East Bank on foot: temple to Karnak
3 h · 7 stops · on foot · 7 stops
- Luxor Temple
- Abu el-Haggag Mosque
- Luxor Souk
- Avenue of Sphinxes
- Luxor Museum
- Karnak Complex
- Great Hypostyle Hall
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This interactive map of Luxor (Egypt) brings together 140 hand-picked places: 50 attractions, 45 restaurants, 21 cafés and 24 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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معبد الأقصر · Corniche
Amenhotep III and Ramses II right on the Corniche: colonnades, colossi and a living mosque perched over the court.
Tip: Come back after 7pm: floodlit, cool and half-empty, it is a completely different temple.
🚇 The ferry dock · 4 min walk
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Show on mapمعبد الكرنك · Karnak
The largest religious complex ever built: thirty pharaohs kept adding courts, pylons and obelisks for two millennia.
Tip: Get in at 6am on opening: the Hypostyle Hall is nearly empty and the low dawn light is unbeatable.
🚇 Karnak · 13 min walk
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Show on mapصالة الأعمدة الكبرى · Karnak
A forest of 134 columns up to 23 m tall, hieroglyphs still painted near the top. The best shade in Karnak.
Tip: Look up on the north side: that is where the original paint survived out of the sun's reach.
🚇 Karnak · 10 min walk
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Show on mapالجعران · Karnak
Beside the lake where priests purified themselves sits Amenhotep III's granite scarab, magnet for tourist rituals.
Tip: Legend says you must circle the scarab seven times. Nobody does it with a straight face: do it anyway.
🚇 Karnak · 12 min walk
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Show on mapمسلة الملكة حتشبسوت · Karnak
The woman pharaoh raised Egypt's tallest standing obelisk: 30 m in one piece, floated down the Nile from Aswan.
Tip: Her second obelisk lies broken by the Sacred Lake: the tip's finish is visible there as it never is from below.
🚇 Karnak · 12 min walk
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Show on mapالمقصورة البيضاء · Open-Air Museum
A Middle Kingdom alabaster chapel found dismantled inside a pylon and rebuilt block by block by archaeologists.
Tip: The reliefs are among Egypt's finest: look from the side so raking light lifts the carving out.
🚇 Karnak · 9 min walk
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Show on mapالمتحف المفتوح · Karnak
A yard of chapels taken apart and reassembled: Hatshepsut's Red Chapel, the White Chapel, Amenhotep I's alabaster shrine.
Tip: It needs its own ticket, sold at the Karnak gate: ask for it on the way in or you will walk back.
🚇 Karnak · 9 min walk
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Show on mapمعبد خونسو · Karnak
A complete temple to the moon god, son of Amun and Mut, in the southwest corner of Karnak almost nobody walks to.
Tip: Head up to the roof if the guard opens the stair: the whole Karnak precinct opens up from there.
🚇 Karnak · 9 min walk
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Show on mapمعبد موت · South Karnak
The mother goddess's precinct, a crescent-shaped lake and hundreds of lion-headed Sekhmet statues lined up.
Tip: It is an active dig from October to March: if a mission is working, ask — they usually share what turned up.
🚇 Avenue of Sphinxes · 17 min walk
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Show on mapطريق الكباش · Luxor–Karnak
2.7 km of sphinxes and rams linking Luxor Temple to Karnak, excavated and reopened with huge ceremony in 2021.
Tip: Walk it from Luxor to Karnak at dusk: 40 minutes, little shade but golden light and lit sphinxes at the end.
🚇 Luxor Museum · 5 min walk
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Show on mapمتحف الأقصر · Corniche
Small and perfect: the mummy of Ahmose I, the Luxor statue cachette and Akhenaten's reconstructed talatat wall.
Tip: It reopens at night and it is air-conditioned: the best plan for the hours when outside is unbearable.
🚇 Avenue of Sphinxes · 5 min walk
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Show on mapمتحف التحنيط · Corniche
Under the Corniche, the only museum devoted to embalming: hooks, canopic jars and a fully mummified crocodile.
Tip: It is small and cool: half an hour does it, and it slots perfectly between Luxor Temple and the ferry.
🚇 The ferry dock · 3 min walk
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Show on mapمسجد أبو الحجاج · Luxor Temple
A 13th-century mosque built on top of Luxor Temple while sand still buried it: its door hangs 8 m above the ground.
Tip: Look at that door floating in mid-air from the temple court: it is visual proof of how deep the sand ran.
🚇 The ferry dock · 4 min walk
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Show on mapمسلة رمسيس الثاني · Luxor Temple
One of the two facade obelisks still stands. The other was shipped off in 1833 and now anchors Place de la Concorde.
Tip: You can see it whole for free from the Corniche pavement: shoot it lit at night without buying a ticket.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 2 min walk
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Show on mapمحطة قطار الأقصر · Sharia al-Mahatta
A neo-pharaonic facade sending trains to Cairo and Aswan, ringed by the Luxor that is not there for tourists.
