Cairo -Alexandria - Aswan and Luxor 8 Nights/9 Days
Day
1: Arrive to Cairo. Meet and assist upon arrival and transfer to your
hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 2: After breakfast start your tour of Cairo by driving to Giza
to see the three great pyramids. Stand in awe at magnificent sphinx guarding
the Giza plateau, visit Step Pyramid of Sakkara and Memphis.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 3: After breakfast start your day by visiting the world - famous
Egyptian museum, with its 1000,000 objects covering 4000 years of ancient
Egyptian civilizations, including the treasures Tutankhamen. Visit The
Citadel of Salah El Din , Mohamed Ali Mosque and also Khan El-Khalil Bazaar
before returning to your hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 4: After breakfast, drive to Alexandria. Start your tour of
Alexandria by visiting the Greco Roman Museum with its large collection
of ancient relics of great historical and artistic value that date from
centuries B.C: Roman Theatre/ Montazah Palace/ The Fort of Quaitbay. After
lunch in a typical restaurant, drive to Cairo.
Overnight in Cairo
Day 5: After breakfast transfer to Cairo Airport for flight to
Aswan. Upon arrival transfer to the boat for 4 days - 3 nights Nile Cruise.
Then visit of the Aswan High Dam and the Granite Quarries where stone
for the ancient monument and Modern Dam of Aswan were cut. View the Gigantic,
unfinished obelisk of Queen Hatsheput, continue by motor boat to the island
of Philae to see the exquisite Temple of Isis. Afternoon sailing trip
on a typical Egyptian "Felucca" sail-boat which glides along the Nile,
passing Elephantine island , Lord Kitchener's Botanical Garden and the
dramatic while marble Age Khan Mausoleum.
Day 6: Early Morning the ship sails to Kom Ombo, a hill town overlooking
the banks of the Nile, visit the Greek- Roman temple of Kom Ombo, sail
to Edfu, travel by horse- drawn carriage to the Temple of Horus, the best
preserved of all large Egyptian Temples, then the boat sails along the
Nile to Luxor ancient city.
Day 7: Morning visit to the Valley of the Kings, containing secretive
tombs of new Kingdom Pharaohs. Continue to the famed Colossi of Memmon,
and the beautiful terraced temple of Queen Hatsheput. After lunch, visit
the avenue of the sphinxes and the imposing temple of Luxor. Visit the
cast Karnak temple complex, built by generations of the Pharaoh's over
a 2000- year period.
Day 8: Morning disembarkation. Then transfer to the airport for
your return flight to Cairo. Reminder of the day at leisure to explore
on your own. Overnight in Cairo
Day 9: Transfer to Cairo Airport for the Final Departure
