Birds in the Aviary

This hotel has everything - even a pool, tennis courts, a lending library, and one of the most ritzy bars I've ever seen (it's called the Royal Bar).

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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 ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Luxor

The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more

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