Tip: Sharia al-Mahatta, the street running down from the station, has the best sugarcane juice in town.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 10 min walk
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Show on mapكنيسة الملاك ميخائيل · East Luxor
A Coptic Orthodox church deep in a residential quarter: gilt iconostasis, incense and Luxor's other half-story.
Tip: Go on a Sunday morning to hear the liturgy in Coptic, the language descended from ancient Egyptian.
🚇 Railway Station · 7 min walk
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Show on mapالمعدية · Corniche
The locals' barge crosses to the West Bank for 1 EGP. No timetable: it leaves when full, and takes eight minutes.
Tip: Take the upper deck and sit on the west side: you cross facing the Colossi and the Theban mountain.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 4 min walk
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Show on mapجزيرة الموز · Southern Nile
A banana-plantation islet south of Luxor and the classic sunset felucca run: you sail out and drift back.
Tip: Fix the felucca price BEFORE boarding and say return trip: rowing back against the current takes forever.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 8 min taxi
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Show on mapوادي الملوك · West Bank
A desert wadi holding 63 rock-cut royal tombs beneath the natural pyramid of el-Qurn. The base ticket covers three.
Tip: Pick tombs from different dynasties, not three in a row: Ramses IX, Merenptah and Thutmose III span 400 years.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 15 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة توت عنخ آمون · KV62
Tiny for its fame: four chambers, one painted wall, and Tutankhamun's own mummy still lying in its case.
Tip: It needs its own ticket and disappoints if you expect the treasure: that is in Cairo. Come for the mummy.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 15 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة سيتي الأول · KV17
137 m of painted relief with not one blank wall: the astronomical ceiling and Book of Gates almost intact.
Tip: It is the priciest ticket in the valley and worth every pound: if you splurge once in Luxor, splurge here.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 14 min taxi
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Show on mapرمسيس الخامس والسادس · KV9
A very long corridor roofed by the star-covered body of Nut, swallowing and giving birth to the sun each day.
Tip: The rubble dug out of this tomb buried Tutankhamun's, which is why robbers never found it.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 15 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة رمسيس الثالث · KV11
The harper's tomb: besides the underworld, side panels of bakers, boats and musicians from everyday Egypt.
Tip: Find the two blind harpists in a side niche: the most human scene in the whole Valley of the Kings.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 14 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة مرنبتاح · KV8
A long wide descent to the chamber of Ramses II's son, the pink granite outer sarcophagus lid lying on the floor.
Tip: It is usually empty despite being top-tier: pick it when the valley's star tombs have a queue at the door.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 15 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة تحتمس الثالث · KV34
Hidden in a cleft up an iron stair: an oval chamber and gods drawn as stick figures, unique in all Egypt.
Tip: It is 30 iron steps in full sun before the door: do it early and with water, never at midday.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 14 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة حور محب · KV57
The general turned pharaoh died with his tomb half painted: red sketch lines and the master's corrections show.
Tip: It is the best free lesson in how a tomb got painted: red sketch, black outline, then colour, in that order.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 15 min taxi
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Show on mapوادي القرود · WV23
A lonely desert branch holding Tutankhamun's successor's tomb, famous for the twelve baboons on its chamber wall.
Tip: You need a taxi down a separate track: agree it waits — nobody drives back out to collect you.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 17 min taxi
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Show on mapوادي الملكات · West Bank
Nearly 90 tombs of royal wives and pharaohs' children in a wadi smaller and far quieter than the Kings'.
Tip: The general ticket covers three princes' tombs; Nefertari is separate, with a capped daily quota.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 14 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة نفرتاري · QV66
Egypt's Sistine Chapel: Ramses II's favourite wife under a starred ceiling, the most vivid colour in the country.
Tip: A fixed number of people enter daily and your time inside is timed: buy the ticket the minute you arrive.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 14 min taxi
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Show on mapآمون حر خبشف · QV55
The tomb of Ramses III's teenage son: the pharaoh appears leading the boy before the gods, god by god.
Tip: It is the best colour-per-pound tomb in the Valley of the Queens if Nefertari blew your budget.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 14 min taxi
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Show on mapالدير البحري · Deir el-Bahari
Three terraces set into an amphitheatre of cliffs: the most modern-looking building of ancient Egypt by 3,500 years.
Tip: Find the Punt portico on the middle terrace: the relief of Punt's fat queen, the New Kingdom's own running joke.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 13 min taxi
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Show on mapمدينة هابو · West Bank
Ramses III's fortress-temple, its reliefs cut so deep they still hold pigment: Luxor's best open-air colour.
Tip: Come mid-afternoon: sun floods the second court and the blue ceilings genuinely light up.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 11 min taxi
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Show on mapالرامسيوم · West Bank
Ramses II's mortuary temple and the shattered thousand-ton colossus that inspired Shelley's Ozymandias unseen.
Tip: Behind it stand the vaulted mudbrick storerooms: three thousand years of mud brick still up, and ignored.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 10 min taxi
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Show on mapتمثالا ممنون · West Bank
Two 18 m colossi alone in the fields: Greeks came to hear the north one sing at dawn, until Rome repaired it.
