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I took train from Aswan to Luxor. There are only 3 official trains, 06:00, 18:00, and 20:00 for foreigners. However, the tourist office told me in Luxor that I could take any other trains to Luxor if I brough the ticket on the train. This information was confirmed by another VTer to be wrong and she could not even get through the ticket conductor at the train before she board on the train. To avoid this potential trouble, I took the 06:00 train (1st class 26 EGP May 2006) to Luxor. The 1st class is very comfortable (see pic). If you are coming from Cario, you can take one of those foreigners cleeper. See this page for details: Train from Cairo Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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If you take the overnight train from Cairo to Luxor and are travelling independantly, be aware that the train arrives in Luxor very early in the morning before the town has woken up. There will be taxis waiting at the train station for the early morning train, so you should be fine moving on - but remember to haggle withthe taxi driver on the price before you get into his car. Make sure yuo know what you want to do at 6am before anybody is around and don't expect your hotel to be able to let you check-in this early - my hotel did but it took a little bit of a financial gratuity to ease the early morning check-in which was worth every penny just for a couple of hours sleep in a bed and a shower. Theme: Train
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We are 2 couples and one 3 year old child traveling in Egypt. We would like to make reservations on a sleeping train from Cairo to Luxor, and returning from Luxor to Alexandria. The date of our travel from Cairo to Luxor is: Departing Cairo February 10 in the evening. Our date of return from Luxor to Alexandria is: Departing Luxor February 13 in the evening. Would you kindly forward me, at my email address, information for this travel (schedule, prices, etc.) Leave a Comment Theme: TrainPhone: 207-465-2761Website: margaret_mary2005@yahoo.com
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We took the overnight train from Cairo to Aswan, which takes 16 hours. The 1st class service provides very wide swivel seating and plenty of leg room, so we saved ourselves a significant sum over tickets for the "sleeper" service. I tied my shoe laces to my luggage, but casual survey of the other passengers showed little to be worried about--families and businessmen who could care less about our luggage. The tracks were in good repair and the train wasted little time in moving between stations. Luxor is roughly half-way between Cairo and Aswan, so we returned north from Aswan by way of local vans that make quick work of the short run visits to temples at Esna and Idfu along the way. And, on the trip from Luxor back to Cairo, all train tickets for 1st class were sold out, so we purchased 2nd class seats. As it turned out, 2nd class was somewhat more entertaining in terms of conversations with fellow passengers, and the seats while a bit more confining than 1st were really quite adequate for the shorter run. The great thing about train travel is that if the seat makes the bottom sore, a passenger can get up and walk around to ease the discomfort. The Luxor Train station is a long walk through the center of Luxor from the waterfront hotel area, but is still close enough for backpackers or even those like ourselves who pull wheeled luggage. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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