DAY 1: Sun - Departure from USA
- Board your international flight from the USA to start your journey back on time to the ancient land of the Pharos. 2 Meals will be served on board of your overnight flight.
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DAY 2: Mon - Arrive in Cairo
- Arrival in the Land of the Pharaohs, at Cairo International airport, Right Travel Representative will be waiting for you after you get your luggage and clear customs and will be holding the Right Travel Sign, then will transfer you to your hotel.
- Overnight in Cairo
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DAY 3: Tue - Cairo, Pyramids Tour
- 06:30AM &ndash 08:30 AM Breakfast at our hotel
- 09:00 AM Drive to the Giza Plateau, home of Egypts signature attractions, the Great Pyramids, proclaimed by the Greeks to be among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. The largest among these is the Great Pyramid of Cheops, probably built more than 2,600 years before the time of Christ. Standing 480 feet tall this is the last of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world that are still standing. Little is known of Cheops, you`ll also see the inscrutable and mysterious Sphinx, known in Arabic as Abu al-Hol ("the Father of Terror") and carved almost entirely from one piece of limestone.
- 12:30 PM Stop for Lunch at a local restaurant
- 02:00 PM Transfer back to our hotel for free afternoon.
- Overnight in Cairo
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 4: Wed – Cairo, City Tour
- 06:30AM &ndash 08:30 AM Breakfast at our hotel
- 09:00 AM, Start your day with a visit to National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, a large museum in the ancient city of Fustat, now part of Cairo, Egypt. The museum partially opened in February 2017 and will display a collection of 50,000 artifacts, presenting Egyptian civilization from prehistoric times to the present day.
- 12:30 PM Lunch at local restaurant
- 02:00 PM Continue to the Old Cairo explore some of the early religious monuments of the city. You`ll visit the El Muallaqa Church, dating to the late fourth and early fifth century. This basilica was named for its location on top of the south gate of the Fortress of Babylon. Muallaqa means suspended or hanging. Destroyed in a ninth-century earthquake, the church became the center of the Coptic (or Christian) Church of Egypt from the time it was rebuilt in the eleventh century until the 14th century.
- 04:30 PM Transfer to our hotel
- Overnight in Cairo
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 5: Thu – Grand Egyptian Museum Tour, Aswan
- 06:30AM &ndash 09:30 AM Breakfast at our hotel
- 09:45 AM, Check out from Cairo hotel with our luggage
- 10:00 AM Transfer to the Grand Egyptian Museum. GEM is the largest global museum dedicated to ancient Egyptian civilization from prehistory to the end of the Greek and Roman Periods.
- Lunch at local restaurant
- 04:30 PM Transfer to Cairo airport for our evening short flight to Aswan.
- Arrival to Aswan airport, transfer with our private car and English-Speaking Host to the 5 stars hotel
- Overnight in Aswan
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 6: Fri - Aswan, Cruise Sightseeing
- 06:30AM &ndash 08:30 AM Breakfast at our hotel
- 09:00 AM, Check out from Aswan hotel with our luggage
- 09:15 AM Visit the High Dam, located near Aswan, the world-famous High Dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s. It contains 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The Dam is 11,811 feet long, 3215 feet thick at the base and 364 feet tall. Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt and, together with the old Aswan Dam built by the British between 1898 and 1902`, 6km down river, wonderful views for visitors. From the top of the two-Mile-long High Dam you can gaze across Lake Nassar, the huge reservoir created when it was built.
- 10:00 AM Visit the Temple of Philae, was dismantled and reassembled (on Agilika Island about 550 meters from its original home on Philae Island) in the wake of the High Dam. The temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis, is in a beautiful setting which has been landscaped to match its original site. Its various shrines and sanctuaries, which include The Vestibule of Nectanebos I which is used as the entrance to the island, the Temple of the Emperor Hadrian, a Temple of Hathor, Trajans Kiosk (Pharaohs Bed), a birth house and two pylons celebrate all the deities involved in the Isis and Osiris myth. The Victorian world fell in love with the romance of the Temple.
- 12:30 PM Transfer to your luxury cruise ship to check inn and have our lunch.
- You will spend the next 3 nights / 4 days relaxing and enjoy the sailing from Aswan to Luxor.
