Half Day East Bank Tour to Luxor and Karnak Temples
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Half Day East Bank Tour to Luxor and Karnak Temples
By Emo Tours Egypt
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Embark on a captivating half-day journey through Luxor's East Bank, where history comes to life. Visit the awe-inspiring Karnak Temple, a sprawling complex of grand columns and sacred sanctuaries that pay homage to ancient Egyptian gods.
Delve into the heart of Luxor as you explore the Luxor Temple, adorned with colossal statues and intricate hieroglyphics. Witness the convergence of past and present as you stroll through these magnificent structures that have stood for millennia.
This half-day East Bank tour offers a glimpse into Egypt's rich history and the architectural marvels that define Luxor's landscape.
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Ages 6-120
Duration: 5h
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Live guide: Arabic, German, Russian, English, Italian, Spanish
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Audio guide: Arabic, German, Russian, English, Italian, Spanish
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- Hotel pickup and drop off
- Private tour
- Transport by private vehicle
- bottled water
- Entry/Admission - Luxor Temple
- Entry/Admission - Temple of Karnak
What's not included- Entry Fees (Optional)
- Guide (Optional)
- Lunch (Optional)
- Tipping
- Start:Multiple pickup locations offered.
- Option 1معرض النعيم للمفروشات, PJ2X+WMH, Salah Salem, Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate 1362473, EgyptLuxor
- Option 2Luxor International Airport, Luxor, Luxor Governorate 85955, EgyptLuxor Airport, Luxor Egypt
Hotel pickup offeredDuring checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.Additional pickup optionsDuring checkout you will be able to select from the list of included pickup points.- Luxor, Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
End:This activity ends back at the meeting point. - Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 15974P2- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- Entrance fees -Depending on the Tour Options Chosen
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 15974P2
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- johntZ9992WK0 contributionsGreat day trip and great guide!!I took the Luxor day tour from Cairo by plane. The guide, Salwa, did an amazing job explaining every stop along the way. She also gave plenty of free time for solo exploring at each stop; which I was very grateful for as well!! I felt that Salwa really enriched the whole experience. She also offered to take lots of pictures for me since I was solo, and the shots look professional!Written October 2, 2024
- g00dtravel20 contributionsA++ visit to Luxor and all of the amazing sites!We had a wonderful private tour of Luxor. Mohammad was our tour guide. His knowledge of this part of the word was amazing. We would definitely use Mohammad when we visit Egypt in the future. (We actually visited in May of 2022, but I forgot to write my review at that time).Written October 1, 2024
- Lawrence T0 contributionsA great way to see the key sights in LuxorThank you to Salwa for the wonderful and informative tour. A great way to see both the east and west banks of Luxor in one day. Thank you to Sayid also for the swift logisticsWritten September 28, 2024
- camilog2520 contributionsAmazing tour guide Salwa.Salwa was an amazing tour guide. She has all the knowledge and shows all the temple details so well. The car is clean and has air conditioning. The driver was super kind. 100% Recommended.Written September 27, 2024
- guillhermea20240 contributionsSuperb.Luxor is a must go city in Egypt. With my guide, Salwa, I went to the Karnak and Luxor temples, Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. All historical information provided along the tour was amazing and helped me to feel like I was living at the era of the Pharos.Written September 24, 2024
- Travel220782858480 contributionsDefinitely take a tour of this beautiful place with Roshdy from Reflections Travel!!!Roshdy with Reflections Travel was an excellent tour guide, extremely knowledgeable. He made the trip fun while learning about the history of the Egyptian peopleWritten September 21, 2024
- Omar8820210 contributionsLuxor is greatThe Luxor Private Day Tour of the West and East Bank was incredible! Our day started with a visit to the awe-inspiring Valley of the Kings, where we explored the ancient tombs of the Pharaohs. Our guide was exceptional, offering in-depth knowledge about the history and significance of each site. We also visited the stunning Hatshepsut Temple and the Colossi of Memnon, each stop more fascinating than the last. After crossing to the East Bank, we marveled at the grandeur of Karnak and Luxor Temples. The entire tour was well-organized, with a comfortable, air-conditioned car and a friendly driver. This tour was a perfect way to experience the highlights of Luxor in one day. Highly recommended for anyone interested in ancient Egyptian history and cultureWritten September 16, 2024
- samrZ4465EL0 contributionsamazing 2 days in Luxor with fantastic guideWe booked a 2 day tour to Luxor from Cairo with Emo and it was spectacular. our guide Dina made the your enganging and stress free, she was super knowledgeable and friendly. The tour focused on sights and history. It was the highlight of our time in Egypt.Written September 16, 2024
- yunior890 contributionsGreat experience with great driver and guide Ahmed MataroWe were with Ahmed Mataro, the absolutely best guide we could have. His great kindness made this very warm day p pleasant and comfortable. He constantly made sure that we were happy and satisfied. He bought us water to make sure that we wouldn't be tricked with the prices. I also must say that he was the first driver that gave me security in this crazy traffic and driving style that they have here. I am so positively surprised by Ahmed, that if we do another tour with this travel company, we would only ask for him again. It is good to find to good, honest and kind people here that don't just see a person to get out from as much euro as possible.Written September 9, 2024
