Essential Egypt Tour

Day 1

in Cairo Arrived at the airport of Cairo where our representative will accomodate you and assist in the various steps to follow. You will be then accompanied in the private car to your hotel. Night in hotel.

Day 2

in Cairo Breakfast in plate hotel. Visit of Gizeh with the three large Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god under an aspect avenger. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid with degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the mastabas.... And to finish the day, visits of Memphis, a colossus of Ramsès II out of alabaster of beautiful dimensions. Night in hotel.

Day 3

in Cairo Breakfast in hotel. Visit Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed Ali. also the coptic district, this district is older than the city itself: it should be seen to have an idea of the atmosphere in which the first Christians in Egypt lived Coptic Churches, Coptic museum, church of Serge Saint. Stop by the visit of the Egyptian museum ,Antiquities, founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who shelters more than 250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon. In evening transfer in private car to Cairo station to take overnight train to Luxor.

Day 4

in Luxor Early the morning, arrival to Luxor, reception by our representative and discovered Valley of the Kings, where the majority of the Pharaons of XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, of the girls, sometimes of wire of the kings of XIX and XX dynasties. Then continuation towards the two imposing Colossi of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funerary temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist nowadays any more. And finally the visit of the Temple of Hatshepsout, the funerary temple of Hatchepsout, dedicated to the Amon god, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple thébain is single and is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the mountain thébaine to which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by approach ramps transfer in the private car to your boat of cruising. Installation in your cabins. lunch. Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to the glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses were venerated there. It is the known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of Luxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Rê and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go up in Amenhotep III and Ramsès II. Dinner and night on board.

Day 5

in Luxor Breakfast on board . In morning, beginning of navigation in direction of Edfu .lunch. After the Passage of the Lock of Esna, navigation and arrival to Edfu in the evening. Dinner and night on board.

Day 6

in Aswan Breakfast on board . Departure in the barouche for the visit of the Temple of Edfu, the Holy City of Horus and the temple built in its honor. This temple with extravagant dimensions is preserved best of all Egypt. lunch. Navigation towards Kom Ombo. Visit Temple of Kom Ombo, whose characteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon). Navigation to Aswan. Dinner and night on board.

Day 7

in Aswan Breakfast on board. Visit Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the Isis goddess, then the granite career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Nasser Stopping giving rise to the Lake Nasser. lunch. Walk into feloucca around the Eléphantine island is the best means of feeling the Nile and of releasing themselves with the sandstone of the wind. To dinner on board followed on one oriental show (evening costume with Eastern spectacle: dancer and traditional music). Dinner and night on board.

Day 8

in Aswan Breakfast on board. "In option: the visit of Abo Simbel, morning departure in the private car (convoy)for Abo Simbel, visit of the temple dedicated to Ramsès II and its splendid Néfertari wife then return in Aswan. "check-out before 12h00. Transfer in the private car to Aswan station to take overnight train to Cairo

Day 9 in Early Morning , arrive Cairo .Today will transfer to Cairo airport for your departure flight