LUXOR
3
days / 2 nights
Day
1: Arrive
Luxor airport
and transfer to your hotel. Afternoon visit to the Temple of Karnak, with its
beautiful Temple of Amen-Re and Hypostyle Hall, the largest hall of any temple
in the world. Continue to the imposing Temple of Luxor.
Day
2: Morning visit to the
West Bank, the famed Colossi of Memnon and the
beautifully terraced Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Continue to the imposing
Valley of the Kings, which contains the secret tombs of New Kingdom Pharaohs.
Afternoon at leisure. (B)
Day
3:
Transfer to Luxor
airport. (B)
TOUR INCLUDES:
•
Round trip transfers
•
2 nights accommodations with
breakfast
•
English-speaking guides
•
Tour and transfers by private
air-conditioned vehicles
•
Entrance fees
TOURS FROM LUXOR
DENDERAH and
ABYDOS
Full day
Drive to Denderah to visit the Temple of Hathor, goddess of love, music and
wine. It was built in the 1st century BC and is the only circular
representation of the heavens found in Egypt. A Greco-Roman temple first
initiated by Ptolemy III with numerous additions by subsequent Roman Ptolemaic
rulers. It also houses a famous painting of Queen Cleopatra. Continue to
Abydos to visit the Temple of Seti I, viewing the famous list of kings and
some of most beautifully painted reliefs from Pharaonic periods.
NOBLES TOMBS
Half-day
The northern hills of the west bank are filled with the rock-hewn tombs of
princes from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period. Inside, the tombs are
decorated with vivid wall paintings showing scenes of everyday life,
hieroglyphic biographies and inscriptions telling of the noblemen's journeys
into Africa.
