"VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TEMPLE OF THE QUEEN HATCHEPSUT AND THE COLOSSES OF MEMMON" TOUR.

"VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TEMPLE OF THE QUEEN HATCHEPSUT AND THE COLOSSES OF MEMMON" TOUR.

The Valley of the Kings is the place where most of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom were buried, that is, from that time when ancient Egypt was an empire that extended along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean (the 18th, 19th dynasties and XX). It was there that they were buried, for example Thutmose III, Tutankhamun or Ramses II. In the beginning, during the Old Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom, Egyptian kings were buried in pyramids built in the northern part of the country, near Memphis, which was the capital. After the last pyramids were built, Egypt went into crisis and the pharaohs lost their power. From Asia came a group of people who dominated the Delta area, they were the Hyksos. Meanwhile, the southern part of the country was left in the hands of a ruling family based in Thebes.

The funerary temple of Hatshepsut is located in the Deir el Bahari complex, on the western fringe of the Nile River, near the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. This funerary temple was built in honor of Amon-Ra, the god of the Sun, and is located next to the funerary temple of Mentuhotep II. It is considered "one of the incomparable monuments of Ancient Egypt"

The Temple of Hatshepsut OR THE Temple of Deir el-Bahari, was designed by the architect Sennenmut. It is dedicated to Hatshepsut, the only woman who reigned in Egypt for a long period. It was built between the seventh and twenty-first years of her reign, and has a part excavated in the rock and another area on the outside formed by three terraces. In the temple there are hardly any remains of Hatshepsut since everything related to her was destroyed after her death by hers, her brother Tuthmosis III of hers, who took the throne 20 years ago. In the temple it is possible to find statues of Tuthmosis III. The early Christians converted the temple into a monastery, which caused significant damage to the facilities, but despite this, the temple has managed to maintain its splendor to this day.

The Colossi of Memnon are two gigantic stone statues representing Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. They are located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the Egyptian city of Luxor, near Medinet Habu and south of the great Theban necropolis. The two twin statues show Amenhotep III in a seated position; his hands rest on his knees and his gaze is directed east, toward the river Nile and the rising sun. Two smaller figures, located next to the throne, represent his wife Tiy and his mother Mutemuia; the side panels show a bas-relief allegory of the god of the annual flood, Hapy. The statues are carved from large blocks of quartzite, brought especially from Giza and from the quarry of el-Gabal el-Ahmar, near present-day Cairo. The stones are believed to be too heavy to have been transported across the Nile River. The blocks that were later used by Roman engineers to rebuild the northern colossi may have come from Edfu, north of Aswan. Including the stone bases on which they stand, the statues have a total height of eighteen meters and an estimated weight of 720 tons each.The two figures are separated by about fifteen meters.

Itinerary

• Pick up at your hotel, or the one closest to your accommodation by a guide from our agency.

• You will start with a panoramic boat tour until you reach the Valley of the Kings.

• Walking tour throughout the area.

• Return to the hotel.

• All visits to the different facilities and museums have the presence of a specialist who will guide our tour, explaining in detail the meanings and history of the different attractions that we can observe.

The tour includes

• Guide service in Spanish.
• Entrance to Museums and Temples.
• Transfers during the tour.

Does not include

• Professional guide in English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian languages. If you want a guide in these languages, it is done on request and an extra charge must be paid.