Luxor Day Trip from Hurghada: Hot Air Balloon & Valley of Kings

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Duration2d

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · DE +2

PickupAt your hotel

The alarm goes off at 5am — and it's worth it

You leave Hurghada at dawn, spend two days in Luxor with a guide and a hot air balloon ride at sunrise, explore the Valley of the Kings and Karnak Temple, sleep one night in a 4-star hotel, and return to Hurghada by evening on day two. Hotel pickup, all meals, and the balloon ride are included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Travel to Luxor and Nile felucca ride

Pick up from Hurghada at 5:00 am
Drive 4 hours to Luxor
Lunch at local Egyptian restaurant
Visit Karnak Temple
Check in and rest at Luxor hotel
Sunset felucca ride on the Nile
Dinner at restaurant
Return to hotel for overnight

Day 2 — Hot air balloon and West Bank tour

Early morning hotel pick up
Hot air balloon flight over Luxor
Visit Valley of the Kings
Visit Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
Photo stop at Colossi of Memnon
Camel ride through local villages
Lunch in Luxor
Drive back to Hurghada
Drop off at accommodation in Hurghada

The Experience

The pickup from your Hurghada hotel happens early, and the four-hour drive to Luxor gives you time to actually wake up before the real day starts. You'll roll into Luxor with a professional Egyptologist guide waiting, and after lunch at a local restaurant, you head straight to Karnak Temple — the massive complex where dozens of pharaohs left their mark. The scale of it hits different when someone who knows the history is standing next to you explaining which walls belonged to which dynasty and why the layout matters. By evening you're back at your 4-star hotel in Luxor, then picked up again at sunset for a felucca ride on the Nile before dinner.

Day two is the one people actually talk about afterward. You're up before dawn again, luggage packed, and driven to the hot air balloon launch site. Watching the balloons inflate and rise while the sun comes up over Luxor — the temples visible from the sky in a way you can't see them from the ground — is the kind of thing that justifies the early morning. After landing, your guide takes you to the Valley of the Kings, where 63 royal tombs sit carved into the rock, each one different from the last. Then the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which is built on a scale that makes you understand why ancient Egypt still matters, and a quick stop at the Colossi of Memnon for photos.

There's also a camel ride through local villages — not a tourist performance, but an actual way to see how people work the land around Luxor — and then a second lunch before the drive back to Hurghada. The whole thing is two days, which sounds like a lot, but the hotel night in Luxor and the included meals mean you're not scrambling to find places to eat or figuring out where to sleep. Your guide handles the pacing, the driver handles the logistics, and you just show up at your hotel at 5am ready to go.

What’s included

Your two days include hotel pickup and drop-off from Hurghada, the four-hour drive in an air-conditioned vehicle, a professional English-speaking guide, entry to Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings, the sunrise hot air balloon ride, a felucca ride on the Nile, a camel ride through local villages, one night at a 4-star hotel in Luxor with breakfast, two lunches, one dinner, and all fees and taxes.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Nice tours

Is this one for you?This works well if you want to see Luxor's main temples and the Valley of the Kings without arranging transport, guides, or accommodation yourself — the two-day structure and included hotel night mean you're not rushing between sites or scrambling to find a place to sleep.