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dining area for dinner courtyard outside the hotel room complex looking down the stairwell yard for guests to relax in

Hotel Sheherazade Luxor

Gezira El Bairat, West Bank Luxor, Nile River Valley, Egypt

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Hot air ballooning and sights of Luxor

A travel blog entry by nuwan_shali

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... there, were spectacular! You can hardly believe that a tomb that was completed around 3000 BC is still standing and has retained its beautiful colours within.

Our next stop was the temple of Queen Hatshepsut - a great queen and one that ruled like a man and so was treated like a king (hence why she had the privilege of being buried in the Valley of the Kings rather than with the queens).

Last stop for the day was the alabaster factory. It had ...

Up, Up and Away And Down With An Insurance Scam

A travel blog entry by kevscott11385

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... cast as a hippopotamus, lurking beneath Horus’ boat. Horus eventually spears Seth and slays him and at the end of the play, priests would hand out hippo shaped cakes, which were eaten in the belief this would rid the world of Seth’s evil.

It was a fascinating couple of hours spent at Edfu and as we walked back to the bus, Mohammad and I had a very interesting chat about Islam, the revolution in Egypt and the Western views towards Islam. As he astutely put. What is ...

Cairo to Luxor, by Don Hogle

A travel blog entry by wareameye

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... faithful today.We return to Karnak Temple for another sound and light show. This one progresses through the temple, and the voices of the principal historical characters tell us their stories. While he doesn’t howl during the triumphant music, another mangy dog travels with us from section to section as the show progresses, sitting on the old stones and scratching at fleas. Apparently, he was booked only for a non-speaking role. ...

Luxor, Balloons and temples!

A travel blog entry by frusc101

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... nearby rock face, and the views looking out towards Luxor were certainly spectacular. Having said which, I'm not sure if it was the early start or the sheer number of temples visited but i must admit I was getting a little temple fatigued by this point (which I did feel a little guilty about) and so was happy to head back to the hotel, enjoy the sun and the swimming pool for a couple of days before heading off to the modern day capital city, and the end point of the epic trans Africa trip - ...

Once More Into The Valley of Death

A travel blog entry by kevscott11385

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... This tomb has been open since antiquity and the graffiti on the walls dates back to Ancient Greek and Roman visitors. So I can’t blame the Early Christians for defacing this tomb. It is still more attractive than the tomb of Ramses I, having reliefs of The Book of Caverns and the Opening of the Mouth Ritual, used in mummification, but had all the tombs been open, it would have been one that would have been passed by. As I was admiring a rather stunning painting of the hippo ...

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