WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 — LUXOR: Arrive

You’ll fly into Luxor International Airport (LXR) from which you’ll taxi to the Sky & Telescope group headquarters, the m.s. Hamees (docked at the Sofitel Winter Palace). Rest and settle in. (In the slideshow at right, every other picture is from our cruise ship. The others are scenes of Luxor.)

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