Luxor

4 Days Trip to Luxor & Dendera and Abydos, It is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt. Which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Luxor is frequently famous as the “world’s greatest open-air museum”. As the ruins of the Egyptian temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor stand within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the river Nile, lie the monuments, temples and tombs of the west bank Theban Necropolis. Which includes the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Thousands of tourists from all around the world arrive annually to visit Luxor’s monuments.  Contributing greatly to the economy of the modern city. The population of Luxor is 422,407 (2021), with an area of approximately 417 km² (161 sq mi). It is the capital of Luxor Governorate. It is among the oldest cities in the world.

Etymology

In fact,the name Luxor (Arabic: الأقصر) derives from the Arabic qasr (قصر), meaning “castle” or “palace”. It may be equivalent to the Greek and Coptic toponym τὰ Τρία Κάστρα ta tria kastra and ⲡϣⲟⲙⲧ ⲛ̀ⲕⲁⲥⲧⲣⲟⲛ pshomt enkastron respectively, which both mean “three castles”. The Sahidic Coptic name Pape, comes from Demotic Ỉp.t “the adyton”, which, in turn, is derived from the Egyptian. The Greek forms Ἀπις and Ὠφιεῖον come from the same source. The Egyptian village Aba al-Waqf (Arabic: أبا الوقف, Ancient Greek: Ωφις) shares the same etymology. The Greek name is Thebes or Diospolis. The Egyptian name of the city is Waset, also famous as Nut. 4 Days Trip to Luxor & Dendera and Abydos.

History

Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the city of Amun, later to become the god Amun-Ra. The city was regarded in the ancient Egyptian texts as “Waset”, which meant “city of the sceptre”, and later in Demotic Egyptian as ta jpt (conventionally pronounced as “tA ipt” and meaning “the shrine/temple”, referring to the jpt-swt. The temple now is famous by its Arabic name Karnak, meaning “fortified village”). Which the ancient Greeks adapted as Thebai and the Romans after them as Thebae. Thebes was also famous as “the city of the 100 gates”.  Sometimes being called “southern Heliopolis” (‘Iunu-shemaa’ in Ancient Egyptian), to distinguish it from the city of Iunu or Heliopolis, the main place of worship for the god Ra in the north.

visiting Luxor Temple, Karnak temples and Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut Temple and Dendera and Abydos Temples. You are going to have a private tour so everything is specially just for you, such as vehicle, guide etc.