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Our representative will pick you up in a contemporary car in the morning from your lodging in Cairo or Giza so that you can catch your flight to Luxor. There, you will meet our professional tour guide during your amazing 2-day excursion in Luxor.
We will have the chance to tour the West Bank of Luxor today by going to:
The Valley of the Kings: Most of the kings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Dynasties of the New Kingdom were buried in the dry river valley on the west bank. Because there are fewer tombs in the western valley, the eastern portion of the Valley of the Kings is the more well-known of the two valleys. and the Valley of the Kings has more than 60 tombs in total, with another 20 unfinished tombs that are little more than pits, The isolated nature of this valley represented another reason for choosing it as the last resting place of the kings, as tombs were stolen in ancient times, as happened in the pyramids of the Old and Middle Kingdoms, and to avoid that fate, they chose hidden underground tombs in an isolated desert valley, and the first New Kingdom ruler to be buried in the Valley of the Kings was Thutmose I.
The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut: Hatshepsut's father, King Thutmose I, as well as the goddess Hathor and the goddess Anubis, and a compartment open to the sky was dedicated to the sun god “Ra Hor Ashti”, and inside the temple there is the famous Holy of Holies compartment, and the walls of the temple were covered with scenes representing religious rituals and ceremonies, as well as the transportation of obelisks from the quarries. The walls of the temple were covered with scenes representing temple rituals and religious ceremonies, as well as the transfer of obelisks from the quarries to Karnak Temple, with emphasis on the most prominent inscriptions in the central balcony of the temple, which represent Queen Hatshepsut's expedition to the country of Punt, depicting its population and houses, as well as the surrounding environment.
The Closos of Memnon: The reason for the name “Memnon” is due to a curious story, and that is that when the two statues were cracked in ancient times in the time of the Greeks, especially the left statue, they emitted sounds similar to sad songs due to the passage of air through those cracks, so the Greeks said that those sounds were the weeping of the mother of the hero “Memnon” who was killed by Achilles in the Trojan Wars, hence the name Memnon, and because of those sounds, Among the most well-known ancient monuments were the two statues.
After a delicious lunch at a local restaurant, we will return you to your hotel for the night.
