Luxor Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Cable internet has been down in all of Egypt for the past few days, but now its back up. On Thursday Dec. 18, I had decided that the next day was going to be Mosque Day Friday. The plan was to visit as many mosques as I had time to before departing for Luxor. Unfortunately for me, Friday is the worst day of the week to choose as Mosque Day. I le...

Nous passons la matinée puis la période chaude au bord la piscine. Nous avons besoin de nous reposer avant d'aller plus avant dans la découverte du pays.

Après quelques démarches administratives, nous nous enfonçons dans la ville. Quel dépaysement, une fois l'artère de la corniche dépassée. Le goudron se fait discret, il laisse place à l...

DAY 1 In Egypt we are on a tour, there are 2 Americans, 5 kiwis and 7 Kangaroos. Our tour leader Mohammed is a great guy, he studied Egyptian history at university and specks very good English, he is very much a Muslim but at the same time very western in his ways around us. On the first day we visited the pyramids in Giza, they were incredible ...

22 April
After the big day yesterday it was time to catch a break and relax. Following a late breakfast we relaxed by the pool. In the afternoon we took a taxi to the Luxor Museum. Before going to the museum we walked along to some shops looking for something to eat. We asked at the souvenir shop and they took us inside and they got someone...

Despite the relaxing connotations of three nights cruising the Nile, it's actually been a hectic few days. Started with a 3am wake up call to head to Abu Simbel - for reasons unknown, all tourists have to drive in a convoy...I think it's because they want to make sure all the tourists arrive in the same window and then leave and then they can al...

My second day in Luxor was just as cool as the first. Moon, Marcus and I went to Karnak, which was incredible. It was basically under construction/addition for over 1000 year. The main hall of columns (over 100 in fact) dwarfed all people. The temple was built to Amon, the sun god, who was subsequently combined with Ra, another sun god, making A...

This dats tour, essentially the last "tour" we'll take in Egypt began at 7:30 and took us out to the famed Valley of the Kings, an archaeologists wet dream and the resting place of over 64 known tombs of various pharaohs and kings of ancient Egypt. The area is divided up into sub-sections, the fist being the Valley of the Kings, where we were al...

Happy Valentine's Day! Mostly all that can be said over here is, "My, you have nice eyes." I have discontinued my usual practice of buying a rose and giving to some girl on the street. I don't think the Egyptians would appreciate it much. As for what I've been doing. I spent the last couple of days in Luxor. Luxor is Egypt to me. From the huge t...

We started with a visit to Egypt's best preserved temple dedicated to Horus, the Falcon God. Casting off, we spend the afternoon on board watching Upper Egypt slip by. Later on, we got off our ship and made our way to the center of Esna to the Temple of Chnum. Chnum was the god of life and fertility. This temple was build about 200 B.C. Right af...