This is going to sound ridiculous, but I didn't realise that Luxor Museum was in Luxor - I've seen pics of it. I assumed it was hewn out of a cliff - it's not. It's bang in the town centre. Still wherever it is, it's a pretty good place to spy some sphinxes. Between there and Karnack there is pretty much loads of them.
Saw that Valley of the Kings place too, whilst I was in Luxor. Didn't get to go ballooning, apparently they're looking into the safety aspect. Big fat boo.
Currently cruising the Nile. The boat goes from Luxor to Aswan, via two other temples which, whilst plenty temple-y, don't have the big name cache of, say, Valley of the Kings. So they've tried to do something a bit different to make it memorable. In Edfu (formerly Apollopolis which is a lot more fun to say) they've made it so that the only way to travel is by horse and cart. In Kom Ombo (fun to say as it is) they found a heap of mummified crocodiles dedicated to the local crocodile god, consequently you exit through a crocodile museum, which makes a change from a giftshop. 
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