Safaga - Luxorfull day, pick-up 08.30h from Safaga Pier (8 hours)

Tour Description
Departure from Safaga Port headed toward Luxor, the route will take approximately 3 hours. Arrival to Luxor where you will be transferred to the west bank of Luxor. Go there to explore the Valley of the Kings, where New Kingdom pharaohs were buried in hidden tombs which have maintained their richly painted hues and were filled with treasures for use in the afterlife. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Ancient Egypt’s only female pharaoh, rises out of the desert in a series of brilliant white terraces set against limestone cliffs. The temple was an important religious and funerary site, dedicated to the cults of Hathor, the cow goddess of beauty and love, and Anubis, god of the dead and mummification. After Hatshepsut’s death, her jealous stepson and successor Tuthmosis III defaced her temple images in an attempt to erase her memory forever. Enjoy a brief stop at the famed Colossi of Memnon, two immense statues of Amenhotep III which, in Pharaonic times, guarded the entrance to his once great temple.They were renamed by the ancient Greeks after the Trojan hero Memnon. The Greeks attributed the mournful cry once emitted by the statues at dawn to their sorrowful loss of Memnon at the hands of Achilles. During the Roman period, the site became a resort spot where many prominent travellers left their own graffiti carved into the sandstone. - Your today’s lunch will be set for you in a 5 stars Hotel (Sheraton or similar) - After Lunch continue your visit to the East Bank. Proceed to the Temple of Karnak, built over more than a thousand years by generations of pharaohs. The great Hypostyle Hall is an incredible forest of giant pillars, covering an area larger than the whole of Notre Dame Cathedral. You will also visit the strikingly graceful Temple of Luxor dedicated to the god Amun.