- Afternoon Free at leisure
- Overnight in Aswan.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 7: Sat - Aswan, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Luxor
- Early Sail to Kom Ombo and visit Kom Ombo Temple (the Ptolemaic Temple of Sobek & Haroeries). Located in the town of Kom-Ombo, about 28 miles north of Aswan, the Temple, dating to the Ptolemies, is built on a high dune overlooking the Nile. The actual temple was started by Ptolemy VI Philometor in the early second century BC. Ptolemy XIII built the outer and inner hypostyle halls. The outer enclosure wall and part of the court were built by Augustus sometime after 30 BC and are mostly gone. There are also tombs from the Old Kingdom in the vicinity of Kom-Ombo village.
- Sail to Edfu to Visit Edfu Temple. Dedicated to Horus, the falcon headed god, it was built during the reigns of six Ptolemies. We have a great deal of information about its construction from reliefs on outer areas. It was begun in 237 BC by Ptolemy III Euergetes I and was finished in 57 BC. Most of the work continued throughout this period with a brief interlude of 20 years while there was unrest during the period of Ptolemy IV and Ptolemy V Epiphanes. This is not only the best-preserved ancient temple in Egypt, but the second largest after Karnak. It was believed that the temple was built on the site of the great battle between Horus and Seth. Hence, the current temple was but the last in a long series of temples built on this location.
- After that Sail to Luxor via Esna for dinner and overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 8: Sun - Luxor, East Bank Tour
- After breakfast, visiting the East Bank including the Karnak Temple, in ancient Egypt, the power of the god Amun of Thebes gradually increased during the early New Kingdom, and after the short persecution led by Akhenaten, it rose to its apex. In the reign of Ramesses III, more than two thirds of the property owned by the temples belonged to Amun, evidenced by the stupendous buildings at Karnak. Although badly ruined, no site in Egypt is more impressive than Karnak. It is the largest temple complex ever built by man and represents the combined achievement of many generations of ancient builders. The Temple of Karnak is three main temples, smaller enclosed temples, and several outer temples located about three kilometers north of Luxor, Egypt situated on 100 ha (247 acres) of land. Karnak is the sites modern name. Its ancient name was Ipet-isut, meaning "The Most Select (or Sacred) of Places". This vast complex was built and enlarged over a thirteen-hundred-year period. The three main temples of Mut, Montu and Amun are enclosed by enormous brick walls.
- Proceed to visit the Temple of Luxor, built by the two pharaohs, Amenhotep III and Ramses II. Ancient Thebes was a center of festivals, and the Temple of Luxor was the setting for the most important-the festival of Opet, designed to merge the ruler`s human and divine aspects. The temple was dedicated to Amun-Ra, whose marriage to Mut was celebrated annually, when the sacred procession moved by boat from Karnak to Luxor Temple
- Back to the cruise for lunch.
- Overnight in Luxor.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 9: Mon – Luxor (Optional Hot Air Balloon Ride), West Bank, Cairo
- (Optional Hot Air Balloon Ride in Luxor). As the sun rises over Luxor, so can you, aboard an optional hot-air balloon ride. The sights, sounds, and sheer spectacle of seeing these antiquities from the sky will surely make for a morning you will remember forever.
- After breakfast, check out from your Nile Cruise. Then you will visit Valley of the Kings, with its many tombs chiseled deep into the Cliffside. From the 18th to the 20th Dynasty, the Memphis area and pyramid-style tombs were abandoned in favor of the West Bank of the Nile in Thebes. Several great leaders as well as many less important rulers are buried here, and more tombs are being discovered even today. This is where Howard Carter discovered the treasures of Tutankhamen and was struck "dumb with amazement" when he beheld its "wonderful things" in 1922.
- Proceed to the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari. The mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut is one of the most dramatically situated in the world. The queens architect, Senenmut, designed it and set it at the head of a valley overshadowed by the Peak of the Thebes, the "Lover of Silence," where lived the goddess who presided over the necropolis.
- The last stop for our morning tour will be at the Colossi of Memnon. Amenhotep III (18th Dynasty) built a mortuary temple in Thebes that was guarded by two gigantic statues on the outer gates. All that remains now are the 23 meter (75 ft.) high, one-thousand-ton statues of Amenhotep III. Though damaged by nature and ancient tourists, the statues are still impressive.
- Transfer to Luxor airport for your flight back to Cairo. Arrival and transfer to your hotel.
- The rest of the day is free at your leisure.
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 10: Tue - Departure
- After breakfast, transfer to Cairo airport for your international flight back to the USA.
- Meal: Breakfast
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