Tip: Behind them Amenhotep III's temple is being dug out, more colossi already re-raised: look past the famous two.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 9 min taxi
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Show on mapمعبد أمنحتب الثالث · Kom el-Hettan
Egypt's largest mortuary temple ever, flattened by an earthquake and now re-emerging colossus by colossus.
Tip: The German mission works October to March: in season you can watch a statue being lifted out live.
🚇 Ferry + 9 min taxi · Colossi of Memnon
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Show on mapدير المدينة · West Bank
The walled village of the artisans who dug the Valley of the Kings: streets, houses, and history's first strike.
Tip: These workers left thousands of ostraca with gossip, debts and recipes: the most human site in the necropolis.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 12 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة سنجم · Deir el-Medina
A single vaulted chamber the artisan painted for himself: the Fields of Iaru in fierce yellow and blue.
Tip: You go down a narrow stair into a low chamber: leave a big backpack up top, it will not fit.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 12 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة باشدو · Deir el-Medina
A tiny vault with Deir el-Medina's most copied scene: Pashedu kneeling to drink beside a date palm.
Tip: The entry corridor is long and very low: you go in almost crouching, but the far chamber repays it.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 12 min taxi
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Show on mapمعبد حتحور · Deir el-Medina
An intact little Ptolemaic temple above the workers' village, its weighing-of-the-soul scene still strong in colour.
Tip: Same ticket as the village, and almost nobody climbs the twenty steps: the judgement scene is on the right.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 12 min taxi
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Show on mapمقابر النبلاء · Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
A hillside riddled with officials' tombs: no underworld here, but banquets, hunting, wine and music.
Tip: Tickets are sold in pairs or trios of tombs: Sennefer and Rekhmire are the two not to compromise on.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 12 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة رخمي رع · Nobles
Thutmose III's vizier had every trade in the empire painted: brickmakers, goldsmiths, ropers, tribute from Punt and Crete.
Tip: The back wall ramps up eight metres: it is effectively an illustrated manual of Egypt in 1450 BC.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 11 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة نخت · Nobles
The tiny tomb of an astronomer of Amun holding Egyptian art's most reproduced scene: three girls on harp, lute and flute.
Tip: It is a very small room taking five people: if a group is inside, wait ten minutes and have it to yourself.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 11 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة منا · Nobles
Amun's field inspector had the whole harvest painted: surveyors, threshing, and a girl pulling a thorn from her foot.
Tip: Look for Menna's scratched-out eyes: an enemy came in after burial to blind him and curse his afterlife.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 11 min taxi
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Show on mapمقبرة رع مس · Nobles
The tomb where the style shift happens live: one wall in flawless classical relief, the opposite one already Amarna.
Tip: It was left unfinished because Ramose followed Akhenaten to the new capital: that blank wall records a move.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 11 min taxi
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Show on mapالعساسيف · West Bank
The strip between Deir el-Bahari and the Nobles where Nubian and Saite grandees cut palace-tombs under the causeway.
Tip: This is where the finds that make the news turn up each season: ask at the ticket office what opened this year.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 11 min taxi
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Show on mapمعبد سيتي الأول · Gurna
The first temple as you come off the ferry and the most ignored: Seti I's relief is technically the West Bank's best.
Tip: It is always empty and ten minutes from the dock: the ideal afternoon stop once the valleys have closed.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 9 min taxi
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Show on mapبيت هوارد كارتر · Gurna
The domed mudbrick house Carter lived in through the discovery seasons, restored with his furniture, darkroom and bed.
Tip: Next door sits an exact painted replica of Tutankhamun's tomb: this is how the real chamber has to be imagined.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 11 min taxi
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Show on mapمنطاد الأقصر · West Bank
Dozens of balloons lift off in the dark from the fields between Gurna and the Ramesseum, the sun rising over the Nile.
Tip: Pickup is at 4am and wind cancels flights: book it for your first morning so you have a spare day to retry.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 9 min taxi
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Show on mapقصر ثقافة القرنة · New Gurna
The heart of New Gurna, the village Hassan Fathy built in 1948 from mud alone, no air conditioning: a cult of architecture.
Tip: Step in and touch the wall: at high noon the mud brick is cool. That was Fathy's whole case against concrete.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 5 min taxi
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Show on mapمعبد مرنبتاح · West Bank
A rebuilt mortuary temple with a small covered museum beside it, home to the copy of the Israel Stele.
Tip: The museum has air conditioning and clean toilets: keep it as your bolt-hole for the worst midday hour.
🚇 Ferry + 10 min taxi · Colossi of Memnon
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Show on mapصفرة · 1930s house
A 1930s townhouse of courtyards, mashrabiyas and a roof terrace: the Egyptian table done right, molokheya to stuffed pigeon.
Tip: Ask for a roof table and start with the mezze: twelve little dishes that are worth the whole dinner alone.
🚇 Railway Station · 6 min walk
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Show on mapالصحابي لين · Sharia el-Souk
A rooftop over the souk with Luxor Temple in view, above a boutique hotel: clay tagines, kofta and a karkadeh list.
