Itinerary

1. Medinet Habu and Ramesseum Temple

   • A representative will pick you up from your hotel/cruise in Luxor by modern air-conditioned vehicle to visit your Egyptologist tour guide and discover the ancient sites.
     Medinet Habu is the Arabic name for the Mortuary Temple of Ramses III, a massive complex second only to Karnak in size and better preserved. Medinet Habu is among the least visited of the major sights at Luxor, but it deserves more attention than it gets. The Mortuary Temple of Ramses III is made of sandstone and provides a good idea of what the Ramesseum, its model, looked like before it collapsed. The First Pylon is about the same size as Luxor Temple but has lost its cornice and one corner. The reliefs on the pylon show Ramses defeating the Nubians (left side) and Syrians (right side), though, in reality, he fought neither.
   • And then move to visit the Ramesseum Temple. The ancient Egyptians called it the "million year's temple" due to its vast surface area, an incredible fifty thousand meters, and perhaps due to the gigantic size of the statues of Ramses II that were built there. The vast complex, dedicated to the god Amun, took 20 years and tens of thousands of workers to build. This temple was constructed to serve two purposes. The temple was publicly constructed to enable the ancient Egyptians to practice their religious rituals, including prayer and ritual offerings to the gods. It was also, perhaps more so, built to demonstrate the greatness of the Pharaoh and his political and military achievements. The Ramesseum Temple was made up of two massive walls. A substantial inner wall surrounded the temple itself, while an outer wall surrounded the storage rooms and smaller buildings of the temple. A corridor connected these two walls, decorated with sphinxes.
   • Back to Hotel.