Temple of Hatshepsut
Three colonnaded terraces set into a thousand-foot cliff.
Duration
1 hr 30 min – 2 hrs
Best time
At opening
Open
Every day
Entry price
440 EGP
Hatshepsut reigned some twenty years in the fifteenth century BC, as a full pharaoh: she had herself depicted with the false beard and the royal kilt. Her mortuary temple, set into a three-hundred-metre cliff, is disconcertingly modern — three colonnaded terraces, entirely symmetrical.
Her successor Thutmose III had her name and images chiselled out after her death, which erased her from the king lists until the decipherments of the nineteenth century. The site was also that of the 1997 attack, and it is closely guarded today.
Getting there
West bank, at Deir el-Bahari, a few kilometres past the Valley of the Kings. An electric shuttle links the car park to the temple.
What the price covers
paid entry, rate to be confirmed; the shuttle train to the temple costs extra
What to bring
- 1.5 L of water
- Cap
Rules on site
The cliff reflects and there is no shade on the terraces: it is the hottest site on the west bank in the middle of the day. There is a security check at the car park entrance.
Checked on 29 August 2026 at Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities — Temple of Hatshepsut