Dendera Temple and Luxor West Bank Tour from Safaga Port

Duration

18 Hours

Golavita Travel Egypt private Dendera temple and Luxor west bank from Safaga Port is customized to offer the highest quality Safaga shore excursions. We offer Safaga Shore excursions to have more personalized experience in Qena and Luxor city exploring Qena and Luxor attractions in private. Luxor is an extraordinarily city rich in history and Pharaonic temples and Pharaonic tombs, and there is no better way to experience this without our customized Egypt tours.

Booking Safaga Shore excursions to Dendera, you will have your special guide to explain you everything about ancient Egyptian Civilization in private. Also, you will enjoy private transfer and spend more time everywhere you will go. Your Egypt shore excursions included the top tourist attractions in Qena and Luxor such as Dendera temple, Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut temple and Memnon Colossi. You will learn at Dendera about the architecture in ancient Egypt, sculpture in ancient Egypt, and Festivals in ancient Egypt. In addition to this, you will see the Zodiac in ancient Egypt. Moreover, marvel at Isis Chapel, Osiris Chapel at Dendera and Tutankhamun at the Valley of the Kings.

Highlights

Dendera Temple
Valley of the Kings
The Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
Memnon Colossi

Tour Includes

Round transfer with private new brand vehicle
Expert Egyptologist guide
Entrance fee for all the sightseeing
Lunch at a local restaurant
Water during the day

Tour Excludes

Dendera Crypts ticket
Dendera roof ticket
KV9 – Ramesses V, Ramesses VI tomb EGP 150 per person (5.5$)
KV17 – Seti I EGP 1400 per person (76$)
KV62 -Tutankhamun EGP 360 per person (16$)
Tipping
Beverages during lunch

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Dendera Temple and Luxor West Bank Tour from Safaga Port

Itinerary

Your guide will pick you up at the exit of Safaga Port to start your day trip to Dendera and Luxor attractions.

Coffee Break: The distance between Safaga and Qena is about 1500 km takes about two and half hours driving with a short break at a lounge on the way to use the toilet (10 l.e per person) or get a coffee.

Start with Dendera temple is the vest-preserved Pharaonic temple in Egypt and it has unique features comparing to Upper Egypt temples. Here, you will be surprised how advanced they were concerning the architecture in ancient Egypt, and the astronomy in ancient Egypt. Also, the colors and the art of paintings in ancient Egypt was amazing in Dendera temple.

Lunch: After Dendera temple, we drive you to Luxor for about one hour and half. You will stop first for lunch at a local restaurant with Nile View. Before you cross the Nile River to the west bank.

After having lunch you will visit Valley of the Kings on Luxor west bank one of the best things to do in Egypt from Safaga Port. There are 63 tombs in the Valley of the Kings (now even more), with your entrance ticket, you can visit 3 tombs and you can shoot photos inside for free. These three tombs could be 3 of the following tombs

(KV 02) Rameses IV
Tomb of Ramses III (KV 11)
Ramses IX Tomb KV 6
KV15 Seti II
Siptah KV47
KV16 Ramesses I
Merenptah tomb (KV 8)
The tomb of Tausert and Setnakht (KV 14)

Then go to Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut starts with the avenue of Sphinxes with only two restorated Sphinxes statues for the Queen. Enjoy Memnon Colossi, These are two very huge twin seated statues 17m in height each decorated the entrance of the Mortuary temple of Amenhotep III during the New Kingdom.