Day Trip to Luxor East Bank

A Luxor East Bank Day Tour covers the two temples that anchor ancient Thebes on the river's eastern side, both still standing close to where they were built more than three thousand years ago. Karnak Temple comes first the largest religious complex ever constructed, covering over 100 hectares and built up over more than 2,000 years by successive pharaohs.

The Avenue of Ram-Headed Sphinxes leads into the Great Hypostyle Hall, where 134 columns rise 23 meters, still carrying traces of their original color. Beyond the hall, the sacred lake once used for priestly purification rituals, Queen Hatshepsut's towering granite obelisk, and the Festival Hall of Thutmose III round out a site large enough to spend a full morning in on its own.

A short drive connects to Luxor Temple, built primarily by Amenhotep III and later added to by Ramses II, linked to Karnak by the ceremonial Avenue of Sphinxes that once ran between them. Its pylon, colonnade, and inner courts are compact enough to see thoroughly in an hour, a fitting close to a day spent entirely on Thebes's east bank.