Tip: Book for sunset: the call to prayer from Abu el-Haggag lands exactly when the food comes out.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 5 min walk
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Show on mapمطعم ١٨٨٦ · Winter Palace
The Winter Palace's gala dining room: chandeliers, damask and Franco-Egyptian cooking served as in 1907, dress code on.
Tip: If the formal dinner is too much, drink on the hotel's Nile Terrace instead: same history, half the ritual.
🚇 Winter Palace · 2 min walk
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Show on mapام هاشم · East Luxor
A real Egyptian canteen: koshari in aluminium bowls, ful medames with oil and lemon, and ta'ameya straight from the fryer.
Tip: Order koshari with double garlic-vinegar sauce, the dakka: that is how locals eat it, not the tourist way.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 6 min walk
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Show on mapخير وبركة · Kebab and kofta
A neighbourhood grill with the coals on the pavement: lamb kofta, kebab and aish baladi coming out of the oven alongside.
Tip: You order by weight, not by portion: half a kilo of mixed kofta comfortably feeds two, salads thrown in.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 4 min walk
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Show on mapالكبابجي · South Corniche
A Corniche-side grill house where you pick the meat at the counter: shish tawook, kofta and spiced liver.
Tip: Ask for Alexandrian-style liver heavy on cumin: the Egyptian street dish that rarely makes it onto menus.
🚇 Winter Palace · 4 min walk
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Show on mapمطعم عبودي · Luxor Temple
An air-conditioned dining room straight across from Luxor Temple: a long Egyptian menu and a midday refuge.
Tip: It is run by the same family as the bookshop next door: eat upstairs, then browse the Egyptology shelves.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 3 min walk
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Show on mapسناك تايم · Luxor Temple
A shawarma and ta'ameya sandwich counter beside the temple: cheap, very fast and open late.
Tip: The ta'ameya sandwich with baba ghanoush and pickles is the local breakfast: grab one before the morning ferry.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 3 min walk
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Show on mapمطعم الحاتي · Sharia al-Mahatta
A classic hati near the station: lentil soup, liver, brains, and coals going from noon until late.
Tip: Start with shorbet ads, the lemony lentil soup: in Egypt it comes before everything, even at 35 degrees.
🚇 Railway Station · 2 min walk
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Show on mapحاتي الحريف · South Luxor
The grill of the Luxor nobody visits: plastic tables on the pavement, charcoal kofta and bread fetched from the bakery.
Tip: Nobody speaks English and there is no menu: point at the grill, say nus kilo for half a kilo, and you are set.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 12 min walk
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Show on mapالركن المصري · Sharia el-Souk
Egyptian home cooking on the edge of the souk: clay tagine, rabbit molokheya and rice-with-vermicelli exactly like grandma's.
Tip: Molokheya is made to order, so flag it when you arrive and eat it at the end of your wander.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 5 min walk
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Show on mapأبو أشرف · East Luxor
A ful and ta'ameya cart that opens at dawn on a residential corner: breakfast for people heading to work.
Tip: Get there before 9: when the ful pot is done they close, whatever the clock says.
🚇 Railway Station · 4 min walk
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Show on mapعلاء الدين · Sharia el-Souk
A fan-cooled room right on the souk street, its menu mixing tagines, pasta and pizza for every kind of appetite.
Tip: Perfect for half an hour away from bazaar hustling: sit down, drink cold karkadeh, come out with fresh patience.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 3 min walk
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Show on mapجوهرة النيل · Khaled ibn el-Walid
A terrace on the southern hotel avenue serving tagines, Nile fish and shisha as the sun drops.
Tip: Order the Nile prawn tagine: it arrives bubbling in the clay pot and is plenty for two.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 5 min walk
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Show on mapبيتزا روما · Khaled ibn el-Walid
Luxor's Italian, run by a Roman for over a decade: thin crust, wood-fired oven and fresh pasta.
Tip: It is the best move if you travel with kids five days deep into tagine fatigue: nobody complains about pizza.
🚇 Winter Palace · 18 min walk
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Show on mapماما ميا · Khaled ibn el-Walid
A corner trattoria on the hotel strip with big pasta plates, pizza and a gelato counter that rescues hot afternoons.
Tip: The seasonal mango gelato is the actual reason to come: it only exists while the Egyptian harvest lasts.
🚇 Winter Palace · 18 min walk
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Show on mapكام تاي · Khaled ibn el-Walid
A Thai kitchen with an actual Thai cook in south Luxor: curries, pad thai and heat negotiable dish by dish.
Tip: Ask for Thai-level heat only if you mean it: here they take that literally and do not tone it down.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 4 min walk
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Show on mapالزعيم · East Luxor
A shawarma, Egyptian pizza and chips joint that does not shutter until the small hours: the late-night fix.
Tip: Try the savoury feteer meshaltet, Egypt's thousand-layer buttered pastry: one of the best in town.
🚇 Winter Palace · 5 min walk
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Show on mapبندق · East Luxor
An open ta'ameya fryer on a neighbourhood corner: Egyptian falafel, green inside, is made from broad beans, not chickpeas.
