Spirits of the Nile
(02 nights Cairo / 03 nights Nile Cruise/ 02 night sleeping train)
Your program will run as follow:
Day 01:
Arrival:
Arrive Cairo International Airport meet and assist by Our representative with the sign of your name and assisting you through passport control formalities, luggage identification & portage then drive by air-conditioned private bus to your hotel in which you will be assisted by Our representative for check-in. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 02:
Giza: Breakfast at your hotel then our Egyptologist English speaking tour guide will meet you then visit the great Pyramids & Sphinx one of the seven wonders of the ancient World, then take the privet car and drive to the center of Cairo to visit The Egyptian museum. By night you will take the dinner on cruse of the Nile you can enjoy watching the river Nile, dancing, hearing music …etc.
Drive back to the hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 03:
Cairo/ train: Breakfast at your hotel then our representative will meet you and assist you to check out, Drive in a private car to the real way station to take the train to Aswan (sleeping train) half board. Over night a board of the train.
Day 04:
Train/Aswan: Breakfast at your cabins in the train. Arrive to Aswan meet and assist by Our representative then drive by air-conditioned private bus to the Nile cruse with full board start with lunch end with breakfast the embarkation before lunch. Overnight on board.
Day 05:
Aswan: Breakfast on board cruise then our Egyptologist English speaking tour guide will meet you Visit the High Dam, The world-famous High Dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s. Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt and, together with the old Aswan Dam, 6 km downriver then visits the Temple of Philae. Then sail by felucca to the View of the elephantine island and visit the agha khan Mausoleum. Drive back to the Nile cruse. Sail to Kom Ombo. Overnight on board.
Day 06:
Aswan / Kom Ombo /Edfu: Breakfast on board cruise then our Egyptologist English speaking tour guide will meet you then Visit the Temple shared by two Gods Sobek and Haroeris Sail to Edfu Kom Ombo and Edfu are both easily accessible from Aswan, by day cruise, felucca, bus or taxi.
Arriving by boat at the Temple of Haroeris and Sobek, near Kom Ombo, is recommended: the magnificent Ptolemaic temple is in a dramatic setting on high ground beside the Nile, surrounded by sugarcane fields. Dedicated jointly to Haroeris, The Good Doctor, and Sobek, the crocodile god, the temple is famous for its twin entrances, halls and sanctuaries. Sculpted wall reliefs include one showing ancient surgical instruments, bone-saws and dental tools. Three mummified crocodiles found nearby are now in the Chapel of Hathor. Visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu.
Edfu was the Greek city of Apollinopolis Magna, and is a religious and commercial center. Located about 33 miles south of Esna and 65 miles north of Aswan, this is a friendly town which produces sugar and pottery. It is also a hub of a road network. It was the capital of the second Nome (Horus) of Upper Egypt. The main attraction here is the Temple of Horus, which is considered by most to be the best preserved cult temple in Egypt, but there is a mound of rubble to the west of the Temple which is probably the original old city of Djeba. The town was known as Tbot by the early Egyptians, by the Greeks as Apollinopolis Magna and by Atbo during Coptic times. It was the capital of the second Nome (Horus) of Upper Egypt. French and Polish teams have excavated some of the ancient city, finding Old Kingdom mastabas and Byzantine house.
Then sail to Luxor & overnight in Luxor.
Day 07:
Luxor: Breakfast on board Nile Cruise .Then our Egyptologist English speaking tour guide will meet you & Cross to the West bank & visit the Necropolis of Thebes The tombs date from the 6th dynasty to the Greco-Roman period although most of them actually date from the New Kingdom, particularly the 18th dynasty.
The so-called private tombs belong to officials and dignitaries who served in high ranks. Tens of these tombs are hewn out in the valley and lie near to the village of Sheikh Abd El-Qurna.The tombs here are part of more than 400 private tombs in the west bank. Then visit Valley of the Kings the valley is to the north of Hatshepsut's Deir El-Bahari temple. It was here that kings from 18th to 20th dynasties cut their tombs in the limestone cliffs. That was long time after their ancestors abandoned the pyramid-shape tomb. The new tomb was more safe and can deceive tomb robbers but alas! Almost all tombs were robbed and stripped from their treasures.
There are about 62 tombs scattered on the sides and branches of the valley, some of which are visited more frequent than the rest. The tombs are numbered according to the order they were discovered. You'll probably find some tombs closed to the public for restorations then visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut The great temple of Hatshepsut is built at the bottom of sheer cliffs in Luxor's west bank in a wonderful site. The chief temple is built by Queen Hatshepsut and other constructions were added by other rulers. Then the Colossi of Memnon The sitting mighty Colossi of Memnon originally belong to King Amenhotep III. They were once flanking his big mortuary temple that was leveled to the ground by time. Its stones were either reused or stolen. Sail to Esna. Cross the lock. Visit temple of Karnak + Luxor. Our representative will meet you and help you to disembarkation from the cruse & drive to Luxor rail way station to take the train to Cairo. In Cairo representative will meet you & drive to the hotel in private car. Overnight on board.
Day 08:
Train/ Departure: Breakfast at your cabins in the train. Arrive to Cairo. Our representative will meet you & check out .Drive to Cairo International Airport for check in for your international flight helping you to enter luggage & portage assisting you through passport control formalities & bordering pass, final departure.
The Program Includes:
• 04 nights in Cairo in on bed & buffet breakfast
• 03 nights on board Nile cruise. Based on full board
• All transportation in the program
• All Sightseeing as I mentioned above in the program with Egyptologist tour guide
• All Entrance fees during sightseeing
• All Service charge & tax
The price excludes: Entry visa In Egypt.
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