Private Full Day Trip to Luxor from Aswan By Car

The journey, in full

Egypt Gift Tours driver will pick you up from your hotel or Nile Cruise in Aswan east bank in a private air-conditioned car. We will drive you for about 4 hours; enjoy the scenery and views of Luxor. Arrive at the East Bank of Luxor to meet your guide who will be waiting for you to visit Karnak Temple; the largest temple in the world, built 2000 years ago 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 Hypostyle Hall, and 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 the outside about the secrets of the paintings, colors, and how the ancient Egyptian workers succeeded in carving 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, which was renewed and rebuilt by the Polish Mission in Egypt in 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-meter statues of Memnon, once decorating the entrance of the biggest Funeral Temple of King Amenhotep III from the New Kingdom in the West Bank. Later on, you will be transferred back to your Hotel in Aswan.