Egypt Gift Tours driver will pick you up around 5 to 5:30 am at your hotel or Nile Cruise in Aswan east bank in a private air-conditioned car. We will drive you for about 4 hours; enjoy the scenery and views all the way to Luxor. Arrive at the East Bank of Luxor to meet your guide who will be waiting for you to visit Karnak Temple; the largest temple all over the world, built through 2000 years and covering an area of 63 acres. Listen carefully to the stories and legends to be told by your tour guide. Marvel at the sheer size of the Great Hypo-style Hall, take photos between the huge columns and obelisks. Stop for Lunch in a local restaurant (water and drinks are not included).
Drive from the east bank for about 40 minutes, to the Valley of the Kings; where you will enjoy the most preserved painted tombs of the pharaohs from the New Kingdom(1550-1080 B.C), who curved their tombs in the mountains aiming to hide their treasure and protect their mummies. Your tour guide will explain to you from outside about the secrets of the paintings, colors and how the ancient Egyptian workers succeeded to carve such impressive tombs, as no guiding inside the tombs. Then, visit the best 3 selected tombs from the open ones.
Proceed to visit the unique design Mortuary temple of the famous queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahari, that was renewed and rebuilt by the Polish Mission in Egypt since 1960 up till these days. Listen to her exciting story with her nephew and know how she managed to rule as a pharaoh.
Stop for some nice photos in front of the two 17 meters statues of Memnon, once decorating the entrance of the biggest Funeral Temple of king Amenhotep III from the New Kingdom in the West Bank.
Later on, you will be transferred back to your Hotel in Aswan east bank.
Meals included: Lunch.
Accommodation: Not included
Additional Information:
- You will need to pay all the entrance fees by card.
- You will need to carry Egyptian money cash for the water, drinks, Tipping to The guide and driver.
- Passports copies, hotel name and room number are required for the government permission.
- It is available to pick travelers from Aswan west bank hotels with extra 10$ USD per person.
- It is available to pick/drop off travelers at Aswan airport with extra 10$ USD per person.
- It is available to drop off travelers at their hotels in Aswan west bank with extra 10$ USD per person.
- It is available to drop off travelers at Luxor airport with extra 15$ USD per person.
- Other languages are available with extra charge 75$ USD per person upon your request.
- Available to provide an Italian, French, German or Japanese tour guide with extra 75$ USD per person
