Luxor: Valley of Kings & Karnak Temple Full-Day Tour

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Duration7h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · AR +3

PickupAt your hotel

Cross the Nile to five temples and three pharaohs' tombs in one morning and afternoon

You're driven across the Nile to visit the Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut, and Colossi of Memnon on the west bank, then return to explore Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple on the east side. An Egyptologist guide walks you through each site, lunch is included at a local restaurant, and hotel pickup and drop-off handle the logistics. The whole day runs around eight hours without you managing transport or tickets.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Luxor East and West Banks

Pick up from hotel
Visit Valley of the Kings
Explore Temple of Hatshepsut
See Colossi of Memnon
Lunch at local restaurant
Tour Karnak Temple
Visit Luxor Temple
Transfer back to hotel

The Experience

You're picked up from your hotel on the East Bank and driven across the Nile to the west side, where the real weight of Luxor hits you. The Valley of the Kings opens up — a dry ravine cut into pale rock where three pharaohs' tombs sit underground, their chambers painted and sealed for three thousand years. Your Egyptologist guide walks you through the passages, pointing out the hieroglyphics still bright on the walls, explaining which ruler built what and why the tombs were hidden here instead of marked with pyramids. It's the kind of detail that makes the stones stop being old and start being a story.

From there you move to the Temple of Hatshepsut, which rises in three massive terraces straight out of the desert floor and into the cliffs — it's less a building than a statement carved into the landscape. Then the Colossi of Memnon, two seated giants that once guarded Amenhotep III's mortuary temple, now just sitting there in the heat, enormous and half-buried. You break for lunch at a local restaurant before crossing back to the East Bank, where the real Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple are waiting. Karnak is the larger one, a sprawl of pylons and chapels and columns dedicated to Amun and his family — the kind of place where you need someone who knows what you're looking at, which is why the guide matters here.

The whole day tour moves through five temples and two banks of the Nile without you arranging transport, entry fees, or timing. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included, as is lunch and all the entrance fees. The group stays small enough that you're not shuffling through crowds, and the pace gives you time to actually stand in front of these things instead of just photographing them.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off on the East Bank, entrance fees to the Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut, Colossi of Memnon, Karnak Temple, and Luxor Temple, lunch at a local restaurant with vegetarian options available, and a professional English-speaking Egyptologist guide throughout. All taxes and service charges are covered.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPublic transport nearby

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Is this one for you?Book this if you want to see Luxor's main temples and tombs in one day without arranging your own transport, tickets, or timing — the guide and fixed itinerary let you focus on the sites instead of logistics.