LUXOR The city of palaces. It is ancient Thebes. It has a total area of about 416 km² and a total population of about 500 thousand inhabitants. Luxor is an Egyptian town built on the ruins of ancient Thebes, which was the capital of the New Kingdom of the Pharaonic era of Egypt, and was the capital of the fourth nome of Upper Egypt. It is located on the eastern bank of the Nile River, about 230 km north of the first cataract (Aswan). And it is 670 km south of Cairo. It contemplates many monuments so that UNESCO classifies it as the richest city of tourist and monumental vestiges. According to this organization, Luxor has one sixth of the World Heritage Site. Like the temples of Luxor, Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, the funerary temple of Ramses III (Medinet Habu), The Rameseum of Ramses II and other temples more ... It has more than a thousand tombs of different social layers of the country spread over the Theban Mountain. It is located in the Nile Valley, on the banks of which is Luxor; a few hundred meters beyond the river the vegetation disappears completely and the desert spreads on both sides. The western bank has very steep relief. The climate is hot and dry, and the temperature tends to exceed 40 degrees in summer .... Welcome to Luxor! For visitors to Luxor, we offer various activities such as ...