Private Full-Day Luxor Highlights East and West Banks

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• Luxor (Pass by)

  Meet your Egyptologist tour guide and start your journey in a private air-conditioned vehicle. Relax in comfort as you travel to explore the most important historical monuments in Luxor (Make sure you have your camera ,sun glasses, sun cream, a hat )

  Admission ticket free
• 1
  Valley of the Kings

  The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, rock-cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. You will get to visit 3 tombs in the valley of the kings with the normal ticket. Other tombs like tut ankh amun tomb requires extra ticket

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Tomb of Merenptah

  Merenptah tomb is one of the most impressive royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings not only for its length, which reached 164,5 meters, but for its distinguished reliefs and the biggest granite sarcophagus ever found in the Valley

  30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 3
  Tomb of Ramses III

  One of the most popular tombs in the valley, KV 11 is also one of the most interesting and best preserved. Originally started by Sethnakht, measuring a total of 180 meters

  30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 4
  Tomb of Ramases IX

  Running a total distance of 105 meters into the hillside, the tomb begins with a gate and a shallow descending ramp. Following on from the ramp come three successive stretches of corridor. The first of these has four side chambers.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5
  Tomb of King Tutankhamun (Tut)

  you will have to purchase an additional ticket to visit this tomb.(300.00 EGP) optional This tomb was the last tomb that was discovered, in the year 1922. It contained all the fabulous treasures which are now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

  20 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 6
  Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari

  The Temple of Hatshepsut is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture. Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 7
  Colossi of Memnon

  The Colossi of Memnon are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• Howard Carter House (Pass by)

  Across the mesmerizing west bank of Luxor, resides the house of the British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, the man who led the team excavating the tomb of Tutankhamun. The house where he lived during the years of this mission remain until today and has become a touristic site that many would like to visit.

  Admission ticket free
• Ramesseum (Mortuary Temple of Ramses II) (Pass by)

  The Ramesseum is the memorial temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II. located on the west bank of Luxor

  Admission ticket free
• Tomb of Merenptah (Pass by)

  the temple is located on the west back of Luxor, situated between the Ramesseum and the Colossi of Memnon.

  Admission ticket free
• Temple of Medinat Habu (Pass by)

  Medinet Habu is the second largest ancient temple ever discovered in Egypt, covering a total area of more than 66,000 square meters.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Next to the Temple of Hatshepsut on the West Bank of Luxor, lies the The Asasif Tombs, contains burials from the 18th, 22nd, 25th and 26th dynasties of ancient Egypt

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Abu El-Haggag Mosque was built in the northeast section of Luxor Temple and it dates back to the middle of the Fatimid Era The mosque itself was built in honor of Sheikh Yusuf Abu'l-Hajjaj. He was a Muslim scholar and teacher who migrated from Baghdad to Luxor

  Admission ticket free
• 8
  Luxor Temple

  The Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE. In the Egyptian language it was known as ipet resyt, "the southern sanctuary". It was one of the two primary temples on the east bank, the other being Karnak. Unlike the other temples in Thebes, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the pharaoh in death. Instead, Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the pharaohs of Egypt were crowned in reality or conceptually.

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 9
  Temple of Karnak

  The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak , comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I (reigned 1971–1926 BCE) in the Middle Kingdom (around 2000–1700 BCE) and continued into the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305–30 BCE)

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 10
  Avenue of Sphinxes

  the Avenue of Sphinxes or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road is a 2.7 km long avenue which connects Karnak Temple with Luxor Temple having been uncovered in the ancient city of Thebes, with sphinxes and ram-headed statues lined up on both flanks.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 11
  Temple of Ramesses III, Karnak

  the temple dedicated to him at Karnak was built, appropriately, placed between the main sanctuary of Amun-Ra and the southern precinct that honored Mut. Built by Ramesses III, a king who reigned from 1186 to 1155 B.C., the temple is about 230 feet (70 meters) by 88 feet (27 meters)

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 12
  Karnak Open Air Museum

  Karnak Open Air Museum is an archaeological museum in Luxor, Egypt. It is located in the northwestern corner of the Precinct of Amon-Re at the Karnak complex. The Open Air Museum contains reconstructions of structures that have been dismantled and buried or hidden inside the massive pylons in the complex

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• Mummification Museum (Pass by)

  The Mummification Museum is an archaeological museum in Luxor. It is dedicated to the art of Ancient Egyptian mummification

  Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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