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 / Luxor
Breakfast at hotel. Visit 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.In evening transfer in private car to Cairo station to take overnight train to Luxor.dinner and night in train
Day 3 - 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.overnight on board.
Day 4 - Luxor/Esna/Edfu (navigation Tuesday, Friday or Sunday)
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.
Day 5 - 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.
Day 6 - 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.
Day 7 - Aswan
Breakfast on board. Morning free. \"Or In optional: the visit of Abu Simbel in private vehicle\" Lunch on board. Departure of the boat for return to Luxor. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 8 - Kom Ombo/Edfu/Esna
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.
Day 9 - 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.
Day 10 - Luxor/Hurghada
Breakfast on board. Then departure in private car in direction of Hurghada (in convoy - around 4h drive). Arrive to Hurghada, installation to your room. Reste of day free. dinner and overnight at hotel.
Day 11 - Hurghada
Breakfast in hotel. Free day. Dinner and overngiht at hotel.
Day 12 - Hurghada/Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. transfer in private car to Hurghada airport to take domestic flight to Cairo , arrival Cairo , welcome . night in hotel
Day 13 - 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 14 - Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to airport of Cairo for take your departure flight
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