| 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 / Aswan |
| 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. The night, transfer to Train Station for catch the sleeper train in direction of Aswan. Dinner and overnight in train. |
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| Day 3 in
Aswan |
| Breakfast in train. Morning, arrived at Aswan, welcome by our representative and 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. Transfer to your boat, installation in your cabin. Lunch on board. Departure of the boat for Luxor. Dinner on board followed by an oriental evening (with oriental entertainment: Nubian dancer and traditional music). Overnight on board. |
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| Day 4 in
kom ombo / Esna |
| Breakfast on board. Visit of the Temple of Kom Ombo, the peculiarity of which is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (in head of crocodile) and Horus (in head of hawk). Navigation towards Edfu. Lunch on Board. Departure in carriage for the visit of the Temple of Edfu, the holy city of Horus and the temple built in its honor. This temple in the extravagant dimensions is the best preserved wide Egypt. Navigation until Luxor. Dinner and Overnight on board. |
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| Day 5 in
Esna / Luxor |
| breakfast on board. Free morning. Lunch on board. 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-Re and ithyphallique divinity. The most ancient at present visible parts go back up to Amenhotep III and to Ramses II. Dinner and overnight on board. |
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| Day 6 in
Luxor / Cairo |
| Breakfast on board. 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. Check out room before noon. Afternoon, Felucca ride in Nile. 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 7 in
Cairo |
| Breakfast in train. Morning, arrive to Cairo, welcome by our representative and 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. Overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 8 in
Cairo |
| Breakfast at hotel, then transfer by private car to Cairo airport to take your flight back home. |
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