2 Days / 1 Night
Daily Tour
6 people
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Overnight trip from El Gouna to Cairo and Luxor to visit of ancient Cairo sightseeing as Great Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx, the Egyptian museum, Valley of Kings, Karnak temple, Hatshepsut temple and Colossi of Memnon. Private guide and private vehicle during Cairo and Luxor trip included, lunch will be served during the Cairo and Luxor trip.
Fly to Cairo, sights in Cairo
Our Cairo and Luxor trip will start with pick up service from your hotel in El Gouna, where our REP will meet you with aboard reflecting your name, then from El Gouna you will be transferred to Hurghada airport for short flight to Cairo. In arrival in Cairo you will be accompanied by private Egyptologist guide and have first step of your trip to great Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the tombs of pharaohs constructed around 5000 years ago and Great Sphinx - guard of those tombs, with body of lion and human head. Lunch meal will be served during trip at a good quality restaurant in Cairo. Next sightseeing of your Cairo trip will be the Egyptian Museum with extensive collection of 120000 items of ancient Egyptian antiquities, famous for artifacts of the child king Tutankhamen's tomb, which was found mostly intact. After all you will visit Old Cairo and see the Coptic Monastery with Hanging Church. This area in Cairo called "Complex of Three Religions", because there also set he mosque of Amr Ibn al-Aas, erected in the year 642, and Ben Ezra Synagogue, dating from the tenth century. Free time in Cairo with many optional tours, then you will be driven to Cairo airport to fly to Luxor, with direct transfer to your hotel in Luxor for check in and overnight stay.
Sights in Luxor, return back to El Gouna
After your breakfast in the hotel in Luxor you will continue second day of your Cairo and Luxor trip with your Egyptologist guide to visit the West Bank of the Nile River. You will start Luxor trip by visiting the Valley of the Kings - burial place of pharaohs, hidden in the rocks, decorated with scenes and funerary rituals of the period for afterlife of pharaohs. Valley of Kings is famous for Tutankhamen tomb and its treasures, discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter. Next sightseeing of your Luxor trip will be Hatshepsut temple at El Deir Al Bahari, dedicated to the queen Hatshepsut - famous female pharaoh, the temple with three layered terraces connected by long ramps which were once surrounded by gardens. Inside temple you can see text and picture of an expedidion to exotic country calls Land of Punt. Then will visit the Colossi of Memnon, two colossal statues, was stayed guard at entrance of Amenhotep III temple in ancient times, and only remaining nowdays. Name means 'Ruler of the Dawn' and was probably given, because of 'singing' at dawn one of the statue. Lunch meal will be served during Luxor trip at a good quality restaurant in Luxor. Proceed the trip in Luxor to Karnak temple the bigest open-air museum in the World, the temple dedicated to the God Amon-Ra, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu. In Karnak Temple each pharaoh tried to perpetuate his name, so it is also known as the Karnak Temple Complex. One of the famous area in Karnak - Hypostyle hall with 134 massive columns with over three meters in diameter. Free time in Luxor, and then you return back to El Gouna.
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