Overview
This Travel Package to Egypt will take you to rural Egypt on the Nile and to the shores of the Red Sea. See the Pyramids and Sakkara. Cruise the Nile for 4 days and then relax in Sharm El Sheikh before returning to see Old Cairo and the Museum. In Sinai optional excursions into the desert and mountains are available.
Highlights
- Package 12 Day 11 Night to Pyramids, Luxor, Aswan & Sharm El Sheikh .
Itinerary
Welcome to Cairo, Egypt (Around The Clock) Your tour manager will meet & assist you at Cairo International Airport then he will escort you to the hotel by exclusive air-conditioned deluxe vehicle. At hotel the tour manager will assist with a smooth check-in and review your holiday itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for each tour. Overnight in Cairo.
Breakfast then Your tour manager from Egypt Trip Hub will pick you up from your hotel by air -conditioned vehicle to visit the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus. Then proceed to the Great Sphinx of Giza, a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human, and the body of a lion Next, visit the Valley Temple, a mortuary temple for the Pharoah Khafre and his family members, in the Pyramids of Giza Complex. Learn how it was used for the purification of the king’s mummy before the burial. Finally, arrive to The Grand Egyptian Museum. that house artifacts of ancient Egypt, and is set to be the largest archaeological museum in the world. Many pieces in its collection will be displayed for the first time.Lunch at a good quality local restaurant. After that, move to visit the Step Pyramid at Sakkara which was designed by the architect, Imhotep for his master King Zoser. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Breakfast, then transfer to Cairo Airport for flight to Aswan where you will be met and transferred to embark your Nile Cruise before lunch. Enjoy visiting the world famous High Dam, the beautiful located Temple of Philae on Isis Island ,the Granite Quarries and the Unfinished Obelisk. Dinner on board and overnight in Aswan.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Sail to Kom Ombo, have breakfast on board and Visit the Temple shared by two gods Sobek and Haeroris in Kom Ombo. Sail to Edfu, lunch on board after that Visit the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt, Horus Temple in Edfu. Take afternoon tea during sailing to Esna. Dinner and overnight on board.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Have your breakfast on board during your sail to Luxor, then visit the West Bank and the Valley of the Kings, The temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El-Deir El-Bahari & the Colossi of Memnon. Lunch on board, then proceed to visit East Bank (Karnak & Luxor Temples). Enjoy afternoon tea during sailing. Have your dinner on board and overnight in Luxor.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Breakfast on board, disembark from your Nile cruise after breakfast, and then you will be transferred to Luxor Airport for flight to Sharm. Upon arrival at Sharm Airport, you will be transferred to your hotel in Sharm and overnight.
Note: most of the flights is indirect from Luxor to Sharm El Sheikh, so there must be a transit in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast.
Free day in Sharm or join our optional tour to Ras Mohammed National Park which is both a terrestrial and an aquatic nature reserve. The 480 square kilometre protected area lies where the Gulf of Suez meets the Gulf of Aqaba in Sinai's southern extremity. The arid desert terrain of sand dunes, gravel plains, fossilized corals and granite mountains is home to a number of rare mammal species: Dorcas gazelle, Nubian ibex and red fox. Easier to spot are the resident birds like terns, herons, gulls and ospreys. Thousands of white storks pass through Ras Mohammed each year, heading south during September/October and back north during April/May. About 85 flora species live in the park, including mangroves. Overnight in Sharm.
Meals: Breakfast
Free day in Sharm or join our optional tour to one of the natural wonders of the Sinai, the Colored Canyon is majestic. Take a walk among dramatic sandstone canyon walls streaked with melting yellows, purples, reds, magentas and gold. In certain places the canyon walls reach up to 40 meters. You feel as if you are enclosed in a spectacular coloring book. Overnight in Sharm.
Meals: Breakfast.
Free day in Sharm or join our optional tour to The Monastery of St. Catherine located at the heart of Sinai and at the foot of the Gebel Musa, or Mount Moses. Fronted by gardens and cypress trees, the monastery is owned and run by the Greek Orthodox Church. Its rich library houses the world's second largest collection of illuminated manuscripts after the Vatican. You can see the Burning Bush and a large number of antique works of art: invaluable icons, beautifully carved doors, exquisite wall paintings and other fine religious ornaments. Overnight in Sharm.
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast at your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh and then you will be transferred to Sharm El Sheikh Airport for flight to Cairo. Overnight in Cairo.
Start your day visiting the Egyptian Museum, where you will admire many fascinating artifacts. Transfer to visit Salah El Din Citadel which was constructed by Salah El Din in 1183 AD to defend Cairo from the armies of Crusaders. After that visit Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque which was designed by the architect Yousif Boushnaq, a Turkish man who came specially from Istanbul land to build this great mosque for Mohamed Ali, the ruler of Egypt (1805-1849) who ruled Over 45 years. Lunch will be served in a local restaurant. Then we move on to Coptic Cairo to visit the Hanging Church and Ben Ezra Synagogue. Back to your hotel and overnight in Cairo and back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Breakfast at hotel, then transfer to Cairo Airport for final departure.
Meals: Breakfast.
Note: If the mentioned cruise or the hotel are not available, the company has the right to change to any cruise or hotel, as long as it is of same category. That the order of the days could be change according to cruise sailing dates keeping the sightseeing you will visit as it is.
Includes/Excludes
What's Included ?
- Meet and greet service by our representatives at airports
- Assistance of our guest relations during your stay
- All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
- Domestic flight (Cairo - Aswan / Luxor/ Sharm – Sharm / Cairo)
- Bottled water during your tour
- Accommodation as mentioned on thy itinerary
- All Taxes & Service Charge.
- Private Tour Guide
What's Excluded ?
- Any extras not mentioned in the program
- Tipping Kitty
- Personal expenses
- Optional activities
- Entry visa to Egypt.
- Tickets to get inside the Pyramids
- Beverages
- Entry ticket to Tutankhamen Tomb
- gala dinner