excursion Westbank I Cycling excursion

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Private Guided tour:

This is your private guided excursion. Unlike the organised excursions, you will not have to visit any so called 'paparus musea' or 'Alabaster-factories' where guides take 40% or more commission... It is your trip, and we like you to enjoy your (holiday) time to the fullest!

Professional Guide, or if you wish, a tourleader*
No busses, not following like sheeps, but organising private Excursions, you are in charge all the time. Let our guides take you back in time!

Itineraries:

Depature from your hotel/boat: 07:30
Approx. return: 15:00

Including

Dutch Bicycles
Transfer to Westbank by private motorboat and return
Guide
Softdrink/water

Locations

Colossi of Memnon
Howard Carter House
Valley of Kings
Tombs of Roy & Saroy
Hatjepsut temple
total km cycling about: 17km (total)

Excluding

Entrance tickets of temples
If you enjoyed your excursion, gratuities are more then welcome

Our Egyptian guides possible in English, German, Arabic, French and Korean if wanted.
All prices excluded tickets for your group. (No tickets needed for the guide) Choose your bicycle:

If you want, we can sent a tourleader with you, this is not a guide, but a crew member who knows the roads and the area.

Up Hill Support
If you like we can arrange Hill support at Valley of Kings or Deir-el-Medina, although you can cycle to these places, the road will incline for about 2 km. If you like, our guide can also arrange a taxi.

Collossi of Memnon

The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. The original function of the Colossi was to stand guard at the entrance to Amenhotep's memorial temple (or mortuary temple): a massive cult centre built during the pharaoh's lifetime, where he was worshipped as a god-on-earth both before and after his departure from this world. In its day, this temple complex was the largest and most opulent in Egypt

Howard Carter Museum

The rest house of Howard Carter, discoverer of King Tutankhamun's tomb, has reopened to the public today as a museum. The house, from where Carter made his greatest discovery in 1922 with the backing of Lord Carnarvon, allows visitors to see the office and tools which made Carter an overnight celebrity 87 years ago when he unearthed KV62, the tomb of Egypt's boy-king.

Valley of Kings

is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom This area has been a focus of archaeological and egyptological exploration since the end of the eighteenth century, and its tombs and burials continue to stimulate research and interest. In modern times the valley has become famous for the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (with its rumours of the Curse of the Pharaohs[7]), and is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. In 1979, it became a World Heritage Site, along with the rest of the Theban Necropolis.Exploration, excavation and conservation continues in the valley, and a new tourist centre has recently been opened.

Private tombs of Roy & Saroy

Roy:
Mayor

Saroy:
Royal Scribe of the offering table of the Lord of the Two Lands, Royal Scribe of the king's repast, Keeper of the royal documents in the presence (of the king), Leader of the Festival, Cattle Counter in the Estate of Amun, Royal Messenger to the hill country, Overseer of the hunters of Amun

Temple of Hatjepsoet

was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty Following the tradition of many pharaohs, the masterpiece of Hatshepsut's building projects was her mortuary temple. She built hers in a complex at Deir el-Bahri. It was designed and implemented by Senemut at a site on the West Bank of the Nile River near the entrance to what now is called the Valley of the Kings because of all the pharaohs who later chose to associate their complexes with the grandeur of hers. Her buildings were the first grand ones planned for that location. The focal point was the Djeser-Djeseru or "the Sublime of Sublimes", a colonnaded structure of perfect harmony nearly one thousand years before the Parthenon was built.