Luxor travel guide

Luxor, Homer’s Thebes with the hundred gates, has an unbelievable wealth of monuments

This fact has always made it one of the centres of tourism in Egypt, and it has become a very well-tended city. The giant temple complexes of Luxor were part of the old Egyptian capital of Thebes, which extended from here far to the north, beyond the temple of Karnakand, with its necropolis on the western bank of the Nile, it reached far into the mountains of the Western Desert. cityIn recent years, Luxor, which lies on the right bank of the Nile in a wide depression, has been tidied up into an Egyptian “model city”: large, sometimes elegant hotels, banks, travel agencies and shops line the Corniche, the shore road which has space for walks in lovely shade, where felucca captains compete for passengers with the cheapest prices and carriage drivers try to tempt them to a more comfortable mode of travel. Visitors standing in front of the temple ruins have a view of the Nile, the lush greenery of the fertile land on the opposite shore, and the majestic backdrop of the western mountains.The present-day name of the city is derived from the Arabic “el-Ksur” (the palaces). It refers to the huge temple inside which parts of the town still stood at the end of the 19th century.

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