DAY 1: Fri - Departure from USA
- Board your international flight to start your journey back on time to the ancient land of the Pharos. 2 Meals will be served during your overnight flight.
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DAY 1: Fri - Departure from USA
- Board your international flight to start your journey back on time to the ancient land of the Pharos. 2 Meals will be served during your overnight flight.
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DAY 2: Sat - Arrival to Cairo
- Arrive this afternoon in Cairo 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.
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DAY 3: Sun β Grand Egyptian Museum Tour, Luxor
- 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.
- 04:30 PM Transfer to Cairo airport for our evening short flight to Luxor.
- arrive at Luxor and transfer to your luxury hotel at Luxor
- Overnight in Luxor
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 4: Mon - Luxor (Optional Dendarah Tour)
- Transfer to your luxury Nile Cruise where you will spend the next 7 nights / 8 days
- Free day at leisure, or you may enjoy our optional tour (Half-day visit to the Temple of Dendarah), lunch box will be provided from the cruise, built by Romans and Greeks and dedicated to Hathor-goddess of maternal and family love. The temple complex contains birth houses, a Coptic church, the Hathor Temple, and a Hypostyle Hall. One of the celebrated features of the temple is an astronomical ceiling beautifully decorated with vultures, winged disks, and the union between Hathor and Horus. Paintings on the ceiling also represent the two halves of the sky with its northern and southern constellations, the hours of day and night, the sun and moon, and the symbols of the zodiac. You`ll return to the ship late afternoon, rest of the day is free, dinner, entertainment and overnight in Luxor.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 5: Tue - (Optional Hot Air Balloon Ride), West Bank, Esna
- (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.
- Visit the West Bank, including the 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 and the Colossi of Memnon, back to the cruise for lunch, sail to Esna and overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 6: Wed - Edfu, Kom Ombo
- Sail to Edfu and Visit Edfu Temple, also known as the Temple of Horus, the falcon-god, (237 B.C.) considered the best-preserved temple in Ancient Egypt and the second largest after the Temple of Karnak. Sail to Kom Ombo and Overnight in Kom Ombo.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 7: Thu - Kom Ombo, Aswan
- Sail to Aswan, 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, and 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.
- Last stop will be at the Philae Temple Philae Temple 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.
- Sail around The Botanical Garden by Felucca, overnight in Aswan.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 8: Fri - Aswan, Optional Abu Simbel
- Morning free at your leisure Or you may choose our Optional Tour (Abu Simbel tour - A14) Situated 280km south of Aswan, exploring the magnificent monuments carved into solid rock 3,000 years ago. In a monumental feat of modern engineering, these massive temples were moved to their present location when construction of the Aswan High Dam in 1960 created Lake Nasser and flooded their original location. This extraordinary operation to save one of the worlds`s greatest treasures took years and the efforts of an international team of engineers and archaeologists. The two temples at Abu Simbel were built by Egypt`s great Pharaoh Ramses II (Egypt`s longest-ruling king) as a tribute to the deities and his favorite wife Nefertari. Four colossal statues, 60 feet high and directly facing the rising sun, are of the pharaoh himself, with his queen and daughters at his feet. More tremendous statues surround you as you enter the temple. And in the very depths of the temple, Ramses sits in state flanked by the gods to whom the construction is dedicated.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 9: Sat - Aswan, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Esna
- Early sail to Kom Ombo and Visit Kom Ombo Temple (the Ptolemaic Temple of Sobek & Haroeries), set dramatically on a hill overlooking a bend in the river. This Greco-Roman style temple (two temples) is unique, as it is Egypt`s only double temple-dedicated to both Sobek, the crocodile god, and Haroeris, the great, winged solar disk. Everything here is doubled and perfectly symmetrical along a central axis-twin entrances, twin courts, and twin colonnades. Sail to Esna & overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 10: Sun β Luxor East Bank
- Sail to Luxor. Start Luxor tour by visiting Luxor Temple, 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.
- Proceed Luxor tour to visit 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. Back to the Cruise for lunch.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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DAY 11: Mon - Luxor, Cairo
- After Breakfast, check out from your cabin, you may leave your luggage at the cruise front desk, enjoy free morning at leisure in Luxor.
- Transfer to Luxor airport for your flight to Cairo, arrival and transfer to your hotel.
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 12: Tue - Great Pyramids, Sphinx
- 06:30 AM &ndash 08:30 AM Breakfast at our hotel
- 09:00 AM, Drive to the Giza Plateau, home of Egypt 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 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 local restaurant
- 02:00 PM Transfer back to our hotel, rest of the day is free at your leisure
- Overnight in Cairo
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 13: Wed β Cairo, City Tour
- 06:30 AM &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 artefacts, 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.
- 04:00 PM Transfer back to our hotel.
- Overnight in Cairo
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 14: Thu - Cairo, Optional Alexandria with Library Tour
- 06:30 AM &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 artefacts, 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.
- 04:00 PM Transfer back to our hotel.
- Overnight in Cairo
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 15: Fri - Departure
- After Early breakfast, transfer to Cairo International Airport for your departure flight.
- Meal: Breakfast
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