Leaving Luxor

Luxor turns out to be a huge area to explore and worth at least three days to cover it all. In the Valley of the Kings, where the Kings and Nobles of Egypt from 16th-11th century b.c. were buried, including the most famous of all Tutankhamun (Tutankhamen), your ticket gets you into three of the 63 currently discovered tombs, but if you're my sister, you'll have snuck into many of them anyway, while no one is looking.

Other sites worth visiting are the Valley of the Queens (photos are not allowed in either valley), Deir el-Medina, the village that was home to the artisans who worked on the Valley of the Kings.

 

In the village lies a tomb for a worker's family:

A temple to Hathor in Deir el-Medina, built later on.

After Deir el-Medina, there's also Luxor Temple:

and Hatchepsut (or Hatshepsut, the only female Pharaoh) Temple:

There's also the Temple of Karnak, made famous in the movie "The Mummy Returns".

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