Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
World biggest open museum; it has more than 35% of the world heritage. Everywhere in Luxor you will find a piece of history from 3,000 years and back, with old temple fortresses, pylons, obelisks, gigantic statues and rocks. Here you will meet farmers on donkeys back in the green fields and camels, buffalos working around the water wells. An overwhelming smell of exotic spices rising up from the ground, and in the far you will hear the muezzin’s prayer for the day.
Luxor is the farinose capital in ancient time; it was called ”Thebes” or “the city of a hundred gates “. Take a walk through history, see and feel the mystery of the Ancient Egyptians tombs, experience the huge temples, explore the exotic bazaar, and enjoy the sunset over the Nile, the mountains, the green sugar-cane fields and the golden desert – where Egypt is most beautiful.
Luxor was once the world’s largest religious center with around one million inhabitants. Now home to around 250,000 people in the city, and most live off of tourists. It was the Arabs who called the city of Luxor (with its surroundings), which means “palaces”. The Nile divides the city into two sides: east and west. On the eastern shore, lies the city center and the magnificent temples. On the west bank, lies villages and tombs of the ancient Pharaohs and noble families.
The “dead man’s land” – Valley of the Kings. West Bank of the Nile was considered as the dead land at the Pharaonic era. Here is where the Pharaohs of the 18th dynasty dug their tombs behind the mountain. The way to those tombs was top secret and was kept by the tomb builders and the highest priest. Those tombs were mainly to preserve the Pharaohs’ body for the journey of after-life. The tombs were filled with magic spells, colorful images and treasures. Despite numerous raids, they are still amazingly beautiful with their deep burial shafts where walls and ceilings are covered with paintings, reliefs and mysterious hieroglyphs. We cross the Nile, driving over the new bridge to get to the once secret and sacred place where Egypt’s greatest rulers were laid to rest. During your visit to the Valley of the Kings, we visit three tombs that are included on our excursion ticket.
Among the fifty something tombs in the Valley of the Kings Tut Ankh Amon’s grave is the only one that has been discovered intact and not raided by grave robbers. This tomb is the smallest in the Valley, but the most famous, and all his possessions can be seen in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Under the down curve of the mountains the terrace temple of Queen Hatshepsut is located. The temple was designed with three floors so that the Queen can overlook the whole green valley . The stone walls of this temple are the oldest documented slideshow of its time. It depicts the journey of the Egyptian delegation that was sent by the Queen to exchange Egyptian gold with local products from Punt which was located by the Red Sea. On the Terraces she planted a botanical garden with plants she brought home to her father Amon.
Hatshepsut was Egypt’s first female reigning Pharaoh, and she was depicting herself as a male Pharaoh. When she died her son in law had the power and erased her from history by chopping off her name and destroyed all the statues of her. The temple has been renovated by the Polish expedition since 1940.
Colossi, which is 6 feet high, marked at the time as the entrance to Amenophis III ‘s death temple. But the Nile’s annual flooding through the centuries have long since washed away the remains of the temple itself. The large sandstone colossi representing King himself, When an earthquake in 27 BC gave the northern statue a tear. This elicited a squeaky sound from the statue, and thus arose the legend that it was Memnon who greeted his other when she showed up at the morning sky.
Copyright © 2024 AlfaOmega Tours - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by GoDaddy