subject: Cairo & Luxor By Plane [print this page] Day 1: Cairo Must see Day 1: Cairo Must see
Our representative will pick you up by air-conditioned modern vehicle from your hotel in Hurghada to Hurghada Airport to fly to Cairo. Meet & assist at Cairo International Airport then visit Giza pyramids of Cheops, Chephren & Mykerinus, the Great Sphinx and the Valley temple. Have lunch at local restaurant then visit the Egyptian Museum, the largest of Egyptian antiquities museum all over the world, it houses around 250,000 antique pieces covering the whole history of ancient Egypt, then to Khan El-Khalily for shopping - Transfer to hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 2: Luxor highlights
Breakfast at hotel Transfer to Cairo Airport for flight to Luxor where you will be met and assisted your qualified tour guide- Enjoy an excursion to visit Karnak Temple, This was ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places"), the main place of worship of the Theban Triad with Amun as its head, in the monumental city of Thebes. The complex retrieves its current name from the nearby and partly surrounding modern village of el-Karnak, about 3km north of Luxor.Visit Luxor Temple, Known in the Egyptian language as ipet resyt, or "the southern harem", the temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, and Chons and was built during the New Kingdom, the focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-isut) to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in a celebration of fertility whence its name. Have lunch, and then transfer to the west Bank to visit Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple at Deir ElBahary and Colossi of Memnon. Then drive back to your hotel in Hurghada.
