Luxor Trip Overview
Discover the largest temple in the world, the temple of Karnak, and the awesome temple of Luxor.
Hotel pick up and drop off, and entrance fees are included.
Professional licensed tour guide.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Luxor, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Luxor, Nile River Valley, Egypt
Discover the largest temple in the world, the temple of Karnak, and the awesome temple of Luxor.
Hotel pick up and drop off, and entrance fees are included.
Professional licensed tour guide.
Stop At: Temple of Karnak, Karnak, Luxor Egypt
Karnak Temple is the largest religious complex ever built to date. Comprising of a vast mix of temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings dating from the Middle Kingdom through to the Ptolemaic period. Thirty Pharaohs contributed to the building of this complex dedicated to the God Amun (The Hidden One). Originally an avenue of Sphinxes connected Karnak Temple to Luxor Temple.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Luxor Temple, Luxor 23512 Egypt
Luxor temple is situated in the downtown of Luxor, it was dedicated to the Theban Triad of the cult of the Royal Ka, Amun, Mut, and Khonsu 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 to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in a celebration of fertility. Alexander the Great claimed he was crowned here and at the rear of the temple is his shrine. There is evidence that a part of the temple was used as a Coptic church with Coptic (Christian) scenes depicted on the wall. The active mosque of Abu el Hagag is situated in the first open court of the temple standing on the ancient columns themselves.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
