Pyramids, Temples and Sailing the Nile - Egypt

Day 1: Arrive in Egypt:
Our representative will meet and assist you in Cairo international airport, transfer you to the hotel, overnight in Cairo.
DAY 2: Giza Pyramids, Sakkara, Sphinx, and Memphis Museum
After breakfast, you will meet our licensed tour guide at your hotel at 8 am, where you will be transferred to the Memphis museum where you will see the colossi of king Ramses the 2nd and the ruins of this ancient capital of Egypt. Next, you will move to Sakkara to see the steps pyramid and the oldest funerary surrounding it. After that, there is a break for lunch, and then on the way to Giza, you will stop for a short time at one of the papyrus factories to see in front of your eyes how the ancient Egyptians used to make it. Afterward, you will go to Giza plateau to see the famous three pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus, and the great sphinx. The last stop in the tour will be on your way back to the hotel, at another factory of the flowers pure extracts and the plow oriental chaps glasses, and finally, drive back to the hotel and overnight.
DAY 3: Transfer to Bahariya Oasis - White Desert
Early morning pick up from hotel (7:00 am). Pick up from your hotel in Cairo, move to the bus station, take the bus to Baharria Oases, 360 kilometers southwest of Cairo. Arrive at Baharria in the afternoon and meet our local representative, who will take you to the hotel to check-in, have your lunch and start the jeep tour to the White Desert. You will see the old White Desert, the new White Desert, Flower Stones, the Salt Lack, and Springs on your way there. In the evening, you will have your tent in the White Desert, enjoying the charming sunset you can imagine and discover the secrets of the desert at night, where our Bedouin friends cook food by the fire. Finally, Overnight in the White Desert.


Day 4: Sahara Desert
In the morning, you will be driven to see the mystical quartz Crystal Mountain, the Black Desert, then back to the hotel in Baharia Oases, you will have lunch and relax. At 2:30 pm, you will then begin the trip back to Cairo. Arrive in Cairo at approximately 8:00 pm and overnight in hotel.


Day 5: Cairo City Tour
After breakfast, you will meet our tour guide in your hotel at 8 am, drive to the citadel of Saladin to see the ancient walls and towers that date back to 1171 A.D and the famous mosque of Mohamed Ail- the most important famous mosque in the Cairo skyline. Next, you will move to the religious community (old Cairo) to see the Hanging church, the ruins of the Roman fortress, the synagogue of Ben Ezra, and the AMR IBN EL-AAS mosque. The first mosque was built in Egypt 642 A.D, a lunch break, then moving to the Egyptian museum to see the fabulous collection of king TUT and much more from our ancient Egyptian antiquities. Transfer to the train station in the evening, take the overnight train to Aswan.


Day 6: Train to Aswan
Your tour representative will meet you in the train station with a sign by the name of your tours, check in to your Nile cruise, and transfer to central Aswan to visit the Philea Temple, the high dame, and then back to the cruise and overnight. So you are finally sailing on the way to Comombu.


Day 7: Edfu, Comombu
Morning visit to the dual temple of Sobek and Haroeris in Kom-Ombu, and then we drive to Edfu to visit the most well-preserved temple in all of Egypt -- dedicated to Horus, the Falcon God, and then back to the cruise sailing on the way to Luxor.


Day 8: Luxor (East Bank)
Arrive Luxor in the morning, spend the day touring temples, ruins, and sights. Night in hotel in Luxor.
Day 9: Luxor (West Bank)
Today we visit the West Bank of Luxor, visiting the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Colossi of Memnon, with the evening free to explore downtown Luxor before transferring to night train back to Cairo.
Day 10: Farewell Egypt today. Our tour ends after breakfast. Transfer to Cairo International Airport.
INCLUSIONS:
• Meet & assist upon arrival.
• All transfers to/from airport & hotel by a private air-conditioned vehicle.
Accommodations (3 nights in Cairo 2 nights in the Nile cruise)
Bus from Cairo to Baharia /from Baharia to Cairo.
The jeep tour
all the equipment for camp.
all the meals in the camp.
• All sightseeing tours are Private Tours
• licensed tour guides.
• ALL train tickets (FIRST CLASS TRAIN)
• All service charges and taxes.
EXCLUSIONS
• International Airfare
• Egypt entry visa, for non-restricted nationalities you can buy it upon arrival before passport control. Visa Cost $ 15
= 11 Euro per person adult or child.
All entrance fees.
• Drinks and any personal expenses.
• Entrance fees
N.B: All of our tours can be customized to fit your time, budget, and interests.
Optional day-trip to Abu Simbel can be added to this program, upon request.
• Additional accommodation nights can be arranged upon request.
• for sleeper train you pay an extra €80
for flight two way you pay an extra €109
Single travelers will be charged an additional 20% as a single supplement.