Magical Egypt

Magical Egypt

07 Nights/08 Days
3 nights Cairo, 4 nights Nile Cruise

 Arrive Cairo: Wednesday – Friday

 Day 1 – Cairo
Upon arrival to Cairo, You’ll be met by our representative in Cairo and assisted with visa and customs formalities. Proceed to check in to your hotel.

Day 2 – Cairo (Pyramids, Sakkara, and Memphis)
After breakfast your private Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick up you and start your tour. Drive to Giza and visit the Pyramids. See the Great Pyramid, a royal burial chamber and the Sphinx. Continue to Memphis, capital of the pharaohs during the Old Kingdom. Visit the recumbent statue of Ramses II and the 80-ton alabaster sphinx. Lunch en route; Continue to Sakkara to see the prototype of the Pyramids, the Step Pyramid, built for the 3rd Dynasty pharaoh Djoser by the exalted architect Imhotep. Back to the hotel, overnight. (B, L)

Day 3 – Cairo (Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Old Cairo)
After breakfast visit the Egyptian Museum, this houses a magnificent collection of Pharaonic antiquities, especially the golden treasures of Tut Ankh Amun. Lunch en route.

In the afternoon you will proceed to Old Cairo to visit the citadel of Salah El Din, and the Mohammed Ali Mosque situated high above the city, Continue to visit the Church of Abu Serga, Moallaqa Church (Hanging Church) and Ben Ezra Synagogue, the oldest Jewish synagogue in Egypt. Overnight at hotel. (B,L)

 Day 4– Luxor – East bank (Karnak & Luxor Temple)
In the morning, depart Cairo by air to Luxor. Upon arrival our representative will pick up you for embarkation on your Nile Cruise.  Lunch on board. Visit the great Luxor Temple and the magnificent Karnak Temple of Amun with its famous Hypostyle Hall and the 134 huge columns, the Statue of Ramses II, the Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut and the Sacred Lake. Dinner and overnight on board (B, L, D)

Day 5 – West Bank (Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut, Memnon)

Breakfast, visit the west Bank (Thebes) where some of the richest treasures in the world exists, including the Tomb of Tut Ankh Amun (optional) and other royal tombs including Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings, you will be able to visit some of these tombs, visit Hatshepsut funerary temple at Dier El Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon. Sail to Esna, sail to Edfu. Dinner and overnight on board (B, L, D)

Day 6 – Cruise (Edfu & Kom-Ombo)
In the morning, visit the Horus Temple of Edfu, one of the three beautiful temples of the Ptolemaic Period.

Lunch on board. Sail to Kom Ombo, where you will visit the Sobek Temple, dedicated to the two gods, which offers beautiful murals and reliefs sail to Aswan and Overnight (B, L, D)

Day 7 – Aswan (High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk, Philae, Felucca)
After breakfast you will visit the High Dam, and the Granite Quarries and the Philae Temple. In the afternoon you will sail on an Egyptian felucca around Elephantine Island and the Botanical Gardens on Kitchener Island and the Agha Khan Mausoleum. Overnight in Aswan.

(B, L, D)

Day 8– Aswan / Cairo – Final departure

Breakfast, disembarkation. Flight back to Cairo, connection for your final departure. (B)

 Above rates are valid through above mentioned dates, rates are subject to change in case of changing

 governmental sales tax, governmental fuel prices, entrance fees or any other governmental related.