Excursions Luxor from Hurghada

Early morning pick-up from your hotel. Departure to reach Luxor (290 Km distance - about 3 hours and a half drive), on arrival, departure with your guide for the visit of a part of grandiose moments of Luxor, we will visit three remarkable tombs in the Valley of the Kings, and which retain exceptional painted reliefs thanks to the freshness of the colors and the very special care taken during production. 

Continuation by the visit of the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (Deir el Bahari), this temple is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the Theban mountain to which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by access ramps. Senmout the architect, and the Queen's lover, used the natural terraces to integrate the building into the landscape. The lines are very pure and modern. On these desert terraces, the architect had once created gardens and planted incense trees brought from the land of Punt.

On the way back, stop at the foot of the Colossi of Memnon, once guardian of the castle of King Amenophis III for millions of years.

Lunch at a restaurant on the West Bank, then accompaniment to your hotel (subject to availability), 5* Winter Luxor Pavilion, Where Steigenberger Resort Achti, Where Pretty City, Where  Sonesta St. George.  

Then departure at the end of the afternoon for the visit of the temple of Luxor illuminated under a very beautiful lighting which puts it in its most beautiful beauty. Night at the hotel.

Departure for the second day of Luxor Excursions from Hurghada, we begin an in-depth visit to the religious complex of Karnak — improperly called the temple of Karnak, and which includes a vast collection of ruins, temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings, rebuilt and developed over more than 2,000 years by successive pharaohs. It is the largest religious complex of all Antiquity, it was dedicated to the theban triad headed by the god Amon-Re. The site is subject to excavations conducted from xixe century by archaeologists French, organized since 1967 within the Franco-Egyptian center for the study of the temples of Karnak.

Continuation with the visit of one of these little-known temples to mass tourism, crossing beforehand by an impressive spectacle thousands of pieces of stones from the excavation fields undertaken on the site, then visit of the temple of the god of the moon. appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, where you will be almost the only ones.

Then felucca ride on the Nile. A moment of pure relaxation, lulled by the light breeze and sailing in the calm, blue waters.

 Lunch in town, then departure towards Hurghada, accompaniment to your hotel.