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Two thousand years of building for a single sanctuary — and a hall of one hundred and thirty-four columns.
LuxorKarnak, east bank
Luxor's best table, in an old house, far from the picture menus.
LuxorEast bank
A temple in the middle of town, open after dark, with a working mosque sitting in its courtyard.
LuxorCorniche
Over sixty tombs in a wadi without a scrap of shade, and a ticket that opens only a handful.
LuxorWest bank
Three white terraces set into the cliff, and the queen's name chiselled out everywhere.
LuxorDeir el-Bahari, west bank
The best-preserved temple on the west bank, with colour still clinging to the ceilings.
The colossus of Ramesses II lies in pieces in his own courtyard: it is the statue behind 'Ozymandias'.
Two eighteen-metre statues at the roadside, all that stands of the west bank's largest temple.
A museum that chose to show little, and to show it well. Keep it for the hot hours.
Lift-off before daylight on the west bank: the wind picks the route, not an itinerary.
The temple stands floodlit gold at the roadside, and people sit out on the Corniche until late.
The wadi of royal wives and children, and Nefertari's tomb, which is paid for separately.
The village of the men who cut the royal tombs: their houses, their tombs, their accounts.
A Ptolemaic temple still almost whole, roof included, dug out of the silt in the 1860s.
LuxorEdfu
A hypostyle hall on its own, at the bottom of a pit, under the town that grew over it.
LuxorEsna
Hathor's face on every capital, and a zodiac taken from the roof in 1821, now in the Louvre.
LuxorDendera
Tea on the 1907 terrace above the Nile, between the palms and the west bank.
LuxorEast bank, Luxor
Ahwas between the stalls, where the traders themselves go for tea.
A rooftop terrace above the souk, with the illuminated Luxor temple as a backdrop.
The souk's covered street: spices, galabiyas, statuettes and a great deal of bargaining.
Vases and lamps cut from translucent stone, on the road to the tombs.
LuxorWest bank, Luxor
A restored souk street around the temple, between old shops and a caravanserai.
LuxorEsna, south of Luxor
Walking the hypostyle hall at night, lit, while the temple tells its story.
LuxorKarnak, Luxor
Two kilometres and seven hundred sphinxes between Luxor and Karnak, reopened after forty years of excavation.
