Luxor Vacation Guide

Situated in the upper regions of Egypt, Luxor has been acclaimed as the “world’s greatest open-air museum”, with its contemporary city encompassing the relics of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes.

Opposite to Luxor on the other side of the River Nile lies the necropolis of Theban, home to the spectacular Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens.

Each year, a great number of tourists from various parts of the globe come to visit these remarkable sites, making a considerable contribution to Luxor’s economy.

Indeed, Luxor is among the most ancient cities still populated in the world.

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Luxor History

The city was regarded in the ancient Egyptian texts as wAs.t, which meant “city of the sceptre”, and later in Demotic Egyptian as ta jpt (conventionally pronounced as “tA ipt” and meaning “the shrine/temple”, referring to the jpt-swt, the temple now known by its Arabic name Karnak, meaning “fortified village”), which the ancient Greeks adapted as Thebai and the Romans …

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Luxor Climate

Luxor features cool winters with mild days, but cold nights, so that the average January temperature is 13.8°C. Lows during nighttime are around 5°C and highs around noon are about 24°C, resulting to very large diurnal temperature variations. Even in the coldest nights, when the temperature is near freezing, during the day there may be temperatures up to 25°C. Summers …

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