Emilio Luxor

(after my last travel pod update...) We left the Emilio hotel at 10am for a 45 minute van ride to our Nile cruise. We had all agreed to pay a little extra for a smaller boat and nicer accommodations, but we were not expecting the entire six room boat to ...

... turned it into a church and plastered over the old hieroglyphs, and long ago a mosque was built on the very same site, before Luxor temple was uncovered and restored.  Afer visiting Luxor our guide let us loose for the day, around 1pm.  We asked ...

... headed for the Worker's Tombs at Deir-el-Medina. The workers village and tombs were not very crowded which is always nice, especially in Luxor we would come to find out! Our local guide, also named Tarek, told us about the lives of the workers and gave ...

... Al-Kharga.   In Al-Kharga we bought some lunch for consumption on the bus for the last stage of our journey today to Luxor. After a quick drink in the café we were off again. The time flew by with nothing much to report. Reading more of my book, ...

Another early start today for the optional balloon ride. Three of the group opted to do this. We got a boat and bus there and had the safety briefing about landing which put as all off a bit. We were so nervous on take-off and wondering if we'd made the ...

... walls. After Dendera we had to get our police convoy to Luxor. Yay, I was so excited to be almost back in Luxor!!! We arrived at our hotel - The Emilio - had a bit of rennovation since I last stayed here 8 years ago, and then Carol and I tried to find an ...

... the bus to Edfu and were there at about 7am and it was already boiling hot. After Edfu we got taken to our hotel in Luxor, the Emilio Hotel, anything would have been luxury after the boat but this hotel was lovely. We had a TV, balcony, fridge, safe and ...

... clean the soot while still preserving the original color which is amazing. We left the temple at sunset and continued our drive to Luxor. We checked into the Emilio Hotel, had a quick dinner and went to bed after another exhausting but wonderful day! ...

... on the hot balloon ride in the morning but I went and enjoed a nice hot shower!!! It is so good to be back at the Emilio. I took out all the clothes that I needed to be washed and then took out everything from my suitcase and shook out all of the sand - ...

... to go to the duty free shop around the corner from our hotel but it was shut and then a guy who claimed he worked at the Emilio and who said he recognised us offered to show us a place he knew and Josh bloody agreed (while I'm thinking how much is this ...

... something to eat. We actually ended up atMcDonald'slds and I have to say it was delicious! Our table even had a view of Luxor Temple. We spent what was left of the afternoon doing some laundry in our room and watching the one English TV channel, they ...

... by the pool soaking up the sun and reading.  We spent our nights there trying out the local restaurants, exploring the city of Luxor, and playing games on the roof.     Then there was the time that we spent touring.  We visited ...

... an early start, it was late compared to yesterday. We had a quick, crap breakfast at the hotel before getting a horse kalesh to Luxor Temple. The main reason for our early start was to avoid the majority of the tourist buses. When we arrived, it looked ...

16.32 - Our extremely early start today is starting to catch up with me but it was well worth it. The alarm clock woke us up at 04.00 and we were in reception for 05.00. From our hotel, a shuttle bus picked us up and took us the short distance to the ...

... we were off to the Karnak temple.  It was fantastic... HUGE columns and carvings everywhere.  We've also been to the Luxor temple (i liked this better then Karnak.  Not as big but very nice), the Valley of the kings (visited four tombs and ...

... told them about the Oasis cafe which Jaymie had recommended. I was really excited because Oasis cafe is one of the only places in Luxor that uses proper bacon so I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and coleslaw and I didn't even eat half of it because we ...