Luxor: home to loads and loads of ancient temples, and the finest modern Egyptian touts! Nice combination? Maybe not... Anyway, here are a few images of Karnak and Luxor temple at night. These structures really went in for large pillars and statues.
In Luxor the strangeness of the Nile valley is much more obvious than in Cairo: Egypt is essentially a green strip of fertile land around the Nile, surrounded by vast, huge deserts. And if you wander to the edge of the desert, it just stops. Not gradually, but immediately. Weird. This image is taken from the mountain above the valley of the Kings (where the tombs of the New Kingdom Pharaohs lie) towards the Nile in the distance.
Continue along the same mountain top, and you can look down on one of the many temples in the Luxor area (Thebes). This one was built by a Pharaoh-ess with a completely unpronounceable name (Hapshepsheput I think).
Sunset over the Nile while on the local ferry. A much more relaxing way to travel than by the small motor boats and fellucas - although to get to the ferry port you do have to fight your way past 20+ touts trying to get you only their boat...
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