Nefertiti Hotel Luxor

Egypt has heard me, and has bitten back The wind blows against us still, no respite, we cannot move upriver The crew are a bit surly as well, especially after I reject their proposal that we sit here all day and I take a car to the Kom Ombo train station after lunch, I mean give me a frikkin break, I tell them we can sail back to Aswan, and I will take a train from there, I have paid them to sail, so sail they will Its strange that I was so stoked about this trip to Egypt, now I am thinking j...

Luxor is grand, this is the Egypt I have been looking for Today we are picked up at 8am, we have a guided tour of the west bank The west bank is the valley of the dead, and we start at the Colossi of Memnon, a pair of 18m tall faceless enthroned statues. Then the Valley of Kings - an entry of 70E gets you 3 tombs (out of app 20) We go to the Tomb of Tawosret/Sethnakht KV14 and the Tomb of Seti II KV15 and the tomb of Tuthmosis III KV34 The first two had fairly long passageways going deep into...

So we took the ABELA sleeping train from cairo to Luxor, and it was uneventful, for once. we were a little late to arrive to Luxor. instead of getting in at 5AM, we got in at 6:30AM, but that worked out nicely cuz we got a nice little cabby - whom my friends later called for a tour. anyway, so we started our tour of KARNAK temple around 7:00AM and that worked like a charm. we avoided all the crowds... of course, and were able to finish off LUXOR temple before noon. we also had a chance to tak...

In Luxor we have seen some of the classic sights of Egypt: the Temple of Luxor and Avenue of the Sphinxes, especially imposing when illuminated at night; the well laid-out Luxor Museum; the immense Temple of Karnak, the largest religious building ever constructed, it's Great Hippostyle Hall, measuring 103 by 53 metres, containing 134 humongous columns, their shape evocative of papyrus reeds and their capitals of open and closed lotus blossoms; the Valley of the Kings including the tombs of Ra...

Arriving at the Luxor bus station after an overnight trip from Sinai, I ate breakfast at a small tin-roof shaded cafe, where relaxing men smoked sheeshas and watched an Egyptian movie: Egyptian film is prolific here and throughout the Middle East. A elder teacher with a motorcycle offered me a ride into town. On the way, we stopped; he wanted a Sprite, so I bought him one. In the middle of town, at the Luxor Temple, next to the Nile River, he left me and continued on, not wanting any money fo...

At the end of our cruise, we pulled into Edfu, caught a quick train to Luxor, checked into the Nefertiti hotel and headed out across the river to do some last day sightseeing with Simon, since he had to leave that night. The first item on the agenda was the Valley of the Kings, the famous place where pharos from 3000 - 4000 years ago made their tombs. The tombs were carved and dug into stone in a long and narrow canyon. The setting is magnificent as you wander around the twists and bends and ...

En Luxor permanecemos en el hotel Nefertiti, también en la línea del hotel de Asuán, recomendados por la Lonely Planet. Allí visitamos el templo de Luxor y paseamos cerca de la mezquita. Conocemos a un estudiante egipcio que parecía querer pasar con nosotros una buena noche. Quedamos con él, tomamos unos tés y alquilamos una moto entre los tres. Tras caernos nada más cogerla, retomamos la carretera y viajamos por Luxor a toda velocidad con una buena vista de la ciudad. Por la noche tomamos un...

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 learned the hard way that visiting periods for non-muslims were limited on Fridays. In fact, some mosques are completely closed to visitors on Fridays. ...

Taking a cab in Egypt sucks. Practically all cabs are unmetered. The taxi drivers take advantage of this by trying to charge tourists more than double the proper fare. To avoid getting ripped off, I keep trying to establish a price with the driver before stepping in the taxi. But unfortunately, this does not always work. For example, during my first day in Cairo, I thought I had made it clear to one cab driver that I would not pay him over 30 pounds to drive me back to my hotel (someone had t...

Well that bed was sooooo good!!! I was always so comfortable that even when I woke up, after I moved I went straight back to sleep. Today we started with a drive into the centre of El Faiyum to see the water wheels. I was really excited to see them as I thought they would be like those in Hama and they might be working. However, when we got there they were really small and nothing like the massive structures in Hama. But once I got out of the bus and heard them I was very excited. The wheels ...