Day 1 - Luxor
Arrival in Luxor, reception by our representative and transfer by private car to your cruise ship. Installation in your cabins. Lunch on board. Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main worship to the glory of the god Amun, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses were venerated there. It is known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of Luxor, he was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Ra and divinity ithyphallic. The oldest parts date back to being visible Amenhotep III and Ramses II. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 2 - Luxor / Esna / Edfu
Breakfast on board. In morning, beginning of navigation in the direction of Edfu. Lunch on board. After the Passage of the Lock of Esna, navigation and arrival at Edfu in the evening. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 3 - Edfu / Kom Ombo
Breakfast on board. Departure by coach to visit the Temple of Edfu, the Holy City of Horus and the temple built in his honor. This temple with extravagant dimensions is preserved best of all Egypt. Lunch on board. Sail to 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 overnight on board.
Day 4 - Aswan
Breakfast on board. Visit Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, then the granite career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Dam Lake Nasser Nasser giving birth. Lunch on board. Walk by felucca around Elephantine Island is the best way to experience the Nile and relax in the sandstone of the wind. Dinner on board followed by an evening eastern (evening dress with oriental show: dancing and traditional music). Overnight on board.
Day 5 - Aswan
Breakfast on board. Free morning. OR optional: the visit of Abu Simbel by private car "Lunch on board. Check the boat for return to Luxor. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 6 - Kom Ombo / Edfu / Esna
Breakfast on board. Free day for you to enjoy browsing. the boat will stop again on the sites, leaving the opportunity for those wishing to repeat the visits alone. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 7 - Luxor
Breakfast on board. Discovery Valley of the Kings, where most of Pharaohs of XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury and the Valley of Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, daughters, son sometimes kings of the nineteenth and twentieth dynasties. Then continuation towards the two imposing Colossi of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funerary temple of Amenhotep III that no longer exists today. And finally, visit the Temple of Hatshepsut's funerary temple of Hatshepsut, dedicated to the god Amun, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. The Theban temple is unique and distinguishes itself from other temples because it is partly dug into the rock of the Theban hills on which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by ramps. Lunch on board. Free after noon. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 8 - Luxor
Breakfast on board then transfer by private car to the international airport for your departure.
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