| 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 / Luxor |
| Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Giza plateau with the three major pyramids: Cheops, and Chefren Mykérinos and the Sphinx, lion-headed human embodying the king or the god as a vengeful. Camel or Horse ride in Giza. 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 in private car to Train Station for catch sleeper train in direction of Luxor. Dinner and overnight in train. |
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| Day 3 in
Luxor |
| Breakfast in train. Morning, Arrival at Luxor, welcome by our representative and transfer in private vehicle to your boat. Installation in your cabin. Lunch on board. Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, d' other gods and goddesses were venerated there. is the known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of Luxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Re and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go back in Amenhotep III and Ramses II. Dinner and overnight on board. |
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| Day 4 in
Luxor / Esna |
| Breakfast on board. beginning of navigation in direction d' Edfu. Lunch on board. After cross the Lock of Esna, navigation and arrival with Edfu in the evening. Dinner and overnight on board. |
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| Day 5 in
Edfu / kom ombo |
| Breakfast 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 with extravagant dimensions is best preserved of all Egypt. Lunch on board. Navigation towards Kom Ombo. Visit Temple of Kom Ombo, whose characteristic is d' to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon). Navigation until Aswan. Dinner and overnight on board. |
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| Day 6 in
Aswan |
| Breakfast on board. Visit Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the Isis goddess, then the granite career with Unfinished obelisk and finally the High Dam of Nasser giving rise to the Lake Nasser. Lunch on board. Felucca ride around the Eephantine island is the best means of feeling the Nile and of releasing themselves with the sandstone of the wind. Dinner on board followed by Oriental Show (evening costume with Eastern spectacle: dancer and traditional music). Overnight on board. |
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| Day 7 in
Aswan |
| Breakfast on board. free day, (In option )departure in private vehicle at destination of Abu Simbel (in convoy-around 3h drive), visit of the temple dedicated to Ramses II and its splendid Nefertari wife then return to Assouan (in convoy). Lunch on board. Departure of the boat for return to Luxor. Dinner and overnight on board. |
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| Day 8 in
kom ombo / Edfu |
Breakfast on board. Free day to allow you to benefit fully from navigation. the boat s' will stop again on the sites, which will leave opportunity with those which wish to remake the visits alone. Dinner and ovenight on board.
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| Day 9 in
Esna / Luxor |
Breakfast on board. Discovered Valley of the Kings, where the majority of the Pharaons of XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, of the girls, sometimes of wire of the kings of XIX and XX dynasties. Then continuation towards the two imposing Colossi of Memnon, the last vestiges of the gigantic funerary temple d' Amenhotep III which exist nowadays. And finally the visit of the Temple of Hatshepsut, the funerary temple of Hatchepso=ut, dedicated to the Amon god, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple theban is single and is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the mountain theban to which it lean, and rises on three terraces connected by slopes access. Lunch on Board. Afternoon free. Dinner and overnight on board.
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| Day 10 in
Luxor / Cairo |
| Breakfast on board. Check out your cabin before noon. Free day. The night, transfer to train station for take the sleeper train go to Cairo. Dinner and overnight in train. |
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| Day 11 in
Cairo |
Breakfast in train. Morning arrive to Cairo, welcome 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 12 in
Cairo |
| Breakfast at hotel. Free day "in optional: Overday to Alexandria or El Fayoum Oasis". Overnight at hotel. |
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| Day 13 in
Cairo |
| Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo airport to take your departure flight. |
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