Isis Luxor

... Plateau -the Great Sphinx is waiting for us. And from there in a breath taking journey to Hakim Awyan to the Egypian Museum - to Luxor to the Temple of Karnak and continue to Abydos - to Dendera, aboard a great Cruise Ship through the Nile and continue to ...

... to about 1200m.  It was a beautiful still morning and the views were amazing.  We saw clearly across the Necropolis, Luxor, and the Nile.  I had never been in a hot air balloon before and thought it would be quite and peaceful.  It ...

... ice cream to cool off.  It was then a march for about 1km back to the bus and the air conditioning.   Then onto the Luxor Temple as the day was getting on it was now after 4:00pm and the sun was waning with some of the heat taking out of the ...

... the hotel to visit Karnak travel, just to pay for and confirm our bookings of the previous day. bookings done, just strolling around Luxor, avoiding the hassle from the caleche drivers, I just tell them we are booked with Ahmed then they leave you alone, ...

... to catch a break and relax. Following a late breakfast we relaxed by the pool.  In the afternoon we took a taxi to the Luxor Museum.  Before going to the museum we walked along to some shops looking for something to eat.  We asked at the ...

... is a Coptic church from something like 30 AD and on top of that a mosque. The Coptics (Egyptian Christians) had used Luxor temple, and many others, as their churches when they still had to be secretive. Frescoes are painted on top of hieroglyphics in one ...

... and waited for our carrigage. Then it was on to the cruise ship and we had time to relax and get in a nap before we docked at Luxor. After docking in Luxor we got off the ship to see the Temple of Luxor. The Temple of Luxor is pretty impressive ...

... to eat the apparently famous cheese which tastes more like something from the dead sea than anything else... ... on the way back to Luxor we stop at another temple in Dendera ... here you can see the Egyptian calendar ... por at least the copy ... ...

... , and fresh fruit among others. After lunch we sat down and had a nap before heading out to the tour of the Karnak and Luxor temples leaving at 3:00.   Romany, our tour guide for the English-speaking group, met us promptly at 3, called out the room ...

... to the Luxor Museum past all the felucca captains asking if you want to sail on the Nile, they are persistent.  The impressive Luxor Musem is about halfway between the Luxor Temple and the Karnak Temples.  The museum has an entry cost of EŁ80, ...

... nbsp; A few hours’ rest is most welcome after 2-1/2 full days of sightseeing.  In the early evening, we head to Luxor Temple, which is illuminated after dark.  It’s a charming and romantic way to see it.Luxor Temple is a microcosm of ...

... seemed to make little difference, but we arrived in one-piece so I am sure he fell asleep on the way back to Aswan. The Luxor hotel (Isis) is lovely on the outside, great pool area and so on, but the rooms are tired and very average. That said, they ...

Hello Everybody, I am doing wonderful.  Right now I am in an internet cafe in the middle of Luxor, Egypt.  I guess I have been away for a week now, but it does not feel like it was almost yesterday.  If you look at the map, you can see ...

For the past few days amidst the temples of Karnack and Luxor and down in the Valley of the Kings I have stood awestruck at the indefatigable vastness of Egyptian cunning. I have also enjoyed viewing ancient pharaonic splendors. I do not know my ...

The visit to Egypt started out as I started out in Peru.  I make connections with everything that I see and with everything that I have seen.  When I was in Peru I made connections with the farmers planting corn as I have seen planted my entire ...

... I enquired about the Abela sleeper train which is airconditioned and I figured more comfortable and they had seats for 80egp each to Luxor. We took them! Had a 2 hour wait ahead of us before the train departed. Finally shook of Mostafa with what ended up ...