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
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. The evening,
transfer in the private car to the station of Cairo
to take the sleeper train for Aswan.
Dinner and night in the train.
Day 3 – Aswan
Breakfast in the train. Arrival at the station
of train of Aswan, reception and visit of the 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.
Installation to your hotel. The afternoon, walk into felucca around the Eléphantine Island
is the best means of feeling the Nile and of
releasing themselves with the sandstone of the wind. Night in hotel.
Day 4 – Aswan/ Luxor
Breakfast in hotel. Transfer to the station to
take the train in direction of Luxor
(approximately 3h of way). Arrival to Luxor,
reception and Visit of the Temple
of Karnak, dedicated to
the main thing of the worship to 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. Night in hotel.
Day 5 – Luxor
Breakfast in hotel. Discovered 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 Deir el-Bahari the Temple of Hatshepsut,
the funerary temple
of Hatshepsut, 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 thébain has which it leans, and rises on three
terraces connected by approach ramps. Release of the room before 12h00. free
Afternoon. The evening, transfer in the private car to the station of Luxor to take the sleeper train for Cairo. Dinner and night in the train.
Day 6 – Cairo
Breakfast in
the train. The morning, arrival in Cairo,
reception and Visit of the Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque
of Mohamed Ali also the district Copte, 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 August Mariette, who shelters more
than 250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon. Night in
hotel.
Day 7 – Cairo
Breakfast in
hotel and transfer in the private car to the international airport of Cairo
for your departure. |
