We just got back from Luxor last night and our stay there was
really fun and really hot. The temperature was about 112
degrees both days so we scheduled our tours to start in the
early moringing (around 6:30) and finish by about 11, which
was before it got really hot. Luckily the hotel had a really
nice pool and bar/ice cream shop right next to the pool.
The first day we visited the temple of Ramses II and the
valley of the Kings. The tombs in the valley of the kings
were all so well preserved and colorful, it was unbelievable.
Unfortunately, you couldn't take pictures in any of the
tombs. What it comes down to is that you aren't allowed to
take pictures of the coolest things. There are plenty of guys
selling postcards out buy the busses with pictures inside the
tombs, though. King Tut's tomb was actually the least
spectacular and the smallest that we visited.
We also visited the Luxor Museum which was much nicer and much more orderly than the Cairo museum. The only problem was that whom ever was hired to do the Arabic to english translations for the little cards that describe each object wasn't very good. Often times there would be words missing or the sentences just didn't make sense.
The flight back to Cairo wasn't eventful and we too tired to go anywhere for dinner so we got Hardee's delivered (They deliver everything here- mcdonalds, groceries, etc.)
time for bed.
adios
