Egypt
Luxor via Google Earth
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=253
For anyone planning a visit to Luxor, Jane Akshar has passed on a tip from some of her visitors at the above URL on her Luxor News blog. Satellite images from Google Earth delivered detailed images of the area, providing maps of tracks and paths which provided a different way of exploring Luxor. Details of the Google Earth project, and download details are at:
http://earth.google.com/
As an aside, Jane is on holiday for two weeks so her site will not be updated until she returns.
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