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Please note that all timings stated in Discover Egypt tours
are the average timings & they are totally flexible.
Day
01 Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport
you will be met by your tour manager who will
help you through your immigration and customs formalities then escort you
to your hotel for check in and overnight.
Day
02:
Breakfast meet your Egyptologist guide (8:30) drive to Memphis at
the edge of the western desert, (35 min. drive) the capital of Egypt until
the end of the first Kingdom, about 2270 BC, one of the most important
cities throughout the history of Ancient Egypt, You will be visiting
Memphis open air Museum the most important piece is Ramses the second
statue about 20meters long, Close to Memphis, you will drive to Sakkara,
the City of the dead with the famous step Pyramid of Zoser, and the
greatest Pharaoh of the 3rd Dynasty 2650 BC, the step pyramids is
known to be the first stone building ever build in the world, then you will
be visiting a Mastaba (Tomb) for the Nobel “Mereruka” from
the old kingdom the tomb have beautiful colored paintings about life in Egypt
during the old Kingdom, Drive to the Pyramids of Giza, enter the
Great Pyramid (Cheops Pyramid) the largest one of the three and one of
the seven wonders of the ancient world. In front of the Pyramid of Kefren,
stand the alabaster Sphinx, which was discovered in 1912.Carved from
a single piece of stone. It is a lion with a portrait of a Pharaoh's head,
it is believed by many to be a likeness of Pharaoh Kefren. Continue our
tour to the Solar Boat Museum where a dismantled river barge of King
Cheops (Khufu) was found buried in front his pyramid and has been
masterfully re-assembled. Drive back to your hotel (4:30 PM) Evening
drive to Giza Pyramids to attend the Sound & Light Show at the
Pyramids & the Sphinx. (B)
Day
03:
Breakfast meet your tour manger who will
transfer you to Cairo Airport & help you for check in for your flight
to Aswan, upon arrival you will meet your representative to be transferred
to your Nile Cruise, embark your deluxe Nile Cruise ship, lunch on board.
Sail on the Nile by felucca around Kitchener's Island (Botanical Garden
Island) and Agha Khan Mausoleum, afternoon tea, dinner on board
& Nubian folkloric show, overnight in Aswan. (B, L, D)
Day
04: Breakfast on board, visit the Philae Temple, the
High Dam, and the unfinished Obelisk Granite Quarries, sail to
Kom Ombo. Lunch on board, visit the Ptolemaic Temple shared by the two gods
Sobek and Hours in Kom Ombo, sail to Edfu, afternoon tea, Captain's
welcome cocktail (smart casual attire), dinner on board & disco,
overnight in Edfu. (B, L, D)
Day
05:
Breakfasts on bored Visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu, the best
preserved Egyptian Temple, sail to Luxor, Lunch on board, afternoon tea
dinner on board & Galabeya party, overnight in Luxor. (B, L, D)
Day
06:
Breakfasts on bored Cross to the West Bank visit the Valley of the Kings
and Queens where tombs of 64 Pharaohs and 57 Queens have been
discovered, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari and the
Colossi of Memnon facing the Nile. Lunch on board. Visit the Karnak
Temple, which is considered the World’s largest religious complex, and
then visit the Temple of Luxor, which was started by Amenhotep III
and completed by Ramses II, afternoon tea, dinner on board & Belly
Dance show, overnight in Luxor. (B, L, D)
Day
07: Breakfast
disembarks your cruise, meet your representative to drive to Luxor
airport for your flight to Cairo upon arrival meet your tour manger to
drive you to your hotel for overnight (B)
Day
08:
Breakfast meet your Egyptologist guide (9:00 AM) drive to Down Town visit
the Egyptian Museum, (2 hours tour) which contains a vast
collection of Pharaonic antiquities including the fabulous treasures of
King Tut-Ankh-Amon. Continue your tour to Old-Cairo, visiting the
old Coptic Churches the Hanging Church
dedicated to the Virgin Mary built in the 3rd century and the Church of St.
Sergius, built in the 4th century and visit the oldest Jewish Synagogue
of Ben Ezra. Drive to Visit the medieval Citadel of Salah
El-Din, built in the 12th century and contains many structures, the
most impressive of which is the Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali, It
was designed in the early 19th Century by a Greek Architect from Turkey.
The style is based on the Ottoman mosques of Istanbul, Continue your tour
visiting Kan ElKalili bazaar area ( the old market ) drive back to
your hotel (4:00 PM). (B)
Day
09: After breakfast you will be met & transferred by your
tour manger to Cairo International Airport to help you in check in and
immigration formalities for your departure flight. (B)
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