Tip: Order them straight from the fryer, sesame-crusted: if they have been sitting, wait for the next batch.
🚇 Winter Palace · 6 min walk
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Show on mapالميناء · North Corniche
A dining room on the north Corniche built around grilled river fish, coarse salt and the obligatory lemon.
Tip: Pick the whole grilled bolti (tilapia) over a fillet: in Egypt fish is eaten on the bone or not at all.
🚇 Ferry 1 EGP · 12 min walk in Gezira
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Show on mapبانوراما النيل · North Corniche
A river terrace north of the centre with the Colossi and the Theban mountain cut out against the setting sun.
Tip: It is the cheapest good spot to watch the balloons land in the morning if you missed your own flight.
🚇 Ferry 1 EGP · 13 min walk in Gezira
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Show on mapالكرنك · Karnak
A plain dining room steps from the Karnak exit: Egyptian plates, fans and the iced karkadeh that brings you back.
Tip: The natural stop after three hours in the temple: order iced karkadeh before water, it kills thirst better.
🚇 Karnak · 5 min walk
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Show on mapأوليفز · Hilton Luxor
The Hilton's Mediterranean north of Karnak, glass onto the Nile and fish, mezze and pasta all properly done.
Tip: Book a window table for dusk: from here the sun sinks straight behind the Valley of the Kings.
🚇 10 min calèche from Karnak
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Show on mapحديقة جيردا · North Karnak
Tables under the trees in a garden north of Karnak, homestyle Euro-Egyptian cooking and a quiet Luxor rarely gives.
Tip: Let them know you are coming: they cook to bookings and in low season may not open at all.
🚇 11 min calèche from Karnak
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Show on mapكينجز هيد · Khaled ibn el-Walid
Luxor's veteran British pub, where archaeologists, guides and expats land: Egyptian Stella beer, darts and fish and chips.
Tip: October to March this is where the digs cross paths: the best table in Luxor for overhearing what is really going on.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 5 min walk
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Show on mapمرسم · Gurna
A 1940s mudbrick hotel between the Colossi and the Ramesseum: half the necropolis eats here once the season starts.
Tip: In dig season the tables fill with missions: sit close and listen, it beats any guided tour.
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Show on mapنور البلد · Malqata
A farmhouse at the desert edge with its own plot: everything on the table was cut that morning fifty metres away.
Tip: Give them a few hours' notice for hamam mahshi, freekeh-stuffed pigeon, Upper Egypt's signature dish.
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Show on mapوادي النيل · Gezira
A Gezira rooftop with the Nile in front and Luxor Temple lit on the far bank: the best cheap view in town.
Tip: Take the six o'clock ferry and climb up: the sun drops behind the mountain, then the temple lights up opposite.
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Show on mapمطعم أفريقيا · Gezira
A family place in Gezira cooking Egyptian without shortcuts: chicken tagine, moussaka and salads that arrive unasked.
Tip: The mezze they bring out first are included: do not send them back, they are part of the meal and the welcome.
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Show on mapعباد الشمس · Gezira
A plain Gezira rooftop two blocks from the dock, clay tagines and karkadeh brought out in an iced jug.
Tip: One of the few West Bank kitchens still serving after ten: useful if you come back late from Medinet Habu.
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Show on mapطيبة · Gezira
A Gezira dining room cooking Upper Egyptian food: lamb fattah, liver rice and baladi salad.
Tip: Order fattah: toasted bread, rice, lamb broth and garlic vinegar, Egypt's celebration dish everywhere.
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Show on mapالسماء الزرقاء · Gezira
A Gezira rooftop looking over the river, Arab and Mediterranean menu, tables set outside as soon as the heat drops.
Tip: You can watch the balloons launch from here at a six o'clock breakfast: bad coffee, free show.
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Show on mapحرية النيل · Gezira
Unadapted Egyptian cooking deep in Gezira: fiercely green molokheya, rabbit tagine and proper Egyptian rice.
Tip: Molokheya splits people on texture alone: try it anyway, it is what Egyptians abroad miss most.
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Show on mapالبيت النوبي · Gezira
A house painted blue and yellow Nubian-style, dinner in the courtyard, live music some nights and southern cooking.
Tip: Nubian food is not Egyptian food: order the lamb tagine with dates, made here from the riverside harvest.
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Show on mapالكابتن · Gezira
A fishmonger-canteen in Gezira: pick your Nile fish off the ice and it comes grilled or fried, with tahini and baladi bread.
Tip: Ask for grilled rather than fried: frying buries the bolti's flavour, which is delicate and dies in oil.
🚇 Ferry 1 EGP · 12 min walk in Gezira
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Show on mapباريس · Colossi of Memnon
A dining room steps from the Colossi of Memnon: basic Egyptian plates, cold drinks and a clean toilet where there is nothing.
Tip: The logical lunch stop if you do the Valley of the Kings in the morning and Medinet Habu after.
🚇 Ferry + 7 min taxi · Colossi of Memnon
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Show on mapالفيروز · Gezira
A Gezira dining room mixing Egyptian menu and international plates for travellers weeks deep into the country.
