Excursion d'une journée complète sur la rive ouest de Louxor

The Valley of the Kings, on the Nile's west bank opposite Luxor, served as the main royal burial ground for pharaohs of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties, roughly 1539 to 1075 BC. More than 60 tombs have been identified, including that of Tutankhamun, and the site has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed 'Ancient Thebes' since 1979.

The Valley of the Queens, near Luxor on the Nile's west bank, contains around 75 tombs of queens, princes, and princesses from Egypt's 19th and 20th dynasties. Its most famous tomb, QV66, belongs to Nefertari, chief wife of Ramesses II, discovered in 1904 by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli and celebrated for its vividly preserved painted wall scenes.

The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, on the Nile's west bank near Luxor, was built around 1479-1458 BC by her chief architect Senenmut. Known as Djeser-Djeseru, it rises in three colonnaded terraces cut into the cliffs, a design distinct from other Egyptian temples, and was dedicated to the sun god Amun-Ra alongside Hatshepsut's own funerary cult.

The Colossi of Memnon are two 18-metre-tall quartzite statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, erected around 1350 BC to guard the entrance of his now-ruined mortuary temple on Luxor's west bank. Carved from stone quarried near modern Cairo and hauled some 675 km to Thebes, they were famously said by ancient Greek visitors to sing at dawn.

C'est l'itinéraire d'une journée le plus complet que nous proposons pour la nécropole de la rive ouest de Louxor.

De nombreuses excursions d'une journée omettent complètement la Vallée des Reines — cet itinéraire l'inclut.