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Day tours from Luxor hotels and Nile cruises
Luxor day tours
Temples on the East Bank, royal tombs on the West Bank, a balloon at sunrise and day trips north and south along the Nile. Every tour shows its full plan, stop by stop, before you book.
- Day tours
- 11
- Pickup
- Luxor hotels, some Nile cruises
- Every tour
- Private car and guide
Showing all 11 day tours
Hot-air balloon ride over Luxor
Before-sunrise pickup · ferry to the West Bank · flight over the temples and fields
- Private transfers
- Hotel or Nile cruise pickup
Luxor East and West Banks in one day
Colossi of Memnon · Hatshepsut Temple · Valley of the Kings · Karnak · Luxor Temple
- Private
- Lunch included
- Alabaster workshop stop
Luxor West Bank, full day
Colossi of Memnon · Hatshepsut Temple · Valley of the Kings · Medinet Habu · Deir el-Medina
- Private
- Lunch included
Luxor East Bank
Karnak Temple · Luxor Temple
- Hotel or Nile cruise pickup
- Lunch included
Karnak sound and light show
Hypostyle hall lit at night · show by the sacred lake
- Private transfers
- Show ticket included
Dendera and Abydos from Luxor
Temple of Seti I at Abydos · Temple of Hathor at Dendera
- Private
- Lunch included
Edfu and Kom Ombo from Luxor
Temple of Horus at Edfu · Kom Ombo double temple
- Private car
- Lunch included
Cairo day trip from Luxor by plane
Flight to Cairo · Giza pyramids · Sphinx · Grand Egyptian Museum · flight back
- Flights not included
- Lunch included
Book a guide only in Luxor
Your own plan · licensed guide · English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian
- Guide only
- Car on request
Karnak Temple with a guide
Avenue of rams · Hypostyle Hall · sacred lake
- Private
- Egyptologist guide
Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut
Valley of the Kings · Hatshepsut Temple · Colossi of Memnon
- Private
- Egyptologist guide
Before you go
Good to know in Luxor
The balloon ride picks you up before sunrise, so plan an early night.
Several tours pick up from Nile cruise boats as well as hotels. Each tour page says which.
On these Luxor tours, tips for the guide and driver are not part of the price.
Places to visit
The sites on these tours
East Bank of the NileKarnak TempleThe Great Temple of Amun, the Hypostyle Hall and Hatshepsut's obelisk: history, hours and tickets.Opening hours: 6:00 am · last entry 4:00 pmEntry ticket, foreign adult: EGP 600- East Bank of the Nile, central LuxorLuxor TempleAmenhotep III's colonnade, Ramses II's pylon and obelisk, the Opet Festival: history, hours, tickets.Opening hours: 6:00 am · last entry 7:00 pmEntry ticket, foreign adult: EGP 500
- Theban West BankValley of the KingsThe New Kingdom royal tombs, Tutankhamun's among them: history, what you see, hours and tickets.Opening hours: 6:00 am · last entry 4:00 or 5:00 pmEntry ticket, foreign adult: EGP 750
Deir el-Bahari, Theban West BankTemple of HatshepsutHatshepsut's terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari: its history, the Punt reliefs, hours and tickets.Opening hours: 6:00 am · last entry 4:00 or 5:00 pmEntry ticket, foreign adult: EGP 440 or EGP 360
Theban West BankColossi of Memnon, Medinet Habu and Deir el-MedinaAmenhotep III's colossi, Ramses III's temple and the tomb builders' village: history, hours, tickets.Medinet Habu hours: 6:00 am · last entry 4:00 or 5:00 pmMedinet Habu, foreign adult: EGP 220 or EGP 230- Nile Valley north of LuxorDendera and AbydosHathor's temple at Dendera and the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, with its list of kings: hours and tickets.Opening hours: 7:00 am · last entry 4:00 pmEntry ticket, foreign adult: EGP 300 Dendera · EGP 260 Abydos
Plan your day
Luxor guides
- West Bank or East Bank: how to split a Luxor dayWhich sites sit on each bank of the Nile, and how our Luxor day tours divide them.
- 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.
- Dendera and Abydos from Luxor: is the long day worth it?Three long drives, two temples and lunch: what the day holds and when it beats staying in Luxor.
- Luxor hot-air balloon: what the morning looks likePickup before sunrise, the ferry, the flight over the West Bank, what is included and how cold it gets.
- Karnak or Luxor Temple: which one first?Karnak stops admitting visitors first, so it comes first. How the two temples compare.
- What time of day to visit Luxor's temples and tombsOpening and last-entry times set the order: West Bank early, Luxor Temple last.
- Dendera and Abydos or Edfu and Kom Ombo from Luxor?Two long temple days from Luxor, and what sets them apart.
- Luxor in the evening: the Karnak sound and light show and Luxor Temple's late hoursThe Karnak show and Luxor Temple's late hours: what an evening in Luxor can hold.