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From your hotel in Hurghada, one of our representatives will be waiting for you to take you in a private and modern car to start your journey of almost 4 hours to Luxor, during which you can take a break along the way to have a drink or go to the bathroom.
Our trip will begin with an amazing visit to the extensive Karnak Temple complex, which will highlight its vast hypostyle hall and other features built over many centuries. Then we will explore Temple of Luxor, known for its role in the annual festivals. Before returning to the hotel, you will have the opportunity to explore the nearby city.
Your second exploration destination on the west bank of Luxor is Queen Hatshepsut constructed the Bahari Monastery, a complex of pharaonic temples and tombs on the west bank of the Nile, to perform ceremonies that would aid her in the afterlife. After the Copts used this temple as a monastery in the 7th century AD, the region was given the present-day Arabic name Bahari Monastery. With slope platforms for climbing and descending, the temple is divided into three ascending amphitheaters. Originally built on the location, the monument was the funeral temple of Mentuhotep II, who lived in the eleventh Dynasty in the twenty-first century BC.
The next stop on our itinerary is the "Valley of the Kings," also called the Valley of the Kings. This valley in Egypt was used for five hundred years, from the sixteenth to the eleventh centuries BC, to build tombs for the pharaohs and nobles of the New Kingdom during the eighteenth through twentieth dynasties of ancient Egypt. The valley is situated in the center of the historic funerary city of Thebes, on the west bank of the Nile River, across from Thebes (modern-day Luxor). The amazing Valley of the Kings consists of the western valley and the eastern valley, which contains most of the royal tombs.
Your trip will come to an end at the Statues of Memnon, two massive statues built around 1350 BC that are the only remnants of a temple devoted to the Egyptian king of the 18th Dynasty, Pharaoh Amenhotep III. In the funerary city of Thebes, west of the Nile River from modern-day Luxor, is the temple.
When your trip is over, our guide will take you back to your Luxor hotel.
Meals included: Lunch