HomeLuxor 2 Day Trip from Safaga Port
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Private Tour
Duration
2 Days
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Everyday
Take advantage of this extremely informative Port Safaga to Luxor 2 day tour which is packed full of exciting opportunities to explore the ancient history of ‘Old Thebes’ whilst also enjoying a relaxing felucca sailing and overnight stay in Luxor with several optional tours on offer.
Included and Excluded
- Pick up and return services from Safaga Port (at the cruise exit door)
- All transfers by an air-conditioned vehicle
- Accommodation for one night at the 5 star Hotel, Sonesta St George Hotel Luxor.
- Private English Egyptologist Guide
- Entrance fees to all the mentioned sites
- Bottled water on board the vehicle during your tour
- Lunch meals at local restaurant
- Shopping tours in Luxor
- All taxes & service charge
- Anything not mentioned in the itinerary
- Tipping
Itinerary
Day 1 - Safaga Port to Luxor Tour
Your Memphis Tours English speaking Egyptologist Guide and Driver will pick you up from your exit point of the Ship at Port Safaga in the morning holding a sign with your name. Your private shore excursion from Port Safaga to Luxor will be by road (approximately 3 hours) in an air-conditioned vehicle with a rest stop on the way. Then proceed to visit the world famous Karnak Temple the largest place of worship that was ever built ! Its ancient name Ipet-isut means ‘the most sacred of places’. The Temple, or, more correctly, the complex of Temples, was built more than two thousand years ago by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible corridor of giant pillars.Following your tour of Karnak Temple. This will be followed by a tour of Luxor Temple which was once linked to Karnak Temple by the ‘Avenue of Sphinx’ ( now under reconstruction). Lunch will be served at good quality restaurant in Luxor, and then you will be accompanied by your Tour Guide to visit the majestic Luxor Temple which was built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for rituals and festivals dedicated to the God Amun. Later you will take a relaxing sail on the River Nile by ‘Felucca’, a typical Egyptian sailing boat, for a romantic trip with sunset views. From there will be transferred to your Hotel in Luxor for check in with free leisure time at the Hotel overnight.
Please note - There is an optional tour to attend the fabulous Sound and Light show at Karnak Temple in Luxor with transfer included to and from your Hotel.
Please note - There is an optional tour to attend the fabulous Sound and Light show at Karnak Temple in Luxor with transfer included to and from your Hotel.
Day 2 - Luxor Tour - to Safaga Port
Breakfast at your Hotel in Luxor, then your private English speaking Egyptologist Guide will take you to West Bank of the Nile River in Luxor to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon), and then to explore the hidden tombs of the Valley of the Kings. Here the magnificent tombs were discovered carved deep into the desert rocks, richly decorated and filled with the treasures for the Pharaohs after life in which he believed he needed for his life to come. Then you will have the chance to visit 3 tombs inside Valley of the Kings along with Hatshepsut’s Temple at El Deir El Bahary, an impressive Temple dedicated to Queen Hatshepsut the only female Pharaoh. The Temple rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it. Finally lunch enroute then escorted by your Guide back to your cruise ship in Safaga Port ( 220km ).
Prices
Prices
2 Persons
Per Person
$
495
3 Persons
Per Person
$
399
4 Persons
Per Person
$
349
5 Persons
Per Person
$
329
6 Persons
Per Person
$
209
Join A Small Group (2-35) Per Person $ 235
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