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. Night in hotel.
Day 3 -
Cairo/Abou Simbel
Breakfast in
hotel. The morning, transfer in private car to the interior airport of Cairo to take the flight in direction of
Abou Simbel. Flight Cairo/Abou Simbel (with stopover in Aswan).
Arrival to Abou Simbel, reception and Visiting
of the impressive temples of Ramsès II and his wife, Néfertari. These
extraordinary works, cut with same cliff, were dismounted and transferred onto
their current site in 1960 bus they were threatened of flood by the rise of
water of the lake
Nasser. They were rebuilt
with identical on a factitious hill a little more towards the interior of the
grounds. After the visits, installation in
your hotel. Dinner and Night
in hotel.
Day 4 - Abou
Simbel/Aswan/Kom Ombo (navigation Monday, Wednesday or Friday)
Breakfast in
hotel. Transfer to the airport to take the flight in direction of Aswan. Flight Abou
Simbel/Aswan. Arrival to Aswan, reception and
Visiting 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.
Transfer in the private car to the boat. Installation in your cabin. Lunch .
Beginning of navigation in direction of Kom Ombo. To dinner on board followed
on one oriental show (dancer of the belly, Soufi dancer and traditional music).
Night on board.
Day 5 - Kom
Ombo/Edfou/Esna/Luxor
Breakfast on
board. 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). Lunch . Navigation until Edfu.
Departure in the barouche 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 preserved best of all Egypt. Navigation towards Luxor. To dinner and
night on board.
Day 6 - 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, 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. Lunch. Free afternoon. Dinner and Night
on board.
Day 7 – Luxor
Breakfast on
board. 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 cabin before 12h00. Installation in your hotel. Free afternoon. Night in hotel
Day 8 - Luxor/ Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. The morning, transfer in private car to
the airport of Luxor
to take the flight in direction of Cairo.
Flight Luxor/ Cairo. Arrived at Cairo, reception and Visit
of the 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 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 9 - Cairo
Breakfast in hotel and transfer in the private car to the international airport of Cairo
for your departure. |
