Your private driver collects you from your Sharm El Sheikh hotel approximately two hours before departure. The flight to Luxor International Airport takes roughly one hour, where your Egyptologist guide meets you on arrival.

Your first destination is the Necropolis of Thebes, where you enter four royal tombs including those of Ramesses II, Ramesses III, Ramesses IX, and Merneptah. Each tomb features distinct painted reliefs, ritual texts, and architectural layouts that evolved across the New Kingdom dynasties.

The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari rises in three colonnaded terraces against the cliffs of the Theban hills. Afterward, you stop at the Colossi of Memnon, the two massive seated figures of Amenhotep III that mark the entrance to his long-vanished mortuary complex.

A visit to a local alabaster workshop demonstrates the stone-carving techniques used to produce decorative and functional objects since pharaonic times. You then cross to the East Bank for a midday break and lunch before the afternoon program begins.

Karnak is the largest ancient religious site in the world and the centerpiece of the afternoon. You walk through the Avenue of Sphinxes, into the Great Hypostyle Hall with its 134 massive columns, past the obelisks of Hatshepsut and Thutmose I, and along the edge of the Sacred Lake.

A final stop at Luxor's renowned perfume house rounds out the cultural program before your guide transfers you to Luxor Airport. On arrival in Sharm El Sheikh, your private driver is waiting to return you directly to your hotel.