Luxor Day Tour with Queens Nobles Artisans Valley Habu Temple

Your Egyptologist tour guide will pick you up from your Luxor Hotel / Nile Cruise then Drive to the Theban Necropolis on the west bank of the river . Start your private tour at the valley of the queens , where king’s wives and sons of pharaohs were buried , well known in ancient times as Ta-Set-Neferu , meaning ‘ the place pf beauty ‘. There are more than 90 known tombs , usually consisting of an entrance passage , afew short halls , and sarcophagus chamber . so you will visit 3 tombs of the queens and their sons of the kings like the tombs of amun-khepshef , khaem-waset and Queen tyti wife of king ramses III . the most notable are those of nefertarti , the favourite queen of ramses II

Then you will move to Valley of nobles which are gathering of nobles tombs in Luxor like Ramose , Senniffer ,menna and other 400 theban nobles are marked by numbers with beautiful Scenes were Carved inseide ,These tombs are some of . Nestled in the foothills opposite the Ramesseum are more than 400 tombs

Then Proceed to The Ramesseum Temple which is Considered the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramses II . it is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt , on th west bank of the river Nile , across from the modern city of Luxor . The Design of Ramesses’s mortuary temple adheres to the standard canons of New Kingdom temple architecture

Proceed to visit valley of the artisans and workmen responsible for constructing the royal tomb in the valley of the kings . during the 18th 19th 20th Dynasties of the new kingdom period (1550-1080 ), you will enjoy exploring the ruins of the settlement of the village , the Ptolemaic temple , dedicated to the goddesses Hathor and maat , consisting of small building with in a mud brick enclosure wall and two of the finest decorated tombs of sennedjem , inherkau

a photo stop in front of the gigantic statues of memnon

Continue to visit madinat habu temple of king Ramses III , the last great warrior pharaoh of the new kingdom (1550 – 1080 B.C) . the temple is well-preserved of the new kingdom memorial temples . it is decorated with military scenes and texts illustrating the victories of the king , as well as th rituals performed and festivals celebrated . Aroyal palace was attached at the temple open forecourt , while priests dwellings and administrative units lay on either side of the temple . after finished , you will be transferred back to Hotel or Nile Cruise in Luxor

Then Drive to The domed mud-brick house where Howard Carter lived during his search for Tutankhamun’s tomb which surrounded by a garden on what is otherwise a barren slope above the road from deir Al Bahari to valley of the kings . the house has been restored and decorated with pictures and tools of the excavations . an exact replica of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber has been constructed on the edge of the garden along with exhibition relating to the discovery of the tomb.