Luxor, Egypt

We have just finished 3 days in Luxor, where we stayed at the brand new hotel, Hilton Luxor. The hotel was literally 4 days old when we arrived and we made up 7 of the 11 people staying there. Needless to say, we were more than pampered, we were completely spoiled! The hotel was beautiful and the guy by the pool even polished our sunglasses for us. We also went and saw the Temples of Karnak and Luxor, the Valley's of the Kings and Queens, the Luxor Museum, the Colossi of Memnon and the Temple of Hatshepsut. Everything we have seen and experienced has been incredible, beautiful and totally overwhhelming! Luxor was very different from Cairo, it's quieter, simpler and with the Nile running down the centre of town, it's prettier. It's a soothing contrast of the green that surrounds the great river to the heat of the desert that sits just out of the Niles reach. Luxor has so much to see and experience, we didn't get to half of it. We did how ever get to the markets, the one for the locals and the other one for the tourists. They were both loud and busseling. The locals market was all household products and fruit, veggies, meat and fish. While the tourist market is all stuff! Bill and I had a hair raising interaction with a guy trying to sell us some stuff, he would kick us out of his stall and then call us back, until we finally got our price!