Overnight Tour to Abydos, Dendera and Luxor from Cairo

Our tour leader will meet you at your hotel in Cairo to accompany you to Cairo International Airport for your flight to Luxor to explore the great ancient places within Luxor and experience one of our marvelous day tours and excursions from Cairo. You will be accompanied by a private tour guide from Luxor airport to the west bank to the Nile to start your Luxor day tours as follows:

The colossi of Memnon

The famous 2 colossal statues for the King Amenhotep III where a temple was standing.

As well as the temple of El Deir El Bahri of Queen Hatshepsut which was built during the 18th dynasty new kingdom by one of the strongest rulers of ancient Egypt, the daughter of King Tuthmosis I. The temple was built by Senmout up the mountain to commemorate the worship of the semi-god Queen Hatshepsut.

Continue your tour to the Valley of the Kings, the Egyptian pharaohs of the new kingdom used this place to bury themselves for about 500 years and there are 62 royal tombs for greats kings there as still more tombs are being discovered till now, among the famous tombs are those of Kings Tutankhamen and Ramses III.

Transfer to take have lunch meal served at a good quality local restaurant in Luxor before resuming your Luxor east bank tours to visit the huge Karnak Temple. This site is without a doubt one of the largest archaeological collections in the world, it includes a complex of temples and cemeteries that were built for many Egyptian gods. especially the famous trinity of God Amun, his wife Mut, and his son Khonsu. It has the largest hypostyle hall in the world with 134 columns each is capable of carrying 200 men on top (Pillared hall built by King Ramses II).

Then you will transfer to your hotel in Luxor and overnight
Meals: Lunch

Enjoy your breakfast, then be ready to meet your private tour guide and professional driver to transfer you to visit Abydos temple:

It is located in the city of Sohag, 135 km north of Luxor. Abydos is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt and the whole world, that's because of its religious and historical significance in ancient Egypt. It contains the tombs of the first kings of Egypt during the early dynastic period, and there are also many monuments related to the 19th family during the prosperous new kingdom, and the lands of this region were considered sacred for ancient Egyptians as the temple was built by King Seti I and completed by his successor and son King Ramses II.

Then continue to see Dendera temple, It`s located in the city of Qena, 60 km north of Luxor. It was built 5000 years ago for the worship of Goddess Hathor, goddess of love, beauty, and motherhood in the ancient Egyptian religion.

This will be the end of your tours in Egypt after you will be transferred to Luxor airport for your flight back to Cairo by our representatives.
 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

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