Overnight Tour Dendera, Abydos and luxor from hurghada

Day 1: Hurghada - Dendera and Abydos/ transfer to Luxor

You will be picked up from your hotel in Hurghada, el Gouna and drive to by air-conditioned vehicle (almost 03:00 hours’ drive), where you will be met and accompanied by your own Egyptologist tour guide to visit the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, one of the most complete in Egypt and was built during Ptolemaic period (332 – 30 B.C). The temple’s hypostyle hall featuring capitals of the goddess Hathor in her celestial bovine form, the beautiful ceiling depicts the hours of the day and night as well as the journey of the sun, moon and the stars across the sky. Not only that but this temple has the only relief which represented the infamous Cleopatra and her son by Julius Caesar.

Drive on to visit Seti I Temple at Abydos, the cult center of the god Osiris and gateway to the underworld. The temple of Abydos was one of the holiest sites in the world, built around 1300 BC by Seti and his son Ramses II. It is especially notable for its fine reliefs, considered among the best of the ancient Egyptian art. See Abydos king’s list is considered by Egyptologists to be one of the most important “documents” in their field. After finished, transfer to your hotel in Luxor. Late Lunch will be served and then check in your hotel & overnight

Meals: Lunch

Day 2: Luxor full day tour / Transfer back to Hurghada

Breakfast at your hotel in Luxor and then your tour guide will pick you up and transfer to the West Bank of the River Nile. Start with a photo stop at the two colossi of Memnon, marks the remains of the funerary temple built by king Amenhotep III.

Head out to the most famous archeological sites in the world, the remote and barren Valley of the Kings, used for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, where rock-cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful noble. You will visit three of the well-known pharaoh’s tombs like Ramses IV, Merneptah, Ramses III, Siptah, Tuthmosis III, Amenhotep III, Tausert & Setnakht with the chance to visit the tombs of Tutankhamun, Ramses VI, and Seti I (extra cost on spot).

Proceed to visit the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri, built by Queen Hatshepsut, one of the most successful pharaohs of ancient Egypt. The temple setting and construction were unique among the landmarks of ancient Egypt. The Temple was built into the face of steep cliffs in the valley basin of Deir el-Bahari, surrounded by steep cliffs.

Enjoy lunch at a quality local restaurant. Move on to visit the famous Karnak temple, the largest religious temple ever built in Egypt. The complex of Karnak temples was built over more than two thousand years by many generations of ancient Egyptians pharaohs. The legendary Temple of Karnak is a massive and absolutely astounding site, broad avenues lined with stone sphinxes and halls of truly epic proportions with gigantic columns called the Hypostyle Hall.

Continue to visit Luxor Temple, you will enter the temple through the great pylon where two enormous statues of King Ramses II still stand, along with a pink granite obelisk (its mate stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France). The temple was built by king Amenhotep III and Ramses II, and it was constructed over hundreds of years, beginning around 1400 BC. Enjoy free time for shopping in Luxor, and then drive back to your hotel in Hurghada.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Notes: -

– Tour price currency is set to US Dollars per person per trip and can be paid in US$, Euro, GBP or EGP.

– Pick-up and drop off from any hotel in Hurghada is free of charge. Pick-up and drop off from El Gouna are available for an additional fee.

Cancellation: Nile Holiday does not charge a cancellation fee for any cancelation due to ‘force majeure’ reasons such as volcanoes, earthquakes, or reasons beyond control.

Children policy: –

Child (0 – 05.99) free of Charge

Child (6 – 11.99) Pay 50 % from the tour price

12+ Pay full tour price as per adult person