Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelLittle Garden Hotel Luxor
Discovering Egypt
Phew...it is SO HOT here! I'm basically sitting in a dry heat sweating while writing this entry. Such sacrifices I'm making! ;-) Today it is 95 F and yesterday was a few degrees warmer here in Luxor, Egypt. No humidity like back at home, but it still feels like a heavy heat in a way. The past several days seem almost like they didn't happen …
Melting in Upper Egypt
Salam all,
Well i will start with today seeing as i could never catch up with what's been going on if i tried to tell you it all i would end up writing months after i arrived!
So today was an early start. We got up at 6am to head off to the Valley of the Kings. We left this early to avoid the incredible heat. It was disgustingly …
Luxor
So Luxor again is totally different. It is a mix of Aswan and Cairo, but still very different. When we arrived here it was so unbearably hot that we didnt do anything for the afternoon. In the evening we went and visited Luxor Temple, which was amaznig as it was all lit up and had dinner at a really nice restaurant. I am getting very experimental …
Holy crap that's a big temple!
After brekky on the Felucca we sailed to the other bank and met a minibus for the transfer to Luxor. Stopped on the way at Edfu Temple which was buried until about 100 years ago so is one of the best preserved temples in Egypt, it is pretty much intact and still has a lot of paint visible.
Another 2 hours to Luxor where we had a quick …
Tombs and Temples in the old capital
Stopped off briefly at Edfu on the way to Luxor (temple dedicated to Horus and one of the best preserved in Egypt), before visitng the major attractions of Luxor.
Whilst not as relaxed as Aswan and not as manic as Cairo, Luxor is still an interesting city. Karnak temple complex is vast and contains so much stuff that it is difficult to …


