Day Tour To Luxor from hurghada by bus

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Stop At: Karnak Open Air Museum, within the walls of Karnak Temple, Luxor Egypt

The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak from Arabic Khurnak meaning "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings near Luxor, in Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes. The Karnak complex gives its name to the nearby, and partly surrounded, modern village of El-Karnak, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) north of Luxo

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari, Kings Valley Rd Deir el-Bahari, Luxor 23512 Egypt

Among the duties of any Egyptian monarch was the construction of monumental building projects to honor the gods and preserve the memory of their reigns for eternity. These building projects were not just some grandiose gesture on the part of the king to appease the ego but were central to the foundation and development of a unified state. Building projects ensured work for the peasant farmers during the period of the Nile’s inundation, encouraged unity through a collective effort, pride in one’s contribution to the project, and provided opportunities for the expression of ma’at (harmony/balance), the central value of the culture, through communal – and national – effort.

Contrary to the view so often held, the great monuments of Egypt were not built by Hebrew slaves nor by slave labor of any kind. Skilled and unskilled Egyptian workers built the palaces, temples, pyramids, monuments, and raised the obelisks as paid workers. From the period of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2613-2181 BCE) through the New Kingdom (c. 1570 - c. 1069 BCE) and, to a lesser extent, from the Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069-525) through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (323-30 BCE) the great rulers of Egypt created some of the most impressive cities, temples, and monuments in the world and these were all created by collective Egyptian effort.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Valley of the Queens, Thebes Egypt

Valley of the Queens

Valley of the Queens

Valley of the Queens is located on the West Bank in Luxor, also known as Biban el-Harim, Biban el-Sultanat, and Wadi el-Melikat, In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu.

Valley of queens is isolated cemetery belonging to queens, princesses, princes, and nobles, these tombs usually consist of a small antechamber, a long narrow corridor with several side chambers, and at the end - the burial chamber

This necropolis is said to hold more than seventy tombs, most of them are stylish and decorated, An example of this is the resting place carved out of the rock for Queen Nefertari (1290-1224 BCE) at the 19th Dynasty. The polychrome reliefs in her tomb are still intact.

The Tomb of Nefertari (Tomb 66), One of five wives of Ramesses II, Nefertari was his favorite, and the tomb is said one of the most beautiful in Egypt, The tomb is completely painted with scenes though out., Nefertari known as 'the most beautiful of them', accompanied by gods. She is usually wearing a golden crown with two feathers extended from the back of a vulture and clothed in a white gossamer gown. Be sure not to miss the side room where one scene depicts the queen worshipping the mummified body of Osiris.

Near the stairs to the burial chamber is another wonderful scene with Nefertarti offering milk to the goddess Hathor

Duration: 1 hour