Visit to the Karnak temple complex. Perhaps the largest temple complex ever built.

Karnak is the most important site of pharaonic Egypt. Expanded by the successive dynasties, its development continued for over 2,000 years and today it is a collection of sanctuaries, pylons and obelisks, a true open-air historical archive in stone.

Over the years, excavations have revealed the structure of the vast complex. In addition to the colossal Temple of Amun, the site covers an area of over 100 hectares and includes an incredible number of buildings that testify to the importance of the city of Thebes.

The complex developed in different periods largely through the work of the rulers Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Seti I and Ramses II, but the original sanctuary of the Great Temple of Amun was erected even earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 1900 BC.

Later pharaohs expanded the original core up to the first pylon; the current entrance to the site dates to 370 BC. Also in the post-pharaonic age, Ptolemies, Romans and the early Christians left their marks.

We will cross the avenue of the royal rams that will lead us to the great pylon of Karnak and continue to the great courtyard that gathers monuments from different periods. We will lose ourselves in the great hypostyle hall with its 134 columns, a unique example of its kind.

We will continue through the labyrinth of Karnak and then find ourselves before the only sacred lake remaining from Ancient Egypt.