Pickup from your hotel in the early hours and the drive inland. Most people sleep through the first stretch; the sun comes up over the desert.
Luxor from Hurghada — Full Day
12
Hours
Overview
It is about four hours across the Eastern Desert from the Red Sea to the Nile, and it is worth every one of them. Luxor is not a side trip from a beach holiday — it is the reason many people come to Egypt at all — and a single long day is enough to see why.
You travel privately, not in a coach convoy, which means you set off when it suits you and stop when something is worth stopping for. On the West Bank, the Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut’s temple. On the East, Karnak, where successive pharaohs kept building for two thousand years.
A long day, honestly described: twelve hours door to door, most of the driving before dawn and after dark. If you would rather not do it in one go, we also run it with a night in Luxor.
Slower, or differently — always possible. Tell us how you like to travel and we will rebuild the day around it.
Trip Highlights
Tour Itinerary
Day 1 :
Before dawn, out of Hurghada
Day 2 :
Valley of the Kings
Straight to the West Bank on arrival, while the tombs are still cool. Three royal tombs, chosen by your guide for what is open that day.
Three terraces cut into the cliff face, built for the woman who ruled as pharaoh, with the Colossi of Memnon on the way past.
Day 4 :
Lunch by the Nile
A proper sit-down break on the river before crossing to the East Bank.
Day 5 :
Karnak
The great hypostyle hall in the afternoon light — a hundred and thirty-four columns, and the reason photographs never quite work here.
Day 6 :
The road back
Return across the desert, arriving at your hotel in the late evening.
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