Private Full Day Trip to Luxor from Aswan By Car

Egypt Gift Tours Egyptology Tour Guide will pick you up from your hotel or Nile Cruise in Aswan 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 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.