Overnight Tours from Safaga Port to Luxor
2 Day Tours from Safaga Port to Luxor
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Day 1: Luxor East Sightseeing Tour
Port pick up
Upon your ship arrival our representative will be waiting for you in front of the exit door holding a sign of your name. Ascend the modern vehicle parking there and be ready to start 3-hours journey to the central city of the Medieval and New Kingdom by Overnight Tours from Safaga Port to Luxor.
Karnak Temple
Our first station in Luxor. The Karnak Temple Complex is home to three main temples, several smaller enclosed temples and a number of outer temples which combining achievements of ancient builders over a period of 1500 years. Around thirty different pharaohs contributed to the building process of this site, enabling it to reach a size, complexity and diversity not seen elsewhere. It was afterall the New Kingdom’s most sacred site. Take your time in exploring.
Luxor Temple
Around 1400 BC, during the New Kingdom, the Temple of Luxor was founded. Explore the focus of one of the most important religious festivals in ancient Egypt. As it is dedicated to Amun, Mut and Khonsu, the cult statues would travel from Karnak to Luxor during the annual Opet Festival. As a result, the temple is not aligned to the river, as it is more usual, but to Karnak. Try to take an extensive photo of both temples. Just a try!
Lunch time
Do you know that some of ways lasted from the pharoh’s time and even some spices? The traditional food will bring you back to the ancient where you imagine yourself having your lunch among the statues builders and architects. A civilization of age of 7000 years has not ended yet.
Accommodation
Stay overnight in a 5* hotel provided with all facilities of maximum comfortable. Bed & Breakfast included.
Day 2: Luxor West Sightseeing Tour
Two colossal statues of Amenhotep III
Our first stop in the second day will be the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III. Each statue, 17m high, is seated and rests on a huge granite plinth. On the columns at the rear of the statues are dedication texts of Amenhotep III and on its sides, scenes of ‘binding the sma-symbol’. Stand beside them and have photos taken!
Valley of the Kings
Change your way to the west bank of the city. Valley of the Kings represents gateway to Afterlife provides window on the past. The ancient Egyptians built massive public monuments to their pharaohs. But they also spent time and treasure creating hidden underground mausoleums that no one was ever meant to see. Beside the complex of statues, it stands as a royal burial ground for pharaohs like Tut-Ench-Amun and Ramses II as well as queens.
Hatshepsut Temple
“Most Sacred of Sacred Places” that’s what Hatshepsut herself described her temple. Walk among the walls illustrated with colorful drawings and the three terraced courtyards in sculptural reliefs. Wander through the most beautiful monuments of the ancient Egypt, the style which never repeated.
Lunch time
Another kind of the Egyptian food is in menu today, a delicious one too. Taste it and tell us your opinion.
Hotel drop off
Unfortunately our couple of days comes to the end. Time now to ascend the bus to start your return way to Safaga Port. Your delight is what we seek for so thanks to revert with feedback. Bon voyage.
Optional
Spectacular Sound and Light Show at Karnak TempleThe treasury tomb of King Tut-Ench-Amun
Felucca in Nile
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