Luxor Ancient Ruins
Ancient Ruins in Luxor, Egypt
Luxor Ancient Ruins
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- DparodyGibraltar345 contributionsI don't think can forgive yourself if you went to Luxor and did not do this. The basic ticket gives you access to three tombs. King Tutankamen requires a separate ticket for E£700 which you can get at the ticket office or on the little ticket dispenser at the cafe inside the compound.Written November 22, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- LeCalifornia47 contributionsOur last stop of Egypt trip is two days in Luxor. Our tour guide is Nermeen. She is the best tour guide that we have ever had. She greeted us at the train station on the night we arrived and took us to the hotel. She stayed with us until we settled in the hotel room. We got to visit Valley of King, Karnak temple and Luxor Temple. They are all amazing. Nermeen is very nice, friendly, cheerful and very knowledgeable. Her English is very good and it was very easy to understand. I will certainly recommend Egypt Tours Portal to all my friends in America whoever wants to visit Egypt, and I will tell them to specifically request Nermeen as a tour guide in Luxor.Written November 29, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- CJayTemecula, CA411 contributionsGreat marvel. The statues are ginormous. It really amazes me how these giant pillars were erected. Some of the carvings still has color paint on the , even after so many years.Written November 27, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- CJayTemecula, CA411 contributionsGreat place to visit. It’s a massive building with so many very beautiful carvings. Place can bit crowded so earlier the better to visitWritten November 29, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- juliaandadam123Ashford, UK1,955 contributionsHistory comes alive at the Valley of the Kings. It’s worth paying the extra to visit Tut’s tomb as it brings alive all the stories you will have heard throughout your life time.
We visited with a private guide and he seemed to time it well (from reading other reviews) as we had the tomb to ourselves.Written August 29, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Robert DBrooklyn, New York4,701 contributionsThis magnificent tomb is worth the extra ticket you need to purchase to enter. Nefertari was the principal wife of Ramesses II. Notice Nefertari's dark skin. She was a Nubian. The tomb is richly decorated and quite impressive.
I later found out from my tour guide that Nefertari's tomb closed for renovations the day after we visited. We were among the last tourists to be able to visit it.Written May 1, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - aniquek2017Cape Town, South Africa68 contributionsThis tomb is definitely one of the most striking and memorable in The Valley of the Kings. We went before visiting the Museum of Civilization in Cairo, and having been to their tomb made seeing the mummies of Ramses V and VI more meaningful.Written July 23, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- kherOStaffordshireEccleshall, UK112 contributionsThe amazing avenue of sphinxes is really worth the walk, there are plenty of places to sit and rest on the way if you need to. We started the walk at Karnak and walked to Luxor temple, the Karnak ticket allows you to walk to a half way point. If you want to continue to Luxor there is a ticket office where you can purchase a further ticket.
It is an amazing feat to have uncovered the avenue but it could be so much better. Signage at Karnak is non existent, we had to Google Earth the temple to find the start point. The middle section is strewn with plastic rubbish when the walk could be made to be so much more attractive.Written November 15, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Considered ReviewNorwich, UK1,657 contributionsTwo giant statues near the Valley of the Kings. Time has taken its toll on both but they remain a wonderful diversion on your trip around Luxor and the other nearby attractions. In fact you are likely to drive past them on the way to somewhere else.Written October 6, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- Co LNorth Willoughby, Australia13 contributionsThe village of Deir el Medina, home of the workers who built the royal tombs KV, and their tombs are well worth the visit. Being return visitors with reasonable knowledge we simply found a taxi driver, Asem, with good English who knew exactly where we wanted to go from the corniche in Luxor across to the West Bank. Negotiated a price that included waiting and then taking us on to some specific nobles tombs before returning us to our hotel. Much cheaper than a guide and private tour.Written October 9, 2023This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- Susan CMelbourne, Australia1,539 contributionsKV 11 Rameses III is a long descending corridor tomb punctuated with multiple chambers, two of them, including the burial chamber, with pillars. There are multiple small decorated chambers and niches off the first two corridors. It is another tomb with well preserved paintings and sunken reliefs on the walls, pillars and some ceilings. Glass panels protect the paintings. This was one of our guide's top 3 recommendations of the three tombs included in the Valley of the Kings entry fee.Written April 8, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- lovetoholidayannette11 contributionsWe visited at about 3pm and apart from a small tour group, had the place to ourselves.
Immense columns still with coloured hieroglyphics.
Enormous statue of Ramses (toppled but still impressive)
Would definitely recommend a visit.Written November 27, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Susan CMelbourne, Australia1,539 contributionsThere are only four tombs open in the Valley of the Queens (which should be called the Valley of the Queens and Princes). The most vibrant and beautiful of them, not only in the Valley of the Queens but also in the Valley of the Kings, is the Tomb of Nefertari which requires a significant extra payment to view and you are only allowed 10 minutes to do so though there is some lee-way on the timing. If you can afford it and can move fast then it is worth it. The other three tombs appear to date from the time of Ramses III and are smaller and less spectacular but still worth-while viewing, particularly as they are included in the entry price. The Valley of the Queens is less visited than the Valley of the Kings so you never feel crowded and it will only take an hour or so to visit.
