Private Luxor Day Tour from Cairo by Flight

Highlights

Leistungen

Ablauf

1. your driver will begin by picking you up at your hotel or your location an ac car to cairo airport to be flown luxor upon your arrival your guide will be waiting in luxor airport by a sign ( your name) in luxor you will visit the magnificent valley of the kings original burial sites of the boy king ( tutankhamun) where the magnificent tombs were discovered carved deep into the desert rock richly decorated & filled with treasures 4 the afterlife of the pharaohs & have the opportunity to visit 3 tombs the 3 tombs visited are determined by the egyptian government as to preserve them from the large flow of visitors therefore are rotated throughout the year & cannot be confirmed as to which tombs prior to your visit king tuts tomb is with extra ticket then you will have lunch

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2. continuing on to visit hatshepsut temple at el deir el bahary this impressive temple was dedicated to queen hatshepsut the only female pharaoh which rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces & merges with the sheer limestone cliffs on the return journey stop off at the clossi of memnon to see 2 gigantic statues representing to king amenophis 111 facing the nile river

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3. the temple of karnak the largest temple ever built walk through the avenue of sphinxes visit the hypostyle hall with its 134 gigantic columns see the obelisks of queen hatshepsut & tutomosis 111 and witness the temple of Amon A dorned with exquisite lotus & papyrus designs

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4. THE COLOSSI OF MEMNON ( BY ARABIC EL COLOSSAT OR ES SALAMAT ) ARE 2 MASSIVE STONE STATUES OF THE PHARAOH AMENHOTEO 111 WHICH STAND AT THE FRONT OF THE RUINED MORTUARY TEMPLE OF AMENHOTEP 111 THE LARGEST TEMPLE IN THE THEBAN NECROPOLIS THEY HAVE STOOD SINCE 1350 BC & WERE KNOWN TO ANCIENT GREEKS & ROMANS AS WELL AS EARLY MODERN TRAVELERS & EGYPTOLOGISTS THE STATUES CONTAIN 107 ROMAN _ ERA INSCRIPTIONS IN GREEK & LATIN DATED BACK TO BETWEEN 250 AD & 20 AD MANY OF THESE INSCRIPTION ON THE NORTHERNMOST STATUE MAKE REFERNCE TO THE GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL KING MEMNON WHOM THE STATUE WAS THEN _ ERRONEOUSLY _ TO REPRESENT SCHOLARS HAVE DEBATED HOW THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE NORTHERN COLOSSUS AS ( MEMNON) IS CONNECTED TO THE GREEK NAME FOR THE ENTIRE THEBAN NECROPOLIS AS THE MEMNONIUM

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5. move to luxor temple it was built by Amunhotep 111 in 18th dynasty in the new kingdom & it was completed by ramesses 11 during the 19 th dynasty it was dedicated to the great god A mun RA his wife MUT & their SON KHONSU together representing the THEBAN triad enjoy visiting obelisk of RAMSES 11 IN FRONT OF THE 1 ST PYLON AT THE END OF YOUR TOUR YOU WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO LUXOR AIRPORT FOR YOUR FLIGHT BACK TO CAIRO & TAKEN TO YOUR HOTEL IN CAIRO OR GIZA OR TO ANY LOCATION IN CAIRO OR GIZA

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Stornierung

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

Gut zu wissen

How it compares in Kairo

• Its from-price is 963% above the median of the 2673 tagesausflüge we list in Kairo.
• Its length is typical for the group.

About Kairo

Kairo, Ägyptens weitläufige Hauptstadt am Nil: Pyramiden von Gizeh, mittelalterliche Moscheen, lebhafte Basare und Schätze der Pharaonen.

Am Westrand der Stadt erheben sich die Pyramiden von Gizeh und die Große Sphinx auf dem Wüstenplateau, weiter südlich die Stufenpyramide von Sakkara und die Ruinen von Memphis. Kairos große Museen, das Ägyptische Museum am Tahrir-Platz und das riesige Große Ägyptische Museum am Plateau, bewahren Fundstücke aus Jahrtausenden.

Top-ranked sights in Kairo: Egyptian Museum (Museum of Egyptian Antiquities), Saqqara (Sakkara), Khan El-Khalili.

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