Luxor Temple: ticket, opening hours and visit from Hurghada

Luxor Temple, on the east-bank corniche, is the only major Egyptian temple set in the middle of a living city: Ramesses II's pylon, an obelisk, Amenhotep III's colonnade and the Abu el-Haggag mosque built inside. The visit takes one to one and a half hours. From Hurghada it is almost always the last stop of a day trip (about four hours' drive each way) and the easiest to fit in after Karnak and the Valley of the Kings; see Luxor from Hurghada: which tour. Small-group day trips with the Tutankhamun tomb are the most booked from Hurghada.

Highlights

The pylon and the obelisk

Ramesses II's façade is guarded by seated colossi and one obelisk. Its twin stands in Paris, on Place de la Concorde.

The avenue of sphinxes

It linked this temple to Karnak over about 2.7 km; it reopened in 2021 and starts in front of the entrance (see Karnak).

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