Luxor: Sunrise Hot Air Balloon Ride with Transfer

At 70 EUR with the transfer included, this is one of the cheaper balloon rides listed for Luxor, and the arithmetic is the reason to look at it. Around two dozen Luxor flights sit on this site and most of them cross the same ground at the same hour. What separates them is the price and what the price covers. Here the transfer is inside the number, not bolted on afterwards. The flight goes up at sunrise, which in Luxor is the only sensible hour and also why the alarm goes off in the dark. Underneath is the Nile and the narrow band of farmland along it, worked in small plots, and then the hard line where the irrigation stops and the desert begins. The temples and tombs of the west bank sit on that line. From a basket they read as part of the same system as the fields, which is not how they look from a coach park. Balloon flights in Luxor are weather calls made on the morning rather than fixtures that run whatever the sky does, so leave a spare day in the itinerary if the date matters. Wear closed shoes for a landing on rough ground and bring a layer for the cold before sunrise. The whole morning takes considerably longer than the time spent in the air.