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- Egyptian Pound (EGP)
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Luxor Slideshow
Luxor
Travel Blogs from Luxor, Egypt
Egypt is the land of Civilizations
... mortuary temples and tombs for the eternal life after death. Also you can see alive image for the ancient industry in Luxor . This industry called Alabaster . Alabaster is astone used by the Pharaohs in their mortuary bulidings and furniture . We visited ...
Another day in Luxor
... gods, there 2was a mummy in there, it came from the US (Atlanta, no idea got it got there, but Atlanta 'donated' it to the Luxor museum) It is interesting in there, but it would be nice if there was more help in there, a guide or something to explain the ...
Christmas on the Nile
... 's tomb. Last night I saw the Karnak temple with a light show though which I actually really enjoyed. I'm here in Luxor for another night and day, but I think I'm just going to sleep in late (minus the interuption I will receive from ...
Living it up like the King and Queen of the Nile
... degrees everyday, we got sucked in and paid 10 euro for a couple of cokes and a water but didnt care. Everyone loves toursits in egypt, they all hassle you and try to sell you anything they can get their hands on. One guy even wanted money for showing us ...
its a mans world baby
Hello everyone, Well here I am in Luxor, a very nice but very touristy town along the nile, after trekking all the way here through the western desert. How fun. So after having enough of cairo's crazy madness we thought it might be nice to take the ...
Luxor: The West Bank - Walk Like an Egyptian
... , although the mummies were stolen or placed in a museum years ago. (In fact, most of the world, especially France and England, has Egypt's artifacts, either by gift or flat out theft.) King Tut, best known by us Westerners, was buried there too. He ...
Day 11 - Dendera and Abydos
... nbsp; He was trying to intimidate me. I just smiled. We wanted to see Abydos, because all of the other temples, except at Luxor, were built by the Greeks and Romans. Seti I started building this temple and it was finished by his son Ramses II ...