Our representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo and will take you on an air-conditioned vehicle to Cairo Airport to take your flight to Luxor, where you will be met by your Egyptologist guide. You will then drive in an air-conditioned vehicle to visit the famous Karnak temple, the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name, I pet-it, means “the most sacred of places.” The temple, or, more correctly, the complex of temples, was built more than two thousand years ago by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, you will find the great “Hypostyle Hall,” which is an incredible forest of giant pillars. You will then have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, you will visit the West Bank of the Nile River, the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon), and the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs were discovered. Tombs in the Valley of the Kings were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated, and filled with treasures for the afterlives of the pharaohs. Here you will visit three tombs. You may also visit the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun (optional activity for an additional cost). Following this, you will visit the Hatshepsut temple at El Deir El Bahary. This impressive temple is dedicated to Queen Hatshepsut, the only female pharaoh. It rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs surrounding it. You will be taken to Luxor Airport for your flight back to Cairo, with a relaxing drive back to your hotel in Cairo.