2 Day Luxor Tour from Hurghada

Your Aten Tours guide meets you at your Hurghada hotel lobby holding a sign with your name, and the drive to Luxor begins roughly three and a half hours by private air-conditioned vehicle, crossing the Eastern Desert before dropping into the green stretch of the Nile Valley. This 2 Day Luxor Tour from Hurghada gives you a comfortable private journey to explore Luxor's ancient treasures.

On arrival, you'll head straight into Luxor's East Bank, starting with Karnak Temple. What began as a modest sanctuary in the Middle Kingdom grew, over more than a thousand years and dozens of pharaohs' reigns, into the largest religious complex ever built in ancient Egypt. Only the main precinct is open to visitors, but it's enough: the Hypostyle Hall alone holds 134 massive columns, some over 20 meters tall, arranged in dense rows that dwarf anyone walking through them. You'll also pass the avenue of ram-headed sphinxes and the sacred lake used in ancient purification rituals. This 2 day Luxor trip from Hurghada lets you experience the historic East Bank at a comfortable pace.

After lunch at a local restaurant, you'll continue to Luxor Temple, built primarily under Amenhotep III and later expanded by Ramses II, who added the entrance pylon and colossal seated statues of himself. The temple once connected to Karnak by a three-kilometer avenue lined with sphinxes, a stretch that archaeologists have been gradually uncovering for years. Unusually for an ancient Egyptian site, a still-functioning mosque dedicated to Abu al-Haggag sits built into the temple's upper level, a visible layer of the site's continuous use across more than 3,000 years, from pharaonic worship through Roman occupation to the present day. This 2 day Luxor temples tour from Hurghada gives you the opportunity to discover two of Luxor's most important temples.

You'll check into your 5-star Luxor hotel in the evening. Dinner is on your own, with the full second day still ahead of you. Your Luxor overnight tour from Hurghada allows you to rest comfortably before continuing your Luxor sightseeing the following day.

After breakfast at your hotel, you'll cross the Nile to Luxor's West Bank, where the ancient Egyptians located their necropolis — the land of the dead — facing the living city on the East Bank. This Hurghada to Luxor 2 day tour continues with some of the most important ancient sites on Luxor's West Bank.

The first stop is the Valley of the Kings. Unlike the Old Kingdom pharaohs, who built enormous pyramids that stood as unmistakable and easily robbed landmarks, the New Kingdom rulers chose a different strategy: hiding their tombs inside a narrow desert valley, cut directly into the limestone cliffs. More than 60 tombs have been found here so far, including that of Tutankhamun, discovered nearly intact in 1922. Excavation is still ongoing in parts of the valley. Many of the open tombs preserve vividly colored wall paintings and carved inscriptions describing the pharaoh's journey through the afterlife; a small number of tombs, including Tutankhamun's, require an additional ticket beyond standard entry.

From the valley, you'll continue to the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut, one of the few women to rule Egypt as pharaoh in her own right, commissioned a temple unlike any other in the country: built in three rising terraces set directly against the cliff face, with colonnades that echo the surrounding rock. It was dedicated to her funerary cult and to the god Amun.

The last stop on the West Bank is the Colossi of Memnon — two seated statues of Amenhotep III, each around 18 meters tall, that have stood in the same spot for roughly 3,400 years. They're the only visible remains of what was once his mortuary temple, a structure larger than Karnak in its time but now almost entirely gone, worn away by Nile floods over the centuries.

After lunch, you'll begin the drive back to Hurghada, arriving at your hotel in the evening. This 2 day Luxor trip from Hurghada concludes after two days of exploring Luxor's ancient temples, tombs, and monuments.