...

... go into some of the tombs. Nobody wanted to ride the donkeys back so we went by mini bus.  We also visited the temple of Hatchepsut.  There were some colorful pictures but it was so so hot and very little shade.  Lots more steps. We ...

... a cup of coffee. On my first day in this hotbed of hieroglyphics, sarcophagi and imposing temples I marveled at the great Temple of Luxor on the banks of the Nile. The scale alone was nothing short of impressive and the intricacies and vastness of ...

... walking on huge paving stones/rocks which had no pillars of support to keep them up!  Architectural magnificance. This temple is also called the "Revolution Temple" unofficially as none of the cartouches contain names like normal ...

... bands of people that are causing in trouble. I was speaking to one local who said that mobsters tried to break into Karnak Temple in Luxor last night. In Cairo hotels have been burnt and businesses looted so it is far worse. West Bank is probably ...

... the Karnak Temple in the early pm then a bit of poolside relaxing then a walk with the group past the illuminated Luxor Temple after dark.  Smoke a really shit sheesha after dinner then explored the local nightclub scene with our leader and ...

... took us to a stone factory to see how they manufacture pottery and statues from stone. Then we drove back to next to the Luxor Temple.  From here Diana and I took a walk through a market.  Once again it was constant harrasment.  It was ...