Day
1 - Cairo
Arrived
at the airport of
Cairo where our
representative will accommodate you and assist in the various steps to follow.
You will be then accompanied in the private car to your hotel. Night in hotel.
Day
2- Cairo
/ Aswan
Breakfast
at hotel, then the visit of Giza
with the three large Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx,
Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god under an aspect
avenger. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid with
degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the
mastabas.... And to finish the day, visits of Memphis,
a colossus of Ramsès II out of alabaster of beautiful dimensions, transfer in
private car to Cairo airport to take domestic
flight to Aswan, arrival in Aswan , welcome . night in hotel
Day
3 - Aswan
Breakfast
at hotel. Visit Temple
of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the Isis goddess, then the granite
career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Nasser Stopping giving
rise to the Lake Nasser. Transfer to your boat,
installation in your cabin, Lunch, departure of the boat for return to Luxor. To dinner on board
followed on one oriental show (evening costume with Eastern spectacle: dancer
and traditional music), Night on board.
Day
4 - Komombo / Edfu /
Esna
Breakfast
on board. Visit Temple
of Kom Ombo, whose
characteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile)
and Horus (with head of falcon), Navigation towards Edfu. Lunch, Departure in
the barouche 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
preserved best of all Egypt,
Navigation until Luxor,dinner
and night on board.
Day
5 - Esna / Luxor
Breakfast
on board, Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to
the glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and
goddesses were venerated there. It 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-Rê and
ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go up in Amenhotep III
and Ramsès II, Dinner and night on board.
Day
6 - Luxor / Cairo
Breakfast
on board, discovered of the Valley of the Kings, where the majority of the
Pharaohs 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, last vestiges of the
gigantic funerary temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist nowadays any
more. And finally the visit of the Temple
of Hatshepsout, the funerary temple of Hatchepsout, dedicated to the Amon god,
but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple thébain is single and is
distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of
the mountain thébaine to which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected
by approach ramps.Transfer to Luxor airport to take domestic flight to Cairo ,
arrival Cairo , welcome .New Year party with dinner night in hotel
Day
7 - Cairo
Breakfast
in hotel .visit Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed
Ali. Also the Coptic district, this district is older than the city itself: it
should be seen to have an idea of the atmosphere in which the first Christians
in Egypt lived Coptic
Churches, Coptic museum, church
of Serge Saint. Stop by
the visit of the Egyptian museum, Antiquities, founded in 1857 by the French
Egyptologist \"Auguste \"Mariette, who shelters more than 250.000 parts
of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon .. night in hotel
Day
8- Cairo
Breakfast
in hotel.transfer by private car to Cairo
airport to catch your flight
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