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Karnak Temple, in Luxor, Egypt We visited Karnak Temple a couple of times. It was a big highlight of the trip. Unfortunately, the first time we visited was marred by the guy to the right of me. That's our tour guide. Talking on his cell phone. As always. |
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Luxor Temple, in Luxor, Egypt We visited the Luxor Temple on the East Bank. |
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West Bank Tombs and Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt The West Bank is where most of the tourist action in Luxor happens, a |
Vaguely re-assured, we headed out that evening by ourselves to the Karnak Temple sound and light show. There are various shows throughout the evening in various languages – although to be honest, the language was sort of irrelevant. As is typical for sound and light shows, the narration was over the top and vaguely annoying. ... (read more →)
The next day the horror of our cruise began. We were surprised that the guide was supposed to pick us up only at 10 – quite late, considering that this was to be our only day to actually see Luxor. He took us to the boat, which was moored not alongside all the other ... (read more →)
The bus to Luxor was half an hour late. We were lucky to get seats. You can’t buy seats in advance (as it’s not an originating point), so there’s just a mad scramble to get seats as the bus pulls in. A family we met on the bus told us that they hadn’t been ... (read more →)
