From the air, Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari sits against the west-bank cliffs — three terraces you read as a single façade, which a ground visit cannot match. Hod Hod Soliman’s launch is the ballooning field near this temple; the 30-minute sunrise flight is built around this west-bank view.
You see it from the basket. You are not touring the temple on foot on this flight. Wind decides how close the balloon drifts.