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Discover the wonders of ancient Thebes on this 3-day Luxor city break, combining iconic monuments on both the East and West Banks with a visit to beautifully preserved Dendera. From the vast Karnak Temple Complex to the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, this journey offers a rich introduction to Egypt’s archaeological and cultural heritage.
Travel with a private guide, enjoy included entrance fees and transportation, and stay for 2 nights in a 5-star hotel in Luxor on a bed and breakfast basis. Along the way, visit the Temple of Hatshepsut, the Colossi of Memnon, and Dendera Temple before your final departure.
Discover the wonders of ancient Thebes on this 3-day Luxor city break, combining iconic monuments on both the East and West Banks with a visit to beautifully preserved Dendera.
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East Bank Visits
After breakfast will pick you up from the hotel to visit East Bank Sightseeings.
The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak, comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings near Luxor, in Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes. The Karnak complex gives its name to the nearby, and partly surrounded, modern village of El-Karnak, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) north of Luxor.
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, it is a valley in Egypt for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, rock-cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt).
Queen Hatshepsut temple
The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as the Djoser-Djeseru, is a mortuary temple of Ancient Egypt located in Upper Egypt. Built for the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Hatshepsut, it is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el-Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings. This mortuary temple is dedicated to Amun and Hatshepsut and is situated next to the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II, which served both as an inspiration and later, a quarry. It is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt."
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned in Egypt during the Dynasty XVIII. Since 1350 BCE, they have stood in the Theban Necropolis, located west of the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor.
Dendera temple is the most preserved temple in south of Egypt which built by Greece Roman kings.
Dendera Temple complex is located about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south-east of Dendera, Egypt. It is one of the best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt. The area was used as the sixth Nome of Upper Egypt, south of Abydos.
The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mudbrick enclosed wall. Dendera was inhabited in prehistory, a useful oasis on the banks of the Nile.
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