LUXOR - EGYPT

Arrived in Egypt in the early hours of the morning and it was a case of find the well named Bob Marley hostel (which was a shrine to the man) then go sleep. Following my 12 hour walk around Dubai I did little the first day apart from rest and have a little look around.

It was not bad timing as Egypt were in the final of the African nations cup that first night and won.







Within minutes the noise errupted in the whole city. Everyone seemed to head outside to a massive random street parade. Loads of flag waving, shouting, beeping the car horns so much it made my ears ring and cramming onto the tops of cars and trucks.


All the police had to do was block off a few roads to the parade went onto a single loop. To me it seemed so strange to see such a mad party without a single drop of alcohol in sight. The party went on well into the early hours. Not a bad start to Egypt!!!!!!!



On the next day I went on an organized tour which included the valley of the kings and the valley of the queens. In both places cameras are strictly banned, you can't even take them into the valley let alone the tombs.


The temprature in Egypt varied widely, far too hot to do anything early afternoon but you needed a coat on by 5pm.





Walked up alongside the nile to the impressive Karnak temple complex. Spent several hours looking around there.




On the way back I passed the Luxor temple but since it looked similar to what I had just seen I cheated and took these 2 pictures from the road going past. I also visited the Luxor museum but like the valley of the kings strictly no cameras.

At night I spent most of the time talking to other travelers on the hostel roof. One night a big group of us went out for a meal.


On the final day I hired a bike and explored the area south before crossing the bridge. With the heat it was a good job that area was so flat. The plan was to head south from there before going north to Cairo.