Tip: Good for groups that cannot agree: tagine for the brave, pasta for the ones who already gave up.
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Show on mapالواحة · Gezira
A palm-shaded courtyard metres from the Gezira dock: grills, tagines and outdoor tables once the sun drops over the river.
Tip: First stop off the ferry if you land hungry: eat, then keep walking to the temples without a taxi.
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Show on mapطواجن المملوك · North Gezira
A specialist in oven-baked clay-pot tagines: meat, chicken, okra or prawn, every one served bubbling.
Tip: The okra-and-beef tagine is the most Egyptian of the lot: order it with baladi bread and no cutlery.
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Show on mapبيت الفلاح · South West Bank
A farmhouse at the southern West Bank ringed by sugarcane: country lunch with clay-oven bread and local vegetables.
Tip: In October the cane is being cut all around: ask for freshly pressed sugarcane juice, nothing compares.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 7 min taxi
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Show on mapمملكة علاء الدين · South West Bank
An open-air dining spot facing Banana Island, natural landing for sunset feluccas on the west shore.
Tip: Many feluccas stop here on the way back: agree with the captain on a twenty-minute landing before you set off.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 7 min taxi
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Show on mapتمبل فيو · Gezira
A Gezira rooftop looking across at a floodlit Luxor Temple: plain dinner with the best cheap postcard in town.
Tip: Get there before six for a railing table: the four along the edge fill up and nobody leaves them.
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Show on mapصن سيت · Gezira
An inland Gezira terrace over an irrigation canal, buffalo walking past and the Theban mountain behind at sundown.
Tip: Ask for the back table over the canal: from there you watch the farmers come home with the day's crop.
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Show on mapشاطئ النيل الصغير · Gezira
A little sand beach on the Nile at Gezira's southern edge, tables at the waterline and simple grilled food.
Tip: The one place in Luxor where you sit with your feet nearly in the Nile: save it for your last afternoon.
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Show on mapالبيت الريفي · South West Bank
A mudbrick house on the southern west shore cooking Arab food in a clay oven, low tables out in the yard.
Tip: Book the courtyard dinner ahead: they only set out the mats and cushions if they know you are coming.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 3 min taxi
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Show on mapتراس النيل · Winter Palace
The 1907 hotel's Nile terrace: tea, karkadeh and gin and tonic at the very tables where Howard Carter waited.
Tip: You do not need to be a guest: order something and stay two hours watching feluccas. Nobody hurries you.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 8 min walk
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Show on mapعلي بابا · Luxor Temple
An ahwa with street tables opposite Luxor Temple: Turkish coffee, karkadeh and apple shisha well past midnight.
Tip: Shisha is ordered by flavour and shared: the Egyptian classic is moassel tufah, double apple, not mint.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 3 min walk
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Show on mapقهوة آل البيت · Sharia el-Souk
A neighbourhood ahwa by the souk: wicker chairs on the pavement, backgammon, over-sugared tea and no tourists.
Tip: The ahwa is Egypt's male social club: sit, order shai, and nobody speaks to you until you start.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 4 min walk
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Show on mapأبو الطاهر · East Luxor
A corner ahwa where the neighbourhood shouts at the football and shai baladi comes in a handleless glass.
Tip: Ask for shai bil na'na and say sukkar khafif unless you want three spoons: the default is very sweet.
🚇 Railway Station · 6 min walk
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Show on mapكافتيريا المحطة · Sharia al-Mahatta
The cafeteria beside the station where you kill time before the Cairo train: shai, Turkish coffee and a fan.
Tip: Sleeper trains here run late almost by default: this is the roofed place to wait without paying for a room.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 10 min walk
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Show on mapكافيه شبابيك · Khaled ibn el-Walid
Egyptian-style specialty café in south Luxor: decent espresso, fresh juices, smoothies and wifi that actually works.
Tip: This is where young Luxor gathers at night: the one café in town with genuinely mixed tables.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 4 min walk
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Show on mapرمالة · Khaled ibn el-Walid
One of the few places in Luxor grinding to order: flat white, cold brew and shai baladi so as not to betray the block.
Tip: If you are weeks into hotel Nescafé, this is the reset: order cold brew, the only sane choice at 38 degrees.
🚇 Winter Palace · 19 min walk
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Show on mapلوتس · South Luxor
A southside ahwa with tawla boards on every table and shisha smoke hanging under the awning until late.
Tip: Tawla is Egyptian backgammon and it is played fast: accept a game, you will lose, but you gain conversation.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 6 min walk
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Show on mapكافتيريا العربية · South Luxor
A cafeteria at the far south of town beyond the resorts: juices, shisha and the Luxor that lives off tourism's map.
Tip: Juices are ordered by fruit and blended on the spot: guava in October is the one to ask for.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 14 min walk
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Show on mapقهوة الغورية · Karnak road
An ahwa halfway between Luxor Temple and Karnak on the avenue: the tea and shisha stop of those walking it.
Tip: If you are walking the Avenue of Sphinxes, this is the only shade at the halfway mark. There is no other.
