Luxor Nightlife

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Sound & Light Show will accompany you in a further delightful tour on foot inside Karnak Complex as you move around, till you reach the sacred lake to have your seat and enjoy the last portion of the show

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Dress Code: Free

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The Cruise boats on the Nile usually do a stopover at Aswan and feature a Nubian night of local traditional dances and song. These are good fun and involve elements of audience participation. The colours of the traditional costumes are vibrant and the rythms created on the drums are great. The drums used are very similar to the Irish Bodhran and links with the people of north africa are known to have existed in ancient trade routes on the Atlantic so perhaps the Bodhran is not an Irish invention after all !

This is a must do evening activity! It is great fun! It can be booked through your travel rep or Jolley’s travel agent by the Winter Palace for between 28-35GBP. A mini bus collects you from your hotel and you get taken to the Movenpick resort on Crocodile Island. Here, you have to put on the traditional Egyptian robe (yours to keep) and then you all board either a Felucca or motor boat to gently cruise down the Nile for an hour at sunset. Then you all take your seat in the tent where you are entertained by a band, dancers, belly dancer, snake charmer and whirling dervish. Also included is an all you can eat and drink Egyptian buffet - so much to choose from! There is a lot of audience participation. I can’t believe I plucked up the courage to have a cobra wrapped round my neck! The night starts at 5pm and carries on until around 9.30pm when the minibus drops you back to your hotel.

Dress Code: You are given Egyptian dress to wear and keep.

We went to a son et lumiere (sound and light) show at Karnak temple. I have to say after paying our £14 we were all disappointed and very bored with it all. I think I expected more from the show-perhaps I was imagining the Jean Michel Jarre concert in the London docklands I don’t know but this sound and light show was nothing like it!
The narrative which I lost track of very quickly was accompanied by parts of the temple being illuminated by white or the odd coloured light-there were no moving images or lasers to be seen anywhere. The music that was played during the performance didn’t sound remotely Egyptian- again I think I imagined Aida or Nabucco.
As one part of the narrative is over everyone moves en mass to the next point where another part of the narrative begins. The last 45 minutes were sat on some seats overlooking the sacred lake while the music, disjointed narrative and lights continued-the lights in the sky from the crescent moon, stars and planets were far more interesting

Opposite the Luxor temple on the corniche walkway below road level is the metropolitan cafe/bar. Cool air from the nile makes this pleasent day and evening and you avoid the seedy side of bar life in Luxor. Not cheap about E£12 a bottle of domestic.
Locals hang out and drink here.

Its not the best sound and light show in Egypt but is still a great experience, and if you are only there for a Nile cruise it`s the most accessable. Definately worth a visit

Dress Code: cover up to keep the mozzies at bay, but it will still be warm. A small torch is handy to help keep your footing.

the picture is the ticket from the show at Abu Simbol, and will be replaced when I can find the Karnak one !

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It's more interesting than a disco or a nightclub if you want to feel the pulse of the city's real life.
And you can also buy some cheap souvenirs.