Luxor and Aswan Tour Package 6 Days 5 Nights

Welcome to Luxor, upon your arrival at Luxor airport we will meet, assist and transfer to your hotel with the remainder of the day at leisure.

Meals: Welcome Drink

After breakfast in your Luxor hotel, your tour guide will pick you up to visit the east bank of the Nile sightseeing. Start at Karnak Temple complex, the largest ancient religious complex ever built in Egypt. Entering the complex through a ram-headed avenue of sphinxes and uncover a vast array of temples, chapels, Pylons, the great hypostyle hall with 134 columns, the obelisks, the sanctuary of Philip II of Macedon, The Akh Menu of Tuthmosis III and the sacred lake. After enjoying your guided tour you will enjoy free time to explore at leisure

Proceed to Luxor Temple, which was once joined to the Temple of Karnak by a three-kilometer long Avenue of Sphinx, a portion of which marks the entrance to the temple. You will enter the temple through the great pylon where two enormous statues of Ramses II still stand, along with a pink granite obelisk (its mate stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France). The rears of the temple are chapels built by Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty and Alexander the Great. After a fantastic guided tour you will enjoy walking through Luxor famous tourist Souk and then transfer back to your hotel.

Meals: Breakfast

Breakfast at your hotel, then your tour guide will pick you up and drive to the Theban Necropolis in the west bank of the Nile. Your first stop will be at the Colossi of Memnon, the only remains of the funerary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1390–1353 B.C).

Move on to the Valley of the Kings, one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. This is a burial ground for the pharaohs and powerful nobles for almost 500 years (from 1550 to 1080 B.C). You are allowed to visit three of these tombs including the tombs of Ramses III, Merneptah, Tuthmosis III, Ramses IV and more. If you want to see more the tomb or the boy king Tutankhamun tomb, you will have to purchase an additional ticket (Payable on spot).

Proceed to visit the Temple of Hatshepsut (1490-1469 B.C) located beneath the towering cliffs at Deir el Bahari. The Temple is unique by its 3 terraces and colonnaded halls. This is one of the most popular sites to visit on the West Bank of Luxor. After finished, transfer back to your Hotel in Luxor and free time to relax.

Optional: You have the choice to rise very early to see the West Bank of Luxor from above on an optional Sunrise hot air balloon ride

Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor to discover the ancient sites south of Luxor to Aswan. Drive for almost two hours to Edfu, dedicated to the falcon headed god, Horus. It is the most complete and the best preserved of all Egyptian temples. The Temple was constructed between 237 and 57 BC.

Move on to Kom ombo located 01.30 Hours south of Edfu, visit the unusual double Temple of Kom-ombo dedicated to both Haroeris the falcon god and Sobek the crocodile god. Enjoy fantastic scene of the ancient Egyptian Calendar, the Medical instruments and more. Later on, transfer to your hotel in Aswan and overnight

Meals: Breakfast

Early in the morning, your private guide will collect you from your hotel in Aswan and drive for almost the 3-hour to the temples of Abu Simbel, one of the masterpieces of architecture in ancient Egypt.

The complex consists of two rock-cut temples were constructed during the reign of the great Pharaoh Ramses II, in the 13th century BC. The Great Temple is dedicated to Ra-Harakhty, Ptah and Amun-Re, Egypt’s three state deities of the time, and features four large statues of Ramesses II in the facade. The smaller temple is dedicated to the goddess Hathor, personified by Nefertari, Ramesses’s most beloved wife. The entire temple complex was dismantled and rebuilt on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir. Take time to marvel at the exquisite detail as you wander through the temples yourself. Later on, transfer back to your hotel in Aswan

Meals: Breakfast

Check out after breakfast and then your tour guide will pick you up to visit the unfinished obelisk. It was ordered by Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh (1490–1470 BC). The obelisk never completed due to a flaw appeared in the stone. If completed it would have measured around 42 m long and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons. Enjoy a motor boat ride to the Temple of Philae, explore the three principal monuments on the island date from the Pharaonic, Ptolemaic and Roman periods, like the temple of Nectanebo I, the Kiosk of Trajan, the Temple of Hathor and the great Temple of Isis.

Continue to the Aswan high Dam, the world’s largest embankment dam built across the Nile River between 1960 and 1970, to control the Nile flood, and generate hydroelectricity. Later on, transfer to Aswan airport for final departure

NB: Your flight has to be after 14:00 to be able to do this tour or consider staying an extra night in Aswan. We can assist you with additional services like extra accommodation and transfers.

Meals: Breakfast