Start your trip by visiting Abydos about 135 km from Luxor about 2 hours . It is notable for the memorial temple of Seti l , Which contains an inscription from nineteenth dynasty known to the modern world as the Abydos King List , It is a chronological list showing cartouches of most dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from Menes until Seti l’s father , Ramesses l.

Dendera is located about 60 km north of Luxor To visit the unique Dendera Temple which contains the Temple of Hathor , is one of the best preserved temples , if not the best preserved one , in all of Upper Egypt . The whole complex covers some 40.000 square meters and is surrounded by a mud brick wall . The present building dates back to the times of the Ptolemaic dynasty and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius , but it rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back at least as far as Khufu but it was the Pharaoh Pepi l who built the temple , It was once home to the celebrated Dendera Zodiac , Which is now displayed in the Louvre in Paris . There are also Roman and pharaonic Mammisi , ruins of a Coptic church and a small chapel dedicated to Isis , dating to the Roman or the Ptolemaic epoch . After finishing back to Luxor