Trips and Tours from hurghada
The Hurghada area is a place rich in historical sites and natural beauty. Your hotel will be able to organise for you guided or non-guided visits to some of these sights. Here is a selection of interesting excursions from Hurghada.
Giftun Island National Park
The Giftun Island excursion has been a must for holiday-makers since many years. The beauty of this desert island and its surrounding coral reefs makes for a wonderful day at sea. All hotels, diving and aquacentres in Hurghada offer excursions to Giftun, by boat and with snorkelling equipment included, on full day basis. Nowadays, two operators have been allowed to create fully serviced beaches on the island, with a restaurant, stylish palm tree shadows, beach volley, stretchers and toilets to make the most of your day on the island.
Luxor
Many people choose to combine a relaxing holiday by the Red Sea with the sights of Ancient Egypt and the era of the pharaohs. Excursions to Luxor from Hurghada are available either by plane, departing from the Hurghada airport, or by bus. The most popular excursion to Luxor is on a full day basis, with an early morning departure, but you also have the choice to spend a night in Luxor and see the awesome sights in two days.
Monasteries of St. Anthony and St. Paul
A two hours drive takes you back in history and to two of the most inspiring and peaceful places of the Red Sea, the places where monasticism was born. The monks at both monasteries will introduce you to an ancient fascinating world. Apt to everybody.
Visit the famous Giza Plateau, home of Egypt’s signature attractions to visit the Great Pyramids, ONE of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world including the Great Pyramid of Cheops, middle pyramids of Chephren and the little one of Mykerinos and mysterious Sphinx, the Father of Terror for the ancient pharaohs, the tour includes visit to the valley temple facing the great sphinx and you may visit the solar boat that is a boat used to ferry the pharaoh’s mummy across the Nile, and then buried at the foot of the pyramid for his use in the afterlife lunch enroute included with free time for shopping at Cairo famous bazaars and original papyrus institutes. From there you will be accompanied by your Egyptologist tour guide to visit the world-renowned Museum of Egyptian Antiquities that was built in neo-classical style designed by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon which exhibited collections now exceed 120000 masterpieces ranges from pre-dynastic era, Pharaonic era to the Greco-roman period in Egypt including the treasures of the child King Tutankhamen, Pharaonic Gods and Goddess you may also visit the mummies room at the Egyptian Museum for a back ground about the Egyptian civilization and the mummification art in ancient Egypt .
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