2 Day Luxor and Dendera Trip from Hurghada, Karnak and West Bank

Karnak Temple, probably the largest temple complex in the world, welcomes you with the Avenue of the Sphinx before entering the impressive columned hall. The ancient Avenue of the Sphinx connected the temple of Karnak with the temple of Luxor and today much of it has been restored with great effort. For this project, some buildings in the center of Luxor had to be removed and rebuilt elsewhere. At the Karnak Temple you will enter a sacred place of worship in ancient Egypt. The temple complex consists of several temples and the "Holy Lake", a place for sacrifices and purification rituals. Our Egyptologist will be happy to answer all your open questions about the history of the Karnak temple. After our walk through the impressive temple complex, we pause to enjoy a delicious local food of a high standard.

The Temple of Hatshepsut is carved into the limestone cliffs high above the desert in the Deir el-Bahari valley. Seeing it from afar is a unique and impressive image that you will never forget. The temple is one of the most impressive works of architecture in the world, stepped platforms, pillared porticos and vivid reliefs contrast against a desert backdrop. This funerary temple was built in honor of Amon-Ra, the God of the Sun.

Luxor Temple, a coronation temple where the coronation ceremony were held in the time of the Pharaohs of Egypt, is located on the outskirt of the city, directly on the promenade of the Nile River on Luxor East Bank. The construction of the Luxor Temple complex, dedicated to the god Amun, took hundreds of years during the reign of Amenhotep III, Ramses II, and Tutankhamun. In 2001, the World Monuments Fund donated a contribution to the preservation of the Luxor Temple, with which the sandstone fragments, which up until then were in the salty groundwater, were restored. This ensured the preservation of the columns and wall fragments, inscribed with hieroglyphics that tell the story of the pharaohs.

The impressive sunrise in Egypt is pretty early, so we start our 2nd day of the Luxor sights directly after breakfast with a visit to the famous the Valley of the Kings. Up here in the rock massive, countless tombs were discovered, we will visit 3 of the most beautiful ones today. The breathtaking wall paintings in the tombs tell their stories. You will be amazed how well preserved these drawings, made with natural colors like egg yolks, are. A real masterpiece! There are a lot of things that haven't been discovered in the world-famous valley yet, and on our way to the Valley of the Kings, it's likely to meet one or two archaeologists on the lookout for new discoveries.

The Colossi of Memnon are huge twin Statues made from blocks of quartzite sandstone. The Colossi was thought to have been guarding the entrance to Amenhotep Memorial Temple. The Colossi is one of the best places to take some fabulous photos.

The Temple of Dendera, dedicated to Hathor, goddess of love and fertility. It is one of the best preserved Egyptian complexes, especially its main temple, thanks to the fact that it remained buried by sand and mud until it was unearthed by the Frenchman Auguste Mariette in the mid-19th century. It is one of the only temples that we can go up to its roof and see incredible views of the complex, up there is where the famous Dendera sodiac was discovered. It contains numerous secret crypts, which we can visit and contemplate their beautiful reliefs as intriguing as the Dendera lamps. It is not very touristy so we can visit it without stress and at our own pace.