Overnight Trip to Luxor from Safaga Port. While your ship waits in Safaga Port, youcan see Luxor. Visit Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple on the East bank of the Nile and see the Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut Temple in Deir El Bahari on the West bank. These ruins are not to be missed!
Tour itinerary:
Day 1:Luxor and Karnak temples.
Meet & assist at Safaga Port, where you will meet our representative & transfer to Luxor by a modern and private air-conditioned vehicle (approximately 3 hours far from Safaga) to enjoy your splendid trip.
Enjoy a private tour to explore the East Bank of Luxor. Start your tour with a visit to the great Karnak Temple. Three temples of Ancient Egypt claimed supremacy over all the others: the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, the Temple of Re-Atum at Heliopolis and the Temple of Amon-Re at Karnak. However, only one has been spared the ravages of time to amaze the visitor even today, 4,000 years after its initial stage of building – the Temple of Karnak. The Temple of Amon-Re was the melting pot of religion and politics. Its monumental courts and halls witnessed the most critical events of Egyptian history. Lunch at local restaurant.
Then, enjoy a tour to the magnificent Luxor Temple, most important monument, and most sacred of sites. It was conceived as a remote southern annex to the temple of Karnak, at a distance of about 3 kilometres from it. Hence, it faces the Karnak Temple, and was connected to it by a long processional avenue, flanked by rows of sphinxes on either side. Many of those sphinxes have been unearthed and guard the entrance to the temple, but more still lie buried beneath the buildings of modern Luxor.
Day 2: Valley of the Kings, Deir el-Bahari, the Colossi of Memnon, Return to Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. Enjoy your magnificent visit to the Valley of the Kings, the most famous concentration of royal tombs in Ancient Egypt. Disappointed by the failure of the pyramids to protect their royal owners from robbery and desecration, the kings of the New Kingdom decided to adopt a more secure mode of burial. Instead of the pyramid, they opted for deep, rock-cut galleries and halls.
Continue to the Colossi of Memnon. The first monument one encounters on a visit to the west bank of Luxor is the site of the funerary temple of Amenhotep III (18th Dynasty). The temple itself has all but completely disappeared, but the colossal twin statues of the king, which once stood proudly in front of the entrance to the temple, are still there to greet the visitor.
Enjoy a visit to Deir el-Bahari, Steep cliffs in the shape of a horseshoe form a natural background to two monumental buildings standing side by side, each belonging to a different period. The earlier one, on the left, was built by King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (11th Dynasty), as a combined tomb and funerary monument. More than 500 years later, the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty), whose tomb is situated in the Valley of the Kings, used the same site for the construction of her funerary temple. After all that you will be transferred to Safaga port to embark your cruise.
Included services:
- Pick up service from Safaga Port & return
- Transfer Safaga / Luxor / Safaga by private tourist vehicle with air conditioned.
- All transportation service during the tour by private air conditioned vehicle.
- Accommodation 01 night in a 4* hotel in Luxor with breakfast included.
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Daily lunch in a typical restaurant.
- Entrance fees to the mentioned historical sites.
- Expert Egyptology guide during the tours.
- Daily mineral water bottle.
- All service charges & taxes.
Excluded services
- Beverage not mentioned, tipping, personal expenses, or any extras not mentioned.
- Entrance fees to the Tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the King.
Price per person:
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Mercure Karnakor similar 4 * + |
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