Places to Explore In Luxor and the Nile Valley

Discover the best places to explore in Luxor and the Nile Valley with curated recommendations from our travel experts.

Abydos

The East Bank drive from Luxor to Abydos takes you north along the canals and farm roads that form the backbone of rural life in...

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Al-Ashmunayn (Hermopolis)

The site features a late-Roman basilica, the only surviving large building of its kind in Egypt, as well as a giant statue of the god...

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Al Minya

The best place for a base in Middle Egypt is the city of Al Minya, untouristed until now. Its name has varied only slightly through...

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Beni Hasan

This magnificent cemetery site is on the East Bank of the Nile...

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Dendera

The prime point of interest in Dendera, a small village north of Luxor, is the Temple of Hathor. The countryside along the way is pleasantly...

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Edfu

Although the town itself is somewhat dull, Edfu's temple, dedicated to Horus, would make even Cecil B. DeMille gasp. It is the most intact of...

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El-Kab

El-Kab, on the East Bank of the Nile, is the site of an impressive though imperfectly preserved town, temple area, and tombs...

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Esna

The town of Esna enjoyed some notoriety in the 19th century, when quite a number of singers, dancers, prostitutes, and other similar folk were exiled...

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Luxor

Known in antiquity as Thebes, Luxor takes its name from the Arabic al-Uqsur (the palaces). It is a town that merits both poetry and a...

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Tel el Amarna

Little remains of the magnificent town of Akhetaten, which was founded by the apparently monotheist pharaoh Akhenaton in the late 18th Dynasty...

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The Theban Necropolis

At the edge of cultivated land across the Nile from what the ancients called Thebes—the City of 100 Gates—lies their City of the Dead, arguably...

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Tuna al-Gebel

Tuna al-Gebel was the necropolis of Hermopolis—a large and scattered site, its focal point being a cluster of Greco-Roman tombs. These tombs, built literally as...

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