Private Guided Tour to Luxor from Hurghada Valley of Kings & Karnak

15:30 Hours • Historical And Cultural • Hurghada to Luxor • Family • By Road • Active

Take a journey in Upper Egypt with your own Private Egyptologist tour guide to visit the most famous archaeological sites that Egypt has to offer.

Travel by Private bus from Hurghada to Luxor which takes about 4 hours to visit the mysteries of ancient Thebes. It was an ancient city located east of the Nile about 800 kilometers south of the Mediterranean. Its ruins lie within the modern city of Luxor.

Your tour will start by crossing over to the West Bank of the Nile to visit The Valley of the Kings. Here you will be met by your private guide who will start your journey into another world going back hundreds and hundreds of years.

The Valley of the Kings is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th century to 11th century BC, rock cut tombs were excavated for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the new kingdom. It contains at least 63 tombs which consisted of both favourite nobles and king.

After this we take you to an Alabaster factory. In Egypt Alabaster is found in two places, a few miles behind the Valley of the Kings and the Malawi region. The ancient Pharaohs used this wonderful material for many purposes, including household items, ritual objects and for a number of different funerary purposes.

Then we move to the most characteristic temple in the whole of Egypt – The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. It was built of limestone, not sandstone like most of the funerary temples of the New Kingdom period. This Temple consists of three imposing terraces, built for Queen Hatshepsut to commemorate her achievements and to serve as a funerary temple for her as well as a sanctuary of the God AMON RA.

After we move to The Colossi of Memnon. They are a pair of giant statues made of stone that are located in the Theban Necropolis in Luxor. They reach a staggering 20 meters high and are made of quartzite sandstone. These statues depict Amenhotep III in a seated position.

After this we go to the East bank where you will have lunch in a restaurant overlooking the Nile.

Optional: You can choose to take a ride in a motor boat on the Nile around Banana Island.

Then we move to the outstanding Karnak Temple. This temple comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings in Egypt. They are the largest temples all over the world. A high 20m mud brick enclosure wall surrounded all these buildings. On your way to the entrance you will find a ram-headed avenue of Sphinxes.

After your amazing day we return you back to Hurghada to your Hotel.