Dendera Temple Half Day Private Tour from Luxor | 5 hours

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Dendera Temple Half Day Tour
2 Adults x $119.00
$238.00
Approx Total
$238.00
Duration: 5 hours
Bottled Water & Snacks
Vehicle:: Limousine, Minivan, Van, Coaster car
Included: : - Entrance fees: * Dendera Temple Complex * light Crypt * Zodiac & panoramic view - Egyptologist Tour Guide
Pickup included
Only Vehicle with Driver
2 Adults x $75.00
$150.00
Approx Total
$150.00
Excluded : - Entry fees to all Historical (Optional) - Tour Guide (Optional)
Only Vehicle with Driver
Duration: 5 hours
Bottled water
Vehicle: Limousine, Minivan, Van, Coaster
Included: - Professional Driver - Modern Car for all Transfers - Fuel surcharge - Permission
Pickup included

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: Arabic, German, English, Italian, Spanish
  • Bottled water during the tour
  • Pick up services from your hotel in Luxor and return
  • All service charges and taxes
  • All transfer by a private air-conditioned vehicle
  • Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
  • Gratuities
  • US$7 Supplement per person for Pickup or drop-off Luxor airport (one way)

Overview

Enjoy Half Day Tour to Dendera Temple from Luxor. Drive for about 70km to the north of Luxor to visit Dendera Temple complex, which contains a large number of structures from different periods of Egyptian history, the best preserved is the Greco-Roman temple of Hathor, then transfer back to your hotel in Luxor

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Itinerary

  • Luxor (Pass By)

    Your Nile Holiday tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor to discover the ancient site of Dendera. The temple was dedicated to the goddess Hathor, goddess of love, happiness and joy. Dendera is located about 75 km North of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile, opposite modern town of Qena.

  • Dendera Temple Complex

    The Temple complex was surrounded by a massive mud-brick wall covers an enormous 40,000 square meters. The temple construction dates back to the Middle Kingdom, time of pharaoh Pepi I (ca. 2250 BC) built on this site and continuing right up until the time of the Roman emperor Trajan (ca.117AD). The existing structure began construction in the late Ptolemaic period at the time of Ptolemy Auletes (ac. 54 BC) and the hypostyle hall was built in the Roman period under Tiberius (ac 14 – 37 AD.). Temple of Hathor at Dendera is also one of the few Egyptian temples with an intact astronomical ceiling and accessible rooftop, where you can get fantastic views of the surrounding countryside. The ceiling of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera has recently been cleaned, removing hundreds of years of black soot without harming the ancient paint underneath. See the famous Dendera zodiac carved in Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the Portico. After finished, transfer back to your hotel in Luxor.

    1 hour 30 minutes

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Additional Info

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Photocopy of all Travelers Passports. Max. 24 hours before travel date. Required
  • Pick up location in Luxor: Name & address? Required

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A fun visit!

Published on Jan, 2025

Nice visit to Dendara Temple - it's a fun one to experience because you can climb on top, and visit a lower crypt. It's also still very colorful, in the first room with the pillars. The drive is about an hour/hour and 15 from Luxor, and water was provided (although, I saved mine for the return trip only to find it cracked into and half drank when we got back to the car. Uhhh... Wasn't me or my wife, so maybe the driver?? I didn't touch it, but felt thirsty...). Our guide was a nice man, but he tended to speak a lot and very randomly, so it was a little hard to follow. We wanted to shoot a lot of photos and video here but we kept feeling like we held up the tour. After a while we were given some free time to explore, but it wasn't much time. There's a lot here to see. Overall, we're glad to have visited and enjoyed the tour.

Well preserved temple an hour’s drive from Luxor

Published on Feb, 2024

We had an extra day to spare in Luxor so we decided to do this tour. We’re so glad we did! Dendera is a temple dedicated to the goddess Hathor, located about an hour’s drive by car from Luxor. It is among the best preserved temples in Egypt, and because it is further away you don’t get as many tourists. When we arrived at 7am we had the place all to ourselves, great for pictures! Recently, researchers cleaned centuries of dirt and soot from the walls and ceiling to reveal the original colour of the ceilings and walls which still shine inbright colours. You can also climb the roof, there’s a section where the Dendera zodiac once stood (stolen by the French and kept in the Lourve). Don’t miss the carving of Cleopatra and her son Caesarion on the external South wall. The tour guide and driver picked us up and dropped us off from our hotel in Luxor, entire trip was around 5 hours which includes 2hr travel time (two ways). Take the 6am departure from Luxor if you wish to arrive before the rest of the crowds, which tend to start trickling in from 9am onwards.

Very good experience

Published on Jun, 2023

Well organized. Temple very beautiful and not so crowded. The first space is amazing. Guide and driver top!

Amazing Temple and Tour

Published on Jul, 2022

The half trip to Dendera temple was amazing and worth the trip. To start my tour guide was Walid. He had some much knowledge and was one of the best guides I had in Egypt. The hotel pick up was smooth and easy. The drive to the Temple was a little over an hour. The ceiling was incredible and is worth the trip. I would recommend Nile Holiday and this trip to anyone.

Excellent

Published on Apr, 2019

The guide and driver turned up on time, and were helpful and polite. Our guide (Hosne) was very friendly, and knowledgeable about his subject ... and very patient with all our questions and photo taking; we learned a great deal. Our driver drove well, and the car was clean and comfortable. A great day trip, and I would certain use again.

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