There is a tourist activity in Luxor that doesn't involve dragging your unwilling carcass through dusty archaeological sites, lamenting the fact you didn't bring enough water whilst you try to stop your devices from heating up and the sun claims the top layer of your skin as its very own. Hot air ballooning, guys! It's [...]
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Tombs Of The Pharaohs
CONTENT WARNING: DEAD DUDE! We saw the mummy of Tutankhamen and I've included a photo of him in this blog. Ancient Egyptians only lived on the East Bank of the river Nile. They worshipped the sun disc which rose in the east and set in the west, and why would you live where your god [...]
Luxor’s East Bank
We're not staying on the East Bank of Luxor and thank fuck we're not. It's nothing particularly special and we'd read that the West Bank was a much nicer place to be. Our introduction to Luxor though, that pretty much validated our decision to flee west. A taxi driver at the train station collared us [...]