West Bank Half Day Tour – Part 2

In the morning. Your  tour guide will be pick you up from your hotel to start your tour and We will head to the first stop in our tour

Valley of the Queens

The Valley of the Queens is the burial place of the queens of ancient Egypt. It was known in ancient times as “Ta-Set-Neferu”, meaning: “Place of the sons of the pharaoh” or “Place of beauty”; because in this place were buried the queens of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties (from 1550 to 1070 BC), in addition to many princes, princesses and a number of the nobility.

Madinat Habu Temple

The city of Habu is an archaeological site located south of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile River, containing many important monuments. The most important of these monuments is the Temple of Ramesses III, which is considered one of the greatest temples of the Twentieth Dynasty.

The surroundings of the city of Habu are full of many monuments, but the most famous and most studied of all is the funerary temple of Ramesses III. It is also one of the best preserved temples in Egypt and was known in ancient Egypt as the “Palace of Millions of Years of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt” “User-Maat-Re-Mery-Amun” in the Precincts of Amun in western Thebes.

Workers Village in Deir El Madina

Deir el-Medina, in Upper Egypt, is part of the Theban Necropolis in the northern Valley of the Kings in Luxor Governorate, specifically on the west bank of the Nile River. It was the headquarters of the families of craftsmen during the New Kingdom of Egypt (1570 – 1070 BC).

Some of them were responsible for digging and building the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, and others worked in making statues, furniture and utensils to prepare the tomb of each pharaoh according to his wishes before death.

The workers who were building the tombs were specialists and artists in designing, digging and decorating the walls of the tomb, to be a “palace” that the pharaoh could return to on occasions after his death. This was the belief of the ancient Egyptians that the pharaoh would live in heaven among the gods, with the possibility of visiting the earth and its people after his death, and even helping them.

For this reason, every worker in one of the pharaoh’s buildings worked faithfully and tirelessly, as the pharaoh would take care of him from heaven.

After finishing your day tour, You will be transferred back to your hor hotel in Luxor.