Luxor is one of the most attractive cities in Egypt , it contains the largest and most unique collection of ancient Egyptian temples . It lies some 671 km south of Cairo . It is divided into two banks: the Eastern bank which contains the Karnak and the Luxor temples , and the western bank which contains: the Valley of the Kings , the Valley of the Queens , the Valley of the Nobles as well as funerary temples like that of Hatshepsut .
The eastern bank of Luxor still retains a certain charm of the provincial and rural city . The city , full of hotels , bars and restaurants , can be easily toured on foot moving in broad avenues and narrow alleys with adobe houses and a sense of rural air .
The tourist will enjoy , in the heart of the city , the elegant view of the temple of Luxor -specially by night- which is a masterpiece of architecture with its courtyards and shrines dedicated to the Theban gods .
Downstream , there stands the impressive complex of the temples of Karnak , built and never finished from more than 2000 years .
In addition to the monuments , there are two excellent museums: the Museum of Luxor , which contains a fascinating collection of objects discovered in this area ,
and the Museum of mummification , which displays human and animal mummies and shows how the ancient Egyptians perfected the process of embalming .
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