Now you will start your Luxor day tour to the East and the West Bank with our agency; Cairo Top Tours. Your specialist tour guide and the personal driver will meet you at your hotel to enjoy one of our best-recommended Luxor Day Tours and Excursions. You will be transferred from the East bank to the west bank to start your visit with The Colossi of Memnon which are enormous colossal statues weighing 1000 tons and were created for King Amenhotep III, as well as The Temple of El Deir El Bahri which was built to be a mortuary temple for Queen Hatshepsut, one of the most powerful queens who ruled Egypt in the ancient time during the new kingdom, The temple is one of the most astonishing temples in Egypt. It is cut into a mountain to the perfection of ancient Egyptian architecture.
And proceed to The Valley of the Kings. When Luxor was the capital of Egypt and was called Thebes, this valley's rock-cut tombs were exclusively for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the 18th dynasty and the 19th dynasty of ancient Egypt history). Their burial grounds were protected by the cliffs and contain more than 62 tombs for the kings of Egypt. The Valley of the Kings got its fame after the finding of the tomb owned by the golden king Tutankhamun.
After that, you will continue our Egypt Day Tours to take experience the lifestyle of the local people on the West Bank of the Nile, and you will also have the chance to know some of their handcrafts when you visit the Alabaster factory. Then your tour guide will take you to start your Luxor East bank tours after enjoying your lunch at a good quality local restaurant, then go to see The Complex of Karnak Temples which is considered the largest man-made religious complex all in the world, It has the largest hypostyle hall in the world (Pillared hall built by King King Ramses II).
It was built by different generations of pharaohs over two thousand years, the temple also comprises the highest-standing obelisk in Egypt (Hatshepsut’s obelisk).
Then you will visit the fantastic Luxor Temple. Largely built by the New Kingdom pharaohs, this temple is a strikingly graceful monument in the heart of the modern town. Also known as the Southern Sanctuary, its main function was during the annual Opet celebrations.
Then, you will be transferred back to your hotel at any location in Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes.