Cairo Trip Overview
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Additional Info
Duration: 8 days
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Cruises, Sailing & Water Tours >> Sailing Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
– We granted excellent quality of services.
– All transfers private
– Qualified Egyptologist guides.
– Hotels & Nile Cruises are high Standard
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival / Cairo
Stop At: Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Governorate
Arrival to Cairo international airport, representative of Nesobity Travel will meet & assist you in the airport. Free time at evening. overnight in Cairo.
Meals: None
Duration: 2 days
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight stay in Cairo 5 stars hotel
Day 2: Cairo (Pyramids & Egyptian Museum)
Stop At: Pyramids of Giza, Al Haram Str., Giza 12611 Egypt
Firstly, you will go to Giza Area to visit the Giza Pyramids (Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus), enough to say that the great pyramid is one of the world’s seven wonders. Few steps away from the incredible sight of the pyramids you will get to see the Sphinx & stela of dream. Sphinx is a great statue that carved into a hill with an odd stature combining between power, majesty and mystery. The statue is in form of lion’s body and human’s head where it used to escort Egypt from the norther western gateway.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Midan El Tahrir Geographical Society Building, Cairo 11511 Egypt
The Museum has various floors and sections among them an astonishing section of the young king Tutankhamun that includes he’s royal throne chair. Mummies court is one of the most attractive objects inside the museum. Also, it contains; collection of ancient jewelries made of pure gold, statues, portraits, date back to different ancient dynasties. After finishing the wonderful day tour, you will get the sleeping train to Aswan city. Overnight in sleeping train.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in the sleeping train to Luxor.
Day 3: Arrival to Luxor & East Bank Sightseeing
Stop At: Temple of Karnak, Karnak, Luxor Egypt
Once arrived at Luxor, the Egyptologist guide will accompany you to visit the complex of Karnak temples. Karnak Temple is one of the biggest Temples in the entire world, here you have the chance to visit the Sacred Lake and the huge Scarab Statue which apparently if you walk around few times it brings you a good luck as may your wishes come true. Karnak Temples were built in dedication to the triad of Thebes God Amon, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu.
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Stop At: Luxor Temple, Luxor 23512 Egypt
Luxor temple which has alive evidences to many civilizations and religions that been practiced inside its walls for thousands of years related to Pharaonic, Coptic and Islamic. It was built by Amenhotep III in the 18th Dynasty about 1300 B.C. to prove his rights in the rule of Egypt by representing the story of his divine birth on the walls of divine birth room inside the temple. Also, Ramses II and Tut Ankh Amon put their fingerprints on the completion of the temple since Luxor was the capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom era.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in 5 stars Nile cruise
Day 4: Luxor West Bank sightseeing & Sailing to Edfu
Stop At: Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari, Kings Valley Rd Deir el-Bahari, Luxor 23512 Egypt
It is such a unique temple in its architectural style. Where it contains inscriptions of the royal journey to Puntland. And visions of the divine birth of the Queen Hatshepsut. The limestone mortuary temple of Hatshepsut was designed and constructed by the high priest and architecture Senenmut 1503 B.C.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Valley of the Kings, Luxor City, Luxor 85511 Egypt
the valley contains 63 royal tombs within the New Kingdom era 1500 B.C. The reason of choosing the west bank in the burial, because of the dry environment, adequate Limestone queries and to keep their tombs and the royal mummies obscured from the robbers. The walls of these tombs are containing incredible carvings and inscriptions indicating the religious life of the Pharaohs.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Colossi of Memnon, Thebes, Luxor Egypt
you will be listening to the legendary story of Colossi of Memnon in a granary area. These gigantic statues are sculptured from sandstone.
Duration: 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in 5 stars Nile cruise
Day 5: Edfu & Kom Ombo Temples
Stop At: Temple of Horus, Adfo, Edfu Egypt
The guide will accompany you to visit one of the most preserved Greek-Roman achievements in Egypt it is Edfu temple. Edfu temple is dedicated to the cult of Horus (Falcon God 237 B.C). Greeks and Romans are influenced in the ancient Egyptian culture, religion and architects however they decided to merge it with their heritage when they rebuilt the ruined temples
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Temple of Kom Ombo, Nagoa Ash Shatb, Kom Ombo 81611 Egypt
Temple of Kom Ombo is unique designed architecture located just few steps on the east bank of Nile river, it divided equally between Sobek “crocodile god” and Horus “falcon god”. There are two long access are leading to two interior sanctuaries.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in 5 stars Nile Cruise
Day 6: Aswan Sightseeing
Stop At: Aswan High Dam, Manteqet As Sad Al Aali, Aswan Egypt
the High-Dam distinctly is one of the biggest dams in the world was built in 1960. Enjoy seeing the reservoir “artificial lake Naser”, friendship monument and powerplants.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Philae, Island of Agilika, Aswan Egypt
a water trip to Philae Island located in the middle of the Nile and was dedicated to the goddess Isis. You will be able to visit a complex of Geek-Roman chapels and Phiela temple. The entire complex is moved from its original location on Phiela Island to Egilika Island to salvage it from submerging when the dams were built there.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Unfinished Obelisk, Sheyakhah Oula, Aswan Egypt
a visit to the ancient quarry where the Unfinished Obelisk is lying down there. This place explains how the ancient Egyptians cut numerous obelisks in there to be founded in their ancient temples.
Duration: 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in 5 stars Nile cruise
Day 7: Sleeping train to Cairo / Optional tours to Abu Simbel
Stop At: Aswan, Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Nile River Valley
Breakfast on board. Disembarkation from cruise ship to get the sleeping train to back to Cairo. Overnight in sleeping train.
Duration: 15 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in the sleeping train to Cairo.
Day 8: Departure / Back home
Stop At: Cairo Governorate, Cairo Governorate
Breakfast in Sleeping train. Once arrived at Cairo our representative will accompany you to Cairo international airport.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
