Day 1 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.
Day 2 Cairo
Breakfast at the hotel then you will transfer
–in the private car – with your private
tour guide to visit the last remaining wonder of the ancient world the great
pyramids of Geza (as the Egypt\'s
pharaohs expected to become gods in the afterlife so they erected
massive pyramid tombs for themselves –filled with all the things each ruler
would need) The pyramid of the king KHUFU :is the largest in Geza . The pyramid of Khufu\'s son KHAFRE :
build the second pyramid at Geza , His necropolis also Included the SPHINX a
mysterious limestone monument with the body of a lion and a pharaoh\'s head .the
Sphinx may stand sentinel for the pharaoh\'s entire tomb. The third is Menkaure
is considerably smaller than the other two .You will visit
the Egyptian museum housing 165.000 Egyptian artifacts .The museum
contains the priceless treasures of Tutankhamen ( with his sex gold glided
coffins and his magnificent death mask ). You can also see the mummies of many
great Egyptian rulers, including Ramses II, the builder of the temple at Abu Simbel .Throughout the rest of the museum you will
find countless Egyptian artifacts dating back thousand of years .Your guide
will introduce you to the most important pieces before allowing you free time
to explore at leisure. Ride the private car to your hotel in Cairo .
night at the hotel.
Day 3 Cairo / Aswan
Have breakfast at the hotel then you will
transfer –in the private car- to Cairo
airport to take domestic flight to Aswan , arrival Aswan . welcome 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.
Day 4 - Tuesday 22 December - Aswan/Felucca
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.
Day 5 Felucca
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.
Day 6
Kom Ombo/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. Christmax party with dinner and Overnight at
hotel.
Day 7Luxor / 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. transfer in private car to Luxor
airport to take domestic flight to Cairo ,
arrival Cairo ,
welcome . night in hotel
Day 8 - Cairo
Breakfast in hotel .transfer to Cairo Int\'l
Airport, to fly back home. |
