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Egypt Package Tours |
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Detailed Itinerary |
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Day 01:
Arrival to The Land Of Pharaohs, you will be welcomed and met by FGT's representative at Cairo international airport, who will accompany you to your hotel by private A/C coach. Check in and enjoy your accommodation at your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 02: (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Breakfast at hotel, then you will be met by your professional tour guide to lead your first steps discovering the oldest kingdom in history including the visits of the breathtaking sight of the 3 Pyramids, and their guardian, the Sphinx, onwards you will be visiting Memphis the ancient capital of Egypt where Colossal Statue of Ramses II and the great Alabaster Sphinx are, and Sakkara which is 27-Km Southwest of Cairo. Including a visit to the step Pyramids of Sakkara (the first proper Pyramids built for the king Zoser, it is considered evolution of the Pyramid from the simple Mastaba to the Pyramid in its known form). Then you will be transferred to Cairo train station for your deluxe sleeper train to Aswan. Overnight on board of the train.
Day 03: (Breakfast & Lunch)
Breakfast on board of the train, then you will be transferred to your hotel in Aswan for check in. Visit the engineering miracle of the High Dam at Aswan built in 1960, the granite Quarries and the temple of Philae that dedicated to the goddess Isis, and this temple was dismantled and reassembled on about 1600 feet from its original home on Philae Island when Aswan high dam was built. Overnight in Aswan.
Day 04: (Breakfast & Lunch)
You will be met by our representative to accompany you to Abu Simbel. Colossal figures of Ramses are seated with the gods and attended by his queen and daughters. The smaller temple is dedicated to Queen Nefertari, who appears as Hathor, the goddess of love, joy and fertility, symbolized by the benevolent cow. Then you will be transferred to Luxor. Overnight in Luxor.
Day 05: (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Breakfast at your hotel, you will be met by the professional guide who will escort you to discover the largest open museum in the whole world and visiting the west bank of the Nile including the Valley of the Kings, which was used for over 1000 years as a great tomb for the Kings of the New Kingdom (1500-1070 B.C). You will also visit the most famous temple of the world at El Deir El Bahary for the only Pharaonic female ruler, the Queen Hatshepsut. In your way back you will stop to visit the Colossi of Memnon, which named by Greeks after the grandson of Eos, goddess of dawn, a mortuary temple in Thebes was guarded by these two gigantic statuses of Amenhotep III. In the evening you will be transferred to Luxor train station for your deluxe sleeper train back to Cairo. Overnight on board of the train.
Day 06: (Breakfast & Lunch)
Breakfast on th board of the train, transfer to your hotel for check in. Then you will be met by your guide to start full day tour in Cairo covering the world's most famous Museum - The Egyptian Museum that hosts the largest collection of ancient culture as well as the treasure of the Youngest King of Egypt Tut-Ankh-Amoun, onwards you will be visiting Saladin's Citadel, Alabaster Mosque, Old Cairo (The Mosque of lbn Tulan, the fortress of Babylon, the Hanging Church, Ben Ezra Synagogue) and Khan El Khalili Bazaars.
Optional: Sound & Light Show in early or late evening. Performances of the extravaganza at the worlds most famous ancient sites, the Pyramids in Giza. Drive back to your hotel.
Overnight in Cairo.
Day 07: (Breakfast & Lunch)
Breakfast at your hotel, then start full day trip to visit Alexandria city, founded over 2,300 years ago. It's Egypt's second largest city located on the Mediterranean Sea. Alexandria has a rich history as the city was the capital of Greco-Roman Egypt and offers visitors such historical treasures as The Roman Amphitheater, El Montaza palace & Garden, The Catacomb Of Kom El Shoukafa, The Pompey's Pillar and the New Library of Alexandria. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 08: (Breakfast)
Breakfast at hotel then transfer to airport for final departure. |
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