Luxor Attractions

Wha? Queen of Hats & Cheap Suits? Wha?

Advantages: Is pretty interesting & lovely view from the top.
Disadvantages: So shiny & new due to shoddy restoration.

...going to be going to Queen Hatshepsut's temple first, so as to avoid the other groups. For any of you that are interested, Queen Hatsheput's Temple is located in between the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens and on a direct axis with Karnak Temple (look out for that later). ~What's this place all about?~ We arrive at the car park of Hatsheput's temple and can see it in the distance sticking out of the side of the mountain, and our guide ...
...is about to start~ Queen Hatsheput is believed to have reigned from about 1479 - 1458 BC. I was informed by our guide that in Egypt, they count BC as being the year that Christ was crucified and not the year that he was born. As with a lot of ancient history, there are a lot of contradicting facts out there, so if anyone would like to correct me, please feel free to drop me a message and I will amend my review. Anyway. According to our guide, Queen ...

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Review of Queen Hatshepsut's Temple, Luxor

Queen of the Valley

Advantages: Interesting, very interesting!
Disadvantages: The most famous tomb is now closed.

...all about then?~ The Valley of the Queens is the burial site for the Queens & children of the Pharaohs of the 18th, 19th & 20th dynasties (1550 - 1070BC). It is said that there are about 70 (some claim as many as 85) different burial sites in the area. Probably the most famous tomb here is that of Queen Nefertari*, which is the largest and most spectacular in the valley. Unfortunately, this tomb is now no longer open, we were told by our guide ...
...~Getting there~ The Valley of the Queens is a short distance from the Valley of the Kings, just the other side of Queen Hatshepsut's Burial Temple (see my last review Queen of Hats & Cheap Suits). Getting there would generally be by coach or taxi and it is probably about 20 mins from Luxor. As this site was included as part of our trip, we took the coach from Queen Hatshepsut's temple to the Valley of the Queens, this took us all of about 10 mins ...

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Review of Valley of the Queens

Lost luggage and still liking it!

Advantages: Clean and helpful staff
Disadvantages: None for us- it got us whre we wanted to be

Luxor airport On a recent visit to Luxor, we transferred from cairo to Luxor airport. This is the main airport serving visitors to The valley of the kings, and was upgraded in 2005 to accommodate the growing number of passengers, and can now take on up to 8 million passengers a year. WHERE IS IT? It is situated 4 miles east of Luxor city itself (Al Uqsur) and close to both Al Bayadiyah and El-dabiya. an entry and is currently Egypt's fourth-biggest ...
...5 baggage claim belts, a post office, a bank, a Bureau de Change, an auto exchange machine restaurants, cafeterias, a VIP Lounge, a duty free shop, a newsagent/tobacconist, a chemist shop, a gift shop, a travel agent, a tourist help desk, car rental, first aid, a baby/parent Room, disabled access/facilities and a business centre. OUR EXPERIENCE OF THE AIRPORT... On arrival at the airport, we were speedily taken to the baggage area which was a fairly ...

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Review of Luxor Airport, Egypt

Temple of Karnak-among the best sites in Egypt

Advantages: Intricately detailed temple
Disadvantages: Crowds of tourists

...to go and see some temple or other. I waved them off saying I was knackered and would catch up with them later and we could head to Valley of the Kings tomorrow together and went to lie down in our room. At this point I realised why all the touts at the railway station had been shouting about air-conditioning which we did not have. I am no stranger to heat and have been in many tropical countries and everyone has always said that the humid heat is ...
...heading to somewhere called the Temple of Karnak and headed out after them. Karnak is a temple complex just outside of modern Luxor and would have been in the ancient city of Thebes and one of the largest temple sites in all of Egypt. The oldest temples were begun around 1700BC, or during the ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom but work continued for around 1500 years making the complex one of continual additions, changes and expansion. Obviously from ...

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Review of Temple of Karnak, Luxor

A completely different experience

Advantages: Really interesting, like nothing I have ever seen before
Disadvantages: Too hot!!

One of the places we visited in during our stay in Luxor was the Valley of the Kings and Queens on the west bank. We had got prices from many of the different travel agents (most quoted around £19pp). We were talking to a guy in our hotel who was selling balloon trips and he told us that his friend did private tours for £25pp (these prices included transport, tour guide and enterance into the attractions). Although it was slightly more expensive ...
...probably half an hour at the most but time went by very quickly as the tour guide was telling us alot of interesting facts and all about history of the place. The first place we went to was the valley of the kings. We were given 3 tickets which ment we could enter 3 tombs. If we wanted to go inside anymore then we would have to pay extra and to enter Tutenkhamun's tomb was another £7 (we decided to give this a miss as other epople who had went inside ...

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Review of The Valley of the Kings, Egypt