We took advantage of a four day weekend to visit Luxor for a second time in February 2010. They say 80% of the world's antiquities are still in Egypt and if that is so, Luxor has more than its fair share. Luxor Temple, Karnak, the Colossi of Memnon, Hatshepsut's Temple, Medinet Habu, Dendara, Abydos to name the sites we visited on this trip. For anyone interested in history or antiquities, Egypt should top your list. Or you can visit the world's great museums in New York, Paris, Berlin and London to see the small treasures of Egypt. And definitely go to Cairo to see the museum and pyramids. But Luxor, or Thebes as it was known, was once the center of the universe. Cruise the Nile and wander among the columns of Karnak and you will feel weight of millennia like nowhere else in the world.
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