2 day luxor short break including hot air balloon

first day starts with picking up from your hotel in Luxor in the morning and visiting Karnak Temple,  Luxor Our visit to Luxor will be divided into two days. The first day would be dedicated to the monuments of the East Bank.

karnak temple

The Karnak Temple dates back from around 2055 BC to around 100 AD. It was built as a cult temple and was dedicated to the gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu. Being the largest building for religious purposes ever to be constructed, the Karnak Temple was known as the “most select of places” by ancient Egyptians.

During the New Kingdom, the Karnak Temple Complex was the center of the ancient faith while power was concentrated at Thebes (modern-day Luxor) and its significance is reflected in its enormous size.

In addition to its religious significance, it also served as a treasury, administrative center, and palace for the New Kingdom pharaohs. It is to this day considered the largest temple complex ever constructed anywhere in the world.

 Luxor Temple.

On the East bank of the Nile River, in the south of Egypt, the World’s Largest Outdoor Museum, Luxor city, contains one of the most beautiful temples standing. The Luxor Temple is a mark of Ancient Egyptian civilization, a strikingly graceful monument in the heart of modern Luxor.

Different than other temples in Luxor, the Luxor temple was not built in adoration to a god or to a god figure of the kings and pharaohs; instead, Luxor Temple was built in dedication to the rejuvenation of kingship. Many kings might have had their crowning at the Temple of Luxor,

whether crowned in reality or conceptually as in the case of Alexander the Great, who claimed he was crowned at Luxor although facts contradict appear that he had never traveled south of Memphis which is considered the modern city of Cairo.

then have lunch at Nile View restaurant

then drive you back to your hotel or anywhere in Luxor 

 hot air balloon 

Our representative will pick you up in the early morning so you may enjoy a hot air balloon ride. Change to marine delight in soft drinks prior to boarding the motorboat and heading to the west bank.

After that, you’ll be taken to the balloon ride takeoff place, which is located above the largest open-air museum (Luxor). Although the “Balloon Ride” excursion leaves daily, it is nevertheless strongly advised to make reservations in advance. It takes 45 minutes to land after the balloon flight.

then you would be discovering the finest monuments of the West Bank of Luxor, like the Valley of the Kings, the Colossi of Memnon, the Temple of Ramses III of Madinet Habu the Temple of Hatshepsut. 

have lunch, and transfer anywhere around Luxor.  We consider our 2 days tour to Luxor among the most marvelous because it offers the guests a marvelous chance to discover the secrets of Luxor in the best-organized tour.

Valley of the Kings

Start your day with an impressive breakfast meal, and then join our Egyptologist tour guide on a tour to visit the gorgeous Luxor tourist attractions, starting with: Its royal burials are located in the West Bank of Luxor which has 24 terrific royal tombs and in total 64 tombs according to the last discovery at 2008 to 2014.

It’s the final resting place of Egypt’s rulers from the 18th to the 20th dynasty; it is home to tombs including the great Pharaoh Ramses II and King Tutankhamun. The tombs were well stocked with all the material goods a ruler might need in the next world. Most of the decoration inside the tombs is still well-preserved.

  Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

It is a mortuary temple at Deir El-Bahri. It was built by Queen Hatshepsut who is considered to be one of the most formidable women in Ancient Egypt.

The queen is distinguished as one of the most successful pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, but she was not the only female ruler in Egypt’s history. Her reign was peaceful and prosperous and as a result, it witnessed a wide variety of achievements one of them was her own mortuary temple which commemorates all her great works on its walls.

Madinet Habu

The Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu was an important New Kingdom period temple structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt.

Ramses III’s magnificent memorial temple of Medinat Habu, fronted by sleepy Kom Lolah village and backed by the Theban mountains, is one of the west bank’s most underrated sites. This was one of the first places in Thebes closely associated with the local god Amun. At its height, Medinat Habu contained temples, storage rooms, workshops, administrative buildings, a royal palace, and accommodation for priests and officials. It was the center of the economic life of Thebes for centuries.

Colossi of Memnon

They are two incredible massive stone statues of the royal Pharaoh, Amenhotep III. They depict him in a seated position, and they are made from blocks of quartzite sandstone. The legendary Colossi of Memnon are the guardians of the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III. The temple consists of two spectacular twin statues sitting at the entrance of Luxor and it gained its fame due to its majestic appearance.

At the end of your visit, your guide will drive you to a local restaurant to enjoy a very delicious  lunch

then drive you back to your hotel