Price:$170
Tour Availability: Daily
Pick up Time: 8 am(Available to change)
Tour Type: Private
Tour Duration: 7 to 8 hours
Pick up Location: Luxor hotels/ Nile cruises.
Tour Language: English, Arabic, Spanish (other languages available with extra charge upon your request).
Explore the Highlights of the City of the Dead (Thebes Necropolis) on the West Bank of Luxor on a private guided full-day tour. See the ancient tombs of the pharaohs from the New kingdom at the Valley of the Kings and the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahari. Take a deep look at the fascinating Mortuary temple of king Ramesses III at Madinat Habu Temple and feel the glory of the Nobles in their family tombs at the Valley of the Nobles. Then, enjoy the beauty of the local atmosphere of the ancient Egyptian workers at Deir El Madina (Valley of the Artisans). Take memorial photos in front of the Colossi of Memnon. With door-to-door transport from your hotel in Luxor by an air-conditioned vehicle.
Egypt Gift Tours Egyptology tour guide will pick you up from your Luxor hotel or Nile Cruise at 8 am, to start your remarkable day in the West Bank Of Luxor.
Drive to the west bank for about 40 minutes in a private air-conditioned car, enjoy the scenery and views of the green farms and the countryside of Luxor.
Arrive at the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaohs from the new kingdom 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 curve 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 the queen’s interesting story from your Egyptology guide and know how she managed to rule as a sole Pharaoh.
Arrive at Madinat Habu, located at the southern end of the Theban Necropolis, where the first labor strike in history against their king Ramesses III was launched. This memorial temple of Ramesses III is one of the best-preserved temples in Egypt and surrounded by a massive mud-brick enclosure wall, which may have been fortified.
Then, continue to Deir El Madina known as the Valley of the Workers at the northern end of the Theban Necropolis. It is an ancient village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th dynasties of the New Kingdom period(1550-1080 B.C). Enjoy the colorful workers family tombs with their vivid and impressive paintings.
Drive over to visit tombs of the Nobles of the New Kingdom with their relief carving of outstanding quality. Enjoy the daily life scenes& see the owners of the tombs in charge of their careers as officials at the court of their Pharaohs.Later on, you will be transferred to your Hotel in Luxor.
Finally, 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 AmonhotepIII from the New kingdom in the West Bank.
Later on, you will be transferred to your hotel or Nile cruise in Luxor.
Prices are quoted in US Dollars per person per trip.
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