East Bank

Understand

The layout of Luxor town is fairly straightforward: arranged about the temples of Karnak and Luxor actually some 3 km (1.9 miles apart, in the north and south of the city respectively) are four main roads with a network of many small streets between them:

the Corniche el-Nil (usually just referred to as 'the Corniche', running along the east bank of the Nile and connecting most of the major attractions

Sharia al-Mahatta

linking the railway station with the area around Luxor Temple

Sharia Karnak

running inland parallel to the Nile and the Corniche

Sharia Televizyon

in the southern part of the town, an area of inexpensive accommodation

April 2010The reconstruction of the centre of Luxor is largely complete...but now they're digging up the town centre to expose the twin rows of spinxes that lined the processional route from Karnak to Luxor temple. As a result, a large number of buildings including hotels, churches and,I believe, mosques together with many private houses have been or will be demolished. Some of the recovered sphinxes are in good condition for their age although many are just fragments which are being fitted into cement replicas.

Completed major works include widening the main road along the corniche allowing the coaches from the Red Sea resorts to quickly access Karnak temple & the Valley of the Kings.