Philippe Hotel Luxor

Dr Labib Habashy Street Luxor, Nile River Valley, Egypt

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Every Temple is Special in a Different Way

A travel blog entry by barry0fisher

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This posting is a bit longer since it covers 3 days spent around and in Luxor. Overall, Luxor is an order of magnitude smaller than Cairo, which shows by its lack of pollution, traffic or very poor areas. Yet competition is fierce for tourists' money as it's essentially the only source, but despite the warnings of overly aggressive tout behavior it …

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Immersed in ancient Egypt

A travel blog entry by mrsmac

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... and lower kingdoms.. At the end of the colonnade is the Inner Sanctum which had been also used as a Christian church during the Greco-Roman period. There are remnants of Christian frescoes which had been painted over the hieroglyphs. Ironically in this section there is a depiction of Rameses giving worship to the god of fertility who is depicted as a one armed, one legged man with an enormous phallus.!
After a rather comical New Year's Eve which started with cocktails on the boat ...

Up, Up and Away And Down With An Insurance Scam

A travel blog entry by kevscott11385

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... Successful concoctions are recorded on the walls and supposedly, many are still sold in Egyptian perfume shops. Not sure I believed that one. But the one thing I did notice about the laboratory was the fact that the ceilings, which have been out of this world in other temples I have visited, are all black. Black because of the acrid smoke that the laboratory produced. It is clear that some of the recipes did not go too well and the smell must have been an awful mixture of thick smoke ...

Cairo to Luxor, by Don Hogle

A travel blog entry by wareameye

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... this massive nor this ancient. The members of our group, perhaps for obvious reasons, are quite taken with the stories of Queen Hatshepsut, who passed herself off as a king. We’re delighted that the obelisk she built here is taller than her son’s, who tried to efface her memory. Sometimes Time is a true and just judge; today, her son is just a minor player in her story.Before lunch, we board the MS Monaco, which will ...

Luxor, Balloons and temples!

A travel blog entry by frusc101

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On the drive up to Luxor the 4 hour journey was split up by 2 stops, in order to visit, first Kom Ombo; I was informed was quite unique being as it was a "double temple" with each of the room duplicated for two different gods (not quite sure why exactly...). The temple was also notable for the religious paintings inside the temple, which were added in the middle ages when the temple was reused as a church.

Another hour or so up the road and I arrived at the Edfu temple, ...

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