Full Day Tour of Luxor West Bank Temples and Tombs (Private)

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About this activity

See the highlights of Luxor's West Bank in just one day on this private tour, led by an Egyptologist guide. You’ll visit the Valley of the nobules and the Valley of the Kings, see the Colossi of Memnon, and spend time at the Hatshepsut Temple, dedicated to one of Egypt's most revered queens.

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At a glance

Duration: 7–10 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: English
Operated by: Etro tours

Ages: Infants (0–5 years) · Children (6–11 years) · Adults (12–100 years)

What is included

Included

Included: All Service charges & taxes
Included: Pick up services from your hotel in Luxor and return
Included: All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
Included: Bottled water on board the vehicle during the tour
Included: Private Egyptologist guide

Not included

Not included: Tipping
Not included: Entrance fees to all the attractions mentioned in the itinerary

Itinerary

Valley of the Kings

2 hours Admission not included

The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis./ The wadi consists of two valleys:
Valley of the Artisans (Deir el-Medina)

one hour Admission not included

Deir el-Medina, or Dayr al-Madīnah, is an ancient Egyptian workmen's village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th Dynasties
Stop 3

one hour Admission not included

It is 97 feet (30 m) tall. The unusual form of Hatshepsut's temple is explained by the choice of location, in the valley basin of Deir el-Bahari, surrounded by steep cliffs. It was here, in about 2050 BC, that Mentuhotep II, the founder of the Middle Kingdom, laid out his sloping, terrace-shaped mortuary temple.
Tombs of the Nobles - Luxor

one hour Admission not included

The nobles, they are the leader, the state men from the employees, the police, the army men. We find that in the old state it could be limited to the kings only, the state men struggled to obtain a right like the kings. In the Middle Kingdom they had the legitimate right to immortality and their god became the god Osiris and the royal god was Ra, so Osiris is the popular god, that is, the universality of the people, while Ra is final for the kings only. In the modern state: they had the full right to develop their tombs and decorate them with inscriptions like the kings, and Ra was the god of all the people and the kings.
Temple of Medinat Habu

one hour Admission not included

The Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu was an important New Kingdom period temple structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt.
Colossi of Memnon

10 min Admission included

The Colossi of memnon are two stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the massive ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis. They have stood since 1350 BC, and were well known to ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as early modern travelers and Egyptologists.[1][2] The statues contain 107 Roman-era inscriptions in Greek and Latin, dated between AD 20 and 250; Many of these inscriptions on the northernmost statue make reference to the Greek mythological king Memnon,