Two-Day Historical Tour of Cairo and Luxor from Sharm El Sheikh

Your Representative will pick you up from your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh & transfer you to Sharm Airport to Fly to Cairo, where you will be met & assisted by our representative in Cairo. After that, our Egyptologist guide will accompany you to discover the famous Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus, the Sphinx with the head of a pharaoh and lion's body which dates back to the reign of King Chephren, and the Valley Temple of the Pyramid of Chephren. Proceed to have your lunch at a local restaurant in Cairo. Then continue on to the Egyptian Museum which features artifacts from the Pharaonic period. The museum displays a rare collection of 5000 years of art which is considered the largest most precious collection of Egyptian art in the world. You will also see the fantastic Tutankhamun collection of treasures. Then shopping at Khan El Khalili Bazaar the most famous bazaar in the Middle East. In the evening you will be driven to Cairo Airport to fly to Luxor.

Our Egyptologist guide will accompany you to visit the great pyramid of Giza, which is the only existing wonder of the seven wonders of the ancient world. At the Giza plateau, you will not only see the great pyramid of Khufu, known as Cheops, but also the pyramid of Chefren, the pyramid of Mykerinus, the valley temple of Khefren, and the iconic Great Sphinx. This amazing complex of structures dates back to almost 5,000 years ago. In the famous area of Giza .

From there, you will be taken to the Egyptian museum, which houses around 150,000 artifacts that date thousands of years to ancient Egyptian civilization. This is considered the largest and most precious collection of Egyptian art in the world. Take your chance to admire the incredible treasures of the boy-king Tutankhamun.

At the end of the day you will be transferred to Cairo Airport for a flight to Luxor

Up on arrive to Luxor your private guide and driver will be waiting for you to take you to your hotel in Luxor to take some rest or you can choose to do some optional tours like Sunday and light show in Karnak temple .

First you will be transported to the Necropolis of Thebes the Valley of the Kings in the West Bank of Luxor This ancient necropolis is a must-see for Luxor travelers. There you visit four royal tombs, including the Tomb of RamsesII the Tomb of Ramases IX the Tomb of Merenptah The tomb of Tutankhamen ( not included)it is the only tomb in Valley of the Kings which was discovered nearly intact in 1922 The discoverer of his tomb was Howard Carter Tut famous golden mask is on display in the Egyptian national Museum in Cairo .

Tomb of King Ramesses lX was the third pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt He was the fifth son of Ramesses III and was appointed to the position of crown prince by the twenty-second year of his father's reign when all 4 of his elder brothers predeceased his promotion to crown prince The tomb is very colourful and full of details even the ceiling above the sarcophagi with its goddess Nut stretching across the space The sarcophagus is one of the largest in the valley even though some of the paintings have deteriorated this is one of the most decorated.

The tomb of Ramesses III designated as is a complex system in the Valley of the Kings It has been known since antiquity the wonderful decorations include colourful painted sunken reliefs featuring the traditional ritual texts (Litany of Ra, Book of Gates) and Ramses before the gods the a Unusual here is the secular scenes in the small side rooms of the entrance corridor showing foreign tributes such as highly detailed pottery imported from the Aegean the royal armoury boats and in the last of these side chambers the blind harpists that gave the tomb one of its alternative names: ‘Tomb of the Harpers .

Ptah is the demiurge of Memphis gods of craftsmen and architects In the simply in its falcon form of the new deity began to be placed in tombs to accompany and protect the dead on their journey to the West bank of Luxor Tomb number 8 which is located in the Valley of the Kings was the burial place of Pharaoh Merneptah and is the model of royal tombs Merneptah was a son of Ramesses II and Queen Isis-Nofrtite the tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1903 there is a material decrease in the number of lateral rooms and a dramatic increase in the height of the corridors and rooms He did away with the jogged axis used since the time of Horemoheb and instead built the entire tomb on a single axis note Also for the first time the entrance was made considerably wider than earlier tombs .

The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1334–1325 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb consists of four chambers and an entrance staircase and corridor.

After visiting the valley of the kings you will be transported to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (Deir el Bahari) the only woman ever to reign over Egypt as Pharaoh This queen was an ancestor of King Tutankhamen and belonged to the same dynasty .

Colossi of Memnon the two largest ancient statues in Egypt which date back to the King Amenhotep III

Temples of karnak complex in the East Bank of Luxor Karnak you visit what is considered to be one of the world's greatest architectural masterpieces namely the complex of Karnak is a complex of temples built in different reigns starting with the Avenue of Sphinxes the Hypostyle Hall with its 134 gigantic columns the Obelisks of Queen Hatshepsut and Thtomos I the Temple of Amon adorned with lotus and papyrus designs the Granite scarbon of Amenophis III and the Sacred Lake Karnak beats every other pharaonic monument it is simply it's one of the most beautiful ancient monuments in Egypt .

End of the day we will take you back to Luxor Airport to take your flight to sharm El Sheikh

Over night at St Joseph hotel in luxor