Astrology Retreat


Location: Luxor, Egypt
Duration: 8 Days

 

DAY 1

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ARRIVAL 

You will be picked up at the airport and taken to your accommodation, where you can make yourself at home, relax and unwind after your journey.

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7:30 pm- Welcome Dinner

DAY 2

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9:00-11:00 am : Astrology

11:15 am : Trip to Hathesput Temple

6:00 pm: Astrology

7:30 pm: Dinner

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Queen Hathesput Temple 

Queen Hathesput was the second ever female pharaoh. Her mortuary temple  (Egyptian: Ḏsr-ḏsrw meaning "Holy of Holies") was built during her reign of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture. Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Her tomb  lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex.

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DAY 3

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9:30- 10:45: Astrology

11:00 am: Trip to Medinet Habu Temple

 5:00 pm: Astrology

 7:30 pm: Dinner.

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Medinet Habu Temple 

The Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu was an important New Kingdom period temple structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the mortuary temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. The temple precinct measures approximately 210 m (690 ft). by 300 m (1,000 ft) and contains more than 7,000 m2 (75,347 sq ft) of decorated wall reliefs.

Its walls are relatively well preserved and it is surrounded by a massive mudbrick enclosure, which may have been fortified.

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DAY 4

 

7:30 am : Trip to Valley of the Kings

5:30- 7:30 pm: Astrology

7:30 pm: Dinner

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Valley of the Kings

This was the principal burial place of the major royal figures of the Egyptian New Kingdom, as well as a number of privileged nobles. The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology and give clues as to the beliefs and funerary practices of the period. This area has been a focus of archaeological and Egyptological exploration since the end of the eighteenth century, and its tombs and burials continue to stimulate research and interest. Since the 1920s, the valley has been famous for the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, and is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. 

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Day 5

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9:30 am: Trip to Denderah Temple

6:00 - 7:30 pm: Astrology

7:30 pm: Dinner

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Denderah Temple

The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mudbrick enclosed wall. One of the earliest depictions of the zodiac can be found here. Denderah was inhabited in prehistory, a useful oasis on the banks of the Nile. It seems that pharaoh Pepi I (ca. 2250 BC) built on this site and evidence exists of a temple in the Eighteenth Dynasty (ca 1500 BC). The earliest extant building in the compound today is the Mammisi raised by Nectanebo II – last of the native pharaohs (360–343 BC). The features in the complex include:

• Hathor temple (the main temple)

• Temple of the birth of Isis

• Sacred Lake

• Sanatorium

• Mammisi of Nectanebo II

• Christian Basilica

• Roman Mammisi

• a Barque shrine

• Gateways of Domitian and Trajan

• the Roman Kiosk

Nearby is the Dendera necropolis, a series of mastaba tombs. The necropolis dates from the Early Dynastic Period of the Old Kingdom to the First Intermediate Period of Egypt. The necropolis runs the eastern edge of the western hill and over the North.

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DAY 6

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9:30 am- Karnak and Luxor Temples

When the wind is right: Felucca boat ride on the Nile to Banana Island

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Karnak Temple

The key difference between Karnak and most of the other temples and sites in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used. Construction of temples started in the Middle Kingdom and continued into Ptolemaic times. Approximately thirty pharaohs contributed to the buildings, enabling it to reach a size, complexity, and diversity not seen elsewhere. Few of the individual features of Karnak are unique, but the size and number of features are overwhelming. The deities represented range from some of the earliest worshipped to those worshipped much later in the history of the Ancient Egyptian culture. Although destroyed, it also contained an early temple built by Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), the pharaoh who later would celebrate a near monotheistic religion he established that prompted him to move his court and religious center away from Thebes. It also contains evidence of adaptations, where the buildings of the ancient Egyptians were used by later cultures for their own religious purposes.

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Luxor Temple

The Luxor Temple is a large temple complex located on the East bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes) and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE. In the Egyptian language it was known as Ipet Resyt, "the southern sanctuary". It was one of the two primary temples on the east bank, the other being Karnak. Unlike the other temples in Thebes, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the pharaoh in death. Instead, Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the pharaohs of Egypt were crowned in reality or conceptually (as in the case of Alexander the Great, who claimed he was crowned at Luxor but may never have travelled south of Memphis, near modern Cairo).

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Felucca Boat Ride

 

Day 7: 

 

4:30 am- Hot Air Balloon Ride for Sunrise

5:00pm- Astrology

7:30 pm: Dinner

 

Day 8: Departure

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