HALF-DAY TOUR TO KARNAK AND LUXOR TEMPLES

Your guide will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor with an air-conditioned private vehicle to the East Bank of Luxor. Start your fascinating tour with a visit to the complex of Karnak Temple. It is dedicated to the God Amon. Walk along the Ram-headed sphinxes Avenue to enter the complex through the massive gates and pylons. On entering the Temples of Karnak, you will see different structures added and left by the various pharaohs as the complex had many extensions along the ages. Your guide will explain everything about the place while you walk through the Great Court into the Great Hypostyle Hall; it is hard not to be overwhelmed by a forest of the 134 columns. At the backside and the biggest carved piece for the sacred scarab. Your Egyptologist will give you free time for photography. Carry on to Luxor Temple, which was once joined to the Temples of Karnak by a three KM long Avenue of Sphinx, a portion of which marks the entrance to the temple. Luxor Temple was built by Amunhotep III, and it completed by king Ramesses II, watch the beautiful paints of the festival which was made by the ancient Egyptian every year during the annual visit of Amun to his wife Mut in Luxor temple. Luxor Temple used to have two red granite obelisks originally stood in front of the Temple. There is only one now as the other was moved to Paris where it now stands in the center of the Place de la Concorde. At the end of your tour transfer back to your hotel in Luxor.