Day 1 – Cairo Arrived at the
airport of Cairo where our representative will
accomodate you and assist in the various steps to follow. You will be then
accompanied to your hotel. Night in hotel.
Day 2 -
Cairo/Oasis of Baharya
Breakfast in
the hotel. departure for the oasis of Baharyia. Considered for its wines
as of the Average Empire, the oasis of North - Ouhat Mehet - was firmly
attached to the central capacity only starting from the New Empire. It
developed then fertile relations with the Greek colony of Cyrène. We will
discover, close to the village of Bawiti, the vestiges of the temple of Amasis
and the ruins of a church. It is also in the oasis that the Egyptian
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and his team are putting at the day a number
impressing of tombs and intact sarcophagi which made call this place the
\"valley of the mummies\". The site of El-Qasr delivered to the
archaeologists several vaults devoted to Apriès, while in Qaret Helwa, we will
see fall it from Amenhotep Houy, which was a governor of the oasis at the end
of the XVIII dynasty. Night in hotel
Day 3 - the
White desert
(150 km) Of
the richnesses of the history to the wonders of geology: leaving Bahariya, we
will engage in the fantastic landscapes of the \"white desert\", where
considerable carbonate lake deposits of a bright white were carved by erosion.
We spade-will screw on the way with the c?ur
these surrealist landscapes, night in
Bivouac.
Day 4 -
Bahariya - El Minia
Back to the Bahariya oases, after midday we will go in El Minia through the
desert. Night in hotel.
Day 5 –
Bani Hassan
Minieh is
probably old Ménat-Khoufou, capital of the nomist of Oryx. Tehneh el-Gebel, car
its name of the Egyptian Your-Déhénet (the Cliff). Visit of a temple hémispéos
time of Néron. More in the south, Kôm el-Ahmar, the \"red Hillock\", is
the Hébénou antic. One can see there the base of a small pyramid to degrees of
IIIe dynasty. Visit of Speos Artemidos, rupestral temple devoted by Hatchepsout
to the Pakhet goddess-lioness. The immense necropolis of beni Hassan is dug of a series of tombs, of which
most recent offer a gantry to grooved columns \"protodoric\". Night in
hotel.
Day 6 - Tell el-Amarna
We will gain
one of the most mythical places of the valley: Tell el-Amarna or Akhetaton. In
its circus of mountains, the \"Horizon of Aton\" seems well the
astonishing geographical concretization of the idealistic Utopia of Akhénaton.
The necropoles justify to be delayed a whole day on the site. We will discover
initially the necropolis septentrional, while penetrating in some of its more
beautiful tombs with the iconographic program properly amarnien. Then we will
explore the necropolis Southerner and her many tombs in the decoration of which
the sun holds a place of choice. The tomb of Aÿ, future king after
Toutankhamon, preserves famous \"the Great Anthem at Aton\". Night in
hotel.
Day 7 - Hermopolis – Sohag
Capital of the
nomist of Hare, Hermopolis was devoted to the Toth god and a whole of eight
divinities at the origin of Creation. City itself remain of the scattered
vestiges of the time ramesside. Touna el-Gebel was one of the necropoles of
Hermopolis. The tomb of Petosiris retains the interest by its syncretism, in
its architecture and its decoration, between Greek art and Egyptian art. Akhmim
was formerly chief town of the nomist of Min, the god of the fertility. One of
its temples delivered splendid and gigantic statue of Meryt-Amon, girl of
Ramsès II. Night in Sohag.
Day 8 - Sohag - Dendera – Luxor
the ruins of
the town of Athribis
comprise several temples of time gréco-Roman, of which that, gigantic, of the
goddess Répyt lioness, who gave her name to the city. The White convent (Deir
Al-Abiad), founded towards 400 of our era, accomodated formerly a strong
community of 2 000 monks. The Red convent (Deir Al-Ahmar), which resembles to
him by its plan and its provision, owes its name with the bricks whose its
enclosing wall is built. Departure for Dendéra. The site of Dendéra will
provide us the occasion to dream in front of one of the most beautiful temples
of the ptolemaïc period, dedicated to the goddess Hathor, the injury of the
sky. Meet with celopatra VII and his/her Césarion son. Night in Luxor.
Day 9 - Luxor
Night in hotel and transfer to the international airport of Luxor
for your departure. |
