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Karnak & Luxor Temple by evening light
Private tour 5 hours Easy pace

Karnak & Luxor Temple by evening light

5.0 (119 reviews) Luxor, Upper Egypt
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Duration
5 hours
Starts
15:00
Group
Up to 8
Pace
Easy
Guided in EnglishArabicSpanishGerman
Overview

The Hypostyle Hall at Karnak in the afternoon, the Avenue of Sphinxes at sunset and Luxor Temple as the floodlights come on.

  • The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak
  • Hatshepsut’s standing obelisk
  • The sacred lake and the scarab of Amenhotep III
  • The Avenue of Sphinxes at sunset
  • Luxor Temple under floodlights

Karnak is the largest religious complex ever built, added to by pharaohs for 2,000 years. We walk it as a timeline: Middle Kingdom chapels, Hatshepsut’s obelisk, the forest of 134 columns in the Hypostyle Hall. Then we follow the Avenue of Sphinxes towards Luxor Temple and arrive just as it is lit up.

How I run this tour

  • It is private: just you, your companions, me and a driver.
  • The timings are a plan, not a schedule — we slow down wherever you want to.
  • Questions are the point. Nothing is too basic or too nerdy.
“The stones are 4,500 years old. The stories should still feel alive.”
Hour by hour

How the day unfolds

  1. 15:00

    Pick-up

  2. 15:20

    Karnak — first pylon

    The ram-headed sphinxes and the unfinished pylon.

  3. 16:00

    Hypostyle Hall

    Reading the battle reliefs of Seti I and Ramesses II.

  4. 17:00

    Obelisks & sacred lake

  5. 17:45

    Avenue of Sphinxes

    Walk part of the 2.7 km processional way.

  6. 18:30

    Luxor Temple

    Ramesses II’s pylon, Amenhotep III’s court and a mosque on top of a temple.

  7. 20:00

    Drop-off

The fine print

What’s included

Included

  • Karim as your licensed Egyptologist guide
  • Private air-conditioned car with driver
  • Pick-up from any Luxor hotel or Nile cruise
  • Bottled water
  • Entrance tickets to Karnak and Luxor Temple

Not included

  • Dinner
  • Gratuities for driver and boatmen (optional)
Meeting point

Pick-up from your Luxor hotel or cruise

Karim sends the exact pick-up time on WhatsApp the evening before. Running late or changed hotels? Just message — plans bend.

Ask Karim
Guest reviews

In their words

4.96

119 reviews

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“We have done guided tours all over the world and this was the best. Perfectly timed to avoid the crowds — at one point we had a tomb completely to ourselves.”
J Jonas LindqvistSweden · Oct 2026
“Excellent content and very well organised. Traffic on the way back was heavy, which no one can control, but the tour itself was superb.”
D Daniel BeckerGermany · Apr 2026
“Honest, funny and incredibly knowledgeable. He told us which add-on tickets were worth it and which weren’t, and never once took us to a shop we didn’t ask for.”
H Hannah CohenUnited States · Mar 2026
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