Explore Egypt

The largest religious complex ever built, its Great Hypostyle Hall a forest of 134 colossal sandstone columns.

The royal necropolis where 63 pharaohs including Tutankhamun were buried in vividly painted rock-cut tombs.

The mortuary temple of Egypt's great female pharaoh, its colonnaded terraces rising dramatically from the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari.

A riverside temple linked to Karnak by an avenue of sphinxes, breathtaking when floodlit against the night sky.

Drift over the Theban necropolis at dawn as the sun ignites the temples, the Nile and the green valley below.

The vast mortuary temple of Ramesses III, prized for the deepest, best-preserved original colour in all Luxor.

Two 18m quartzite giants of Amenhotep III, all that remains visible of his once-vast vanished mortuary temple.

A restored 1930s townhouse on the east bank serving authentic Egyptian tagines in lantern-lit, antique-filled rooms.

A grand 1907 Victorian palace hotel on the corniche where Howard Carter announced the Tutankhamun discovery.

A rooftop terrace above a heritage hotel near Luxor Temple, pairing Egyptian classics with a floodlit-monument view.

Sail south past the west-bank temples to a lush Nile islet of banana groves, a classic lazy Luxor afternoon.

A long covered market street off the corniche heavy with saffron, hibiscus, alabaster and Nubian scarves.

A specialist west-bank guide decodes the tomb paintings of the Valleys of the Kings and Queens far beyond the placards.

One pass covers every east- and west-bank site for five days; the premium tier even adds Nefertari's and Seti I's tombs.

The grandly reopened 2.7km ancient processional road relinking Karnak and Luxor temples is the city's headline attraction.

The Winter Palace's grand French dining room, serving haute cuisine under chandeliers since 1886 — jacket and tie required.