Day # 1: Luxor, Egypt
Arrive Luxor. Upon arrival you will be met by Memphis Tours representative and transferred to your hotel Nile Palace for check in, dinner and a free time to relax with overnight stay Your hotel in Luxor: Nile Palace hotel (formerly known as le Meridien Luxor) 5 star deluxe hotel setting right on the banks of the Nile River in Luxor and offers a great diversity of views. Nile palace hotel offers 288 bedrooms and suites, most overlooking the Nile, guests are free to enjoy a superb leisure centre with an outdoor heated swimming, children's area and games room
Day # 2: Tours to Dendera and Abydos Temples
Breakfast at your hotel in Luxor and then you will be accompanied by your personal English speaking guide and driver to the Dendera temple, the temple for the goddess Hathor. Not like the "real" ancient Egyptian temples in Luxor, the remains here are from the Greek-Roman times. The temple has also a large relief of Cleopatra VII and the son she got with Emperor Julius Cesar. Continue to the temple of Abydos which is the most intact temple of ancient Egyptian temples that was built during the rule of Seti I the father of Ramses II. The atmosphere here is truly unique, a high artistic level of the relief’s and strong colors which unbelievable enough is the original colors then drive back to Luxor for free time at leisure with great opportunity to attend the sound and Light show at the Karnak temple in the East Bank of the Nile with overnight stay at the Nile Palace hotel
Day # 3: Luxor Nile Cruise Tours
Breakfast at the hotel, Check out from the hotel and you will be met by our REP. at the hotel lobby and transfer to embark your 5* deluxe Nile cruiser M/S Royale Nile cruise ship, lunch and free time on board. PM you will be pick up by our Egyptologist English expert guide 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 with overnight stay
Your Nile cruise ship, M/S Royale Nile Cruiser is a 5* deluxe cruise vessel, all cabins equipped with Large panoramic window with view over the Nile river, air-condition, private bathroom with W.C. and shower and bathtub, TV with satellite channels, in-house video channels and music system, mini-fridge, hair dryer. Aboard the Nile cruise ship a large, luxurious bar and lounge where you can enjoy a variety of entertainment programs and folkloric shows in the evening., the spacious restaurant serving oriental and international cuisines, on the large sun deck overlooking the River Nile, you will find a swimming pool and a pool bar, with plenty of comfortable deck chairs, sun loungers and fitness equipment
Day # 4: 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 # 5: 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 and over night stay on board at Kom Ombo
Day # 6: Nile Cruise Tours
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 # 7: 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 # 8: Giza Sightseeing Tours
After breakfast aboard you will be arriving at Cairo railway station, where you will be met and assisted by our REP. and then transferred to your hotel Le Meridien Pyramids for check in and free time. Your private English speaking Egyptologist guide will take you to the amazing Pharaonic Cairo to visit the Step Pyramids and the Fine Tombs at Sakkara, the Statue of Ramses II and the Alabaster Sphinx at Memphis that was the ancient capital of Egypt during the old kingdom. From there you will be moved into the Giza Plateau to visit the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, Mykerinos and the almighty sphinx, the royal human head on a lion's body then to the valley temple, two awesome megalithic temples, known as the Sphinx Temple, and the Valley Temple traditionally attributed to the Pharaoh Chephren that is an absolute wonder of engineering .Lunch en route at specialty restaurant nearby the pyramids with free time for shopping. Return back to your hotel for relaxation, free time and overnight stay
Your hotel in Cairo, Le Meridien Pyramids hotel & resort, is beautifully set in its own landscaped gardens and provides unrivalled views of the Giza Pyramids, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World and only 15 minutes from the centre of Cairo. The hotel offers a spectacular swimming pool complex including a health club with sauna and massage, as well as a Royal Club floor and a variety of superb restaurants with oriental, Mediterranean and Mexican cuisines
Day # 9: Cairo Sightseeing tours
After breakfast at your hotel, you will be taken for a guided tour to the Egyptian Museum of antiquates that was built in the neo-classical style by the French architect Marcel Dourgenon the museum housing over 120000 objects from different Pharaonic eras especially those of the child king Tutankhamen . Proceed to the citadel of Saladin and Mohammed Ali`s Alabaster Mosque .Lunch en route at good quality restaurant in Cairo downtown .Then drive to the Old Cairo to visit the old Coptic churches and the fortress of Babylon where the holy family took a refuge. Leaves the Church of St Barbara and St. St. George's church to the Islamic Cairo and Khan El Khalili bazaars and Old Market with free time to walk around and discover the amazing area in your way then back to your hotel for overnight stay
Day # 10: Cairo –home
Breakfast at the hotel with free time at leisure and then you will be met by our REP. at the hotel lobby for transfer to Cairo airport for your outbound flight back home
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