- DiogoF14000 contributions2 tours in LuxorWe booked 2 tours with Emo Tours. On the first day we visited the archeological sites in the west bank of the nile in luxor. On the second day we visited the temples of Dendera and Abydoss. We had different drivers on the 2 days, which were lovely and good drivers for egyptian standards. Ahmed was our guide and he was pleasant enough. However, some of the things he said were in clear contradiction of what we later read about the tour subjects. Those things seemed to have been simply made up by him, perhaps to try to make history sound more appealing. This made us feel cheated, and made it hard to trust him on other things he said. Furthermore, he kept hurrying us to explain what he wanted without giving us any time to grasp the environment of the place. These things made us feel that it might have been better if we had just hired a driver and read about the history online. Additionally, our tour's vouchers were confusing because even though they said that entry admission to the sites were included in the price we paid, we had to purchase tickets on each of the spots.Written September 9, 2024
- Aussiepair650 contributionsGreat day great value awesome guide. Perfect day.Very Informative without being too much. A great day out. One of the better tours we have been on. Very flexible and fluid with the tour and fitted well with our needs. Salwa was awesome. Anyone who has her as a guide is very lucky. Everywhere exceeded expectations.Written September 6, 2024
- Taylor Y0 contributionsLuxor Day TourI had an amazing time on this tour! Luxor is breathtaking. Salwa was my tour guide and she was so kind and knowledgeable. I would highly recommend taking this tour if you are in Luxor.Written September 1, 2024
- claracU258WW0 contributionsPerfect experienceWe loved our guide Mousmed Hemeida and our driver Ando Azem, on the tour we did with them on the 24th August 2024 to the Pyramids, Sakkara & Memphis. They were punctual, very friendly and fun!! The guide was very cultured and gave us a lot of useful information about ancient Egypt. The driver was very good also. Lunch was great and delicious. They were spectacular! ☺️ Thanks so much we really recommendWritten August 29, 2024
- jberri5560 contributionsDream tripI had an amazing day in Luxor with Silwa. She made it extra special. Since I had a late flight back to Cairo, we got to do and visit extra sites. She made it personal to what I wanted to do what I wanted and then more. Since Silwa was so amazing, I booked more tours with Emo tours on the spot.Written August 25, 2024
- scottpC7263OM0 contributionsAhmed Kassem and Mamoud were amazing. Emo Tours was very user friendly. Definitely use this company and these guys!The company was extremely easy to use and book the day before. Our guide, Ahmed Kassem, was absolutely amazing. Our driver, Mamoud, was also top knotch. Ahmed was incredibly knowledgeable and also made us feel very comfortable the entire time. He had a good understanding of each location and was able to answer all questions. He also spoke very good English and was a genuinely good person. Would highly recommend booking with this company, especially if you can reserve Ahmed Kassem! 10/10 would recommend.Written August 21, 2024
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Kimbrini
Canterbury, UK687 contributions
Jan 2020 • Couples
Firstly, to be clear, our guide was a lovely person and this review is not about her personality in any way. Sadly though, her grasp of English was extremely basic and she wasn’t able to form comprehensible sentences at all. Due to also being incredibly accented as well as her meagre understanding of English, we were totally unable to understand her, and came away with no knowledge about Karnak or Luxor Temple, despite having just visited. The only snippets of information we got were gleaned from the boards around the places we went to. The other guide we had from this company (when we went to Valley of The Kings) was barely any better. Our advice is to NOT BOOK from the UK. Save your money! Your hotel will be able to book you a guide and a driver for less money and that can speak the language you need. Our third trip was booked like that and was brilliant.
Written January 2, 2020
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Daniel
Zurich, Switzerland4 contributions
Oct 2022
We are family of 4 and booked it to visit the east bank. The trip started at 10am at the hotel and was finished at 12:30. We were rushing through Karnak with very little information and had to explore ourselves for 30min (bear in mind that some time got lost with the transfer. Hence, 4x40.- was way too much and would not recommend this tour operator to anyone.
Written October 16, 2022
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Méissane M
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Jul 2024 • Family
Amazing visit. Shirine our guide and Mahmoud pick us up at our hotel to go visit the temples. They were super nice welcoming. Shirine is super knowledgeable and listening to her is passionating. She answered all our questions with patience and interest. The visits are made in two times, first the visit and then a time to take pictures. Would recommand to do the Karnak temple first if you do it in the morning to avoid the crowd as we did. The crew was really great it was a super experience.
Written July 23, 2024
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Dear Guest ,
We would like to thank you for your lovely words...It was a pleasure to show you the beauty of our amazing country within your stay in Egypt Your positive feelings about Egypt and our Sincerely devoted company, mean so much to us, and that is what we always aim for. Your safety, comfort and satisfaction are very important to us more than anything else. We hope to see you again soon with a longer stay. .
kind regards,
Emo Tours Egypt
Written August 6, 2024
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Sasha A.
