Luxor full day Visit Valley of the Queens” Hatshpcout, Karnak Temple – Hurghada

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Luxor and around the city are home to some of Egypt’s most important archaeological sites. Due to the importance and abundance of monuments of ancient Egyptian architecture, tourism plays a major role in the city, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists a year.

Valley of the Kings:

Valley of the Kings, also known as “Valley of Biban of the Kings”, is a valley in Egypt that was used for 500 years during the period between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries BC for the construction of tombs for the pharaohs and nobles of the modern state extending during the ages of the eighteenth to the twentieth dynasty in ancient Egypt. The valley on the west bank of the Nile in the face of Thebes

Karnak Open Air Museum:

Karnak Open Air Museum is an archaeological museum in Luxor, Egypt. It is located in the northwestern corner of the Precinct of Amon-Re at the Karnak complex. The Open Air Museum contains reconstructions of structures that have been dismantled and buried or hidden inside the massive pylons in the complex

Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari:

The vast Temple of Hatshepsut (at Deir el-Bahari) rivals the Pyramids as one of the great funerary monuments of the ancient world. Built into the towering cliff face which shelter the Valley of the Kings on the other side, it rises on three enormous terraces connected by ramps, each level marked with a colonnade of stark, largely unadorned square pillars. Its namesake was one of the few female pharaohs of ancient Egypt, who not unfairly called her monument “Splendor of Splendors”. However, much of the construction dates from earlier rulers, starting with Mentuhotep II in 2050 BC. Numerous sphinxes and other statues have since disappeared, making the whole structure appear even more monolithic. The cool stone interior provides welcome relief from the pitiless heat of this region and features well-preserved wall reliefs and hieroglyphics, some in brilliant colors.

The Colossi of Memnon:

The Colossi of Memnon are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned in Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
Since 1350 BCE, they have stood in the Theban Necropolis, located west of the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor