Private Tour: Luxor East Bank, Karnak and Luxor Temples
Description
Take a half-day private tour with a qualified Egyptologist guide exploring the East Bank of Luxor. You'll see two of the most impressive temples in Upper Egypt - Karnak and Luxor, while learning about ancient Egyptian history from your own personal guide.
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Itinerary
Start your day with a visit to the Temples of Karnak. Walk along the Avenue of Sphinx to enter the complex as your guide explains how the massive facade was constructed. On entering the Temples of Karnak you will see each legacy left by the various pharaohs as the complex grew even larger. The deeper you go into the complex, the further back in time you will travel, with the oldest ruins dating back over 3,000 years. Walking through the Great Court into the Great Hypostyle Hall, it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the 134 columns towering above you like an ancient forest. At the rear of the complex you will find the sacred lake where centuries ago pharaohs and their offerings to the gods were purified. After a tour of the complex, you will have additional free time to explore at leisure.
Continue to Luxor Temple which was once joined to the Temples of Karnak by a two-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, Luxor Temple has survived Nile floods, foreign invasion and thousands of years exposed to the elements. A pure Egyptian temple, the inner walls and columns are decorated with intricate hieroglyphics which your guide will help you decipher. Find out how Alexander the Great wrote himself into Luxor Temple's history, and see one of the original pair of obelisk, the second of which now stands on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
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Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(63)
You cannot go to Egypt and not see Karnak and Luxor Temples. Hotel pickup went smoothly. I'm not sure it's always the case, but we had a private guide all to ourselves.
Guide was excellent. He was very knowledgeable. We were very impressed and we truly enjoyed our tour.
Egypt Tailor Made Tours picked us up from the airport and we dove right into sight seeing! We saw the Luxor East Bank Temples which were beautiful. We did an early morning tour and it was wonderful because the the temples were empty and it was before the heat of the day. They made sure we had plenty of water and snacks for our tour. After the tour they made sure we got checked into our hotel with no issues. We had plenty of time to relax and enjoy the pool for the afternoon. HIGHLY recommend Egypt Tailor Made Tours!!
<p>This was a great tour. Our guide was very knowledgeable!</p>
<p>Highly recommend this tour. Great way to explore on your own or with the guide.</p>
Although this is an expensive one day trip, it's worth every dollar. Our guide Hady was fantastic; professional, knowledgable, friendly and a fun companion for the day. We could have never have seen all of this on our own or in a big group tour. We were able to tailor the tour to the specifics of what we wanted to see, and how long we wanted to visit certain sights.
<p>Fantastic guide with a passion for the history of these wonderful places. Can't wait to go back.</p>
<p>Yes! A visit to Egypt is not complete if you don't experience Luxor and Karnak. There is so much important history there, it's hard to take it all in. I'd recommend reading up about these temples just a bit so you can better understand what the knowledgeable guide tells you. Since so many pharaohs built here, you may want to ask your guide to spend more time in a certain area. Incredibly cool! I definitely recommend taking this tour.</p>
<p>An excellent way to spend half the day touring these two temples. Karnak is an incredible complex, taking 2000 years to build, with many great stories inside on how things worked there. Luxor temple was also very interesting, even though there are a some very interesting architectural mistakes worth seeing. Must see places in Luxor, very well worth the visit!</p>
<p>We have booked the afternoon tour to Karnak and Luxor temples. We were picked up from our hotel in Luxor by our guide, a vibrant young man, baseem, who explained the history of these temples in great detail.<br/> The vast courtyards, the huge pillars of the great halls with intricate carvings on them, the statuesof Ramses ll, the rows of Sphinxes at entrance of Luxor temple impressed us very much. We gaped in wonder how the people of ancient Egypt constructed those Hypostyle hall with huge columns.<br/> All in all, our journey throughly these temples became lively with the help of our guide as he had a great knowledge of the history of ancient Egypt.<br/> I would recommend everyone to visit these places or the tour of Egypt will remain incomplete.</p>
