Luxor Sunset

From my room window. Perfectly explains why Egyptian tombs are always on the West Bank of the river - because that's where the sun "dies." The land of the living is always on the East Bank. Across the river is where the Valley of the Kings is.

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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