Day Tour to Valley of the Kings and Queens Hatshepsut temple WEST BANK LUXOR

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Stop At: Valley of the Kings, Luxor City, Luxor 85511 Egypt

Tours guide will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor, and start your Luxor day tour to visit the Theban necropolis in the west bank of the Nile. Discover the Valley of the Kings, the burial place of the New Kingdom Pharaohs (1550 – 1080 BC). There are 64 tombs were discovered in the Valley of the kings, all have been cut in the mountain. The earliest belongs to Queen Hatshepsuit father, Tuthmosis I (1506–1493 BC). You can visit the tomb of king Tutankhamon, an additional cost is payable direct.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Temple of Hatshepsut, King Valley Road,, Luxor Egypt

visit the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, built on three terraces and merges with the sheer cliffs of the Theban mountains. Originally, there is an avenue of sphinxes leading to the Nile and myrrh trees just in front of the temple’s entrance. Queen Hatshepsut was the only woman ever to reign over Egypt as a pharaoh. She is depicted in masculine form wearing a pharaoh’s kilt and beard. Also on the West Bank are the two Colossi of Memnon, twenty metre high statues, the only remains of the funerary temple of Amenophis III

Duration: 2 hours