Luxor Trips & Tours

Luxor Trips & Tours

Soaring obelisks and hidden tombs in Egypt’s most extraordinary of sights.

Think of Egypt and, aside from the pyramids, it’s probably Luxor you’re dreaming of. It’s no secret that the ancient Egyptians were rather fond of temples and tombs, and Luxor (or Thebes as it was once known) is home to the most superlative of them all. On the West Bank is the Valley of the Kings, an enigmatic city where pharaoh’s tombs are hidden deep in the passages, lavishly painted and decorated in homage to the dead. On the East Bank, the Temples of Karnak sprawl across the dusty landscape. The complex was the most important site of worship in the country and the collection of shrines and obelisks is built around the holiest of them all, the Temple of Anum. And if all this wasn’t enough to ignite a new-found passion for Egyptology, could we tempt you instead with a sunrise hot-air balloon flight over the temples below? Or perhaps a felucca cruise down the great Nile, sundowner in hand…