Luxor Temple and Dendera Temple Private Day Tour from Hurghada

Pick up
Start the Dendera and Abydos Tour from Hurghada by being transferred from your hotel in Hurghada by an A/C vehicle to Dendera temple to meet your guide at the following fetching sight:

Dendera Temple Complex

IF YOU’VE HEARD ABOUT THE Dendera Light Bulb and want to see the famed relief up close and personal, you will have to visit the underground crypt of Hathor Temple at the Dendera Temple Complex in Qena, Egypt. If you’re looking for a jaw-dropping experience, the beautifully intricate, 2,000-year-old temple is not to be missed.

The Temple of Hathor is one of the most well-preserved temples in all of Egypt. There are three temples to view in the complex: the birthing temple at the front, the temple of Isis behind the main temple, and the main temple dedicated to Hathor. There is also a sacred pool that you can still explore. It’s empty though; sorry, no swimming.

The colors seen throughout the temples are original, and amazingly vibrant considering the inside was once covered in soot from Bedouins and other desert peoples seeking asylum. They would use the temples as shelter, lighting fires for cooking and warmth. Since the temple complex used to be covered halfway in desert sand, it was easy for the soot to accumulate at the top. To show the amount of soot that had to be cleaned, archaeologists chose strips of ceiling in each temple to leave covered in soot as a comparison. The clearing of soot and all the sand burying the temples was tedious work that took years to complete.

Then we drive one more hour on the Nile valley towards Luxor to visit :

Deir el-Medineh

Deir el-Medina is the modern Arabic name for the worker’s village (now an archaeological site) which was home to the artisans and craftsmen of Thebes who built and decorated the royal tombs in the nearby Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens.

The ancient inhabitants called the village Pa Demi (“the village”) but it was referred to in official correspondence as Set-Ma’at (“The Place of Truth”) because the workers there were thought to be inspired by the gods in creating the eternal homes of the deceased kings and their families. Early in the Christian era the village, then deserted, was occupied by monks who took over the Temple of Hathor for use as a cloister. The temple was referred to as Deir el-Medina (“Monastery of the Town”) and this name finally came to be applied to the entire site.

Lunch Time
Lunch will be served in a local restaurant in Luxor.

Then you will move to:

Luxor Temple
The Temple of Luxor is among the most beautiful Temples in Egypt. It was known in the New Kingdom time as Ipt-Rsyt, which means the southern house. This was to differentiate between this Temple and Karnak Temples, which was the northern house of Amon, Built largely by Amenhotep III and Ramses II.

Luxor temple is a lunar flower from paradise constructed in 1400 BCE during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and was known as “Ipetresyet” which means the southern sanctuary and holds various festivals including the Opet festival, it was dedicated to the God Amun which symbolizes the rejuvenation of kingship.

Back to Hurghada
At the end of the day, you will be transferred by a private air-conditioned vehicle to your hotel in Hurghada.