Classic Egypt 8 days

Classic Egypt 8 days

Day 1 :

Meals Included : Nothing

Upon your arrival in cairo international airport , our representative will be waiting for you holding a sign of Star Day Tour . Sure you will have all the assistance even for your visa procedures or picking your luggage . Then drive to your hotel . Night in cairo .

Day 2 :

Meals Included : breakfast & lunch

Pick up from your hotel by your licensed guide then drive to Giza plateau , it will be an amazing experience , firstly your guide is going to give you a detailed explanation about the history then the construction of this stunning there tombs Cheops , Chephren and Mykerinos , Kings of the 4° dynasty that impressed the hole world by their magnificent three tombs and still challenging the time and the human being . In panorama area you will have your free time to take the best pictures of the day also a very nice place for a camel ride . In the same site you gonna find the great sphnix of Giza the biggest one in Egypt and usually will be the best witness of the glory of this civilization . After that a tasty lunch in a local restaurant . Next stop will be in Mênfis , First capital of Egypt and today you can discover with your guide the master pieces of that location , the colossi of Ramses II and so much more . Last stop will be in sakkara where you can find and admire the first biggest building made by stones in the hole world , the step pyramid porjected by IMHOTEP the genius Minister and the chief advisor of king Zoser . Finally you will be dropped of at your hotel .

Day 3 :

Meals Included : breakfast & lunch

Pick up from your hotel by our licensed guide then begin your day tour by the egyptian museum one of the largest with more than 23 thousand pieces , there every single piece gonna tell you a piece of history so your guide gonna mix ancient history with art a long the decades . It will be unforgettable moments specially when you stand in front of the golden mask of king TUT and know so much more about his live and his death as well . Then we will drive to saladin's citadel , it contains a lot of historical buildings specially the most visited mosque is MUHAMMED ALI , known also as the alabaster mosque , there you will have a detailed explanation from your guide about ISLAM the religion of the majority in Egypt . Your next stop will be in old Coptic cairo , a small area with narrow streets , a lot of anciet churches , there you will visit the hanging church and ABU SERGA church , built in the 4° century AD and traditionally is believed that had been built on the spot where the holy family ( Joseph , Mary and Jesus Christ )  rested in their journey cross Egypt . Your last stop will be in the famous Bazar of Jan el jalili , millones of artefacts , smells and colours that only words simply can’t describe . Finally you will be dropped of in your hotel .

Day 4 :

Meals Included : breakfast – lunch – dinner

After your breakfast and according to your Domestic  flight time , you will be picked up from your hotel to the airport to take your flight to Aswan , it will take one hour and fifteen minutes . Arrival in Aswan and assist at the airport then transfer to your 5 stars NILE cruise ship .

Enjoy your lunch on board then prepare yourself for the first journey in Aswan. There you will begin your tour visiting the unfinished obelisk , simply a quarry of granite stone . may be the only place that you can can see and admire the stone-working as well as techniques , marks of workers' tools still visible . Then you will be invited to visit philae temple , dedicated for the goddess ISIS , goddess of beauty , love , maternity and happiness . The temple was entirely dismantled and moved in 1981 to a nearby island called agilkia when philae island was flooded . The location of this small temple offers the most beautiful landscape views you can ever imagine . Finally you will back to your NILE cruise ship. Dinner and night on board .

In case of having more free time , then you’ll have the chance of one of the most exciting adventures , visiting the only Nubian village that wasn’t flooded by the NILE after the construction of Aswan high dam , more than incredible views , camel ride you’ll have the opportunity to get closer to the Nubian language , costumes and traditions ( optional excursion )

Day 5

Meals Included : breakfast – lunch – dinner

Free morning till the time of sailing , there you’ll have another chance to visit the impressive Temple of Abu simbel , this complex is the only one that was carved entirely in a sandstone mountain to glorify the famous king Ramses the second  and his beloved wife Nefertari and from the old ages Both temples was buried by the sand of the desert so it still in a very perfect condition of preservation . Even in our modern times when both temples were relocated and moved after a huge campaign of UNESCO they still have every single detail of paintings , colours , reliefs and heroglific inscriptions .

Enjoy your lunch on board navigating between the riverbanks , usually will be the most memorable moments in your journey . Reaching Kom ombo then you’ll visit a unique temple , really not so rich of remains but historically you will be astonished in the land of SOBEK the crocodile headed God . After visiting the temple and it’s mummification museum you’ll be back to your ship to enjoy one of the most exciting entertainment the GALABEYA party after a very tasty Oriental dinner . Night on board

Day 6

Meals Included : breakfast – lunch – dinner

After your breakfast it’ll be time for the remarkable visit of the temple of Edfu , dedicated for Horus , make sure that you will be really impressed by the most well-preserved temple all over Egypt huge walls , columns , shrines , reliefs and inscriptions . Back to the ship and again sailing to luxor . Enjoying as usually your lunch on board . Reaching luxor then visit the two temples of the east bank , temple of Karnak , the hugest one ever and the second all over the world , that’s a real encyclopedia more than 2000 years of history , along the decades Kings relaized that Amon will be an immortal God so also their names will be immortal inside the sanctuary of Amon . Then another stop in luxor temple , as well as the first was dedicated to Amon the king of the gods , this temple still a very good example specially when you compare between the fine art of the 18th dynasty and the big pieces of art lack of details of the 19th dynasty . Back to the ship , dinner and night on board .

Day 7

Meals Included : breakfast

Early by the morning you’ll visit the top sites of the west bank , your first stop will be in the famous valley of the Kings , more than 500 years this valley was the burial of the most glorious and powerful Kings of the Egyptian empire . Here amuse your eyes with the most preserved colours of paintings and reliefs , that telling us more and more about the live after death . Then admire the unique arquiteture of Queen’s hatshipsut temple built with a very fine limestone rocks brought nearby cairo . Our last stop will be in front of this two huge 19th meters tall statues , known in the greek era as statues of Memnoun , the only thing that have been survived from the magnificent temple of Amenofis III .

Then you will be taken to luxor airport in the combined time to board your domestic flight back to Cairo . Upon your arrival as usual our representative will be waiting for you . Transfer to your hotel in cairo . Night in cairo .

Day 8

Meals included: breakfast

After your breakfast , you’ll be picked up from your hotel to Cairo airport to board your departure flight . End of our program .