QV 66 Nefertari. When we arrived the Tomb of Nefertari was currently uncrowded so we saw it first and, to some degree, it spoiled us for the other tombs in the Valley of the Queens (though we got over it). It is a large tomb. You descend stairs into a chamber with one side room then descend more stairs to the 8 x 10 meter burial chamber with four pillars and three symmetrical side rooms. The pictures of Nefertari and the various gods on the painted plaster are colourful, vibrant and wonderfully preserved. Ceilings have the stars on black pattern. Wooden stairs and floors have been laid but there is no glass between you and the paintings. However, there is a 10 minute time limit in viewing this temple so you have to move fast! Photography is now permitted so I snapped away as fast as I could just so I would have time to savour it later.
QV 52 Titi. After seeing Nefertari's tomb the colours of the sunken plaster reliefs in Titi's tomb seemed washed out but we came to appreciate the difference and admire it for itself. Most walls are protected by glass panels and there are places where the plaster has been damaged. The ceilings have a faded but well-preserved star night pattern. There is a corridor with side chambers, a hall and burial chamber.
QV 55 Amen Khopshef / Amunherkhepshef. This tomb consists of an inclined entrance way, two chambers with side rooms (these are currently closed to visitors) and a burial chamber with a sarcophagus. The son of King Ramses III died in his teens and he is shown with his father in some of the paintings. The extensive sunken relief painted plaster has some bright colours. Much of the walls are protected by glass barriers.
QV 44 Kha M Waset or Khaemwaset. Another one of King Ramses III's sons is buried here in this corridor-type tomb consisting of an entrance way, a room with two side rooms then the burial room with two doorways that lead nowhere and a final square chamber. Khaemwaset is pictured with his father and the gods on the walls again in sunken relief painted plaster. These colourful paintings are protected by glass barriers.Written April 6, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Susan CMelbourne, Australia1,539 contributionsI visited the Valley of the Nobles on the same day as my second visit to the Valley of the Kings though it could also be combined with other sites even closer by. If you are short of time this isn't a "must see" but it only added an extra hour to the day as there were only two groups of temples open and the nobles' tombs are a lot smaller than those of the kings. We bought tickets for both of the groups that were open. We walked to the top of the hill from the entry point and started with Senofer's tomb then the nearby Rakhmire's then went to the next group which were all close together.
Since the tombs and temples of the royalty primarily depict religious themes, I was interested in seeing how the Tombs of the Nobles depicted everyday ancient Egyptian life. In the easy-to-enter tombs the tomb guards will arrange mirrors to provide more light inside and will expect a tip. Considering that the Valley of the Nobles is only lightly trafficked we considered a small tip wasn't inappropriate to the guards stuck out here all day.
Group I was Rakhmire and Senofer
TT96 Senofer. You descend some short steep stairs to an antechamber that leads to the burial chamber with four pillars. The undulating ceiling is covered with paintings of grape vines which give way to geometric patterns and all the walls are decorated with pictures of Sennofer and his family. These colourful paintings are behind glass protective glass and there are some places where the wall plaster is missing.
TT100 Rakhmire. This tall and narrow T-shaped tomb is easily entered by a door at the top of the T intersection. There is a long chamber immediately ahead sloping upwards eight meters to a false door and the two cross sections of the T heading left and right. All walls are decorated with small detailed pictures of Egyptians at work with only a few larger paintings. In some places the plaster has come off but everything has a lot of colour.
Group II's ticket lists just Ramose on it but it also includes Userhat and Kaemhat.
TT55 Ramose. Ramose's tomb consists of a corridor heading towards an Hypostyle Hall then a smaller pillared hall finishing at a shrine. It has some beautifully coloured reliefs in the Hypostyle Hall but much is unfinished with sections of uncoloured very delicate reliefs. In other sections you just have the outlines on the wall showing the process of decorating the tombs which is actually very interesting as it shows a production line approach of penciller, inker, carver and colourer (much like comics do).
TT56 Userhat. There is easy-to-enter gate leading directly to a traverse hall then an inner chamber with a niche. The walls are decorated with subdued but colourful army scenes, hunting and daily life scenes. The ceiling is decorated in a geometric pattern.
TT57 Khaemhat. Another easy-to-enter tomb with a traverse hall then a widening central passage leading to an inner room. This tomb had pairs of statues in the traverse hall and the inner room. The walls have both raised and sunken reliefs and subdued colouring.Written April 6, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Susan CMelbourne, Australia1,539 contributionsKV 8 (Merenptah) is the second largest tomb at about 165 meters in length. The long descent is punctuated first with a pillared chamber with side chambers and both stairways and chambers have many colourful raised and sunken reliefs and paintings. After this chamber many of the paintings have been damaged by flooding so in the next small chamber and the the pillared burial chamber, again with side chambers, paintings can only be seen high on the walls. There are some ceilings with blue sky and stars. The burial chamber has a sarcophagus and a decorated granite block but the side chambers appear empty. This was one of our guide's top 3 recommendations of the three tombs included in the Valley of the Kings entry fee.Written April 8, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
