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Tour to Pyramids & The Egyptian Museum

Spend the day visiting Ancient Egypt. Take in the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx before visiting the Egyptian Museum with the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. A knowledgeable guide will accompany you the whole way. pick you up from your hotel, to enjoy an excursion to The Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus. Then proceed to visit the Great Sphinx, which dates from the time of Chephren; the tour also includes a visit to the Valley Temple, which belongs to the pyramid of chefren. Then have your lunch at local restaurant and Move to visit the Egyptian Museum, which features artifacts from the Pharaonic period. The museum displays a rare collection of 5000 years of art which is considered the largest most precious collection of Egyptian art in the world. Over 250,000 genuine artifacts are presented, including an exhibit dedicated to Tutankhamen collection of treasure, gold and jewelry which was enclosed in his tomb for over 3,500 years before it was discovered ...

Accessible Tour to Luxor from Safaga

Our wheelchair accessible day tour in Luxor are specially designed for travelers with wheelchairs, slow walkers, their families and their friends. We have hand-picked our wheelchair accessible sites the most barrier free day tour experience possible. Sightseeing during your wheelchair accessible tour is with our experienced, locally trained guides who work effortless as your ambassador of access at all of the amazing sights and shrines you will visit in incredible Luxor. Representative will pick you up from Safaga Port by the cruise exit door. After that you will be transferred by a modern air-conditioned vehicle to Luxor, approximately 3 hours far from Safaga. Then proceed to the famous Karnak Temples; the largest place of worship ever built and the greatest example of worship in history. It was constructed from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom to the Greco Roman Kingdom. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars. Lunch at local restaur...

Tour Luxor From Safaga Port - Egypt Shore Excursions

Tour  # Luxor  from  # Safaga  Port  For guests wanting a general orientation, history, time for shopping and exploring on their own, or even an optional visit to the Tutankhamun Tomb , this is the perfect exclusive Luxor tour for you or your group, offering more time in the city than cruise line tours. The coach journey may take about 3½ hours, but is well worth it for the extraordinary sights awaiting you. On the east bank of the Nile., see the amazing Temples of Karnak with its avenue of the Sphinxes. Cross the Nile to the Valley of the Kings, an insulated canyon which has several royal tombs, included the famed tomb of Tutankhamun. Continue a short distance to the Temple of Hatshepsut, a spectacular mortuary temple carved out of solid rock at the base of a high limestone cliff. Finish your tour by calling at the breathtaking Clossi of Memnon, two huge stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Head back to your cruise ship knowing you have just witnessed some o...

Abydos Mysterious hieroglyphs

In 1848, an archaeological expedition working in Egypt discovered strange hieroglyphs on a ceiling beam at an ancient temple in Abydos, several hundred miles south of Cairo. The hieroglyphs were carefully copied and brought back to Europe. The mysterious images gave rise to heated debate amongst Egyptologists. Eventually, however, they were dismissed as bizarre objects that nobody could adequately explain and were forgotten. In the mid 1990's photographs and videos, taken primarily by tourists who had visited Abydos, began to appear on the internet. They depicted the 'strange machine hieroglyphs' originally discovered in the nineteenth century. The temple in which they were found was built by Pharaoh Seti I around three thousand years ago. To the modern viewer it is clear that the strange machines, so mysterious to the Victorians, are in fact various types of flying craft and a tank. One of the aircraft is a helicopter. There is no mistaking it. It has a rotor blade, cockpi...