Travel Day to Luxor
July 13th 2012 Another almost too easy day of travel. Left on a short flight South to Luxor (around 1 hour) from Cairo at around noon, and then at Luxor, a driver was waiting, and drove me the 15 minutes or so to the hotel, the Old Winter Palace. I'm still shocked by this hotel, mainly because I wasn't expecting the sheer opulence of the place.
This is an old Victorian gem of a hotel right along the N
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