Luxor - Program 6

Arrival to Cairo airport, our representative will assist you through passport control formalities, luggage identification & portage will greet you. From the airport you will be transferred by a private A/C car to your hotel
Overnight in Cairo.

Breakfast. Start your tour visiting:

• The Egyptian Museum of antiquities. On display is rare collection of 5000 years of art the largest most precious collection of Egyptian art in the world. Over 250,000 genuine artifacts are presented, including an exhibit dedicated to the Tutankhamen collection of treasures, gold, and jewelry.
• Then visit Great Pyramids – Cheops, Chephren & Mykerions. Cheops is the most colossal ever built. Next is a close-up look at Sphinx – a huge funeral complex guarded by the legendary lion body with the face of king Chephren.
• Then continue to Khan El Khalili Bazaars. Shops in this district are legendary for fine border brassware, copper, perfumes, leather, silver, gold, antiques …etc.

(Optional)
Dinner Cruise including transportation, dinner, Belly Dancer, Tanura Show.
The cost is 48 Euro per person.
Overnight at your hotel

Breakfast. Transfer to the domestic airport. Departure by plane to Aswan. Arrival, meet & assist by our local representatives and transfer to the Cruise. Boarding before lunch, Embarkation.
Start you tour visiting:

• The High Dam which was completed in 1964. From here you can gaze across Lake Nasser.
• The Philae temple Sail by felucca (Egyptian sailboat) to the island of Agilkia. Visit the temple that was removed from their original island of Philae which lies submerged most of the year by the waters of Lake Nasser. The main Temple of Isis and its monuments were built between the 26th-dynasty and the Roman period.

Lunch on board Sail to Kom Ombo. Afternoon Tea.
Visit the temple shared by the two gods Sobek and Haroeris.
Sail to Edfu. Dinner on board.
Overnight in Edfu.

Breakfast on board. Visit The Temple of Horus in Edfu. Cross the lock.
Sail to Luxor. Afternoon Tea. Dinner on board & Galabya party.
Overnight in Luxor.

Breakfast on board. Start your tour visiting:
– Cross to the West Bank to visit the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon.
Excursion to the Necropolis of Thebes, on the Eastern bank. Crossing the Nile, drive to the Valley of Kings; visit the tombs of various Dynasties, The Temple of Deir El Bahari. On the return journey stop at the Colossi of Memnon which are two gigantic sitting statues representing Amenopis III facing the Nile then visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
– Then Visit East Bank: Karnak and Luxor Temple
Excursion to the Luxor Temple to see its courtyard and the granite statues of Ramses the Great. Then Proceed by bus to Karnak, which is a serious of temples, built in different reigns. Starting by the Avenue of Sphinxes visit the Unfinished Propylon, the Hypostyle Hall with it’s 134 gigantic columns, the Obelisks of Queen Hatshepsut and Tutomosis III, the temple of Amon adorned with lotus and papyrus designs, the Granite Scarbeus of Amenophis III and the Sacred Lake.
Lunch on board. Afternoon Tea.
 

(Optional)
Hot Balloon: Should you want to make your stay in Luxor an unforgettable. Drifting peacefully over the Valley of King, Valley of the Queens and the Mountain on the Nobles.
The cost is 95 Euro per person.
Overnight in Luxor.

Breakfast on board. Disembarkation.
Transfer to the airport. Departure by plan to Cairo. Arrival, meet and assist by our representative. Transfer to your hotel.
(Optional)
Start your tour visiting
– Sakkara, cemetery for Memphis; Sakkara is 27-Km Southwest of Cairo. Including a visit to the step Pyramids of Sakkara (The first proper Pyramids built for the king Zoser, it is considered evolution of the Pyramid from the simple Mastaba to the Pyramid in its known form) Followed by a visit to The Pyramids of Unas & Oser-Kaf the Mastaba. Tomb of Mereruka, Ti & Pta-Hotep (carved and painted tombs),
-Then Memphis the ancient capital of Egypt where Colossal Statue of Ramses II and the great Alabaster Sphinx. Then we visit the Old part of Cairo, as Egypt was one of the first countries to embrace Christianity. We visit The Church of Abu-Sergah and St. Barbara, The Hanging Church; we will also visit The Old Jewish Synagogue Ben Ezra Synagogue.
The cost is 58 Euro per person.
(Optional)
Sound and Light Laser Show at the Pyramids area
The cost is 35 Euro per person.
Overnight stay in Cairo.

Breakfast at the hotel our representative will transfer you to the airport and assist you at the airport through final departure formalities.