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. The evening, transfer in
the private car to the station of Cairo to take
the sleeper train to Luxor.
Dinner and night in the train.
Day 3 - Luxor
Breakfast in
the train. Arrived at the station of train of Luxor,
reception and discover 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 Deir el-Bahari the Temple
of Hatchepsout, 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 has which it leans, and rises on three
terraces connected by approach ramps. Free afternoon. Night in the hotel.
Day 4 – Luxor
Breakfast
in hotel. 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.
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 to Cairo. Dinner and night in the train.
Day 5 – 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 Auguste Mariette, who shelters more
than 250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon. Night in
hotel.
Day 6 – Cairo Breakfast in
hotel and transfer in the private car to the international airport of Cairo for
your departure
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