Luxor day tour from Cairo by air
Egypt secrets tours offer the best Luxor day tour from Cairo by air is among the most popular tours in Egypt.
The day tour to Luxor include visiting all the magnificent highlights of ancient Egypt located in Luxor.
the tour will be Accompanied with our tour guide who takes you through the east and west side of Luxor This is besides the perfect organization of the tour that enables the guest to get taste of our ancient Egyptian history .
Luxor day tour form Egypt secrets tours includes the monuments of the East Bank like the Karnak Temple and Luxor temple and the West Bank of Luxor where you going to visit the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of the queen Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon,.
At the end of the day traveling back to Cairo afterward.
Overview
The guests will be Picked up from the hotel in Cairo in the morning, drive to the Cairo Airport, will takes the flight to Luxor 725 kilometer south of Cairo ( duration 1hour )
Arrive in Luxor meet and assist at airport by our tour guide then start your day tour
visit the valley of the kings ,the temple of the queen Hatshepsut and the colossi of Memnon .
after the visit of west bank you will be taken by guide to one of the best restaurant to have your lunch and have rest for a while .
After lunch visits, the temple of karnak and the Temple of Luxor in the east bank of Luxor ,
later return back to Cairo.
–Sites includes in this day tour package:
The Valley of the Kings
The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
The Colossi of Memnon
The temple of Karnak
The temple of Luxor
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luxor day tour from Cairo by air
the guests will be picked up early in the morning at their hotels in Cairo.
Transfer to Cairo airport to take the flight to luxor .
arrive in Luxor meet at the airport by tour guide .
after greet and welcome at luxor airport guests will starts their day tour in luxor city
the valley of the kings
your first visit of the day tour to Luxor from Cairo would be to the valley of the kings where you will see the intact royal tombs of the Pharaohs of the new kingdom.
The valley of the kings stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor) within the heart of the Theban Necropolis. The valley or as we says in Arabic (wadi) consists of two valleys, East Valley (where the majority of the royal tombs are situated) and West Valley.
The valley of the kings contain 64 royal tombs of the new kingdom , where you going to visit 3 of this royal tombs .
Temple of the queen Hatshepsut
You next stop today, would be the marvelous Temple of the queen Hatshepsut.
Magnificent mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, This temple was used as a monastery in the Christian era. This is why it is famous for the name “El Deir Al Bahry”, or the Western Monastery.
This temple Constructed by one of the most famous queens of ancient Egypt during the 15th century B.C, the temple is very popular for its distinguished location at the foot of a huge Theban mountain.
The colossi of Memon
the Colossi of Memnon. The Colossi of Memnon are two massive stone statues being 18 meters in height of Pharaoh Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty those statues huge were the façade of the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
During the Greco-Roman period in Egypt, the Greeks tended to call one of the statues Memnon, after their popular legendary hero.
They believed that the sound produced by one of the statues, due to the air passage between its rocks, was the sound of mother Memnon crying because of his death.
After this you will be taken by guide to restaurant to have lunch .
Karnak temple .
After lunch Your tour guide takes you through the East Bank of the Nile ,You will start your tour of the day by exploring the Karnak Temple the most biggest temple on all over the world and the largest religious Pharaonic structure which dedicated to the god Amon Ra . the Pharaohs staring the construction of this temple from the 11th dynasty (2055 – 1985 BC) the time of the middle kingdom ,then began adding their marks, one after the other, to this huge complex of Pharaonic temples.
luxor temple .
Your last visit of Luxor day tour it will be to the Luxor Temple. Which Dedicated to the holy Theban triad, the gods Amun, his wife Mut, and his son Khonsu, it is one of the best examples of the Pharaonic engineering . most the construction work of the temple was mainly completed by Amenhotep III (1390 – 1352 BC) and Ramses II (1279 1213 BC), many kings who ruled Egypt afterwards have added their parts to this great complex including Alexander the Great. Luxor temple was buried under sand and dust for years until it was discovered in 1881..
After this unforgettable tour in Luxor, you would be traveling back to Cairo
You will be transferred to Luxor airport and say good bye with all best wishes from Egypt secrets tours.
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