safaga: Luxor 2 days Tour with Kings Nobles Tombs Museum and More

You will be picked from your hotel in Aswan then you will move to Luxor so you will arrive Luxor in roughly 4 hours.

Upon arrival to Luxor you will drive to the west bank to visit Valley of the Kings where the pharaohs from the New Kingdom carved their tombs in the mountains aiming to hide their treasure and protect their mummies.

Then drive to The domed mud-brick house where Howard Carter lived during his search for Tutankhamun’s tomb which surrounded by a garden on what is otherwise a barren slope above the road from deir Al Bahari to Valley of the Kings. The house has been restored and decorated with pictures and tools of the excavations. An exact replica of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber has been constructed on the edge of the garden along with exhibition relating to the discovery of the tomb.

Then to the mortuary temple of the famous Queen Hatshepsut at el deir bahari discover her beautiful temple and her attractive story with her nephew.

Then you will move to Valley of Nobles which is the gathering of nobles tombs in Luxor like Ramose, Senniffer , Menna and other 400 Theban nobles are marked by numbers with beautiful scenes were carved inside. These tombs are nestled in the foothills opposite the Ramesseum are more than 400 tombs.

Then proceed to The Ramesseum Temple which is considered the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramses II. It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west bank of the river Nile, across from the modern city of Luxor. The Design of Ramesses’s mortuary temple adheres to the standard canons of New Kingdom temple architecture.

Then you will move to Habiba for hand weaving specializing in hand woven scarves in Egyptian cotton, linen and wool. On site local hand weavers also selling machine made scarves and shawls on cotton and cotton mixes. In rural setting on the west bank in Luxor with views of nobles tombs where women still working and making hand made cloth of pure cotton, so you will get the experience of how women still using hand made machines.

End your tour in the west bank by a photo stop in front of the gigantic statues of Memnon.

Our Guide will pick you up from you hotel then you will drive to see the largest temple ever; karnak temple built through 2000 years, covering an area of about 63 acres. Have nice pictures between its huge pillars and obelisks.

Then you will be transferred to Luxor museum which was inaugurated in 1975. It’s a two-story building, among the items on display are grave goods from the tombs of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun (KV 62) and collection of 26 New kingdom statues that were found buried in Luxor status cache in the nearby Luxor temple in 1989. The mummies of two pharaohs-Ahmose and Ramses 1 were put on display in luxor museum.

Then you will be transferred to enjoy Luxor temple on the East Bank of Luxor, where ancient Egyptian, Christian and Islamic features are exhibited.

By the end of the tour you will drive back to Safaga