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Shady Hotel Luxor

Television St Luxor, Nile River Valley, Egypt

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Up, Up and Away And Down With An Insurance Scam

A travel blog entry by kevscott11385

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... the pilot laughing. Oh how we all didn’t laugh at that joke!

It was about 5.30 in the morning at this point and most sensible people were still asleep. I knew that because as we sailed higher we could see lots of people sleeping in their houses that had no roofs. Looking away from the houses directly below us and over the Nile, the first orange hint of the sun was beginning to appear on the horizon. The sight of the sun rising over the Nile floating in the air at 2,000 feet ...

Another Temple? It must be Luxor!

A travel blog entry by winegalcj

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... which was on our list anyway!). This is great!

Gad admitted that Karnak is his favorite Egyptian site – and he claims the best in the World, although he has never been abroad. I’d say, pretty damn good. Karnak Temple is over 60 acres of pillars, shrines, statues and more near the heart of Luxor town. Karnak sounds like the Egyptian word for “goose”, which was the holy bird of the Sun God Amen Ra. His holy animal was ...

Tilbage tl Luxor

A travel blog entry by j.knudsen

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... og dagens længde er dermed aftaget.

Fredag morgen havde jeg fået arrangeret en vandretur i Thebens bjerge. De samme lave bjerge, som om aftenen var oplyst af projektører og som jeg kunne nyde udsigten til fra tagterrassen hos Cleopatra. I princippet kunne jeg blot have gjort turen på egen hånd. De er jo ganske nær hvor jeg bor. Men jeg havde længe drillet Reggae lidt og sagt at jeg ville tage ham med på en bjergvandring, naturligvis med bagtanke ...

Santorini, Greece to Luxor, Egypt

A travel blog entry by harry4123

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... were working ground, tower and approach frequencies. They were quite helpful showing me a desk and a pad of flight plan forms. Once I filled it out, they filed it, waited for its approval, and I was good to go. I finally got airborne only 40 minutes after my originally scheduled time. The slot delays were not just for expendable private flights like mine; the commercial flights were also be delayed to the point where passengers ...

Karnak Temple

A travel blog entry by leone_and_mike

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Woke during the night and couldn't get back to sleep, so I sat up and read and ate my packet of chips. Few more snatches of sleep, then I gave up and just looked out the window at the passing countryside. We had been given breakfast boxes from the hotel so I ate some of the cereal. Finally arrived into Luxor about 9 and had a bus waiting to take us to the hotel. It will be one night in the hotel then onto the boat (not ...