Luxor Transportation Tips by uglyscot

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: At the Valley of the Kings, all cars and buses have to park, and tourists then use the tractor driven train [taf taf] to get into the valley.
It costs 50 p [half an Egyptian pound].

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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: Everywhere in Egypt [and Rome and ....] the carriage drivers tout for custom. We always resisted the driver's shouts, but as we were really playing at being tourists , as opposed to being somewhere new because of work, we decided to go all the way and succomb to temptation
We selected our driver carefully. We stopped him, rather than letting one of the louder drivers choose us.
It was fun, clopping along the corniche to the Temple of Luxor.
The drivers decorate their carriages with brasses and other dangling ornaments, and keep the carriages in very good condition. The horses too were not ill treated, in spite of the long whips .
For a once in a life time experience it was good.

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