Egypt unveils restored Amenhotep statues
December 23, 2025
Egypt hopes its restored colossal statues will help bring more visitors to Egypt and especially Luxor
Egypt hopes its restored colossal statues will help bring more visitors to Egypt and especially Luxor
Joanna Yates ends her Egyptian adventure with thoughts on the wide variety of places she called home…in Cairo, in Luxor and in Aswan.
Joanna Yates leaves Luxor, takes to the river, sees riverside farms & temples along the way, learns a lesson and begins her wish list for next time.
Last stop on a day spent across the Nile from Luxor, Joanna Yates visits the house where Howard Carter lived while excavating Tutankhamun’s Tomb.
Joanna Yates visits 3 sites on the West Bank of the River Nile, opposite Luxor near the Valley of the Kings, the ancient Theban Necropolis.
With a week to spend in Luxor, Joanna Yates visits Luxor Temple, very near her apartment, then 3 kilometers northward along the Nile, wanders within the Temples of Karnak.
With a week to spend in Luxor, Joanna Yates enjoys leisurely days in the town as much, if not more, as those spent at its famous monuments.
Egypt is planning to invest millions in an advertising campaign to build tourism to 20 million visitors by 2020, more than double last year’s 9.8 million. The peak was 14.7 million in 2010. The campaign will launch in August. Egypt, long a…
And so we arrive in Aswan, the furthest navigable point before the High Dam. From here some courageous souls can continue to the beautiful temple at Abu Simbel which was relocated with fantastic precision prior to the construction of the High Dam. The…
Poor Egypt gets some bad press at the moment and in the process their tourist numbers have fallen dramatically and that is understandable, however, in cities like Luxor tourism provides employment in one way or another for some 85% of the…