Dendera and Abydos Temples Day Tour from Luxor
Overview
We provide private Egyptologist tour guides for trips to the Temples of Dendera, Hathor, and Abydos from Luxor. Book your Luxor trip with us online now. From Luxor, go to Egypt's most well-known temples, Dendera and Abydos.
The Temple of Dendera is Qena's attraction. It is distinguished by its unique architecture and its paintings that retain their colors. It is encircled by several ancient sites and has twelve crypts. It was built by King Ptolemy for the goddess of love and beauty.
King Ptolemy III constructed the temple out of sandstone, and other Roman emperors altered it over the roughly 200-year building period. Its distinctive architecture, which is abundant with engravings and paintings, sets it apart. Statues and hieroglyphic inscriptions adorn its walls and columns, and they are exquisitely and precisely carved... Come explore its history with us.
When Egypt was an empire, it stretched from Mesopotamia to the Algerian mountains and ended at the headwaters of the Nile in central Africa.During that time, Abydos was a place of pilgrimage for all Egyptians... Because its remains were buried beneath the sand, Abydos was known until recently as the "buried village of Al-Araba." The name was changed to its real name, Abydos, it is one of the province's and Egypt's oldest and most famous villages.
We provide private Egyptologist tour guides for trips to the Temples of Dendera, Hathor, and Abydos from Luxor. Book your Luxor trip with us online now. From Luxor, go to Egypt's most well-known temples, Dendera and Abydos.
The Temple of Dendera is Qena's attraction. It is distinguished by its unique architecture and its paintings that retain their colors. It is encircled by several ancient sites and has twelve crypts. It was built by King Ptolemy for the goddess of love and beauty.
King Ptolemy III constructed the temple out of sandstone, and other Roman emperors altered it over the roughly 200-year building period. Its distinctive architecture, which is abundant with engravings and paintings, sets it apart. Statues and hieroglyphic inscriptions adorn its walls and columns, and they are exquisitely and precisely carved... Come explore its history with us.
When Egypt was an empire, it stretched from Mesopotamia to the Algerian mountains and ended at the headwaters of the Nile in central Africa.During that time, Abydos was a place of pilgrimage for all Egyptians... Because its remains were buried beneath the sand, Abydos was known until recently as the "buried village of Al-Araba." The name was changed to its real name, Abydos, it is one of the province's and Egypt's oldest and most famous villages.
Inclusion
- A certified Egyptologist tour guide
- Bottled water during the excursion
- Every tax and service charge
- Transportation to and from your accommodation in Luxor
- Each transport takes place in an air-conditioned, private vehicle.
- Fees for admission to each of the previously named places
Exclusion
- Tipping
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
Itinerary
To begin our journey, we leave Luxor early in the morning and go to Abydos to see the Temple of Seti I. King Seti I constructed this temple, which his son, King Ramses II, and his grandson, Merneptah, finished... Its distinctive design and the fact that it has seven chambers for the worship of six gods in addition to Seti himself are what make it famous.
The original facade of the temple has recently been uncovered and reconstructed, revealing the two large edifices of the temple, and the space beyond is the location of the first courtyard and the second courtyard of the temple. The temple's two main structures, the first and second courtyards, were destroyed, leaving only the temple's facade and present entrance, with its square columns and walls that featured engravings of some of Ramses II's wartime events and Asian conquests. They also bore some of his commemorative inscriptions.
In contrast to other Egyptian temples, the Abydos temple has a particularly distinctive layout that takes the shape of the Latin letter L or a right angle. The Holy of Holies, the main compartment, is located perpendicular to the series of courtyards and successive halls of columns.
The roof rests on twenty-four columns. The columns are shaped like bundles of papyrus, and their capitals are in the shape of a flower that has not yet bloomed.
We next proceed to Dendera. The catacombs of the Temple of Dendera were the place designated for festival celebrations in ancient Egypt. From there, golden statues of deities and ritual tools necessary for performing religious rites were taken out. Inside were costly equipment and priceless sculptures. They contain an important collection of inscriptions and scenes, including a scene of the opening of the stone door, the winged priest pushing the winged sun disk in front of him between the east and west signs, the ritual of offering bread to the goddess Hathor, Lady of Dendera, in addition to the ritual of stabbing the crocodile in front of Horus with the sharpness of the scenes of the seven Hathors. In the end, you will return again to Luxor.
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15% of the total cost of the trip, with cancellation from the booking date up to 61 days before the start date of the trip
25% of the total cost of the trip, with cancellation from 60 to 31 days before the start date of the trip
35% of the total cost of the trip, with cancellation 30 to 15 days before the start date of the trip
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