Karnak & Luxor Temples
(4 hours)
Includes: Entrance fees to the temples.
Description: Ancient Thebes or “Wast”, as it was called in Pharaonic times, houses the Karnak Temple. An enormous and complex temple (about 6,000 m˛) of great importance historically as much as the Vatican in contemporary times. It was started 2000 B.C. and continued to be built and rebuilt until Roman times.
Its most glorious time was during the New Kingdom when more or less all pharaohs contributed to the complex by adding a gate, an obelisk or a temple chapel. The temple was mainly dedicated to the god Amon Ra and his family.
Luxor temple is today situated in the middle of Luxor town, leaving its beautiful gates, walls, and colonnades to decorate any view of the city. It was built mainly during Amenophis III reign, but has been and is still being used until today, including dwelling traces of a church and a still in-use mosque.
Extras:Entrance to the new museum within the Karnak area.
Can be combined with a half-day visit to the West Bank, guided tour of the Luxor Museum, and/or the Mummification Museum.
(4 hours)
Includes: Entrance fees to the temples.
Description: Ancient Thebes or “Wast”, as it was called in Pharaonic times, houses the Karnak Temple. An enormous and complex temple (about 6,000 m˛) of great importance historically as much as the Vatican in contemporary times. It was started 2000 B.C. and continued to be built and rebuilt until Roman times.
Its most glorious time was during the New Kingdom when more or less all pharaohs contributed to the complex by adding a gate, an obelisk or a temple chapel. The temple was mainly dedicated to the god Amon Ra and his family.
Luxor temple is today situated in the middle of Luxor town, leaving its beautiful gates, walls, and colonnades to decorate any view of the city. It was built mainly during Amenophis III reign, but has been and is still being used until today, including dwelling traces of a church and a still in-use mosque.
Extras:Entrance to the new museum within the Karnak area.
Can be combined with a half-day visit to the West Bank, guided tour of the Luxor Museum, and/or the Mummification Museum.
