Luxor -- fields and city

Luxor is a major tourist center, since there are several highly interesting sites in the area:

The Temple of Karnak
The Temple Of Louxor
The Theban necropolis, including the Valley of the Kins

But the city of Luxor is interesting in itself. We made a fascinating tour by calèche. We started out about 17:30, but it was still about 37°C.


Our driver's name was Moustafa; the horse's, Rambo.	Fields and palm trees on the edge of town

Beautiful green and gold of the Egyptian fields	Gathering alfalfa for the horses

Returning to town, the calèches drove through the souk -- the real one. It was so colorful and vibrant, we would have preferred to do it on foot. But there was not enough time...


Colors of the souk

Hardware	A sakièh (well)

Another beautiful site to visit in Luxor is the Luxor Museum, where we spent a tranquil hour before leaving Luxor and Egypt. For us, the marvel of this museum is the statue of the pharaoh Tuthmosis III in greywacke, a stone composed of angular grains of feldspath, quartz and other rocks, cemented by clay and slightly metamorphic. This composition gives an impression of surface porosity remarkably like that of human skin. The result, in this case, is simply superb.

[Photo in public domain]

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