4 contributions
Jan 2020 • Friends
I had a great time exploring both Luxor and Karnak temples in the East Bank of Luxor. Our driver was timely and professional. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable, professional and doubled as a photographer 😉 I learned so much and had fun doing it.
I would strongly recommend if you are looking to explore Luxor!
I would strongly recommend if you are looking to explore Luxor!
Written January 1, 2020
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Dear our valued customer
Thank you very much for such great review! we work really hard to offer the best tour. so I’m happy to see that reflected on your visit . I made sure that Naama got the recognition he deserved. he was really happy to see your review.
we are looking forward to welcome you again in the near future to try more of our tours.
Sincerely,
Written January 1, 2020
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ZOURI S
2 contributions
Aug 2023 • Family
We were able to get around at a good pace.
The temples of Karnak and Luxor were very impressive and impressive.
However, the driver recommended that we buy tickets at the water stand while buying water so we wouldn't have to wait in line, so we did,
but the driver couldn't prepare tickets for our children,
so we ended up buying our children's tickets at the counter.
What's more, the ticket clerk questioned us about where we'd bought the tickets we'd bought from the driver,
and told us they couldn't be used.
For some reason, when we told him we'd bought them from the driver, he let us through without saying anything, so I guess everyone is connected.
I guess that's a bit disappointing?
The temples of Karnak and Luxor were very impressive and impressive.
However, the driver recommended that we buy tickets at the water stand while buying water so we wouldn't have to wait in line, so we did,
but the driver couldn't prepare tickets for our children,
so we ended up buying our children's tickets at the counter.
What's more, the ticket clerk questioned us about where we'd bought the tickets we'd bought from the driver,
and told us they couldn't be used.
For some reason, when we told him we'd bought them from the driver, he let us through without saying anything, so I guess everyone is connected.
I guess that's a bit disappointing?
Written August 21, 2023
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gill l
21 contributions
Excellent visit to beautiful temples. Ahmed gave us a very informative tour of Karnak and luxor temples, was able to answer all our questions and helped us see details we would otherwise have missed. Highly recommended tour. We started at 8am with Karnak and missed the crowds.
Written February 16, 2024
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Nagarjun A
12 contributions
This was one of our best tours during our vacation in egypt. I've to mention that Ashraf, our guide was very knowledgeable of the Luxor and Karnak temples, the inscriptions on the walls, the practices of ancient Egyptians etc. He was factually accurate and also made our tour very interesting. He was friendly and considerate.
Written June 3, 2023
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Em_A
Poole, UK45 contributions
Ahmed Omar was our guide for this tour and gave us a real in-depth tour of the temple, there’s so much to see and Ahmed pointed out lots of interesting and lesser seen areas of the temple. I’d visited the temple before but without a guide which I now regret seeing how much more I know now with Ahmed’s information. Would definitely recommend this tour and ask for Ahmed.
Written February 13, 2024
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kakigori-chan
Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan8 contributions
Mar 2020 • Family
I and 2 my elderly parents had an amazing time touring Egypt for the day.
The driver were very accommodating and picked us up from the hotel and met our guide, Ashraf at Luxor.
My guide, Ashraf was great! He gave every important point of the history in every scenes and it is easy to remember.
We recommend !
The driver were very accommodating and picked us up from the hotel and met our guide, Ashraf at Luxor.
My guide, Ashraf was great! He gave every important point of the history in every scenes and it is easy to remember.
We recommend !
Written March 5, 2020
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Dear our valued customer
First of all allow me to thank you for your time and consideration. we are more than proud and happy to hear that you have enjoyed every aspect of your tour and we will continue working hard to maintain the same level of progress.
our biggest inspiration is your satisfaction.
we are looking forward to welcome you again in the near future to try more of our tours.
Sincerely,
Emo Tours Egypt
Written March 9, 2020
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Yvonne
71 contributions
Apr 2024 • Family
Excellent guided tour around Karnak Temple Complex with Emo Tours and our very professional guide Salwa. She has great knowledge of the the site and we learned a great deal from her, even though this was not our first time here. After showing us the main sites of interest we were given some free time to explore ourselves and take photos which was nice .There is so much to see at Karnak so you need to spend the majority of time there before going on to Luxor Temple which is much smaller in scale. Entrance fees included. Well organised and a great guide. Highly recommended.
Written April 11, 2024
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Dear Our Valued Customer
First of all we would like to convey our heartiest thanks to you for your wonderful Feedback We are sure that Without your Feedback, it would not have been possible at all for any other travelers to know about who we are we are happy that you enjoyed the day We appreciate your time and efforts in Providing a feedback to us . Thank you
Kind regards,
Emo Tours Egypt
Written June 9, 2024
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Hola, quisiera saber cuanto sale el tour con guia?
Written July 19, 2022
Good afternoon,
Can you tell me if I get the 8:00am Tour what time would I get back to the hotel?
Thank you,
Jennyfer
Written April 6, 2018
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