Until recently west bank transport generally had four legs,...

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...and Luxor town flashed upmarket horse-buggy transport, but now coaches rule.

...Medinet Habu, the Ramasseum and of course,...

...the externally dull Valley of the Kings...

Pictures left side: The Colossi of Memnon, west bank; Hatshepsut temple, west bank; Medinet Habu temple, west bank. Right side: horse carts in Luxor town; Hatshepsut temple engraving; Tutankhamun's tomb, Valley of the Kings, Luxor's west bank.

Mass tourism and a desire to accelerate tourist revenue made a Nile bridge essential to replace the time-consuming ferry service and one was duly completed in 2005, 10 miles [16kms] south of Luxor, allowing Red Sea day trippers [8,000 a day at the last count] to spread themselves all over Luxor's west bank... More in our Luxor Guide.

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