Luxor was our embarkation point for a week long cruise down the Nile to Aswan and back. We had time to go to the museum in Luxor before boarding our small twenty cabin boat and settling in. Luxor is incredible, aside from its bustling nature as a city it is a hub for history. Often referred to as the "world's greatest open-air museum," is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and is renowned for its preserved relics of the ancient city of Thebes. Luxor is divided by the Nile into two areas commonly called the East Bank and West Bank which were considered in Ancient Egyptian times as symbolizing respectively Life and Death.

On the East Bank, we had the chance to explore the Luxor Temple and the Karnak Temple complex, which were once connected by the Avenue of Sphinxes. The West Bank is home to a number of tombs and temples, including the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, which house the tombs of many pharaohs and their wives. I did this trip with a digital vidoe camera I had aquired, long before I really got deeply into photography. Very few of the images remain and none of the video, but I still look on them with fondess.