Wake up early in Aswan, Breakfast on board, The Egyptologist Tour guide of Book Egypt Tours will pick you up from the Hotel / Nile Cruise at Aswan to hit the road to Abu Simbel City, After arriving at Abu Simbel you will start your private tour of the Abu Simbel Temples. The two temples were cut by king Ramses II (1279 B.C) where he dedicated the great temple to himself and the small one to his wife Nefertari. The first discovery of these temples was in 1813 A.D by Switzerland Burchard while the whole appearance was in 1917 A.D by Italian traveler Belzoni.

Ramses II’s Temple:

A rock-cut temple with four gigantic statues of the king Ramses who is represented seated on the throne of Egypt with his big family. It consists of two great colonnades, eight cavern rooms, and a great sanctuary with a solar phenomenon twice annually on 22 October & 22 February each year. The king carved the temple to commemorate his birthday and coronation day. The sun’s rays penetrated 180 feet deep to shine up the face of the king with his accompanied gods except for the god of darkness.

Nefetari’s Temple:

It is an amazing small temple dedicated by the king to his favorite Nubian wife. It consists of a quite big façade with 6 massive statues followed by a colonnade and sanctum. Colorfully decorated pillars show the association of the queen with her favorite goddess Hathor.

Eventually, you will be transferred back to the airport of Abu Simble to fly to Cairo. then you will be transferred to your hotel.

Waking up early, Breakfast on board. The representative of Book Egypt Tours will pick you up from Your hotel in Cairo to fly to Abu Simbel city. once arrived at Abu Simbel, The Egyptologist Tour Guide of Book Egypt Tours will pick you up from the airport of Abu Simbel, then the guide will accompany you to start your private tour to the fascinating colorful The Temples of Abu Simbel.

The two temples were cut by king Ramses II (1279 B.C) where he dedicated the great temple to himself and the small one to his wife Nefertari. The first discovery of these temples was in 1813 A.D by Switzerland Burchard while the whole appearance was in 1917 A.D by Italian traveler Belzoni.

Ramses II’s Temple:

A rock-cut temple with four gigantic statues of the king Ramses who is represented seated on the throne of Egypt with his big family. It consists of two great colonnades, eight cavern rooms, and a great sanctuary with a solar phenomenon twice annually once on October 22 and the second on February 22.

The king carved the temple to commemorate his birthday and coronation day. The sun’s rays penetrated 180 feet deep to shine up the face of the king with his accompanied gods except for the god of darkness.

Nefetari’s Temple:

It is an amazing small temple dedicated by the king to his favorite Nubian wife. It consists of a quite big facade with 6 massive statues followed by a colonnade and sanctum. Colorfully decorated pillars show the association of the queen with her favorite goddess Hathor.

Eventually, you will be transferred back to the airport of Abu Simbel. once arrived at Cairo airport you will be transferred to your hotel.

Wake up early in Aswan, Breakfast on board, The Egyptologist Tour guide of Book Egypt Tours will pick you up from the Hotel / Nile Cruise at Aswan to hit the road to Abu Simbel City, After arriving at Abu Simbel you will start your private tour of the Abu Simbel Temples. The two temples were cut by king Ramses II (1279 B.C) where he dedicated the great temple to himself and the small one to his wife Nefertari. The first discovery of these temples was in 1813 A.D by Switzerland Burchard while the whole appearance was in 1917 A.D by Italian traveler Belzoni.

Ramses II’s Temple:

A rock-cut temple with four gigantic statues of the king Ramses who is represented seated on the throne of Egypt with his big family. It consists of two great colonnades, eight cavern rooms, and a great sanctuary with a solar phenomenon twice annually on 22 October & 22 February each year. The king carved the temple to commemorate his birthday and coronation day. The sun’s rays penetrated 180 feet deep to shine up the face of the king with his accompanied gods except for the god of darkness.

Nefetari’s Temple:

It is an amazing small temple dedicated by the king to his favorite Nubian wife. It consists of a quite big façade with 6 massive statues followed by a colonnade and sanctum. Colorfully decorated pillars show the association of the queen with her favorite goddess Hathor.

Eventually, you will be transferred back to the airport of Abu Simble to fly to Cairo. then you will be transferred to your hotel.

