If/when inshallah, I can get my fiance to ever take a real vacation, maybe I can get him to go to Luxor. I was so happy to meet someone who travels a lot, but he apparently only travels to Egypt. I tried to run a vacation to India past him, and that didn't go over too well. So I'll start *in country* first.

Luxor is about 9/10 hours by train and 50 minutes by plane. If you can afford it I would fly. The train is ok but I never sleep on it and the toilets can be a bit iffy and 10 hours is a looooonnnngggggg time with an iffy loo.

Cairo and Luxor are worlds apart and even within Luxor West and East Bank are totally different. I wrote this feature article for Tour Egypt you might find interesting http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/myluxor.htm and if you search the archives you can find loads of other articles I have writen on Luxor, both from a historical point of view and culturally.

I also keep a blog http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/ which talks about aspects of Luxor I think might be of interest

Thanks for the compliment on the website

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Originally posted by akshar:
lol at the spelling of my name

Luxor is about 9/10 hours by train and 50 minutes by plane. If you can afford it I would fly. The train is ok but I never sleep on it and the toilets can be a bit iffy and 10 hours is a looooonnnngggggg time with an iffy loo.

Cairo and Luxor are worlds apart and even within Luxor West and East Bank are totally different. I wrote this feature article for Tour Egypt you might find interesting http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/myluxor.htm and if you search the archives you can find loads of other articles I have writen on Luxor, both from a historical point of view and culturally.

I also keep a blog http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/ which talks about aspects of Luxor I think might be of interest

Thanks for the compliment on the website

Jane Akshar - UK Co-owner of www.flatsinluxor.co.uk

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I'm sorry about your name! My dyslexia rears its ugly head. But thanks for the info!

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Originally posted by Snoozin:
I'm sorry about your name! My dyslexia rears its ugly head. But thanks for the info!

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It is a very common mistake, I get it all the time, my fault for having an Arabic surname