Price on request
Region: Egypt
Activities: Sight-seeing Tour
Dates: Year Round
Duration: 10 days
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Itinerary
Overview: Join us on our Royal Egypt Tour (10 days/9 nights). Egypt, the gift of the Nile, is the home of the famous and awe inspiring Pyramids of Giza. Start your tour in Cairo, the nation’s capital, with its great 4000 year history, street bazaars, and an amazing food selection. Visit the Pyramids, built using incredibly large blocks of stone, with phenomenal mathematical accuracy, one last remaining survivor of the seven ancient wonders. Check out the large limestone carving of the Sphinx of Giza (a half-lion, half-human statue of great size). Relax and unwind by boat, or cruising the iconic Nile River.
Bookings
Day 1:
Airport – Hotel – Cairo
Upon arriving at Cairo Airport, you will be transferred to your hotel where you can rest for around 3 hours, before driving to Cairo to see the Egyptian Museum. After the museum we will be having a mixed grill lunch before returning to the hotel. In the evening you will have dinner at the hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 2:
Pyramids – Sphinx – Sakara – Memphis (B,L,D)
After having breakfast, we will begin the tour by visiting the pyramids, then the Sphinx after which we will have a lunch break. After lunch we will continue on to Sakara, then Memphis. You will be returned to your hotel to freshen up, then at 6pm, we will collect you to take you to a restaurant for an open buffet dinner. After dinner, we will return back to the hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 3:
Old Cairo – Amr ibn Al-A’as mosque – Coptic church – Jewish temple – train to Aswan
(B,L,D)
After breakfast, we will check out of the hotel and drive to old Cairo to visit Amr ibn Al-A’as mosque, Coptic church, a Jewish temple. Then we will have lunch before driving to the railway station to catch an overnight train to Aswan; dinner and breakfast will be served on train.
Overnight on train.
Day 4:
Aswan – high dam – PhTemple – Cruise (B,L,D)
Arrive in Aswan and drive to high dam and PhTemple, then drive to catch the Cruise Boat. Lunch and Dinner on board the boat.
Overnight on the boat.
Day 5:
Edfu Temple – Horus Temple. (B,L,D)
After breakfast on the boat we will visit the Edfu Temple and Horus Temple, then back to the boat to have lunch and dinner.
Overnight on the boat.
Day 6:
Luxor Temple – Karnak Temple (B,L,D)
Breakfast, then drive to Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple for drinks (hot and cold, as well as a selection of drinks in a public coffee shop), then back to the boat for lunch and dinner.
Overnight in on the boat.
Day 7:
Red Sea – Hurghada city- Stars Resort (B,L,D)
After breakfast, we check out and drive to the Red Sea (Hurghada city) where we will check in to the Stars Resort, have lunch, enjoy the red sea beach, then dinner.
Overnight at Hurghada.
Day 8:
Giftun Island – island beach -Hurghada (B,L,D)
Breakfast and drive to the boat to have a special trip by boat (Giftun Island). Have lunch open buffet on the boat and enjoy the island beach. Back to the hotel, have dinner.
Overnight at the hotel in Hurghada.
Day 9:
Cairo Oriental Restaurant (B,L,D)
Breakfast at the beach until 3 p.m., then drive to Cairo Oriental Restaurant for grilled (chicken-meat) with salad and rice dinner, then drive to the hotel.
Overnight at a Cairo hotel.
Day 10:
Alexandria – Qaitbay Castle – Roman Amphitheater – Catacomb of Kom el Shoqafa – the Alexandria Library – Al Morsy abo el Abbas mosque (B,L)
Breakfast, then drive to Alexandria, the most beautiful city on the Mediterranean Sea, and visit Qaitbay Castle, the Roman Amphitheater, and the Catacomb of Kom el Shoqafa, the Alexandria Library, and finally the Al Morsy abo el Abbas mosque, then have lunch.
Drive back to Cairo. Collect your luggage, then drive to Cairo Airport for departure flights.
Price: ON REQUEST
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