Adventure Egypt

 Adventure Egypt

09 Nights/10 Days
3 nights Cairo, 3 nights Nile Cruise, 3 nights Hurghada

 Arrive Cairo: Sunday or Tuesday

Day 1 – Cairo
upon arrival to Cairo, you will be met by Triple P Travel representative in Egypt and transfer to your hotel.  Check in, overnight at hotel.

Day 2 – Cairo (Pyramids, Sakkara, and Memphis)

After breakfast your private Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up 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. Return to your hotel. Overnight at hotel. (B,L)

 Day 3 – Cairo (Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Old Cairo, Khan El Khalily)After breakfast visit the Egyptian Museum, this houses a magnificent collection of Pharaonic antiquities, especially the golden treasures of Tut Ankh Amun. 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. Lunch en route. For those who wish to browse and shop, your tour will stop at the Khan El Khalili Bazaar displaying and selling all types of oriental goods, drive back to your hotel for overnight (B, L)

Day 4 – Cairo /Aswan – Nile cruise (High Dam, Philae, Obelisk)
Breakfast, transfer to Cairo airport for your flight to Aswan, upon arrival you will be met by Triple P Travel representative and start a tour of Aswan High Dam, Egypt’s modern example of building on a monumental scale. Continue by a short motor-boat ride to the Temple of Philae on the island of Agilka. The temple was dedicated to Isis, sister/wife of Osiris and patroness of the Ptolemaic rule. Transfer to your Nile cruise, embarkation, lunch on board.  Dinner and overnight on board. (B.L.D)

Day 5 – Nile cruise (Kom Ombo temple)

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

Day 6 – Nile Cruise (Edfu temple – Karnak and Luxor temples)
After breakfast, Set out by horse-drawn carriage to visit the Temple of Horus, the largest and most perfectly preserved of all the Nile temples. Horus, also known as Haroeris, was the falcon-headed solar war god. Back to cruise, lunch on board, sail to Esna. Cross the lock of Esna.

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 7 – Luxor (Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut, Memnon)/ Hurghada

Breakfast, disembarkation, cross to the West Bank of the Nile and visit the wondrous Valley of the Kings, a vast city of the dead, where the magnificent tombs of 62 pharaohs have been discovered. The tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs.

Next, visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. This beautiful monument to the reign of the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it.   On the way back stop at the famed Colossi of Memnon. These colossal statues were known by the ancient Greeks to emit haunting voices at dawn. Though damaged by nature and ancient tourists, the statues are still impressive, back to your cruise for Lunch, transfer to Hurghada with air conditioned private bus. Check in to your hotel, dinner and overnight at hotel. (B,L,D)

Day 8 & 9– Hurghada

Breakfast, relax and enjoy the red sea, dinner and overnight. (B,L,D)

Day 10 – Hurghada/ Cairo

Breakfast, transfer to Hurghada airport for flight back to Cairo, connection and transfer for your finale departure.

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 issue.