Leaving the Nobles Hotel

Sound and Light at Karnak Temple

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February 9th 2009
After breakfast at the Venus hotel, we moved our stuff across the street from the Noble Hotel. We had booked the Venus hotel mostly because it had got good on line ratings, but from what we saw we were not impressed. Our two rooms were up on the third floor, with no elevator going up. The room themselves weren't much better than those at the Noble Hotel. They didn't look particularly clean and our ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Luxor

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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