Relish a 2-day along in Luxor to explore the beauty and soak up the highlights of major Coptic monasteries and its fathers and learn about the most important Christian figures
Join us on this historic and Coptic amazing tour
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Relish a 2-day along in Luxor to explore the beauty and soak up the highlights of major Coptic monasteries and its fathers and learn about the most important Christian figures
Join us on this historic and Coptic amazing tour
Relish a 2-day along in Luxor to explore the beauty and soak up the highlights of major Coptic monasteries and its fathers and learn about the most important Christian figures
Join us on this historic and Coptic amazing tour
Highlights
Explore the East Bank of Luxor, said to be the 2nd most visited site in Egypt after the Pyramids of Giza
Cross to the West Bank to visit Temple of Hatshepsut and the valley of kings and learn about the burials of Pharaohs
Marvel at the impressive Colossi of Memnon
Make a Coptic tour to the most important monasteries in Naqada
Historical and coptic trip in Luxor
10 minutes before pick up time
Relish a 2-day along in Luxor to explore the beauty and soak up the highlights of major Coptic monasteries and its fathers and learn about the most important Christian figures
Join us on this historic and Coptic amazing tour
Pick up at Luxor airport/ station where our agent will waiting for you holding our sign
Then start your tour by visiting the East bank (Luxor and Karnak Temple) with a specialized Egyptologist guide
You will start by visiting Luxor Temple: a large temple of ancient Egyptian temples complex
Then complete your visit by going to Karnak Temple: There are too many secrets about Karnak Temple come to visitors and tourists from the far country to know and discover the secrets of ancient civilization of Egypt
Return to your hotel to make check in and having lunch
Then , make a tour in the market ,by horse carriage , where you can spend some time at cafe and drink some tea
After this, back to your hotel
In the morning after breakfast ,you will make check out from the hotel
Then head to the west bank to visit (Valley of kings, Temple of Hatshepsut and Colossi of Memnon)
Enjoy having lunch in a local restaurant
Now start your visit to Naqada monasteries
begin by visiting the monastery of “The Cross and St. Shenouda”
The value of this monastery is very great, as some accounts have stated
This monastery is one of the oldest monasteries named after the cross, and was built by Queen Helena, mother of King Constantine
The Monastery of ” The Cross ” was established in the fourth century and is the only monastery in the name of the cross in Egypt and the second church in the world after the Church of Jerusalem
Then to the Monastery of St. George ( Deir al-Magmaa)
Located above a high area of sand at a height of about 6 meters allows its high location to oversee the rest of the monasteries scattered in the desert and called the “complex” monastery due to the fact that it is based on the management of the group of monasteries in the region
It was called the Monastery of the “complex “where it is said to have been a storehouse for the other monasteries
The Monastery of Saint Victor ”Mari Buqtur”
The next significant monastery, located on a hill above the nature of the region topped by a distance of 10 meters or more, which gives a breathtaking view across the Nile Valley as it overlooks vast areas of agricultural land and the visitor to see the magic of this magnificent view in the dawn moments before sending the sun for its initial rays and also in the moments of sunset
The monastery buildings are one of the oldest existing buildings of Naqada monasteries and their construction is confirmed on the archaeological hill which contains many of the archaeological roof and the remains of the old buildings
The monastery of Saint Elias Bishoyawy originated as a wild church for this great martyr in the late fourth century AD, but in the following centuries the church became a monastery with its contents
One historian attributed the present building of the monastery church to the eighth or ninth century on the basis of the form of the apse
At the final, you will be transferred to Luxor airport or station at 17:00
amazing trip
Different activity during my visit to Egypt
All things organized well and was very good tour
What a wonderful trip , we go around many beautiful sites, it’s awesome
Truly a more than wonderful journey. I felt a tremendous spiritual power. All the places I visited reflect a great sanctity. We had enjoyed for making this activity.
I enjoy alot in this trip, beautiful places, excellent tour guide ,
They picked up at time and everything thing organized well
Very recommended
I am so happy for making this tour, it was amazing.