Your luxury cruise ship docks in
Safaga Harbour,
Red Sea, as you disembark the ship you will be met at the pier's exit gate by your
Egyptian Express Egyptologist-Guide.
Leave
Safaga by private deluxe air-conditioned mini-coach driving southwest to Luxor through the fascinating Eastern Desert.
Upon arrival at Luxor, drive to the great temple visit
Karnak, a complex of temples. Here you will visit the many sanctuaries, shrines, and the famous sacred lake. Walk through mazes of pylons and obelisks of staggering height, including the 134 columns of the
Great Hypostyle Hall considered the Eighth Wonder of the World! At Karnak, the temple of Amon is the largest columned temple in the world.
Lunch will be served followed by check in at your hotel.
This afternoon visit the temple of
Amon-Ra, known as the
Luxor Temple. This great temple was joined to that of Karnak by a long dromos paved in stone, a processional avenue flanked by human-headed sphinxes. You will marvel at the magnificence of the decorations of the temple entrance, and you will drift back in time as you study the gigantic wall relief scenes depicting life in ancient Egypt.
Drive to the nearby "
Luxor Museum". Here you will realize how Luxor grew from a small village into a great & mighty city it was under the New Kingdom Pharaohs. The Museum contains important statues and other works of art that have been impossible to restore at their original sites, as well as the interesting collection of the workshop, household, and farming tools used in ancient Egyptian times. It is very interesting.
Next, we drive to
Karnak Temple where, under the stars, you will attend the spectacular
Sound & Light production. This 90-minute spectacle first takes you around the temple grounds, and then the last act is played while you are seated beside the Great Sacred Lake. This performance relates the history of Luxor – “
Thebes Of A Hundred Gates”, capital of the ancient World.
Overnight Luxor.
05:00 AM In the early morning, we leave your hotel
(Breakfast Box will be provided) and cross the river Nile, to the take-off site on the west bank. Then experience flying in a
hot air balloon over the West Bank of Luxor, viewing the inspiring Necropolis of Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple, the Valley of the Queens, the Ramses III Temple at Medinet Habu. (Flying time is approximately
45 minutes.)
After this fantastic adventure you will be visiting the unbelievable necropolis of Thebes itself. - Here you will enter several of the gorgeously painted tombs of powerful pharaohs in
the Valley of the Kings - and that of the boy-
king Tutankhamun.
Then continue to the beautifully decorated tomb of a boy-prince in
the Valley of the Queens and
Royal Children.
You will also visit the imposing
Colossi of Memnon; - and the splendid Temple of
Queen Hatshepsut set at the foot of the majestic cliffs of Deir El Bahri!
Lunch will be served at your hotel.
After lunch check out and drive back to re-board the ship in Safaga escorted by your
Egyptian Express Tour Host.
Your luxury cruise ship docks in Safaga Harbour, Red Sea, as you disembark the ship you will be met at the pier's exit gate by your EE Travel Egyptologist-Guide.
Leave Safaga by private deluxe air-conditioned mini-coach driving southwest to Luxor through the fascinating Eastern Desert.