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Option A)
Cairo : Le Meredien Pyramids Hotel / Similar 5* deluxe
Cruise: M/S Florence Nile cruise / Similar 5* deluxe

Option B)
Mena House Oberoi hotel Cairo / Similar 5 Star Luxury
M/S Hamees Nile Cruise / Similar 5 Star Luxury

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Day # 01: Friday Dec.26: Arrival Cairo
Welcome to Egypt. Upon arrival Cairo international airport you will be met and assisted by Memphis Tours representative who will accompany you to your hotel in Giza, Welcome drink would be served upon arrival at the hotel followed by check in with leisurely free time at the hotel and in the Giza region with overnight stay

Day # 02: Saturday Dec.27: Giza Sightseeing Tours
Breakfast at your hotel and then you will be escorted by your English speaking guide and driver to enjoy a full day at the Giza Plateau to explore the Giza Pyramids with an inside visit into the 2nd or 3rd Pyramid and then to see the Sphinx and Valley Temple, followed by a visit to the Solar Boat that is found beside the Great Pyramid with camel riding at the Pyramids area.Lunch enroute with free time for shopping at the Giza famous Papyrus institutes and Perfume Palaces then drive back to the hotel for leisurely free time with an optional evening tour to attend the fabulous Sound & Light Show at Pyramids.

Day # 03: Sunday Dec.28: Giza Sightseeing Tours
Breakfast at your hotel followed by a guided tour to the Red Pyramid (nearly as large as Giza's Great Pyramid) with its unparalleled acoustics, followed by a walk across the open desert to the Bent Pyramid that was a key center of worship during the Middle Kingdom from there you will be transferred to the vast Necropolis of Sakkara to see the Step Pyramids and ancient tombs with lunch enroute included then you will be transferred back to the hotel for free time and Overnight stay

Day # 4 Monday Dec.29: Luxor Nile Cruise Tours
Breakfast at the hotel, Check out and transfer to Cairo domestic airport to fly to Luxor, where you will be met and assisted by our REP. who will accompany you to embark your 5* deluxe Nile cruiser ship, lunch and free time on board. PM you will be pick up by our English speaking guide who happens to be an expert in Egyptology to visit Karnak Temple, the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name Ipet-isut means “the most sacred of places.” The temple, or, more correctly, the complex of temples, was built over more than two thousand years by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars .Then you will be transferred to the majestic Luxor temple which built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for ritual and festivals and dedicated to the god Amun, and then you will be taken back to your cruise ship, dinner on board and free time and overnight stay

Day # 5: Tuesday Dec.30:Nile Cruise Tours
Breakfast onboard the cruise, and then you will be moved into the West Bank of the river Nile to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon), and then visit the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs discovered, those tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs, you will visit 3 tombs. Continue the tour to visit the Hatshipsut temple at El Deir El Bahary, this impressive temple dedicated to the Queen Hatshipsut the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it then back to the cruise for lunch, and sail to Esna with afternoon tea, free time at leisure aboard the cruise, dinner and overnight stay

Day # 6: Wednesday Dec.31: Nile Cruise Tours
After breakfast aboard the cruise, you will be transferred to visit the famed Esna temple, with free time in Esna then back to the cruise ship to continue sailing to Edfu, where you will be transferred by horse drawn carriage to visit the famous Edfu temple also know as the temple of Horus& Haroeris, the falcon-headed solar war god is the largest and most perfectly preserved of all the Nile temples, back to the cruise by the same way to sail to Kom Ombo with lunch, afternoon tea and dinner aboard your cruise with free time. New Year 2009 EVE GALA DINNER AND SHOW ON BOARD THE CRUISE ON THE NILE and over night stay on board at Kom Ombo

Day # 7: Thursday Jan. 01: Nile Cruise Tours
Have breakfast aboard the cruise then you will be transferred to visit Kom Ombo temple, the crocodile-headed God of fertility and creator of the world and then return to your cruise vessel to sail to Aswan with lunch, on board. In Aswan you will be taken in an exciting tour to the world famous High Dam that was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s. It contains 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops; continue to the granite quarries which supplied the ancient Egyptians with most of the hard stone used in pyramids and temples. The quarries still hold the famous Unfinished Obelisk and then you will be taking by motor-boat to island of Egilka visit the majestic Philae temple that was dedicated to the Goddesses Isis. Return to your ship for dinner free time at leisure in Aswan and overnight stay aboard the cruise

Day # 8: Friday Jan. 02: Nile Cruise Tours /Sleeper train to Cairo
Disembark from the cruise after breakfast .with free time at leisure in Aswan. Option tour to Abu Simbel by air /overland to visit the impressive temples of Nefertari and Ramses II, Next you will be transferred to the railway station to board the first class sleeper train Wagon-Lit to Cairo with dinner served aboard and overnight stay

Day # 9: Saturday Jan. 03: Cairo sightseeing Tours
Have breakfast on board the train then you will be arriving Cairo sleeper train terminal where you will be met and assisted by your Englisgh speaking guide and driver who will escort you for a fantastic full day tour to the Egyptian Museum of antiquities including Tomb of Tutankhamen and Mummies Room. Early as possible to avoid crowds. Old Cairo walking tour visits Ben Ezra, the ruins of a Roman fortress and the Coptic Christian Church of St. Sergius. Islamic Cairo and Khan al-Khalili and Al-Azhar Mosque with stop for lunch enroute for local tasty food-included with free time at the Khan El Khalili Bazaars and open markets then you will be transferred back to the hotel for free time at leisure and on your own with overnight stay in Cairo.

Day # 10: Sunday Jan. 04: Cairo back home
Free time at leisure at the hotel and check out then transfer to Cairo international airport to fly back home

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• Meet and greet service upon arrival and departure
• Entry Visa to Egypt included and provided upon arrival
• All transfers by deluxe air-conditioned vehicle through-out trip
• Accommodations for 4 nights in Cairo at deluxe hotel with breakfast
• Accommodations for 4 nights on board 5* deluxe Nile Cruise with full board
• Accommodations for 1 night aboard the 1st class sleeper train with breakfast
• All sightseeing tours and shore excursions
• F/D tour in Cairo to visit Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Memphis and Sakkara
• Camel ride around the pyramids in Giza.
• F/D tour in Aswan to visit High Dam, unfinished obelisk and Philae temple.
• F/D tour to visit Kom Ombo and Edfu temples.
• F/D tour in Luxor to Karnak and Luxor Temple.
• F/D tour in Luxor to Valley of Kings and Queens Hatshepsut temple and Colossi of Memnon.
• Domestic flight tickets Cairo / Luxor
• New Year Gala Dinner aboard the cruise
• Lunch during tours in Cairo
• Soft drinks and mineral water during tours.
• Professional Egyptologist speaking guide.
• All admission fees to the sights
• All hotel and Nile cruise service charges and taxes.
• Free mobile phone to use to help you keep in touch with your family and colleagues during your vacation

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Tour excludes:
- Personal expenses
- Tipping
- Optional tours

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Tour Price: