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Excursions in Luxor and Aswan
Sound and Light Karnak Temple
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This excellent show gives you the chance to see Karnak Temple lit up at night. The show begins at the entrance with a guided tour through the ghostly hypostyle halls, leading to tiers of seats overlooking the Sacred Lake where lights pick out pillars and status as the show tells the millennia-long history of Thebes. Duration: about 1 hour. Price: £16
Luxor Museum
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Luxor has a great museum that is very modern and with an uncluttered layout. Top exhibits include pink granite and black basalt statues from many dynasties. Items from the tomb of Tutankhamen (most are in the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo) and exhibits from Pharaonic and Roman times. Duration:11/2 hours. Price:£10
Visit Tutankhamen Tomb
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Treasures unearthed in this tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 are now all housed in the Egyptian Antiquities Museum. The tomb itself is little more than an empty chamber but it is still visited by hundreds of tourist each day. Duration: 30 min. Price: £15
Valley of the Queens, Hatshepsut Temple- Luxor Unfinished Obelisk-Aswan
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In total more than 70 queens and princess were buried at the Valley of the Queens. Visit the tomb of Nefertari, favorite wife of Ramses 11; although none of the treasures survived the tomb robbers the chambers are elaborately decorated.
Hatshepsut Temple the funerary temple of Tuthmois 1, the first woman to rule Egypt in her own right. Superbly detailed colonnades are stunning and worth a visit. The unfinished obelisk is at a granite site where the obelisks were cut. The unfinished one is a large obelisk which split unusually and tumbled down. It still lies were it fell over 2,000 years ago! Duration: 6 hours. Price: £30
Hot Air Ballooning
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This requires a dawn start but is a trip of a lifetime. Wind permitting you travel in a hot air ballon over the Valley of the Kings and Queens viewing all the amazing sights of the West Bank of Luxor. You will be picked up and returned to your hotel by mini bus. The flight time is 30-45 minutes and the cost includes refreshments. Price: £45
Sound and Light ® Philae Temple
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This temple was moved because of the flooding prior to the building of the Aswan Dam. These buildings are striking and particularly so when light up for this impressive show. Duration: about 1 hour. Price: £18
Special Lunch or Dinner in a Natural Reserve in Aswan
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This trip involves taking a boat from Aswan to one of the many nearby islands, where there is a beautiful nature reserve. You have the chance to look around this area and then you can enjoy a traditional meal before returning by boat to Aswan. Duration: about 3 hours. Price: £30 Lunch or dinner included Price: £130
Abu Simbel - by plane
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This trip involves an early start, the flight takes approx 30 minutes and you spend just over one hour at Abu Simbel. A local guide will escort you to see the amazing temples and status all of which had to be moved to ensure they were saved from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in 1968. This in itself was an engineering masterpiece.
The Great Temple of Ramses 11 and the Temple of Hathor built by Ramses 11 are spectacular and one of the best sights Egypt has to offer. Really not to be missed. Please note, the time spent at Abu Simbel is quite short, especially if there are queues at the ticket offices at the site during peak season, if you are keen to spend plenty of time at this wonderful site the coach option should be considered as longer time is available within the programme.Duration: about 4.5 hours. Price: £100
Abu Simbel - by coach
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This trip involves a very early start, the coach travels in convoy with other coaches and minibuses. It is very comfortable on board and during the 3 hour journey you get the chance to catch up on sleep, or view many sights of the desert and watch the sun rise, if you are very lucky you might see a mirage.
At Abu Simbel a guide will escort you to see the amazing temples and statues all of which had to be moved to ensure they were saved from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in 1968. This in itself was an engineering masterpiece. The Great Temple of Ramses 11 and the Temple of Hathor built by Ramses 11 are spectacular and one of the best sights Egypt has to offer.
You spend 3 hours at the site before returning in the convoy back to Aswan. This trip is really not to be missed. Duration: 9 hours. Price: £55
Cairo - by plane
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Travel by plane to Cairo arriving early in the morning. Visit the Egyptian National Museum  full of beautiful ancient relics from Egyptian history including the artifacts found in the Tomb of Tutankhamen. Lunch at the floating restaurant located on the Nile then visit Giza and see one of the Seven Miracles of the World  the Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx. Your excursion ends with a visit to Kaal Al Kelil  the biggest market in Cairo. Duration: 1 day. Lunch included price: £130
Nubian Museum
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Housed in a modern building amid gardens, this is the best museum in Egypt, tracing the history, arts and crafts of Nubia from prehistoric times to present day. There is an artificial cave with prehistoric rock carvings, a Fatimid tomb and a model Nubian house. Duration: 11/2 hours. Price: £10
Denderah
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An early start is required as the coaches must go in convoy to this beautiful temple south of Luxor. The Great Temple of Hathor at Denderah is one of the best preserved of all temples in Egypt and is famous for the well preserved Ptolemic and Roman period structures. Duration: half a day. Price: £17
Botanical Gardens, Aswan
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Accessible by boat only, this luxuriously planted island whose gardens were created by General Kitchener, the British consul general in Egypt in 1910-11. Duration: 1 hour. Price: £3
Nubian Village
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Visit a traditional Nubian Village on one of the islands near Aswan. Duration: 3 hours. Price £3
Nubian Village with camel ride
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Visit a traditional Nubian Village, arriving to the island by boat. Take a camel ride around the village and island. Duration: 3 hours. Price: £9