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14 days / 13 nights
Included in the tour:
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13 nights accommodations. |
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Sightseeing:Giza, Memphis, Old Cairo, Khan EL Khalili, Fayoum Oasis, Assiut, Naga Hammadi, Luxor, Esna, and Aswan. |
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Admissions to: The Pyramids, Sphinx, Sakkara, The Egyptian Museum, The Citadel, Sultan Hassan and The Alabaster Mosques, Kom Oshim Museum, Medium, and Karanis Pyramids, Beni Hassan, Tell El Amarna and Tuna Al Gabal Monuments Ashmonen Aby Dos Temples, Dendera Temple. The Colossi of Memnon, The Valley of The Kings Hatshepsut Temple, Karnak Temples, Luxor Temple Kom Ombo, and Edfu Temples, The Agha Khan Mausoleum, The Botanic Garden, The High Dam The Unfinished Obelisk, and The Old Dam. |
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Deluxe air-conditioned motorcoach throughout. |
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Multilingual escort throughout the tour. |
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Deluxe air-conditioned sleeping train between Aswan / Cairo. |
CAIRO
Day 1
Arrive at Cairo Airport, meet and assist you through customs. Board your motorcoach to the hotel. The rest of the day is free to explore the streets, shops and to enjoy the Cairo area.
Overnight: The Hotel
CAIRO
Day 2
Morning departure to Giza, visiting one of the seven wonders of the world "The Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus".
Not far from the pyramids, you explore and photograph "The Great Sphinx of Giza", that large statue which is the one of most famous monuments in the whole world. Then visit the capital of Upper and Lower Egypt some 5000 years ago, "Memphis".
We continue to visit the first pyramid has been built in ancient Egypt, "Sakkara". Through this historic route, you visit the factories of hand-made carpets and papyrus and perfumes institutes.
Overnight: The Hotel
CAIRO
Day 3
Starting our tour by visiting the Egyptian Museum, which offers visitors a chance to acquaint themselves with Egypt's ancient history over a period of 50 centuries. Afterward, we begin a sightseeing tour of Old Cairo, visiting the Citadel, its construction was initiated in 1776 and visiting the Alabaster Mosque. Facing the Citadel is the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, perhaps the most majestic monument of Arab architecture in Egypt.
The tour also includes a visit to Khan el Khalili, a famous Cairo bazaar, dating back to the late 14th century.
Overnight: The Hotel.
CAIRO / FAYOUM / AL-MINYA
Day 4
Board your motorcoach and settle back and enjoy the scenery.
Depart southward to Fayoum Oasis, visiting Kom Oshima Museum, Karanis, and Maydoum Pyramids, enjoying the traditional water-wheels and the quiescence of Lake Qarun.
Continuing on to Al-Minya, then to the hotel
Overnight: The Hotel.
AL-MINYA
Day 5
In this area, you will feel that you are actually reading history, carved and inscribed on the walls of the temples, the tombs, and the royal palaces. Belongs to the Pharaonic period, we visit Beni Hassan and Tell El-Amama, and for the Griego Roman period, we visit Tuna El-Gabal and Al-Ashmunayn.
Overnight: The Hotel.
AL- MINYA / ASSYUT / NAGA HAMMADI
Day 6
Departure, southwards Assiut to have a rest there.
Then visit Abydos which was the chief center for worshipping the god Osiris. Continue to Naga Hammadi.
Overnight: The Hotel.
NAGA HAMMADI / LUXOR
Day 7
Departure to visit the Temple of Dendera which is a Graeco- Ro-
man Temple. Then continue to Luxor.
Overnight: The Hotel.
LUXOR
Day 8
Luxor "The One Hundred - Gated City", we begin our tour by visiting the West Bank. The Colossi of Memnon, then to the Valley
of the Kings and Queen Hatshepsut Temple,
Overnight: The Hotel.
LUXOR
Day 9
Today we tour by bus the East Bank, visiting the Temple of Luxor which was built by the Two Pharaohs: Amenhotep III and Ramses II, visiting the Karnak Temples, the greatest place of worship in history.
Overnight: The Hotel.
LUXOR / ESNA / EDFU / KOM OMBO / ASWAN
Day 10
Morning, departure by bus to Aswan, in our way, we pass by Esna, visit Edfu where remains from the Old Kingdom can be viewed, as well as the Temple of Horus, continue on to beautiful Kom Ombo with its famous temple completed during the reign of Ptolemy Philometer. Arrive at Aswan, check-in at the hotel.
Overnight: The Hotel.
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