Wake up, and have breakfast in the lodge.  The Egyptologist tour guide of Book Egypt Tours will meet and gather you from the hotel to begin your private tour in Cairo. Firstly, you’ll go to Giza Area to visit the Giza Pyramids (Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus), sufficient to mention that the great pyramid is one of the world’s seven wonders.

Few steps from the incredible sight of the pyramids you will get to see The Sphinx & Stela of a dream. A Sphinx is a great statue carved right into a hill with an odd statue combining power, majesty, and mystery. The statue is the shape of a lion’s body and human’s head which it used to escort Egypt from the northwestern gateway.

Move to go to the Step Pyramid at Sakkara, which is taken into consideration as the world’s oldest and most important stone structure.

It was constructed in the third Dynasty for King Djoser. Then Proceed to have your lunch meal. After that switched to Memphis which became founded by King Menes and became the capital of Egypt throughout the Old Kingdom, it was the center of rule and culture for over 3000 years the primary capital of Egypt, and the statue of Ramses II and the Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis.

Then get back to your hotel.

• Meals: Lunch.

Sound & Light Show /  Abu Simbel:

Our Nesobity Travel Egyptologist tour guide will meet and pick you up from the hotel/cruise to hit the road to Abu Simbel city. Once arrived at Abu Simbel you will check-in at the hotel. In the evening you will be accompanied by the tour guide to watch the incredible Sound & Light show into the great forecourt of Abu Simbel temples. After finishing the show, you will be headed back to the hotel. Overnight at Abu Simbel.

 

After Waking Up You will enjoy breakfast in the hotel, then the guide will pick you up to start your private tour to the fascinating colorful temples of Abu Simbel. The two temples were cut by king Ramses II (1279 B.C) where he dedicated the great temple for himself and the small one for his wife Nefertari. The first discovery of these temples was in 1813 A.D by Switzerland Burchard while the whole appearance was 1917 A.D by Italian traveler Belzoni.

Ramses II’s Temple:

A rock-cut temple with four gigantic statues of the king Ramses who is represented seated on the throne of Egypt with his big family. It consists of two great colonnades, eight caverns rooms, and a great sanctuary that has a solar phenomenon twice annually. The temple was carved by the king to commemorate his birthday and coronation day. The sun rays penetrated the 180 feet deep into to shine up the face of the king with his accompanied gods except for the god of darkness.

Nefetari’s Temple:

It is an amazing small temple dedicated by the king to his favorite Nubian wife. It consists of a quite big façade with 6 massive statues followed by a colonnade and sanctum. Colorfully decorated pillars are showing up the association of the queen with her favorite goddess Hathor.

Eventually, you will be transferred back to Aswan city then back to the hotel/cruise.

Habu Temple:

It’s the best and largest temple withinside the west bank it was built by King Ramses III. The colorful scenes are decorating major walls into the temple where some of these scenes are readorning fundamental partitions into the temple wherein a number of those scenes are displaying up the primary paintings strike ever. Aggression scenes also are represented, the infantrymen are represented counting what number of hands & limps that they close off from their enemies to be praised with the aid of using the king for their efforts. Ruined mud-break homes of the employees who constructed the temple and ruined mud-break palace of the king have existed subsequent this temple. Then you will move to visit Deir Elmadina.

Deir Elmadina:

It was an ancient town for the workers, craftsmen, and sculptors who carved all the cemeteries of kings, queens, and nobles. They preferred to dedicate a very distinguished necropolis for themselves even more attractive than the royal cemeteries. The workers were meant to declare their life events. The sculptors valued. Then move to visit Nobles Tombs.

Nobles Tombs:

the realistic scenes rather than the imaginative scenes. The tomb walls are decorated with scenes of craftsmen activities like scenes of carpentry, butchery, brewers, winemakers, goldsmith, agricultural scenes ……etc. After that to the valley of the queen.

Queen Valley:

Pharaohs of the new kingdom decided to cut very special tombs for their queens, princes, and princesses. Many wives and children of king Ramses III were buried there even a fetus mummy still preserved into a tomb. After the valley of the queen, you will visit the Valley of the Kings, the valley contains 63 royal tombs within the New Kingdom era 1500 B.C. The reason for choosing the west bank in the burial, because of the dry environment, adequate Limestone queries, and to keep their tombs and the royal mummies obscured from the robbers. The walls of these tombs are containing incredible carvings and inscriptions indicating the religious life of the Pharaohs.

After finishing your enjoyable visit, you will get back to your hotel / Cruise.