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Begin your day with a visit to the West Bank, known as the necropolis of Thebes, a vast City of the Dead, where, to date, 62 magnificent tombs have been discovered. You will have the chance to descend into a few of those tombs, including that of the boy-king Tutankhamun.

Rising out of the desert plain in a series of brilliant white terraces, the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it. Built by ancient Egypt’s only female pharaoh,this temple is dedicated to the cults of Hathor, the cow goddess of beauty and Anubis, god of mummification and the underworld. Numerous carvings depict Hathor with Hatshepsut. After her death, her jealous stepson and successor,Tuthmosis III defaced many of these images in an attempt to erase her memory for eternity

Enjoy a brief photographic stop at these two immense statues of Amenhotep III, which, in Pharaonic times, guarded the entrance to his once great temple. They were renamed by the ancient Greeks after the Trojan hero, Memnon, since they attributed the mournful cry once emitted by the statues at dawn to their sorrow for their loss of Memnon at the hands of Achilles.

Return to the East bank for lunch, before visiting the sites on the East Bank.

Built over a period of two millennia by generations of Pharaohs, this 62-acre temple was dedicated to the god Amun. The great “Hypostyle Hall” alone is a veritable forest of giant pillars rising 23 meters towards the sky and the temple is actually a complex of temples, skirted by a lake once considered the most sacred of water sources.

The last stop is at this temple, once connected to Karnak temple via the Avenue of the Human-headed sphinxes, almost 3 kilometers in length. This temple hosted many celebrations in ancient times, the most important being the Festival of Open which grew over the years to last 27 days. You will then be transferred back to the airport for your return flight to Sharm El Sheikh, where you will be met and transferred to the hotel.