Dendera Temple and Luxor West Bank Tour from Safaga Port

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Overview

The Coptic and Islamic Cairo tour is a kind of spiritual Egypt tour to some of the holy places in Cairo. In fact, Cairo day tours to the Coptic and Islamic heritage in Cairo offer a glimpse into Cairo's rich history and diverse cultural heritage.

Start your Egypt tours by visiting an iconic church called the Hanging Church. Then, please your heart when you visit Saint Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga) where the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ rested for 3 months during private tours in Cairo.

After that in your Egypt day tours, go inside the Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali on the Citadel and feel the peace of heart and mind. Moreover, you will be amazed by Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrasa and how it operates in the past. Also, you will enter Al Rifae Mosque.

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1 Dendera - Luxor West Bank

Your guide will pick you up at the exit of Safaga Port to start your day trip to Dendera and Luxor attractions.

Coffee Break: The distance between Safaga and Qena is about 1500 km takes about two and half hours driving with a short break at a lounge on the way to use the toilet (10 l.e per person) or get a coffee.

Start with Dendera temple is the vest-preserved Pharaonic temple in Egypt and it has unique features comparing to Upper Egypt temples. Here, you will be surprised how advanced they were concerning the architecture in ancient Egypt, and the astronomy in ancient Egypt. Also, the colors and the art of paintings in ancient Egypt was amazing in Dendera temple.

Lunch: After Dendera temple, we drive you to Luxor for about one hour and half. You will stop first for lunch at a local restaurant with Nile View. Before you cross the Nile River to the west bank.

After having lunch you will visit Valley of the Kings on Luxor west bank one of the best things to do in Egypt from Safaga Port. There are 63 tombs in the Valley of the Kings (now even more), with your entrance ticket, you can visit 3 tombs and you can shoot photos inside for free. These three tombs could be 3 of the following tombs

(KV 02) Rameses IV
Tomb of Ramses III (KV 11)
Ramses IX Tomb KV 6
KV15 Seti II
Siptah KV47
KV16 Ramesses I
Merenptah tomb (KV 8)
The tomb of Tausert and Setnakht (KV 14)

Then go to Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut starts with the avenue of Sphinxes with only two restorated Sphinxes statues for the Queen. Enjoy Memnon Colossi, These are two very huge twin seated statues 17m in height each decorated the entrance of the Mortuary temple of Amenhotep III during the New Kingdom.