| Tour Price : | 235$ |
| Tour LOCATION : | Luxor |
| Tour Length : | 4 days |
| Pick Up Point : | English, French, German, Serbian, Russian |
| Tour Guide : | Your Hotel in Hurghada |
| Cancellation policy : | Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund |
From your hotel in Luxor, you will start your Nile cruise by visiting the Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple.
Your Egyptologist will pick you up and you will drive in your private vehicle.
Karnak Temple
Karnak is more than just a temple; it is a spectacular complex of sanctuaries, kiosks, pylons, and obelisks, all dedicated to the Theban gods and the great glory of the Egyptian pharaohs. Karnak was the most important place for worshiping the Theban triad (Amun, Mut, and Khonsu).
Lunch:
Then enjoy your delicious lunch in a local restaurant.
Luxor Temple
Largely built by the New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep III and completed by King Tutankhamun and the great King Ramses II. The first pylon was built by Ramses II and decorated with his military Battle of Kadesh.
Embarkation:
Dinner on board and overnight on the cruise in Luxor.
Breakfast on board, then visit the West Bank of the Nile including:
Valley of the Kings
Once known as the Great Place of Truth, today this valley is called the Valley of the Kings. It is a majestic domain of the pharaohs who once lay in great stone sarcophagi awaiting immortality. The secluded valley behind Deir el Bahri is dominated by the pyramid-shaped mountain peak.
Colossi of Memnon
Massive twin statues known as the Colossi of Memnon rise about 18 meters from the plain. They are the remains of the largest complex on the West Bank, built by Amenhotep III.
Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple
The temple of Hatshepsut rises in terraces from the desert plain and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs of the Theban mountain as if nature itself built this extraordinary monument.
Sail to Kom Ombo. Breakfast on board and visit the shared temple of the two gods Sobek and Haroeris in Kom Ombo. Sail to Edfu, have lunch on board, enjoy afternoon tea while sailing to Edfu. Dinner and overnight on board.
Edfu Temple
An Upper Egyptian site dominated by a large, well-preserved temple dedicated to the falcon god Horus. The construction of the Ptolemaic Horus Temple, built on the site of a much earlier temple, dates back to the reigns of Ptolemy III (246 BC). The inscriptions on the walls include the myth of the battle between Horus and Seth (likely performed annually as a religious drama).
Kom Ombo Temple
The temple and its associated settlement are located 40 km north of Aswan. The temple was dedicated to the deities Sobek and Horus and mainly dates from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (332 BC – 395 AD).
Breakfast on board the cruise.
After breakfast, enjoy with your tour guide the sights of Aswan:
Visit the High Dam, Philae Temple, and the Unfinished Obelisk.
Philae Temple
Dedicated to the goddess Isis, this temple was the last to be built in the classical Egyptian style. Construction began around 690 BC, and it was one of the last outposts where the goddess was worshipped.
High Dam
The Aswan High Dam is a rock-fill dam at the northern border between Egypt and Sudan. It is fed by the Nile, and its reservoir forms Lake Nasser. Construction began in 1960 and was completed in 1968. It was officially inaugurated in 1971.
Unfinished Obelisk
Aswan was the source of the finest granite in ancient Egypt, used for making statues and decorating temples, pyramids, and obelisks. The great unfinished obelisk in the northern quarries has provided valuable insights into how these monuments were created, even though the entire process is still not fully understood. Three sides of the nearly 42-meter-long shaft were finished except for the inscriptions. At 1,168 tons, the completed obelisk would have been the heaviest piece of stone the Egyptians ever made.
Early in the morning, around 03:00 AM, you will drive in a private, air-conditioned vehicle with your Egyptologist to one of Egypt’s most important tourist attractions, the Abu Simbel Temples (about 3 hours each way).
Abu Simbel Temples
The two temples of Ramses II and Queen Nefertari were carved into the mountain on the west bank of the Nile between 1274 and 1244 BC. The great temple was dedicated to Ramses II, Ra-Harakhty, Amun Ra, and Ptah, with four colossal statues. The second temple was dedicated to Queen Nefertari and the goddess Hathor. Both temples were dismantled and rebuilt stone by stone on higher ground. The preservation of the two Abu Simbel temples must be considered UNESCO’s greatest achievement.
