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Journey into History Tour

Journey into History Tour

Information

  • Duration: 6
  • Group size : +2
  • Destination : Cairo,Alexandria ,Fayoum oasis
  • Category: 5*
  • Season: All seasons
  • Airfare Included: No
  • Customizable: Yes

Day 1 - Friday, Sunday or Tuesday- Cairo

Arrived at Cairo airport where our representative will welcome you and assist in the various approaches. You\'ll be accompanied by private car to your hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 2 - Cairo

Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Giza plateau with the three major pyramids: Cheops, and Chefren Mykerinos and the Sphinx, lion-headed human embodying the king or the god as a vengeful. Then visit the necropolis of Sakkara with the famous pyramid of King Djoser degrees, the pyramids royal funerary texts, the mastabas .... And to finish the day visit Memphis, a colossus of Ramses II in alabaster beautiful dimensions. Overnight at hotel.

Day 3 - Cairo

Breakfast at hotel. Visit the Citadel of Saladin, with his pregnant mosque of Mohamed Ali. Then the Coptic district, this district is older than the city itself must be seen to get an idea of the atmosphere in which the early Christians living in Egypt. Hanging Church & Ben-Ezra Synagogue. Finish with a visit to the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, founded in 1857 by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, which houses more than 250,000 rooms including the fabulous treasures of Tutankhamen. The night, transfer to Train Station for catch the sleeper train in direction of Aswan. Dinner and overnight in train.

Day 4 - Aswan (Monday , Wednesday, Friday)

Breakfast in train. Morning arrive to Aswan, welcome by our representative and Visit of the Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, then the granite quarry with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Dam Nasser giving birth to the Lake Nasser. Transfer to your boat, installation in your cabin. Lunch on board. Departure of the boat for Luxor. Dinner on board followed by an oriental evening (with oriental entertainment: Nubian dancer and traditional music). Overnight on board.

Day 5 - Kom Ombo Ombo/Edfu/Esna

Breakfast on board. Visit of the Temple of Kom Ombo, the peculiarity of which is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (in head of crocodile) and Horus (in head of hawk). Navigation towards Edfu. Lunch on Board. Departure in carriage for the visit of the Temple of Edfu, the holy city ofHorus and the temple built in its honor. This temple in the extravagant dimensions is the best preserved wide Egypt. Navigation until Luxor. Dinner and Overnight on board.

Day 6 - Esna/Luxor

Breakfast on board. Free morning. Lunch on board. Visit of the Templeof Karnak, dedicated of the worship in the glory of the god Amon, but as the other numerous Egyptian temples, the other gods and the goddesses were worshipped there. It is the oldest known religious site to the world. And the Temple of Luxor, It was dedicated to the dynastic god Amon under its two aspects of heavenly Amon-Re and ithyphallique divinity. The most ancient at present visible parts go back up to Amenhotep III and to Ramses II. Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 7 - Luxor/Cairo/Sharm El Sheikh

Breakfast on board. Discovery of the Valley of Kings, where most of the Pharaohs of the XVIIIth in the XXth dynasty were interred and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, the girls, sometimes the sons) of kings of the XIXth and XXth dynasties. Then continuation towards two impressive Giants of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funeral temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist any more nowadays. And finally the visit of the Temple of Hatshepsut, the funeral temple of Hatshepsut, dedicated to the god Amon, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This Theban temple is unique and distinguishes itself from the other temples because it is partially dug in the rock of the Theban Mountain in which it leans, and amounts on three terraces connected by slip roads. Check out room before noon. Afternoon, transfer to domestic airport for catch the flight to Sharm El Sheikh (stop in way to Cairo). Flight Luxor/Cairo/Sharm El Sheikh. Arrive to Sharm El Sheikh, welcome and transfer to your hotel. Dinner and Overnight at hotel.

Day 8 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)

Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 9 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)

Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 10 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)

Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 11 - Sharm El Sheikh (Sinai-red Sea)

Breakfast at hotel. The day is free to enjoy the beaches. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 12 - Sharm El Sheikh / Cairo

Breakfast at hotel. Today we will be transferred to the airport for your flight back to Cairo. Flight Sharm El Sheikh/Cairo. Arrive to Cairo, welcome by our representative and transfer to your hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 13 – Cairo/Alexandria/Cairo

Breakfast at hotel. Early the morning, departure towards Alexandria in the vehicle, this city built into 332 before JC by Greek architect Dinocrates on order Alexander the Great. Visit initially fortress of Qayet bay recently restored. Cross to the Column of Pumped, then Visit of the amphitheatre Roman of Egyptian women el-Dick, released in 1963, pilot single of the many places of spectacles built in Alexandria. Lunch at local restaurant. Visit famous library of Alexandria building with the futurist architecture (library and interesting archaeological museum), visits of the catacombs of Kom El Shuqqaffa (I and II century. a. J. - C.) and its hypogean on several levels, which are among the most important Roman burials in Egypt. At the End of visit, the return to Cairo. Overnight hotel.

Day 14 - Cairo

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer from the hotel to Cairo airport for final departure.