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Luxor in a day from Aswan
A private evening from your Aswan hotel: Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, Colossi of Memnon, Karnak and Luxor Temple.
- Length
- Day trip, back in the evening
- Tour type
- Private, just your group
- Pickup
- Your hotel in Aswan
- Guide
- English-speaking Egyptologist
- Lunch
- Optional, not included
The tour journey
Your day, step by step
Times are estimates; traffic and your hotel's location change them. Drive times are from map routing without traffic.
- 5:00approx.Pickup
Pickup from your hotel in Aswan.
- 8:15approx.1VisitValley of the Kings: history, hours and tickets →
Burial ground of New Kingdom pharaohs; you enter decorated tombs.
- 10:00approx.2VisitTemple of Hatshepsut: history, hours and tickets →
Terraced temple of Queen Hatshepsut built against limestone cliffs.
- 11:00approx.3VisitColossi of Memnon, Medinet Habu and Deir el-Medina: history, hours and tickets →
Two large statues on the Theban West Bank.
- 11:15approx.Lunch, optional
Lunch at a local restaurant in Luxor.
- 12:15approx.On the way
In the afternoon you cross the Nile to the East Bank.
- 12:30approx.4VisitKarnak Temple: history, hours and tickets →
Temple complex with the Hypostyle Hall, added to by generations of pharaohs.
- 14:00approx.5VisitLuxor Temple: history, hours and tickets →
Temple in the centre of modern Luxor, once linked to Karnak by the Avenue of Sphinxes.
- 15:15approx.6Activity
Free time for shopping or photos.
- 19:45approx.Drop-off
Return journey to Aswan, arriving at your hotel in the evening.
Included
- All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
- Pick up services from your hotel & return
- Private English Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to all the mentioned sites
- A bottle of water during your trip
- All taxes & service charge
Not included
- Tutankhamun's tomb ticket (optional)
- Lunch (optional)
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
- Tipping
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Price on request
- Private, just your group
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Change or skip a stop: just ask
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before
Nothing to pay with the request. To book, a 25% deposit by card or PayPal; the rest in cash on the day. Payment and cancellation
Before you go
Guides for this day
Valley of the Kings: tickets and tombs for a day visitThe general ticket, the tomb tickets our tours leave out, and where the valley falls in each day.
Edfu and Kom Ombo from Aswan: the temples on the road northEdfu first, Kom Ombo on the way back: the drives, the two temples, their hours and the tickets.
Day tours or a package tour: seeing Egypt one day at a timeA package sells the whole trip; day tours let you build it from a base, one day at a time.
Karnak or Luxor Temple: which one first?Karnak stops admitting visitors first, so it comes first. How the two temples compare.
