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Firstly, upon arrival at Cairo international airport, A representative of Book Egypt Tours will meet and help you at Cairo international airport. Free time in the evening. overnight in Cairo.
Wake up at 07.00 AM, and we have breakfast in the hotel. Our Book Egypt Tour Egyptologist tour guide will meet and accompany 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 a human head which it used to escort Egypt from the north-western gateway.
Then you will hit the road to The Egyptian Museum where you visit one of the greatest encyclopedias of rare and uncommon antiquities all around the world. The Museum has numerous flooring and sections amongst them an astonishing section of the young king Tutankhamun that includes his royal throne chair. Mummies court is one of the most engaging items in the museum. Also, it contains; a series of ancient pieces of jewelry manufactured of pure gold, statues, and portraits, dating back to different ancient dynasties. After completing the splendid day tour, you’ll be transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Meals:
Breakfast and Lunch
Breakfast on board and disembarkation from your hotel. A representative of Book Egypt Tours will transfer you to Cairo airport to take your flight to Luxor. Once arrived at Luxor, the Egyptologist guide of Book Egypt Tours will accompany you to visit The Complex of Karnak Temples. Karnak Temple is certainly considered one of the most important Temples in the complete world, right here you’ve got the adventure to go to the Sacred Lake and the big Scarab Statue which is reputedly in case you stroll a few rounds about it, it brings you a good fortune as can also add your needs come true. Karnak Temples have been constructed in willpower to the triad of Thebes God Amon, his spouse Mut and their son Khonsu.
Then to Luxor Temple which has alive evidence of many civilizations and religions that have been practiced interior its partitions for heaps of years associated with Pharaonic, Coptic, and Islamic. It become constructed via way of means of Amenhotep III in the 18th Dynasty approximately 1300 B.C. to show he has the right to govern Egypt via way of means of representing the tale of his divine beginning at the partitions of the divine beginning room in the temple.
Also, Ramses II and Tut Ankh Amon placed their fingerprints on the entirety of the temple given that Luxor become the capital of Egypt at the same stage in the New Kingdom era. after that, you’ll Check in on the Nile cruise. Overnight in Luxor.
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Breakfast on board. expect a day full of visits while going to the river near the west bank. The first visit in the day to the Valley of the Kings, the valley incorporates sixty-three royal tombs within the New Kingdom period of 1500 B.C. The motive for the selection of the west bank in the burial, is due to the dry environment, good enough Limestone queries, and to hold their tombs and the royal mummies obscured from the robbers. The partitions of those tombs are containing brilliant carvings and inscriptions indicating the religious life of the Pharaohs.
Then continue to The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. It is such a completely unique temple in its architectural style. Where it incorporates inscriptions of the royal journey to Puntland. And visions of the divine beginning of Queen Hatshepsut. The limestone mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut became designed and built via way of means of the excessive priest and structure Senenmut 1503 B.C. Later you may be being attentive to the mythical tale of Colossi of Memnon in a granary area.
These massive statues are sculptured from sandstone. After completing your enjoyable visit, you will get back on the cruise and begin cruising to Edfu. experience passing Esna locks. Overnight in Edfu. Overnight in Edfu.
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
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Day 5
Edfu / Kom Ombo / Aswan
Breakfast on board. nowadays you’ll discover a new era of ancient Egyptian history that is referred to as the Greek-Roman interval. The Ptolemaic epoch began in 332 B.C through Alexander the great whilst he invaded Egypt to free up them from Persians and to set up his personal wonderful Empire.
Edfu Temple is the maximum preserved Greek-Roman achievement in Egypt. Edfu Temple is devoted to the cult of Horus (Falcon God 237 B.C). Greeks and Romans are inspired by the historic Egyptian culture, faith, and designers but they determined to merge it with their heritage once they rebuilt the ruined temples. Obviously, you will see the second tallest Pylon (temple’s facade) in Egypt and observe the inscriptions of important legends of a struggle between Horus and his uncle Seth “god of evil”. Lunch on board, whilst cruising to Kom Ombo town. English tea time on the sundeck then another tour to Kom Ombo Temple & Crocodile Museum.
Temple of Kom Ombo is a precisely designed structure positioned simply a few steps at the east bank of the Nile river, it is divided similarly among Sobek “crocodile god” and Horus “falcon god”. There is two long access leading to two interior sanctuaries. once more, back to the cruise heading to Aswan. Overnight in Aswan.
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Breakfast on board. Time to go to the nicest town in Egypt, a city of attractions and splendor it is the land of Nubia. On the way to visit Aswan sightseeing, you’ll have a glance and power over the oldest dam in Egypt the low Aswan dam that was constructed in 1898. Probably the first excursion can be the High-Dam exceedingly is one of the most important dams in the world became constructed in 1960. Enjoy seeing the reservoir “synthetic lake Nasser”, the friendship monument, and power plants. Secondly, a water ride to Philae Island was placed in the center of the Nile and was dedicated to the goddess Isis.
You can be capable of going to a complex of Geek-Roman chapels and The Philae Temple. The whole complex is moved from its original location on Philae Island to Egilika Island to salvage it from submerging whilst the dams have been constructed there. Thirdly go to the historic quarry wherein The Unfinished Obelisk is lying down there. This area explains how the ancient Egyptians cut numerous obelisks there to be based on their ancient temples. Overnight in Aswan.
Meals:
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Breakfast on board. Disembarkation from the cruise to fly back to Cairo. Once the domestic flight arrived at Cairo airport our representative will meet & help you. free time in the evening. Overnight in Cairo.
After breakfast and final check out from the hotel, you will be transferred to Cairo Airport for the international flight.
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