🚇 Karnak · 12 min walk
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Show on mapكرنك ستاف · Karnak
A roofed, cooled café at the Karnak gate: the first shade after three hours of stone in full sun.
Tip: Drink iced karkadeh before you move on: cold hibiscus is Upper Egypt's own coolant and it works.
🚇 Karnak · 3 min walk
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Show on mapجينيسيس · North Karnak
A Nile-side café north of Karnak, terrace on the water and tables turned to face the West Bank at dusk.
Tip: The whole Theban mountain is visible at sundown from here: the East Bank's best sunset, and it is free.
🚇 Karnak · 22 min walk
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Show on mapجي جيز · Hilton Luxor
The Hilton's bar north of Karnak: hotel cocktails, air conditioning and the longest Egyptian wine list in town.
Tip: Try an Egyptian red from the Delta: it is not Burgundy, but it is part of the trip and you will not find it abroad.
🚇 Karnak · 22 min walk
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Show on mapجزيرة الموز · Banana Island
A tea and juice stand on the banana islet where the felucca lands: huge-leaf shade and bananas cut on the spot.
Tip: Bedouin mint tea is served boiling even at 40 degrees: in Egypt that is what genuinely cools you down.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 7 min taxi
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Show on mapوردة النيل · Gezira
A café-restaurant inland in Gezira among the vegetable plots, cool outdoor tables and freshly pressed cane juice.
Tip: Cane juice, asab, is pressed in front of you and drunk immediately: October is harvest and it peaks then.
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Show on mapالمعز · Gezira
A West Bank ahwa beside the dock: taxi drivers and guides wait for the ferry here over shai and a shisha.
Tip: This is where the day's taxi prices get set: listen for ten minutes before you bargain and you will pay less.
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Show on mapقهوة الشيشة · Gezira
An unnamed, menuless shisha stand facing the landing: three flavours, tea, and the view of the ferry coming in.
Tip: Shisha here costs a fifth of Corniche prices: cross the river just to smoke one and come back.
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Show on mapقهوة رمسيس · Medinet Habu
An awninged tea room facing Medinet Habu: iced karkadeh, mint tea and the whole temple across the road.
Tip: Sit down at four in the afternoon: the sun hits the pylon full on and you watch the colour shift from your table.
🚇 Ferry + 10 min taxi · Medinet Habu
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Show on mapقهوة بانوراما · Gurna
A raised Gurna terrace that opens at five in balloon season: coffee, tea and the necropolis spread below.
Tip: Book a railing table the night before: at 5.30 in high season there is not a free spot left up there.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 10 min taxi
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Show on mapعصير قصب · Sharia al-Mahatta
The station street is lined with spinning cane presses: a glass of green asab for next to nothing.
Tip: Drink it on the spot, never bottled: asab ferments within twenty minutes and that is when it turns on you.
🚇 Railway Station · 2 min walk
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Show on mapتوتي فروتي · Khaled ibn el-Walid
A gelato counter on the hotel strip open until midnight: mango, date and the Italian classics.
Tip: The date one is the one to try: made with the October harvest from the palms on the riverbank itself.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 2 min walk
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Show on mapسوق الأقصر · Sharia el-Souk
A covered street behind Luxor Temple: spices, loose karkadeh, scarves, galabeyas and haggling as a sport.
Tip: Open at a third and walk away smiling: the real price sits near half of whatever they say first.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 5 min walk
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Show on mapحبيبة · Sharia el-Souk
Hand-woven textiles by women from Upper Egyptian villages, fixed prices and the weaver's name on the label.
Tip: There is no haggling here, and that is the point: the price you see is what the weaver gets, printed on the tag.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 4 min walk
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Show on mapكارافانسراي · Medinet Habu
A mudbrick house beside Medinet Habu selling fair-trade craft from all Egypt: basketry, rugs and oasis pottery.
Tip: Ask to see the back courtyard: the looms are in use and you can watch the weaving, it is not a staged show.
🚇 Ferry + 10 min taxi · Medinet Habu
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Show on mapمكتبة عبودي · Luxor Temple
Luxor's Egyptology bookshop since 1909: tomb maps, academic titles and the guides the bazaar does not carry.
Tip: Buy the Theban necropolis tomb map before you cross: you will not find it anywhere on the West Bank.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 3 min walk
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Show on mapمصنع الألباستر · Gurna
Family workshops at the foot of the Theban mountain turning alabaster by hand exactly as three thousand years ago.
Tip: Real alabaster lets light through: ask them to hold a torch behind any piece before you buy it.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 9 min taxi
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Show on mapمتحف البردي · New Gurna
A papyrus workshop-museum in New Gurna showing the full process, from cut reed to painted sheet.
Tip: Real papyrus creases and springs back; banana leaf cracks. Fold a corner before you pay, always.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 5 min taxi
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Show on mapنيو دلتا بردي · Karnak
A papyrus workshop at the Karnak exit with painters working in view and pieces signed by the artist.
Tip: Ask for an unpainted sheet and have your name written in hieroglyphs: far cheaper than the painted ones.
