Cairo to Cairo - 8 days |
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Detailed Itinerary:
Day 1: Cairo
Arrive at Cairo international airport (based on a flight arranged by your side).
Meet: A professional English speaking Tour Coordinator will be waiting after the immigration at the airport to assist luggage collecting, holding a sign with the group name.
Welcome Gesture: An Egyptian flower will be presented to the ladies, while wet scented towels will be presented to all guests.
Transfer: Your Representatives will assist you to obtain their luggage, after which you will board a modern, air-conditioned buses to drive to your hotel Check-in at the hotel.
Day 2: Cairo
Breakfast at your hotel.
After breakfast, you will be introduced to your Egyptologist then start your visits with:
Pyramids & Sphinx: the 4,500-year old Pyramids built for Pharaohs Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus on the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid being the only survivor of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". Just to the east of the 2nd pyramid lies the legendary Sphinx, whose human face is thought to represent that of Chephren, acting as the guardian of the Pharaoh’s enormous funerary monument.
Museum: Your Egyptologist will escort you today on a fascinating tour of 7,000 years of Egyptian history with a visit to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, open since 1902. The Museum exhibits over 120,000 objects in its 107 halls, comprising the world’s greatest collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts. Two grand halls containing countless artifacts and one room reserved for the golden treasures, all from the world-famous tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun astound and delight visitors. More than 2 million people flock to this magnificent site each year.
Day 3: Cairo - fly to Luxor (Embarkation)
Breakfast at hotel before checking-out. Your Tour Coordinator will be on hand to assist you with all check-out procedures.
You will be transferred by air-conditioned vehicle to Cairo Domestic airport where you will board your Egypt-Air flight to Luxor. Upon arrival at Luxor Airport, you will be met by your Tour Coordinator who assist you with the transfer to your 5-star deluxe Nile cruise boat, the Sanctuary M.S. Nile
Adventurer, moored in a private dock in Luxor. On board, you will be
welcomed by the reception staff, who will offer you chilled fruit juice while
assisting with your check-in.
Lunch will be served on board in the main restaurant.
After lunch, your
tour of the East Bank will begin with a visit to the Temple of Karnak, built
over more than a thousand years by generations of Pharaohs. The great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars, covering an area
larger than the whole of Notre Dame Cathedral. Next your Egyptologist
will guide you on a tour of the strikingly graceful Temple of Luxor
dedicated to the god Amun.
Return to your cruise for afternoon tea on board in the lounge. Gourmet dinner on board followed by a
belly dancer, accompanied by a whirling dervish show.
Day 4: Luxor
After breakfast, visit the West Bank of Luxor to explore the Valley of the
Kings, a vast City of the Dead where magnificent tombs were carved into
the desert rocks, decorated richly, and filled with treasures for the
afterlife by generations of Pharaohs. You will also have the chance to
visit at least one tomb in the Valley of the Queens.
Rising out of the desert plain in a series of terraces, the Temple of Queen
Hatshepsut (Ancient Egypt’s only female Pharaoh) merges with the
sheer limestone cliffs that surround it, as if nature herself had built this
extraordinary monument.
On the way back to the river Nile, your road
passes by the famed Colossi of Memnon, known in Ancient Greek times
for their haunting voices at dawn.
Lunch and afternoon tea will be served in the lounge while you cruise to Esna. Tonight you will be
greeted by your Boat Manager, who will introduce you to the boat staff and review on-board facilities
and your cruise program for the next few days. Complimentary Egyptian wine and local beer will be
served, together with freshly prepared canapés, followed by gourmet dinner menu.
Day 5: Esna (passing through Esna Lock) - Edfu - Kom Ombo - Aswan
This morning, your Egyptologist will guide you round the Greco-Roman
Temple of Khnum at Esna. The beautifully preserved Great Hypostyle
Hall was built during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius; it was
excavated from the silt that had accumulated through centuries of annual
Nile floods and is about nine metres below present-day street level.
Lunch on board, while you cruise to Edfu.
This afternoon, explore the
largest and most completely preserved Pharaonic – albeit Greek-built –
temple in Egypt, the extraordinary Temple of Horus at Edfu.
Egyptian cooking lesson will be presented on board. Afternoon tea will be
served while you cruise to Kom Ombo.
Tonight’s dinner on board will be an “Egyptian Night” costume
party for all guests, with a chance to dress up in traditional Egyptian “galabeyyas”. Dinner will be a
lavish buffet of Egyptian specialities, followed by oriental music and dancing for everyone.
Day 6: Aswan
The day's sightseeing begins with a visit to the Temple of Kom Ombo,
dedicated to the crocodile-god Sobek. The temple stands at a bend in the
Nile where in ancient times sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the
riverbank.
Return to your boat for lunch on board, while you cruise to Aswan.This
afternoon, your Egyptologist guide will escort you to visit the Aswan High
Dam, Egypt’s contemporary example of building on a monumental scale.
Take a short motorboat ride to visit the romantic and majestic Philae
Temple on the Island of Agilka. Next we proceed to the Granite Quarries, which supplied the ancient Egyptians with most of the hard stone used in pyramids and temples, and still hold a huge unfinished obelisk.
In the afternoon (weather permitting) take a ride on a felucca, a typical Egyptian sail boat, around
Elephantine Island, Lord Kitchener’s Botanical Gardens, and the Agha Khan Mausoleum (life jackets
will be provided).
Enjoy your afternoon tea served in the lounge with a trio of authentic Egyptian musicians.
Tonight’s
farewell dinner will be a formal gala dinner (jacket required), with white-gloved waiters serving gourmet cuisine.
Day 7: Aswan (Disembarkation) - fly to Cairo
Buffet breakfast on board, and check out at 8:00 am and transfer to Aswan airport to board your domestic flight to Cairo.
Day 8: Cairo
Enjoy a buffet breakfast before checking out of your hotel and taking the transfer to Cairo international airport for your flight home. (BB)
PLEASE NOTE: ENTERTAINMENT & SAILING TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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Program Start Date |
Cabin rate is per passenger in $USD |
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Standard Twin Bed Cabin |
From Luxor
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8-Aug-12 |
$1,668 |
15-Aug-12 |
$1,668 |
22-Aug-12 |
$1,668 |
29-Aug-12 |
$1,668
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5-Sep-12 |
$1,668 |
12-Sep-12 |
$1,668
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19- Sep-12 |
$1,668 |
26-Sep-12 |
$1,668 |
* A limited number of singles are available for an additional supplement. Call for info. |
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