We had a brilliant day in Luxor, our driver was so kind and interesting to chat with during the journey about the history and culture within Egypt. Our tour guide was full of energy and clearly knew a lot, I have a keen interest in ancient Egypt so I knew a lot of what he had to share but that's not his fault, I've just done a lot of reading and watched a lot of documentaries!
My favourite stop was at Hatshepsut's mortuary temple. Our guide didn't come up with us but did speak outside the temple about it and pointed parts out. This was fine for us as I knew a lot about it already and was the one place I was most keen to visit but had we not had that knowledge I think it would have been difficult to really appreciate everything we were looking at.
The lunch stop at Cafe Paris was absolutely outstanding, wonderful hosts and the best food we had during our holiday. Such authentic food, we sat outside overlooking their farmland.
We thought the trip was excellent value, we could have done without the trip to the Alabaster factory, we don't do "stuff" so felt we were wasting their time as we wouldn't be purchasing anything despite them having some beautiful and well crafted items, hence the 4 not 5 stars.
Thank you for a wonderful and mind blowing day, we are returning to Egypt next year and plan on using Essential Egypt Experiences for a trip to Cairo this time!
