Iberotel Luxor

... ; Pyramids of Giza; Sphinx Other points of interest: Egyptian Museum; Ben Ezra Synagogue; The Hanging Church; Aswan Dam Lodging: Sonesta Cairo; Iberotel Aswan; M/S Lady Diana for Nile River cruise; Overnight sleeper train from Luxor to Cairo

... winds, however, were still a bitch). We biked to the Temple of Habu, by far the coolest ruin on the West Bank of Luxor. We approached on a dirt track through a small village, and the temple itself is so huge that it just dwarfs the little village. ...

... of these are breath-taking, and will take all day on their own. After the long trek, we settled into our familiar Luxor hotel, the Iberotel, and tried to decide how we wanted to spread out the planned activities over the next couple of days. It was ...

... they served us good hibiscus tea. Our cruise concluded the next morning and after leaving the ship we checked into Hotel Iberotel at Luxor. The room was comfortable and given the heat outside, having a shade above your head seemed a pretty good idea. The ...

... excavated, that join the temples.  Luxor also has a fine modern museum with some exquisite statuary. The archaeological discoveries at Luxor, where everything was covered in sand, go back more than two hundred years and consequently it is one of ...

... Golden Rule, on a macro level, women will always been vulnerable when they aren't bringing home a paycheck. OK, here goes: (1)  Luxor Temple -- Truly, literally, jaw dropping.  Look at how big this stuff is!  Who thought of this?  How ...

... on the west bank. Especially good at night when the Valley of the Kings is lit up! 3. Walk everywhere, no matter how hot, Luxor is amazing. Avenue of the Sphinxes is amazing. I cannot belieev that it is not fenced off or protected by security. Man made ...

... city later in the trip. The hotel will most likely be a very nice treat after the week in the desert... Hotel: http://www.iberotel.de/de/hotels/details.php?id=31 (ok, so instead of checking through everyone... if the link doesn't work, copy and ...

... similar to anywhere else in the world. Get on your mobile phone and call for roadside assistance. Unfortunately, the AA in Luxor are a little different. The taxi was being attached to the back of a rather worried looking donkey that was clearly expected ...

... . What he didn’t tell me was that Television Street was a good mile and a half away and we marched through half of Luxor before finally finding somewhere I could get a modem. Again, this proved to be a mistake. By paying for the modem, Ibrahim had ...

... beautiful warm morning with the sun rising over the Nile. We ballooned for 40 minutes over farmland overlooking the Valley of the Kings, Luxor and the Nile River. It was spectacular. We landed on a farm back road and watched the team pack the balloon and ...

... Egypt, it costs the same back home. That just about describes the hotel for now, maybe we are spoiled, last time we stayed at the Iberotel, now that was a 5 star.    True to his word Ahmed came to pick us up, took us to the Luxor museum, I tell ...

... of the wide screen projector, otherwise 5s all round, beautiful setting on the riverbank. El Choury, end of Corniche, near Iberotel, good food in here, extensive menu, serving Egyptian as well as European dishes, good service, nice location, probably ...

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... 12:15am with me still sitting in transit and around 3am more staff came to see me to tell me they had booked me into the Iberotel at airport for 3 days with everything paid.  I insisted that I needed to get home before 3 days and why couldn’t ...

... to check out our home for the next two nights, a little traditional felucca as we floated our way back up to towards Luxor. Now I cant say I was particularly looking forward to the felucca, a boat that is really just a big mattress deck under a shade ...

... was a steamed baby lemon with crushed red pepper! I don't think he liked it.....let's see if he keeps it down! We're going to hit the sack early tonight since we didn't get much sleep on the plane. Tomorrow we visit the Cairo Museum and fly out to Luxor. ...