To set your expectation for days ahead, a word about our private 14 passenger Dahabiya —your accommodations for the next six nights: This is not your typical large river ship, packed with travellers, chugging up and down the Nile (we’re content to let those big boats pass us) Take a panoramic tour of Egypt’s most beloved highlights, from the Pyramids and the Sphinx to Karnak temple. Today, we journey back in time from Egypt’s current capital, Cairo, to its ancient capital of Thebes. After refresh, we will explore the massive Karnak Temples with its huge hypostyle hall consisting of 134 columns and Labyrinth passageways. Be sure to circle to the gains of Scarab to ensure a long healthy life successful return to Egypt; the Karnak Temples complex was the ancient Ipet Sut (The Most Selected of Palaces), the main place of worship of the Theban Triad covered an area of 200 acres. More than thirty Pharaohs contributed to the buildings you could spend years wandering this amazing complex, Launch. Afternoon ending our day at the fabulous Temple of Luxor with the sun setting over the Nile. This temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun Ra (king of the gods), his Wife Mut (mother), and their son Khonsu (the Moon God) Luxor temple has the miraculous Avenue of Sphinxes that stretches from Luxor temple to the Karnak temples for a distance 3, 2 Km (2 miles) This temple has been in continuous use as a place of worship right up to the present day. Most of Luxor Temple dates to the New Kingdom period. Ramses the Great built the large bylone and two obelisks (only one remains today). Towards the rear end is a granite shrine dedicated to Alexander the Great. During the Christian era, one of the hypostyle halls of the Temple converted into a church. Then for thousands of years, the temple was buried beneath the streets and houses of the town of Luxor. Eventually, in the 12th century, the Mosque of Sheikh Yusuf Abu AL Hagag was built over it. The Mosque was preserved when the temple was uncovered and forms an integral part of the monument today.
Transfer to Luxor’s West Bank to explore the incomparable Valley of the Kings. Tour various open tombs of the ancient Pharaohs and see where new excavations are taking place. Behind the Valley of the Kings lies the beautiful, almost non-classical temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari, commemorating one of the famous women, Pharaoh. Then continue visiting to admire the 75 feet high, 1000 tons statues of Amenhotep, the 3rd The Colossi of Memnon, as they sit like giant sentinels overlooking the massive banks of the Nile 3400 years old. These massive sandstone statues once flank the entrance of the lost mortuary temple of Amenhotep the third, but now stand virtually alone is a field that the temple has eroded over the last 3400 years.