Cairo Trip Overview
Getting from Cairo to Luxor can be tough because it takes more than eight hours if traveling by car. Choose instead to travel by train during this overnight tour to Luxor from Cairo by First class sittingr train. Along with Cairo hotel pickup and drop-off, you’ll also have your meals provided and train ticket, too. See top attractions in Luxor including Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, and the Temple of Hatshepsut. Visit the temple of Goddess Hathor at Dendera and the temple of Madient Habu in Luxor west bank. Door-to-door transfers, First class sitting train tickets round-trip are included.
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Duration: 4 days
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Getting from Cairo to Luxor can be tough because it takes more than eight hours if traveling by car. Choose instead to travel by train during this overnight tour to Luxor from Cairo by First class sittingr train. Along with Cairo hotel pickup and drop-off, you’ll also have your meals provided and train ticket, too. See top attractions in Luxor including Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, and the Temple of Hatshepsut. Visit the temple of Goddess Hathor at Dendera and the temple of Madient Habu in Luxor west bank. Door-to-door transfers, First class sitting train tickets round-trip are included.
Itinerary
Day 1: Cairo Train Station transfer and Overnight Sitting train to Luxor
Stop At: Ramsis Square, Al Fagalah, Al Azbakeya, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Our representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo at 6:30 pm by air-conditioned modern vehicle to Cairo or Giza train station for your board to Luxor which takes about 10 hours including dinner and breakfast.
Duration: 10 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at the first class sitting train
Day 2: Arrive Luxor and Luxor Full day tour
Stop At: Temple of Karnak, Karnak, Luxor Egypt
Arrive to luxor where you will be accompanied by your own Egyptologist tour guide to visit the famous Karnak temple the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name Ipet-isut means “the most sacred of places.” The temple, or, more correctly, the complex of temples, was built over more than two thousand years by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Luxor Temple, Luxor 23512 Egypt
hen you will be accompanied by your tour guide to visit the majestic Luxor temple which was built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for ritual and festivals and dedicated to the god Amun.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Valley of the Kings, Luxor City, Luxor 85511 Egypt
On the way you will enjoy lunch at quality restaurant. then visit the West Bank of The Nile River you will be visiting the two Colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon), and then visit the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs discovered, those tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs, you will visit 3 tombs
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Hatshepsut, King Valley Road, Luxor Egypt
Continue the tour to visit the Hatshepsut temple at El Deir El Bahary, this impressive temple dedicated to the Queen Hatshepsut the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it. Proceed to have your lunch at local restaurant , then you will be transferred to your hotel accommodation in Luxor.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 3: Dendera temple, Habu Temple and Overnight sitting train back to Cairo
Stop At: Dendera Temple Complex, Qena Egypt
Our Tour guide will pick you up from your hotel around 8 am to discover the ancient sites. First, drive 80 KM to Dendera to visit the Temple of Hathor, goddess of love and joy.The temple is located in Dendera which is situated at the north of Luxor ,
Duration: 6 hours
Stop At: Temple of Medinat Habu, Al Bairat, Luxor Egypt
then move to The mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu is an important Kingdom period structure in the west bank of luxor in egypt . Aside from its size and architecture and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting during the region of Ramsses III.
There is optional to visit the village of the workers( extra fee)
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Luxor Railway Station, Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Then lunch at a local restaurant. After that return back to Luxor train station to get your first class sitting Train to Cairo or Giza train station
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight at the First class sitting train
Day 4: Arrive Cairo and Hotel transfer
Stop At: Ramsis Square, Al Fagalah, Al Azbakeya, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Arrive at Cairo or Giza railway station to be met and drive back to your hotel in Cairo or Giza .
Duration: 45 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
