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 in the private car to your
hotel. Night in hotel.
Day 2 – Cairo
Breakfast in
hotel. Visit plate of Gizeh 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. Night in hotel.
Day 8- Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. The morning, transfer in private car
to the airport
of Luxor to take the flight in
direction of Cairo.
Flight Luxor/ Cairo. Arrived at Cairo,
reception and Visit of the 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 Museum
of Egyptian 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 4 -
Cairo/Alexandria/ Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. Early the morning, departure towards Alexandria in the private
car , this city built into 332 before JC by the Greek architect Dinocrates on
the order of Alexandre the Large one. Visit initially fortress of Qayet bai
recently restored. Passage to the Column of Pumped, then Visit of the
amphitheatre Roman of Egyptian women el-Dick, released in 1963, pilot single of
the many places of spectacles built in Alexandria.
To lunch. Visit famous library of Alexandria
building to the futurist architecture (library and interesting archaeological
museum), visits of the catacombs of Kom El Shuqqaffa (Ier and IIè century. ap.
J.-C.) and its hypogean on several levels, which are among the most important
Roman burials in Egypt.
At the End of visit, the return to Cairo
night in hotel.
Day 5 - Cairo/Luxor
Breakfast in
hotel. Early the morning, transfer to
airport of Cairo to take the flight in direction of Luxor. Flight Cairo/Luxor.
Arrived at Luxor, reception by our
representative and 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, 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 in the private car to your boat of cruising. Installation in
your cabins. lunch. 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/ Esna/Edfu
Breakfast on board. In morning, beginning of
navigation in direction of Edfou. Lunch . After the Passage of the Lock of
Esna, navigation and arrival with Edfu in the evening. Dinner and night on
board.
Day 7 - Edfu/Kom Ombo
Breakfast on board . 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. Lunch . Navigation towards
Kom Ombo. 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 to Aswan. Dinner and night on board.
Day 8 - Aswan
Break fast on board . 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. Lunch . Walk into feloucca around the Eléphantine island is the best
means of feeling the Nile and of releasing
themselves with the sandstone of the wind. To dinner on board followed on one oriental show (evening costume with Eastern spectacle:
dancer and traditional music). Night on
board.
Day 9 - Aswan
Breakfast on board.
Unloading and Transfer in the private car
to your boat on the Lake
Nasser. Lunch . Visit temple of Kalabsha, the first Nubian temple has to
be moved and of that of Ramsès II has Beit El Wali, transported thanks to
UNESCO to save it water of the New Stopping. Dinner has followed by a Nubian
Spectacle. Night on board .
Day 10 - Aswan/Kalabsha/Beit El
Wali/Wadi El Sebou
Breakfast on board .
Beginning of Navigation towards Wadi El Sebou. To lunch on board . Free day
devotes has navigation and the relaxtion on board . Spectacle of light has Wadi
El Sebou. Dinner and night on board
Day 11 - Wadi El
Sebou/Dakka/Amada/Kasr Ibrim
Breakfast on board . The
morning, visits temple
of Wadi El Sebou devoted
has Amon-Ra and that of dedicated Dakka of
Thot. Navigation towards Amada. To lunch on board . Visit temple of Amada of the time of Thoutmosis III.
Navigation towards Kasr Ibrim. Dinner and night on board
. Day 12 - Kasr
Ibrim/Abou Simbel
Breakfast on board. Sight on the temple of Kasr Ibrim (of the exterior). To lunch
on board . Navigation towards Abo Simbel and visit of the temples of Abo
Simbel, the temple dedicated to Ramsès II and of its splendid Néfertari wife.sound
and Light in Abo Simbel (option). Dinner and night on board .
Day 13 - Abou
Simbel/ Cairo
Breakfast on board . Then transfer in the
private car to the airport to take the flight in direction of Cairo (with stopover). Flight Abo Simbel/ Cairo. Arrival to Cairo, reception and
transfer to your hotel. Remain free day.
Night in hotel.
Day 14 – Cairo
Breakfast in hotel and
transfer in the private car to the
international airport
of Cairo for your
departure. |
