Egypt Panorama Tour

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Day 1: Cairo

Arrived at the airport of Cairo where our representative will accommodate you and assist in the various steps to follow. You will be then accompanied in the private car to your hotel. Night in hotel.

Day 2: Cairo - Aswan

Breakfast at hotel, then the visit of Giza with the three large Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god under an aspect avenger. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid with degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the mastabas.... And to finish the day, visits of Memphis, a colossus of Ramsès II out of alabaster of beautiful dimensions, transfer in private car to Cairo airport to take domestic flight to Aswan, arrival in Aswan , welcome . night in hotel

Day 3: Aswan

Breakfast at hotel. Visit Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the Isis goddess, then the granite career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Nasser Stopping giving rise to the Lake Nasser. Transfer to your boat, installation in your cabin, Lunch, departure of the boat for return to Luxor. To dinner on board followed on one oriental show (evening costume with Eastern spectacle: dancer and traditional music), Night on board.

Day 4: Komombo - Edfu - Esna

Breakfast on board. Visit Temple of Kom Ombo, whose characteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon), Navigation towards Edfu. Lunch, Departure in the barouche for the visit of the Temple of Edfu, the Holy City of Horus and the temple built in its honor. This temple with extravagant dimensions is preserved best of all Egypt, Navigation until Luxor,dinner and night on board.

Day 5: Esna - Luxor

Breakfast on board, Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to the glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses were venerated there. It is the known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of Luxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Rê and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go up in Amenhotep III and Ramsès II, Dinner and night on board.

Day 6: Luxor - Cairo

Breakfast on board, discovered of the Valley of the Kings, where the majority of the Pharaohs of XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, of the girls, sometimes of wire of the kings of XIX and XX dynasties. Then continuation towards the two imposing Colossi of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funerary temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist nowadays any more. And finally the visit of the Temple of Hatshepsout, the funerary temple of Hatchepsout, dedicated to the Amon god, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple thébain is single and is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the mountain thébaine to which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by approach ramps.Transfer to Luxor airport to take domestic flight to Cairo , arrival Cairo , welcome .New Year party with dinner night in hotel

Day 7: Cairo

Breakfast in hotel .visit Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed Ali. Also the Coptic district, this district is older than the city itself: it should be seen to have an idea of the atmosphere in which the first Christians in Egypt lived Coptic Churches, Coptic museum, church of Serge Saint. Stop by the visit of the Egyptian museum, Antiquities, founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who shelters more than 250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon .. night in hotel

Day 8 : Cairo

Breakfast in hotel.transfer by private car to Cairo airport to catch your flight Back hom