Day 1 - Friday, Sunday or Tuesday- 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
Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Giza
plateau with the three major pyramids: Cheops, and Chefren Mykerinos and the
Sphinx, lion-headed human embodying the king or the god as a vengeful. Then
visit the necropolis of Sakkara with the
famous pyramid of King Djoser degrees, the pyramids royal funerary texts, the
mastabas .... And to finish the day visit Memphis,
a colossus of Ramses II in alabaster beautiful dimensions. Overnight at hotel.
Day 3 - Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Citadel of Saladin, with his pregnant
mosque of Mohamed Ali. Then the Coptic district, this district is older than
the city itself must be seen to get an idea of the atmosphere in which the
early Christians living in Egypt.
Hanging Church & Ben-Ezra Synagogue. Finish
with a visit to the Museum
of Egyptian Antiquities,
founded in 1857 by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, which houses more than
250,000 rooms including the fabulous treasures of Tutankhamen. The night,
transfer to Train Station for catch the sleeper train in direction of Aswan. Dinner and
overnight in train.
Day 4 - Aswan (Monday , Wednesday, Friday)
Breakfast in train. Morning arrive to Aswan, welcome by our
representative and Visit of the Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of
the goddess Isis, then the granite quarry with the Unfinished Obelisk and
finally the High Dam Nasser giving birth to the Lake Nasser. Transfer to your
boat, installation in your cabin. Lunch on board. Departure of the boat for Luxor. Dinner on board
followed by an oriental evening (with oriental entertainment: Nubian dancer and
traditional music). Overnight on board.
Day 5 - Kom Ombo Ombo/Edfu/Esna
Breakfast on board. Visit of the Temple of Kom Ombo,
the peculiarity of which is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (in head
of crocodile) and Horus (in head of hawk). Navigation towards Edfu. Lunch 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 in the extravagant dimensions is the best
preserved wide Egypt.
Navigation until Luxor.
Dinner and Overnight on board.
Day 6 - Esna/Luxor
Breakfast on board. Free morning. Lunch on board. Visit of the Temple of Karnak, dedicated of the worship in the
glory of the god Amon, but as the other numerous Egyptian temples, the other
gods and the goddesses were worshipped there. It is the oldest known religious
site to the world. And the Temple
of Luxor, It was
dedicated to the dynastic god Amon under its two aspects of heavenly Amon-Re
and ithyphallique divinity. The most ancient at present visible parts go back
up to Amenhotep III and to Ramses II. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 7 - Luxor/Cairo/Sharm El Sheikh
Breakfast on board. Discovery of the Valley of Kings, where most of the
Pharaohs of the XVIIIth in the XXth dynasty were interred and the Valley of the
Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, the girls, sometimes the sons) of
kings of the XIXth and XXth dynasties. Then continuation towards two impressive
Giants of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funeral temple of Amenhotep III
which does not exist any more nowadays. And finally the visit of the Temple of Hatshepsut,
the funeral temple
of Hatshepsut, dedicated
to the god Amon, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This Theban temple is
unique and distinguishes itself from the other temples because it is partially
dug in the rock of the Theban
Mountain in which it
leans, and amounts on three terraces connected by slip roads. Check out room
before noon. Afternoon, transfer to
domestic airport for catch the flight to Sharm El Sheikh (stop in way to
Cairo). Flight
Luxor/Cairo/Sharm El Sheikh. Arrive to Sharm El Sheikh, welcome and transfer to
your hotel. Dinner and Overnight at hotel.
Day 8 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)
Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and
overnight at hotel.
Day 9 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)
Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and
overnight at hotel.
Day 10 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)
Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and
overnight at hotel.
Day 11 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)
Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and
overnight at hotel.
Day 12 - Sharm El Sheikh / Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. Today we will be transferred to the airport for your
flight back to Cairo.
Flight Sharm El Sheikh/Cairo. Arrive to Cairo,
welcome by our representative and transfer to your hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Day 13 – Cairo/Alexandria/Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. Early the morning, departure towards Alexandria in the
vehicle, this city built into 332 before JC by l\' Greek architect Dinocrates on
order Alexander the Great. Visit initially fortress of Qayet bay recently
restored. Cross 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.
Lunch at local restaurant. Visit famous library of Alexandria
building with the futurist architecture (library and interesting archaeological
museum), visits of the catacombs of Kom El Shuqqaffa (I and II century. a. 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.
Overnight hotel.
Day 14 - Cairo
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer from the hotel to Cairo airport for final departure. |