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The Valley of The Kings in Luxor, Egypt | Exploring the World’s Most Famous Tombs

Once we arrived at the Valley of the Kings, we had to go through checking and X-ray scanners. Every day, at most of the sites we visited, we had to pass scanners.

It was quite a walk from the main entrance to the Valley of the Kings, so we opted for a short, 5-minute trolley ride. For those adventurous types that wanted to walk, the option was there, but it would be an enormous pain to walk that far in the desert sun and sweltering heat.

We were warned before by our guide not to give any money if our trolley drivers asked for it. By then, we were used to this norm, so we dealt with it without giving any money to anyone.

After getting close to the Valley of the Kings, there were shelters where we all gathered to start our journey into the underground tombs. We heard a police officer was going to each group and asking if someone lost money. What happened was while passing through the scanners, someone set aside a stack of cash and forgot to take it, so the police were looking for the owner to return the money.

There were many tombs in the Valley of the Kings. I heard there were 63 and more were getting discovered. Our tour included visits to 3 of the 8 tombs. If we wanted to visit more tombs, we had to pay more.

Our whole team decided to visit the 3 tombs below and our guide would accompany us to each of them. If someone wanted to see anything else besides these 3, they were free to go on their own. I decided to stay with my team and see only these 3 suggested by our guide.

KV11 – Ramses III

KV2 – Ramses IV

KV8 – Merenptah