Luxor: Private West Bank Half Day Tour
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Our tours are designed to create unforgettable experiences by offering behind-the-scenes moments that standard tours miss. With a strong focus on unique, local storytelling and flexible itineraries, we blend curated, high-quality experiences with ample time for personal exploration, ensuring a deeply engaging journey. Key differentiators include: Tailored & Flexible Itineraries: Unlike rigid, one-size-fits-all tours, we offer flexibility that allows for spontaneity and personal interests, such as photography or local cuisine. Expert Local Guides: Our guides are passionate experts who use storytelling to bring destinations to life, ensuring an authentic and educational experience. Purposeful & Sustainable Travel: We prioritize responsible tourism, focusing on sustainability and supporting local communities throughout the journey. Relaxed Pacing: Our itineraries are carefully paced to allow time for both immersion and relaxation, ensuring you don't feel rushed.
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The Valley of the Kings is considered one of the largest areas of archaeological explorations related to Egyptian science over the last two centuries, after it was merely a tourist attraction in ancient times (especially during the Roman era). This area also witnesses the succession that has long been studied in the history of ancient Egypt, which began with the impact of the monuments and the tombs until it reached what is now of interesting scientific explorations about the city of Thebes, the favorite fairy city of all the century. Despite all these explorations, no more than ten have been fully proven after knowing all the details related to them and their owners.
The Temple of Hatshepsut was built during the 18th Dynasty next to the Temple of Mentuhotep. It is distinguished by its size and continues to amaze visitors with its beauty and unique design, unlike the temples built in Thebes on the east bank of the Nile. At the dawn of Christianity, the Copts established a monastery for worship on the Temple of Hatshepsut. This monastery remained in existence until the 11th century. In the 19th century, the archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Edward Navey discovered the remains of the monastery and worked to remove the ruins to reveal the temple beneath. Navey documented his work extensively in seven books titled "The Temple of Deir el-Bahari" between 1894 and 1898.
The Colossi of Memnon, also known locally as the Colossi or Salamat, are two enormous statues, erected around 1350 BC. They are all that remain of a temple built in memory of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty. They are located in the mortuary city of Thebes, west of the Nile River, near the present-day city of Luxor.
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- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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The tour was very badly managed from the beginning. Initially it was running late since one group in our van was late from everything and the guide did nothing to manage the time. We were 45 mins behind after the first site. It was 2PM and we had only completed the first 2 sites of 4. The original schedule said the hotel drop off would be by 3PM. I was running late to go to Karnak temple. I wanted to reach by 3:30 and the guide said he will wait with one person who had paid for lunch and the car/driver will take the rest of us to east bank and drop me off at Karnak Temple. On the way back we passed Karnak on the way around 3:05 and the driver didn’t stop even though I asked him to several times. Instead he dropped 2 people off in the city and then picked other tour people up before reaching Karnak at 4:10, which was very late since the place closes at 5:30. In the middle, there was a coordinator who told me to drop off near the hotel or pay 200 to go to Karnak Temple while we were right in front of Luxor Temple (5 min drive from Karnak, and Uber costs 50)!! I said no because the guide already told you to drop me. He was VERY RUDE since was trying to tell me to leave the van. Very unprofessional operation.
The best thing about this tour was the guide, Rania. Her English was very clear, so easy to understand. Her knowledge about the history of places we visited was abundant. She was very kind, and answered our questions eagerly. We really enjoyed this trip, and willing to recommend it.
Thank you so much, our dear guest, for your nice words,and for choosing Egypt and Egypt Key Travel for your holiday. We wish to see you again and all the best for you in your life Ahmed
From the start till the end we have enjoyed our full time with our new Egyptian sister Shima. She picked us in the morning with a private driver Ahmed. They drove us to the west Bank in luxor. We saw the royal tombs in the valley of the kings. We continued to the marvelous temple of the queen hatshepsut. We had an amazing lunch before we finish our trip by visiting the temple of habu. We had valuable information from Shima and enjoyed our time with her. Highly recommended
Dear Monica We are so grateful to you and your nice review. It was a great honor to be your company during your visit in luxor
Luxor west bank highlights were one of our best tips in Luxor. Our guide Aly was so knowledgeable and made it nice. Best tombs in king's Valley were recommended by our guide Aly. We will never forget it Hank you mr. Hatem for your quick answers to our thousands of questions. Highly recommended
Dear Tommy We are so grateful to you and your nice review. It was a great honor to be your company during your visit in luxor
We booked west bank of luxor city today with egypt key travel and we had the guide mohamed with us. We started our day tour by kings valley then hatshepsut temple and habu temple. We enjoyed our time and had information about egyptian history told by our guide mohamed. He made it easy and nice. We haighly recommend mohamed and egypt key travel. Thanks
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Today we visited the west Bank highlights and started by the valley of the kings and had a great time of watching such a great nice tombs. We continued to visit hatshepsut temple and finished our trip with the temple of madinat habu with amazing decorations and sculptures. Mohamed our tour guide is a real egyptologist and we learned a lot from him. Thanks Mohamed for great job. We recommend Egypt key travel.
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As it was one of my life dreams. It has come true and I have seen one of the best cities in the whole world. Luxor with all these monuments which you can breath its smell everywhere you walk, I have seen it with Egypt key travel tour company. I booked the day trip to the west bank with them. I can not tell how I loved this tour with the best guide I had Ali.I visited the valley of the kings which is great with nice tombs, then we I went to Hatshepsut temple. finally we visited temple of madinat habu which was very colorful and nice place. Thank you Ali for the information I got today and thanks Egypt key travel!!
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