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Travel Blogs from Luxor
Talk like an Egyptian
... to see the sunset. Very romantic! It was an anniversary we would never forget!
Totally temple-hopping
Our first impressions of Luxor temple and temple of Karnak was AMAZING. The pictures we took donīt do the structures any justice. We felt as we were back in time, admiring the Pharoahs and their Queens. We even visited the Luxor museum to get a more detailed view about the life in Ancient Egypt. Although we didnīt visit all ...
Then we crash landed in the sugar cane field
... we were to go up in were huge and divided into four compartments; each holding five passengers. So there were twenty of us on the periphery plus the pilot and his assistant in their own section right in the centre with the burners, controls and many gas bottles and not a parachute in sight. Now that’s a good sign I thought. He obviously has confidence in his ability to fly one of these things.
The women who could not climb over the tall edge were physically ...
Hot day in Paradise
... br>
Tonight we are heading to the temples of Luxor, the only temples you can walk around at night and then have a typical Egyptian Meal In the dessert with tombs. Tomorrow is an early rise to head off to the valley of the kings!!
Ps my legs are beside themselves with stiffness from all the climbing inside the pyramid and I think also, from clinging onto that camel with my thighs. Am walking around like I just ran the comrades ...
Temple Day in Luxor
... completely blackened by the touch of many hands over the millenia.
I've included a photo of one of the wall carvings which shows the central figure having been chipped out of the scene. I believe this was the way kings and other important people demonstrated hatred of their peers. We saw this same thing at Hatshepsut's temple the day before.
We strolled partway around a little man-made lake, called Sacred Lake, The body of water was once surrounded ...
The Ancient Capital of Luxor
... around the Roman influenced temple, taking in the immense detail in the reliefs and hieroglyphics featured throughout the complex. It was another example of an amazing Ancient Egyptian temple and we were dazzled. We ended our visit by taking a look at the mummified crocodiles in a seperate building that used to be in the temple itself. They were cool.
Down the road an hour or so from Kom Ombo, we found ourselves in the heat of the day at Edfu (the temple of ...
Location
Other places to stay in Luxor
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Amarante Osiris
Egoth Docking Sultana Malak Luxor Cournice Main Road, Luxor | Hotel -
Arabesque Hotel
11 Ramses Street, Luxor | 3 star hotel
