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Jane Akshar's Luxor News Blog
See the above for more details and her comments about security.
- Lecture Notes: Moalla And The Lost City Of Hefat
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has been taking notes at the Mummification Museum's lecture series again. I might have misled people last week saying this lecture was going to by about Ankhtifi and it wasn’t but it put him and Moalla in context...
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Luxor News Blog - Jane Is Back!
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Brilliant News! Jane Akshar is back, alive and kicking, and delivering great news items about life and archaeology in Luxor. Actually, she never went away. She moved blog addresses and I didn't realize. So she is up and running...
- Travel: Falling For Egypt
Guardian Unlimited - four page version Guardian Unlimited Print version (Lynn Barber) After Cairo, which is hard work with all the fumes and traffic jams, Luxor and Aswan are pure pleasure. Aswan in the far south is where Egypt suddenly feels like Africa...
- Damaged Abydos
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Egypt
Travelling outside the convoy
Jane Akshar's Luxor News Blog
The convoys have been stopped and a much greater degree of freedom has been permitted for travellers in Egypt. But what does that actually mean? Jane Akshar gives an idea of what it's like to be convoy-free:
As you know the convoy system stopped in Upper Egypt on 1st December so what is it like now. Well I have had 2 trips outside the convoy, one to Abydos and one on the road to Aswan. So what are the differences.
You can leave when you want. We started to Abydos at 6:30 so we arrived when it was cool. (In the summer I would suggest leaving seriously early.) We were able to stop on the way to go to the toilet. We spent as long as we wanted at the site, had lunch in the little café which was really nice and didn’t have to visit Dendara which I always found a disappointment after Abydos. Much nicer to visit on its own and using the Lotus boat. We actually spent about 5 hours there.
Going to Moalla (Ankhtifi) and El Kab on the road to Aswan. Well first we were able to do so without having to wait for another convoy to leave the site. I like Ankhtifi but would not want to spend 6 hours there. In the old days we would have been able to do either Moalla or El Kab but not both.
See the above for more details and her comments about security.
- Lecture Notes: Moalla And The Lost City Of Hefat
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has been taking notes at the Mummification Museum's lecture series again. I might have misled people last week saying this lecture was going to by about Ankhtifi and it wasn’t but it put him and Moalla in context...
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Luxor News Blog - Jane Is Back!
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Brilliant News! Jane Akshar is back, alive and kicking, and delivering great news items about life and archaeology in Luxor. Actually, she never went away. She moved blog addresses and I didn't realize. So she is up and running...
- Travel: Falling For Egypt
Guardian Unlimited - four page version Guardian Unlimited Print version (Lynn Barber) After Cairo, which is hard work with all the fumes and traffic jams, Luxor and Aswan are pure pleasure. Aswan in the far south is where Egypt suddenly feels like Africa...
- Damaged Abydos
...