Luxor 2 Days / 1 Night

The largest temple complex ever built. For about 2,000 years, some 30 pharaohs added gates, halls and obelisks to honour the god Amun.

• The Great Hypostyle Hall has 134 giant columns, the tallest about 21 m
• The obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut is one of the tallest still standing in Egypt
• A sacred lake where priests purified themselves
• A sound and light show runs in the evening

After the pyramid age, New Kingdom pharaohs were buried in hidden tombs cut deep into this desert valley on the West Bank.

• More than 60 tombs have been found
• Howard Carter found the tomb of Tutankhamun here in 1922
• Tutankhamun’s mummy is still in his tomb
• The general ticket includes 3 tombs; Tutankhamun and Seti I cost extra
• No photos in some tombs – ask your guide

The terraced temple of Hatshepsut, one of the few women who ruled Egypt as pharaoh, built against the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari.

• She ruled for about 20 years
• Reliefs show her trading expedition to the land of Punt
• Three terraces rising to the cliff face

Two giant seated statues of Amenhotep III, about 18 m high, the last guards of his vanished temple.

• After an earthquake in 27 BC one statue "sang" at dawn, and Greek and Roman tourists came to hear it
• Free to visit, a short photo stop

Balloons take off before sunrise and float over the temples, the villages and the green fields of the West Bank.

• Flights last about 30–45 minutes
• Flights depend on the weather and can be cancelled at short notice
• You see the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut and the Nile from above