the top 10 things to do in Luxor - voted and ranked by the tripwolf community
sight Luxor Temple
The Egyptians called it ipet Amun resjet (the southern women’s house of Amun). Like all Egyptian religious structures, it included chapels to the gods with their side rooms and anterooms, a large hypost...
sight Karnak Temple
Largest temple complex in Egypt. It mainly consists of the large Amun Temple, the Temple of Khons as well as a Festival Temple of Tuthmosis III, but also encompasses many other structures. The northern ...
sight Valley of the Kings
Find magnificent rock tombs. Valley of Kings (Biban el-Muluk) which is dominated by a natural rock pyramid. It is named after the 62 magnificently decorated rock tombs established here by the kings of t...
sight Colossus of Memnon
It once guarded the dead temple Amenhotep III., At whose entrance and they are as good today as nothing more is to be seen. Romans held the 19-meter-high statues of Memnon for images in the Trojan war...
sight Valley of the Queens
1255 BC Ramses II was here his wife Nefertari install. The grave is beautiful for some years visitors - but only 150 will be admitted per day. Besides this, the valley is home to about 80 other graves...
sight Tombs of the Nobles
Compared with the Ramesseum is a burial ground, through the lively and colorful depictions impressed everyday life, including fixed and harvest scenes, victims and funeral trains. The tombs belong to ...
sight Medinet Habu
The southernmost group of temples of West Thebes, Medinet Habu (city of Habu) lies south-east of the Valley of the Queens in the plains with the desert mountains as a backdrop. . The structure consists ...
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