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Luxor – World’s greatest open air museum
I ended my last post with the arrival in Luxor, the last destination on out Nile River Cruise. Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. The modern city includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Waset, also known to the Greeks as Thebes. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the “world’s greatest open-air museum”. The ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor stand within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the River Nile, lie the monuments, temples and tombs of the west bank Necropolis. They include the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Temple of Luxor We…
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Nile River Cruise
The second trip of my AIESEC project was a cruise down the Nile River, from Aswan to Luxor. If you want to read about the first one to Siwa Oasis, click here. So this trip started with a not-so-fun 15 hour train ride from Cairo to Aswan. The AC was turned to the max and we barely got any sleep (I forgot to say we traveled by night). However, we were pretty excited about what was coming. Prior to this trip we had to choose between two accommodation options. The first one was staying at different hotels and commuting between them with cars. The other meant cruising on a ship…
