WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 — LUXOR: Arrive

You’ll fly into Luxor International Airport (LXR) from which you’ll taxi to our group headquarters, the historic Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor. Rest and settle in. (In the slideshow at right, every other picture is from our hotel. The others are scenes of Luxor.)

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