Half-Day Private Tour to Karnak & Luxor Temples From Luxor [12078P3]
Experience a half-day private tour to Karnak and Luxor Temples with a qualified Egyptologist tour guide. Explore Luxor East Bank temples and see two of the most impressive temples in Upper Egypt - Karnak and Luxor, while learning about ancient Egyptian history from your own personal Egyptologist tour guide
ADDITIONAL INFO
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Luxor pick up hotel: Names & address are Required
- US$7 Supplement per person for Pickup or drop-off Luxor airport (one way)
- US$7 Supplement per person for Pickup or drop-off Luxor West Bank hotel (one way)
INCLUDED
- Pick up services from your place in Luxor and return
- Bottled water during the tour
- All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
- All service charges and taxes
NOT INCLUDED
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
- Tipping
CANCELLATION POLICY
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
ITINERARY
- Your Expert Egyptologist tour Guide will pick you up from your Luxor Hotel / Nile Cruise Lobby, and Start your tour to visit Karnak and Luxor Temples in private half day tour to Luxor east bank. Start your Tour with a visit to Karnak temple complex, walk along the avenue of Sphinxes as your tour guide explains how the massive façade was constructed. Karnak temple is the largest religious temple ever built in Egypt. Enjoy walking through the fantastic avenue of sphinxes with Lion's body and Ram's head, the Great Pylons, the great hypostyle hall with 134 columns, the obelisks, the sanctuary of Philip II arrhidaeus of Macedon, The Akh Menu of Tuthmosis III (1479–1425 BC) and the sacred lake. And then enjoy free time to explore at leisure
- Continue to visit Luxor temple, which was once joined to the Karnak Temple by a three-kilometer long Avenue of Sphinx, a portion of which marks the entrance to the temple. Dominated by statues of the great warrior pharaoh Ramses II, (1290 –1223 BC). Luxor Temple has survived Nile floods, foreign invasion and thousands of years exposed to the elements. Luxor temple construction was strarted by Amenhotep III (1386 to 1349 BC), while other pharaohs like Tutankhamun, Hormohep and Alexander the great added to the Temple's construction. After a fantastic guided tour to Luxor temple enjoy free time at leisure
