Two-day journey to Luxor, Aswan and Abu Simbel departing Marsa Alam

In the early morning hours, a private air-conditioned car will collect you from your hotel in Hurghada for the transfer to Luxor , where you'll stay overnight before continuing to Luxor from Hurghada . On arrival, your private guide will meet you and take you through: Karnak Temple: few places in Egypt rival Karnak for sheer scale. It is the largest temple complex ever raised by human hands, the combined work of countless generations of ancient builders and pharaohs. The Temple of Karnak is in truth three principal temples, several smaller enclosed shrines, and outer temples spread across 247 acres. Luxor Temple: the Temple of Luxor hosted the most significant of ancient festivals, the Opet festival. Largely raised by Amenhotep III and Rameses II, it served as the stage for the festival's rituals, meant to unite the ruler's human side with his divine office. Lunch follows at a local restaurant in Luxor overlooking the Nile. Valley of the Kings: the burial ground of Egypt's rulers from the 18th to 20th dynasties, holding tombs such as that of the great Ramses II and boy-king Tutankhamen, once stocked with everything a ruler would need beyond death. Much of the tomb decoration survives in fine condition. Hatshepsut Temple: among the most beautiful and best-preserved of all Ancient Egyptian temples, built across three levels linked by two broad central ramps. Colossi of Memnon: two towering stone statues of King Amenhotep III are all that remains of a once-complete mortuary temple, carved from quartzite sandstone quarried near Cairo and hauled 700 km to Luxor . From there, continue on to Aswan for an overnight stay at the Basma Hotel.

Set out early from Aswan by private car for Abu Simbel. The two temples of Ramses II and Queen Nefertari were hewn from the mountainside on the Nile's west bank between 1284 and 1244 BC. The Great Temple honors Ramses II, Ra-Harakhty, Amun Ra, and Ptah, guarded by 4 colossal statues, while the second was dedicated to Queen Nefertari and the goddess Hathor. Both were later dismantled stone by stone and reassembled on higher ground - a feat of preservation ranked among UNESCO's greatest achievements. Head back to Aswan by afternoon, where lunch awaits. Phiala Temple: raised in honor of the goddess Isis, this was the final temple built in the classical Egyptian style, with construction beginning around 690 BC as one of the last places where the goddess was worshipped. The High Dam: Aswan's High Dam is a rock-fill dam sitting on the northern border between Egypt and Sudan, fed by the Nile, with its reservoir forming Lake Nasser. Building began in 1960, finished in 1968, and it was formally opened in 1981. The Unfinished Obelisk : Aswan supplied ancient Egypt's finest granite for statues and for decorating temples, pyramids, and obelisks. The vast unfinished obelisk in the Northern Quarries offers rare insight into how such monuments were made, though the complete process remains partly a mystery. Three faces of the shaft, nearly 42m long, were finished except for the carved inscriptions; at 1168 tonnes, it would have been the heaviest single stone the Egyptians ever shaped.
Afterward, drive back to Marsa Alam