Cairo Trip Overview
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Additional Info
Duration: 9 days
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Air, Helicopter & Balloon Tours >> Air Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
We invites you on a lifetime experience and Sunny Land Tours has been offering fascinating tour packages to Egypt for over 50 years! Our Egypt tour packages provide exceptional value and features discounted airfare, quality hotels in Cairo, Alexandria, Aswan, Luxor, and excellent Nile River cruise ships. Our local guides are dedicated certified Egyptologists guides and it shows from our customer reviews which always rave about their Egyptologist guides included in our tour packages
Itinerary
Day 1: Meet and pick up from Cairo Airport •
Stop At: Cairo International Airport, Oruba Road، El Nozha, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
You will be met in Airport by Your Rep and picked up to Your Hotel in Cairo,
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: 4 Stars hotel
Day 2: Visiting Saqqara, Memphis, Giza Pyramids and Sphinx
Stop At: Pyramids of Giza, Al Haram Str., Giza 12611 Egypt
At 08:00 am and after your breakfast your tour guide will be waiting for you in the lobby of your hotel to pick you up and transfer you to Memphis where will start your tour by visiting the oldest capital in the history. You will be guided for one hour to visit the most important statues in the opened air museum of Memphis which was founded by King Menes and was the capital of Old Egypt during the Old Kingdom. It was considered to be a center of rule and culture for over 3000 years as the first capital of Egypt. Here we can see the Statue of Ramses II. than you will be taken to visit Sakkara Necropolis.
Your guide will take you to the most important parts of Sakkara necropolis, such as the 6 steps Pyramid complex, the Main entrance of the necropolis, the Pyramid of the king Teti, than you will move to have your Lunch in a Local restaurant.
You will have your lunch in a local restaurant to experience and test the Egyptian food, than you will be stopped in the Papyrus institute for 30 minutes to know more about the 1st paper in the history, than moving to the most important part of the tour, the pyramids of Giza.
You will be Guided in the Pyramids area for 3 Hours with 3 different stops, one by the greatest Pyramid in the History which considered to be the remain one of the ancient 7 wonders. 2nd Stop will be for Photo of the 3 pyramids of Giza in Panoramic View. 3rd Stop will be in the valley where are located the temple and Sphinx. than you will be taken to visit the Oils Salon and than back to your hotel
Duration: 8 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 Stars Hotel
Day 3: Alexandria day tour and traveling to Aswan
Stop At: Alexandria, Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate
At 07:00 am you will check out and be picked up to visit Alexandria and than back to Giza train station where you will take your sleeper train to Aswan.
you will visit the mixed art of Greek, Roman and ancient Egyptian while you visit that Catacomb, it consist of 3 floors, you will visit the main tomb which still keeping the carving statues and symbols of the roman, Greek and Egyptian art.
You will visit the 3rd Century Pompey’s Pillar, a 25 meter red Aswan granite column that is the last of the remaining relics of the Seraphim Temple. Constructed in honor of the Emperor Diocletian, it was once a magnificent structure rivaling the Soma and the Cesarean.
After the 11th centenary earthquake the light house of Alexandria was gone, and instead of it the Soltan Qaitbay built the Alexandrian Fortress to protract the north of Egypt . During your tour in Qaitbay citadel, your tour guide will tell you more about the military monuments and the Light House of Alexandria
having lunch in a local restaurant and than driving back to Giza Train Station, where you will take your train to Aswan, the train leaves at 08:15 Pm, arrive Aswan at 10:00 Am,
Duration: 12 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Sleeper train
Day 4: Arriving Aswan, Visiting the high dam and Philea temple
Stop At: Aswan, Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Nile River Valley
On arrival Train Station in Aswan, meet your local tour representative for the start of your tour. Visit the High Dam and Philae Temple. than check-in and Overnight in Aswan with opportunity to visit Abu Simble Temple early morning before disembark( Abu Simble is optional tour )Enjoy lunch on board, as well as afternoon tea, dinner, and an evening disco party.
Duration: 4 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Nile Cruise
Day 5: Visiting komombo and Edfu temples
Stop At: Luxor Temple, Luxor 23512 Egypt
sail to Kom Ombo to visit the Kom Ombo Temple, dedicated to the crocodile-god Sobek, and the falcon-god Haroeris. Located on a bend in the Nile, it is said that in ancient times, sacred crocodiles would bask in the sun on the banks of the area. Sail to Edfu, site of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus. After lunch, visit the temple and ancient settlement, known in Roman times as Apollinòpolis. Cross the lock and sail to Luxor, enjoying an on board dinner and overnight stay.
Duration: 4 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Nile Cruise
Day 6: Visiting the west bank of luoxr
Stop At: Karnak Open Air Museum, You Require a separate ticket within the walls of Karnak Temple, Luxor Egypt
After breakfast on board, cross the Nile to the West Bank to tour the Necropolis of Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut, and the Colossi of Memnon. Luxor has often been called the world’s greatest open-air museum, and the number of preserved monuments is unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Focusing on the West Bank, you will stroll around the ruins at the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens, used primarily for the burials of Pharaohs. Admire the massive stone statues of the Colossi of Memnon, and the mortuary temples of the Temple of Hatshepsut. than Return to your boat. Enjoy dinner and a last overnight stay on board.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Nile cruise
Day 7: Visiting Karnak Temple, overnight in Luxor
Stop At: Luxor, Luxor, Nile River Valley
You will visit the East Bank of Luxor to Visit Karnak Temple, said to be the 2nd most visited site in Egypt after the Pyramids of Giza. than Transfer to Luxor Hotel, having overnight to enjoy Luxor
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: 5 stars hotel in Cairo
Day 8: Islamic and Coptic Cairo.
Stop At: Coptic Cairo, Cairo Egypt
Early morning you will check out and be transferred to Luxor Airport to take your Airplane to Cairo, upon Arriving to Cairo Airport, your tour guide will pick you up and start your tour by visiting the Egyptian museum for 2 hours, than visiting 3 old churches in old Coptic Cairo, visiting Saladin citadel, and Khan El khalili bazaar will be amazing experience. Lunch will be served in a local restaurant and than you will be transferred back to your hotel in Cairo for the last night in Egypt.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: 5 stars hotel
Day 9: Departure
Stop At: Cairo International Airport, Oruba Road، El Nozha, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
• You will be picked up from Your Hotel in Cairo to Airport.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