🚇 Karnak · 2 min walk
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Show on mapسوق الخضار · East Luxor
The fruit and vegetable market Luxor actually shops at: harvest dates, guava, seasonal mango and loose spices.
Tip: October is date harvest: the fresh yellow crunchy ones are nothing like the dried export version.
🚇 Winter Palace · 8 min walk
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Show on mapالسوق المحلي · Karnak
A neighbourhood market east of town where you will not see a single tourist: vegetables, live chickens and workwear.
Tip: Go early on a Friday: it is the big market day and the farmers come in from the riverside villages.
🚇 Railway Station · 18 min walk
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Show on mapسوق السياح · Sharia el-Souk
The souvenir stretch of the souk: scarabs, Nefertiti busts, magnets and everything you must haggle down by half.
Tip: Anything sold as from the tomb is painted resin: buy what you like, never what they swear it is.
🚇 Luxor Temple · 5 min walk
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Show on mapبازار · Sharia el-Souk
A souk spice and karkadeh shop with Egyptian saffron, cumin, dried hibiscus and ready-mixed tagine blends.
Tip: Egyptian saffron is safflower, not saffron: fine for colour and cheap as it should be. Do not pay saffron prices.
🚇 Luxor Souk · 5 min walk
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Show on mapجلابية بارتي · Gezira
A Gezira tailor stitching made-to-measure galabeyas in Egyptian cotton: measured today, ready tomorrow.
Tip: Ask for real Egyptian cotton, not the blend: it is heavier, creases differently and lasts ten times longer.
🚇 Ferry 1 EGP · 7 min walk in Gezira
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Show on mapسلمى · South Luxor
A neighbourhood clothing and fabric shop with no tourist markup: cotton by the metre, scarves and everyday galabeyas.
Tip: Cotton by the metre is one of the best things to take home from Egypt and weighs nothing: ask for three metres.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 12 min walk
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Show on mapالمركز التجاري · South Luxor
A shopping arcade in south Luxor with perfumeries, clothes and electronics: the real mall, not the tourist one.
Tip: The best place to replace whatever broke on your trip without paying the Corniche surcharge.
🚇 Khaled ibn el-Walid · 7 min walk
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Show on mapالبازار المحلي · East Luxor
A neighbourhood bazaar east of the centre with housewares, jewellery and fabrics at prices nobody negotiates in English.
Tip: For silver jewellery without the tourist souk hustle, come here: you browse and nobody follows you.
🚇 Avenue of Sphinxes · 7 min walk
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Show on mapمخبز العبد · New Gurna
A West Bank pastry shop with semolina basbousa, baklava and sweet feteer meshaltet straight from the oven.
Tip: Buy basbousa by weight mid-morning, while it is still warm and the syrup has not fully set.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 4 min taxi
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Show on mapمخبز عطا · Gezira
A Gezira neighbourhood oven making aish baladi: the puffed wholemeal bread Egypt eats at every single meal.
Tip: It costs pennies and comes out every half hour: buy two and eat them walking, they never make it home.
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Show on mapمتجر نون للفن · Gezira
The Nūn gallery shop in Gezira selling work by Luxor artists: prints, ceramics and textiles, all signed and numbered.
Tip: The small prints fit a suitcase without folding and cost less than a painted bazaar papyrus.
🚇 Ferry 1 EGP · 6 min walk in Gezira
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Show on mapشباك تذاكر الكرنك · Karnak
Karnak's ticket office and official stand, also selling precinct maps and the open-air museum entry.
Tip: Buy the precinct map here: Karnak has thirty sub-sites and without it you miss half the good ones.
🚇 13 min calèche from Avenue of Sphinxes
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Show on mapسوبر ماركت النجار · Gezira
The Gezira grocer where you load up on water, nuts and sunscreen before the valleys, which have no shops at all.
Tip: Carry two litres of water per person into the valleys: there is one stall inside and it charges triple.
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Show on mapسوبر ماركت الربيع · Sharia al-Mahatta
The supermarket by the station where locals buy karkadeh, dates and spices by the kilo, at no souk markup.
Tip: Loose karkadeh here costs a fraction of the souk price and it is exactly the same hibiscus.
🚇 Railway Station · 2 min walk
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Show on mapنوس · South Luxor
A modern supermarket in south Luxor with fixed prices: water, snacks and packaged Egyptian goods to take home.
Tip: Packaged date molasses and Egyptian tahini are the best edible souvenir and clear customs without drama.
🚇 Winter Palace · 9 min walk
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Show on mapفي آي بي · Gezira
A Gezira shop selling assembled hookahs, charcoal and molasses tobacco, and booking balloons and day taxis on the side.
Tip: If you buy a hookah, ask them to dismantle it and wrap the glass: otherwise it will not survive the flight home.
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Show on mapسوبر ماركت حجاج · West Bank
A grocer in the southern West Bank, the last point with cold water and supplies before the fields and canals.
Tip: If you cycle to Medinet Habu or Malqata, load water here: after this there is nothing for six kilometres.
🚇 Public ferry 1 EGP + 3 min taxi
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