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Dahabeah on the Nile, 1891. Until the 1870s the dahabiya was the standard for tourists to travel up and down the river Nile. According to Donald Reid, in 1858 "a forty-day round trip from Cairo to Luxor cost about £110; a fifty-day trip to Aswan and back, about £150". [2]
The King’s Festivities Road. Avenue of Sphinxes or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road (Arabic: طريق الكباش) is a 2.7 km (1.7 mi) long avenue which connects Karnak Temple with Luxor Temple having been uncovered in the ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor), with sphinxes and ram-headed statues lined up on both flanks.
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At the 2012 census, the population of the area which in 2024 was formed into the new Luxor Governorate was 1,429,281 people. 47.4% of them lived in urban areas, while 52.6% lived in rural areas. The annual population growth rate is 18.2 per thousand. .
The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (/ ˈ k ɑːr. n æ k /), [1] comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt.. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I (reigned 1971–1926 BC) in the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000–1700 BC) and continued into the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305–30 BC), although most of the extant ...
Aswan – Luxor Rafa'a Nag'a Hamadi – Sohag Raghama Aswan – Luxor Ragih Island Aswan – Luxor Rahmaniya Alexandria – Bayala Alexandria – Shirbeen Bassili – Damanhur Bayala – Damanhur Damanhur – Kafr el-Sheikh Damanhur – Tanta Rahmaniya (Qibli) Luxor – Nag'a Hamadi Raml Abu Qir – Alexandria Alexandria – Rosetta Ramlet el-Ingib
Missile boat: 6 active [4] 82 tonnes Osa-class Soviet Union: Missile boat 8 active [4] 235 tonnes Ramadan-class United Kingdom: Missile boat 6 active [4] 317 tonnes Tiger-class West Germany: Missile boat 1 active [4] 265 tonnes Shanghai II-class People's Republic of China: Gunboat: 4 active [4] 135 tonnes
The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths (or whitewater rapids) of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. In some places, these stretches are punctuated by whitewater, while at others the water flow is ...