Ramses II - Program 5

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)
Cairo Felucca Trip
Take a relaxing ride down the Nile on a felucca, a traditional Egyptian sailing boat, and see a different side of Cairo
The cost is 35 Euro per person.
Transfers to the train station for your overnight Sleeper train to luxor. Dinner on the train.
Overnight Sleeper train to luxor

Breakfast on the train. Arrival Luxor, meet & assist by our local representatives and transfer to the Cruise. Boarding before Lunch. Lunch on board.
Visit The Temple of Karnak & the Temple of Luxor. Excursion to the Luxor Temple to see its courtyard and the granite statues of Ramses the Great. 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.
Afternoon tea. Dinner on board & Belly Dance show.
Overnight in Luxor.

Breakfast.
Visit The West Bank – the Valley of the Kings, the Colossi of Memnon and The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahari. 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.
Lunch on board. Sail to Esna. Afternoon Tea. Disco Party.
(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 Edfu.

Breakfast on board. Visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu.
Sail to Kom Ombo. Lunch on board.
Visit The Temple Shared by the Two Gods Sobek & Haroeies in Kom Ombo.
Afternoon Tea. Dinner on board & Galabeya party
Overnight in Kom Ombo.

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 on the Nile by felucca around Kitchener’s island and Agha Khan Mausoleum.
Visit the temple shared by the two gods Sobek and Haroeris.
Afternoon Tea. Dinner on board.
Overnight in Aswan.

Breakfast on board. Disembarkation after breakfast.
(Optional)
Departures to Abu Simbel visit the Temple of Abu Simbel back to Aswan, The colossal Temple of Abu Simbel built by Ramses II (XIXth. Dynasty) and lately saved from inundation of the Nile waters in among the glories of ancient Egyptian monuments. The temples were built out of a sandstone rock cliff, and representation of the deities to which each was dedicated is carved on its huge façade. Nearby, also saved, lies the small Temple of the King’s wife Nefertari, dedicated to the goddess Hathor.
The cost is 95 Euro per person.
Transfers to the train station for your overnight Sleeper train to Cairo. Dinner on the train.
Overnight Sleeper train

Breakfast on the train. Arrival, meet & assist by our local representatives and transfer to hotel, check in.
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 visit Memphis the ancient capital of Egypt where Colossal Statue of Ramses II and the great Alabaster Sphinx.
• Then continue to 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, and we will also visit The Old Jewish Synagogue Ben Ezra Synagogue.

(Optional)
Sound and Light Laser show at 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.