We are up early today to catch our charter flight to Luxor.  Viking takes care of all the logistics so it is pretty seamless!  The bus meets the plane to take all our bags to the ship,  our home now for 7 days, to take us on our first excursion today,  the Karnak Temple.   I was here 47 years ago and much had been uncovered since then.   There are 134 huge columns in the temple plus 60 acres is walls,  stairs, and ruins.  No sign of Johnny Carson,  BTW.

After checking into our wonderful stateroom on the MS Anteras, we saw the Luxor Temple,  in daylight into evening with lights!   Karnak was the temple of sun god Ra and the Luxor temple was temple of his wife.   Connecting the 2 is the Avenue of Sphnixes!  Gorgeous in daylight,  then with lights just after sunset.

Night lights add a special feeling