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| Anyone with a university education can tell you that the original Luxor is in Las Vegas, but, if you are one of those puritanical anti-gambling types, then the Egyptian version isn't half bad. The famous Temple at Karnak is popularly known as the "world's largest open air museum," and is the biggest man-made religious area in the world. The temple, located near the banks of the Nile river, is the second most visited area in Egypt after the Pyramids at Cairo. Unlike the original Vegas version, there is not an enormous light shining directly into space. Also unlike Las Vegas, which has only been drawing a crowd since the 1950s, Luxor has been a tourist magnet since Greco-Roman times. Even the ancients vacationed in Egypt -- this is no fly-by-night tourist destination. Instead, the fully blossomed tourist industry is ready and welcoming to visitors from the world over, hotels range from backpacker friendly hostels to 5 star luxury establishments, the requisite: bars, nightclubs and restaurants are also available.
Luxor is crowded with bazaars selling the standard Tutankhamen trinkets and, more notably, locally-quarried alabaster, from the eponymous nearby town of Alabastron. No trip to Luxor is complete without an excursion to the nearby Valley of the Kings, an amazing necropolis built into a limestone canyon to entomb the princely Pharaohs. Unfortuntately, life, and history, have begun to impersonate art -- or at least pop-art -- and even Luxor (the Egyptian version) has a flashy Las Vegas-style nightly sound and light show. Check your local listings!
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