{"id":286126,"date":"2023-01-19T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/luxor"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:08:36","slug":"luxor","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/egypt\/luxor","title":{"rendered":"Luxor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>World&#8217;s largest open-air museum<\/h2>\n<p>On the eastern bank of the famous Nile River in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/bestemmingen\/afrika\/egypte-reizen\"><strong>Egypt<\/strong><\/a> lies <strong>Luxor<\/strong>, known for its many well-preserved monuments. For this reason, it is even called the world&#8217;s largest open-air museum. Luxor is often divided into three distinct areas; the city of Luxor on the east side of the Nile, the city of<strong> Karnak<\/strong> further north and <strong>Thebes<\/strong> on the west side of the Nile, opposite Luxor. This capital of the pharaohs is home to countless attractions such as the famous temples of Karnak, Luxor and <strong>Hapshepsut<\/strong>, the <strong>Valley of the Kings<\/strong> and the <strong>Valley of the Queens<\/strong>. En route to both valleys, you can visit the <strong>Colossi of Memnon<\/strong>, no less than 18-meter-high stone statues each carved from a single block of sandstone. Nearby you will find the working-class village of <strong>Dier El Medina<\/strong> whose inhabitants built the tombs of the pharaohs and decorated them in the Valley of the Kings. Time for action? Then take a boat ride on a Felucca, a traditional wooden sailboat, and admire the sunset or contemplate the city from the sky on an unforgettable balloon ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital of the pharaohs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286069,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[693],"highlight_category":[600],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-286126","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-egypt","highlight_category-hoogtepunt-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/286126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/286126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=286126"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=286126"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=286126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}