From Hurghada Day Trip to Karnak & Luxor temples with an expert guide

Your Day Trip “Karnak & Luxor Temples with an expert guide” starts in the lobby of your hotel in Hurghada. We will welcome you there. In an air-conditioned vehicle we travel through the desert and past houses and fields directly to Luxor. Your tour guide will tell you a lot about the country and its people.

To begin, you will explore the Karnak Temple in the Karnak Temple Complex. Your tour guide, a qualified Egyptologist, will give you deep insights into the temple complex and life there. The Karnak Temple is the largest temple complex in Egypt, the oldest building dated from the 12th Dynasty under Sesostris I. The temple complex was expanded and rebuilt until the Roman Empire. The white and red chapels, a statue of the war goddess Sekhmet and the remains of the temple of Akhenaten are on display in the open-air museum.

After a good 4 hours of specialist information, you deserve a lunch with Egyptian dishes on a motorboat. Enjoy the exclusive dishes.

Via a small avenue of sphinxes you reach the Temple of Mut, Mut was a companion of the god Amun or Amun-Re. The temple was the main cultural site for the goddess Mut in ancient Egypt. The Mut temple area was surrounded by a temple wall and was repeatedly expanded over time, so that the temple area today includes, among other things, the Mut temple, the birthplace of Ramses II, the temple of Ramses III. and surrounds the Holy Lake.

In the southwest corner of the Karnak temple precinct is the Opet Temple. The temple was built in the Ptolemaic period by Ptolemy VIII and is dedicated to the goddess Opet. In the rear part of the temple there is said to be an underground grave of Osiris and a crypt in which the metamorphosis of the god Amun-Re is said to have taken place. You might find out.

The last highlight of the day is the Luxor Temple. You can reach this via the famous Sphinx Avenue. You can walk the approximately 3 km long path through the Sphinx Alley or do part of it by car. You decide! The Luxor Temple was dedicated to the god Amun, his wife Mut and their son, the moon god Chons. The temple was built during the New Kingdom and is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

We have provided you with a lot of new knowledge and you have gained many new and interesting impressions. Therefore, it is now time to start the journey back to Hurghada. We will take you directly to your hotel in Hurghada.