Luxor East Bank Private Tour: Karnak Temple - Luxor Temple
Visit the two main temples of the ancient Egyptian capital of the Middle and New Kingdom: Thebes. A professional English-speaking guide will pick you up from your hotel and take you with airconditioned private transportation to the Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple to show you where Pharaohs like Tutankhamun, Hatchepsut and Ramses II performed their sacred rituals. The Karnak Temple complex contains holy lakes, hypostyle halls, obelisks, pylons and shrines. The Luxor Temple, gracefully decorating the banks of the river Nile, dedicated, not to a deity or pharaoh but to the Rejuvenation of Kingship and center of the Opet Festival.
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Luxor East Bank Private Tour: Karnak Temple - Luxor Temple
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What's included in Luxor East Bank Private Tour: Karnak Temple - Luxor Temple
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Temple of Karnak
You will visit the Karnak Temple, the second largest religious temple in the world after Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Construction of the first temple complex started about 3,500 years ago and stopped in the Ptolemaic era. The Karnak Temple is a collection of precincts for Amun Re, Mut and Monsu and contains holy lakes, hypostyle halls, obelisks, pylons and shrines. Within the walls is a separate open air museum that requires an additional entrance ticket, as does the Mut precinct. Your guide will lead you through the temple, sharing the historical highlights and giving you plenty of time to wander around between the ancient walls.
Luxor Temple
You will visit the Luxor Temple, dedicated, not to a deity or pharaoh but to the Rejuvenation of Kingship and center of the Opet Festival. In ancient times, the Karnak and Luxor Temples were connected by the sphinx alley which is still being excavated. Many pharaohs were crowned here, either in reality or theoretically (like Alexander the Great who claimed he was crowned in Thebes but probably never visited the ancient capital). You will be able to gaze at the religious significance of the place, as the Theban Triad has shrines, a Roman chapel exists within the walls which was later transformed into a church and on top of the temple rests the Abu Haggag mosque.
Inclusions
- Private transportation
- All Fees and Taxes
- Private English-speaking Professional Egyptologist tour guide… if option is selected
- sightseeing tickets / admission fees
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- one Bottled water each person
- Pick up and Drop off at your hotel accommodation
- Tips, Meals, Beverages, extra activities not mentioned, and personal spending
- Entrance fees to the Karnak Open Air Museum and Mut Presinct
- other Languages guides at extra supplement to be paid in cash ,
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 10 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
We pick up all guests from their Luxor-East Bank accommodation (pick up from West Bank accommodation or Luxor Airport against supplement).
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Ticket Redemption
Tickets will be with your guide upon start of the tour.
