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Top Egypt Tour representative will Pick you up from your hotel in Luxor, enjoy your Luxor Day Tour, start your private tour to the West bank in luxor, visit Valley of the kings including entrance to three royal tombs only except Tutankamun tomb, Next tour to Valey of the Queens including entrance to three tombs as well, Then proceed to Hatshepsut Temple (El-Deir El-Bahary), continue visiting Colossi of Memnon statues, at the end of your The West Bank Tour in Luxor, transfer back to your hotel in Luxor.
Itinerary
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West bank - visit the Valley of the Kings
Our representative will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor to discover the West bank of Luxor. First, visit the Valley of the Kings was created and used from approximately 1539 BC to 1075 BC. It contains some 60 tombs, starting with Thutmose I and ending with Ramses X or XI. The official name of the site was The Great and Majestic Necropolis of the Millions of Years of the Pharaoh, Life, Strength, Health in The West of Thebes, or more usually, the Great Field. The most famous tomb is KV62, the Tomb of King Tutankhamun. The discovery of King Tut’s tomb was made by Howard Carter in 1922; Tutankhamun’s tomb was the first royal tomb to be discovered that was still largely intact. You will visit 3 tombs.Visit
Valley of the Queens
Then Continue to The Valley of the Queens which is located on Luxor, west bank of the River Nile, is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning –‘the place of the Children of the Pharaoh’, because along with the Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties (1550–1070 BCE) many princes and princesses were also buried with various members of the nobility. The tombs of these individuals were maintained by mortuary priests who performed daily rituals and provided offerings and prayers for the deceased nobility, .is also known as Biban al Harim and Ta Set Neferu, which means "seat of beauty". It was built to house the tombs of the queens, princes and Princess of the XVIII, XVIV, and XX.Visit
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
You will continue to explore then transfer to the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahary, Queen Hatshepsut was the first great woman in recorded history: the forerunner of such figures as Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I.The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut is the focal point of the Deir el-Bahri complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor. Hatshepsut was female pharoah. Her temple, this temple was built on three surfaces take the form of balconies, devoted primarily to the worship of the god Amun, and to perform funeral rites for the queen known as El Deir El BaharyVisit
Colossi of Memnon
proceed to the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III, Colossi of Memnon are the two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For 3,400 years they have sat in the Theban necropolis, across the River Nile from the city of Luxor. The original function of the Colossi was to stand guard at the entrance to Amenhotep’s memorial temple or mortuary temple. Back to hotel| Number of Travelers |
1 |
2-3 |
4-6 |
7-8 |
| Price/person |
74 |
70 |
60 |
47 |
Schedule: Everyday
Duration: Approx. 6 hours
- Pick up services from your hotel in Luxor and return
- All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
- Private English Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to all the mentioned sites
- Mineral water on board the vehicle during the tour
- All service charges & taxes
- Any extras not mentioned in the program
- Tipping Kitty
