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 sleeper 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 Madinat Habu in Luxor west bank. Door-to-door transfers, one night at 4 star hotel in Luxor with breakfast, sleeping train tickets round-trip are included.
Itinerary:
Day 1: Cairo Train Station transfer and Overnight Sleeping train to Luxor
Our representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo at 6:30 pm by air-conditioned vehicle to Cairo or Giza train station for your board to Luxor which takes about 10 hours including dinner and breakfast.
Accommodation: Overnight sleeper train.
Meals: dinner on the train
Day 2: Arrive Luxor and Luxor Full day tour
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.
Then 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 Amon.
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
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.
Accommodation: 4 star hotel in Luxor
Meals: Lunch.
Day 3: Dendera temple, Habu Temple and Overnight sitting train back to Cairo
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 ,
then move to The mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Madinat 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 Ramses III.
There is optional to visit the village of the workers( extra fee)
Then lunch at a local restaurant. After that return back to Luxor train station to get your overnight sleeping train to Cairo or Giza train station
Accommodation: Overnight sleeper train.
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 4: Arrive Cairo and Hotel transfer
Arrive at Cairo or Giza railway station to be met and drive back to your hotel in Cairo or Giza .
Accommodation: Not Included.
Meals: breakfast on the train.
Additional Information:
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Stroller accessible
- Most travelers can participate.
- You will need to provide us with your hotel name and address in Cairo or Giza.
- You will need to pay the entrance fees to the sightseeing by card.
- You will need to carry cash for the tipping to the guide and driver.
- It is available to provide an Italian, Japanese, German or French tour guide with extra 160$ USD per person upon your request.
- It is available to pickup travelers from Cairo airport, Nasr City, New Cairo, New Giza, 5th.Residence or 6th.Oct city hotels with extra 10$ USD per person.
- It is available to drop off travelers at Cairo airport, Nasr City, New Cairo, New Giza, 5th.Residence or 6th.Oct city hotels with extra 10$ USD per person.
- It is available to pickup or drop off travelers from Hotels at New Administrative Capital with extra 20$ USD per person each way.
What’s Included:
- One night at 4 star hotel in Luxor with breakfast
- All Transfers, pick up and drop off by A.C vehicle
- Professional English-speaking tour guide.
- 2×lunch during the 2 day tours
- Lunch (2)
What’s Excluded:
- Entrance fees to the mentioned sightseeing.
- Water or Beverages during the lunchtime at the restaurant.
- Tipping to the guide and driver.
- It is available to pickup travelers from Cairo airport, Nasr City, New Cairo, New Giza or 6th.Oct city with extra 10$ USD per person per day
- It is available to drop off travelers at Cairo airport, Nasr City, New Cairo, New Giza or 6th.Oct city with extra 10$ USD per person per day.
- It is available to pickup or drop off travelers from Hotels at New Administrative Capital with extra 20$ USD per person each way.
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