Luxor

Luxor holds roughly a third of the ancient world’s monuments and is split between two banks: the East Bank of the living, home to Karnak with its Great Hypostyle Hall of 134 colossal columns and the Luxor Temple that glows at night, linked by the majestic Avenue of Sphinxes; and the West Bank of eternity, with the painted tombs of the Valley of the Kings, Queen Hatshepsut’s terraced temple cut into the cliffs, and the Colossi of Memnon.

Luxor’s finest mornings begin in the sky: a dawn hot-air balloon flight over the West Bank, as temples, green fields and the Nile unfold in the first light. In the evening, take a horse-drawn carriage along the corniche or a quiet felucca at sunset.

We arrange your stay in Nile-view hotels or begin your cruise to Aswan here, accompanied by Egyptologist guides who bring to life the kings, priests and artists who built this city.