Le EgyptLuxor governorate
🏙️ Luxor
Ancient Thebes: the world's greatest open-air museum, split by the Nile into the living East Bank and the tombs of the West.
📍 Districts & areas
East Bank centre
Luxor Temple, the corniche, the souq and most hotels.
Luxor Temple, the corniche, the souq and most hotels.
Karnak
The vast temple complex and the Avenue of Sphinxes.
The vast temple complex and the Avenue of Sphinxes.
West Bank (Al-Bairat, Gurna)
Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's temple, villages, fields and quiet guesthouses.
Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's temple, villages, fields and quiet guesthouses.
Banana Island & the Nile
Feluccas, motorboats and riverside gardens.
Feluccas, motorboats and riverside gardens.
🏛️ Places to visit
- Karnak Temple
- Luxor Temple
- Valley of the Kings
- Temple of Hatshepsut
- Avenue of Sphinxes
- Luxor Museum
- Medinet Habu
- Hot Air Balloon over Luxor
🍽️ What & where to eat
- Stuffed pigeon and tagines in old-house restaurants
- Rooftop dinners facing Luxor Temple
- Ful, taameya and eish shamsi
🛍️ What to buy
- Alabaster from West Bank workshops
- Spices, hibiscus and scarves in the souq
- Hand-carved scarabs and statues (modern copies)
🏬 Where to shop
- Luxor Souq behind Luxor Temple
- Alabaster factories on the West Bank road