| Day 1 in
Cairo |
| Arrived at Cairo airport where our representative will welcome you and assist in the various approaches. You'll be accompanied by private car to your hotel. Overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 2 in
Cairo |
| Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Giza plateau with the three major pyramids: Cheops, and Chefren Mykerinos and the Sphinx, lion-headed human embodying the king or the god as a vengeful. Then visit the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid of King Djoser degrees, the pyramids royal funerary texts, the mastabas .... And to finish the day visit Memphis, a colossus of Ramses II in alabaster beautiful dimensions. Overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 3 in
Cairo / Aswan |
| Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Citadel of Saladin, with his pregnant mosque of Mohamed Ali. Then the Coptic district, this district is older than the city itself must be seen to get an idea of the atmosphere in which the early Christians living in Egypt. Hanging church & Ben-ezra synagogue . Finish with a visit to the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, founded in 1857 by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, which houses more than 250,000 rooms including the fabulous treasures of Tutankhamen. The night, transfer to train station of Cairo for take the sleeper train in direction of Aswan. Dinner and overnight in train. |
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| Day 4 in
Aswan |
| Breakfast at hotel. Arrive to Aswan, meet by our representative and transfer to hotel & check-in, afternoon,Visit of the Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, then the granite quarry with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Dam Nasser giving birth to the Lake Nasser. overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 5 in
kom ombo |
| Breakfast at hotel. Check in on board of Your felucca Boat and visit Elephantine island and Kitchener. lunch on board. Navigation in direction of Kom Ombo. Dinner and overnight on board. |
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| Day 6 in
Esna / Edfu |
| Breakfasts on board. Let you go to the wire water and open large your eyes: you will be the privileged witness of the daily life of the inhabitants of the villages. crew occupy of the meals and day before to your comfort. we alternate navigations and stroll in discovered Nubian islands. At the time of the stopovers, you will have occasion to meet the Nubians and to discover their lifestyle. We make course on the careers of Silsila which provided the sandstone of the temples to ancient time. Dinner and overnight on board. |
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| Day 7 in
Edfu / Luxor |
| Breakfast on board. Arrival at Kom Ombo end of your Nile cruise in Felucca and visit the splendid temple greco-Roman, whose characteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon). Take private car and go to Edfu (in convoy). Visite of the Temple of Edfu, the Holy City of Horus and the temple built in its honor. This temple with extravagant dimensions is best preserved of all Egypt. Departure for Luxor in private car (in convoy). Arrival to Luxor, installation to your hotel. Overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 8 in
Luxor / Cairo |
| Breakfast at hotel. Discovery of the Valley of Kings, where most of the Pharaohs of the XVIIIth in the XXth dynasty were interred and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, the girls, sometimes the sons) of kings of the XIXth and XXth dynasties. Then continuation towards two impressive Giants of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funeral temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist any more nowadays. And finally the visit of the Temple of Hatshepsout, the funeral temple of Hatchepsout, dedicated to the god Amon, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This theban temple is unique and distinguishes itself from the other temples because it is partially dug in the rock of the theban mountain in which it leans, and amounts on three terraces connected by sliproads. Afternoon, Visit of the Temple of Karnak, dedicated of the worship in the glory of the god Amon, but as the other numerous Egyptian temples, the other gods and the goddesses were worshipped there. It is the the oldest known religious site to the world. And the Temple of Luxor, It was dedicated to the dynastic god Amon under its two aspects of heavenly Amon-Rê and ithyphallique divinity. The most ancient at present visible parts go back up to Amenhotep III and to Ramsès II. The night, transfer to Train Station for catch the sleeper train in direction of Cairo. Dinner and overnight in train. |
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| Day 9 in
Cairo |
| Breakfst in train. Arrive to Cairo, meet by our representative and transfer to hotel. free at leisure. overnight at hotel. (Optional Alexandria) |
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| Day 10 in
Cairo / Siwa Oasis |
| Breakfast at hotel. Depature in private car/jeep to Siwa. arrive to Siwa, meet our representative, check-in. Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 11 in
Siwa Oasis |
| Breakfast at hotel. visit Dead Mountain, Siwa House Museum & the Old Fortress of Shali, then the Oracle Temple where you will see the coronation hall of Alexander the Great, then the ruins of Amoun Temple. Have a swim in Cleopatra Pool, then Dakrour Mountain (famous for its hot sand, the best place ever for sand bath, used as an effective natural cure for rheumatism, rheumatoid…etc), Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 12 in
Siwa Oasis |
| Breakfast at hotel. afternoon start by 4WD Jeep swim in salt & fresh water lakes of Bir Wahed (or Well No. 1), then the Hot Spring (37° C), stop to collect shells from the Fossils Mountain. Then enjoy watching the sunset from the highest place around Siwa, having dinner around the fire. Sleep overnight in the desert covered by the stars. |
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| Day 13 in
Siwa Oasis |
| Breakfast. drive over the highest Sand Dunes (app. 80 M) in the western desert to the east. Swim in Abou-Shrouf, the biggest & cleanest spring (it’s sulfured water good for the skin & rheumatism), then visiting Zauton (the Old village of Abou-Shrouf) seeing the Roman Olives’ Oil Press & black Roman Tomb, then the newly found Roman Tombs (full of Skeletons). On the way back to Siwa, visit Koraishet Spring & Ein Safi (Pure Spring), Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 14 in
Siwa Oasis / Cairo |
| Breakfast at hotel. Depature in private car/jeep to Cairo. arrive to Cairo, meet our representative, check-in. overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 15 in
Cairo |
| Breakfast at hotel and transfer by private car to Cairo International Airport, to fly back home. |
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