SETI PROGRAM
Arrival Cairo international airport meet & assist with the visa formalities and transfer to the hotel check-in & overnight in Cairo.
Breakfast and about 08:00 AM, meet with your guide to start a full day visit to The Great Pyramids – Cheops, Chephren & Mykerions.
Cheops is the most colossal ever built. Next is a close-up look at Sphinx – a huge funeral complex guarded by the legendary lion body with the face of king Chephren.
Facultative lunch at local restaurant during the tour.
Drive to the edge of the Western Desert to see Memphis, the capital of the Old Kingdom and one of the most important cities throughout the history of ancient Egypt.
From here we drive to Sakkara See the earliest monumental stone tractor in Egypt, a stepped pyramid built for King Zosar (C. 2650 BC).
At the end of the day, you will be transferred to Giza Train Station to take the sleeping train to Aswan. Dinner and overnight onboard.
Day 3 ( Recommended to be in Friday )
Upon arrival to Aswan, you will be met and transferred direct to your visit to The Temple of Isis by Lake Nasser on the Island of Philae and the Unfinished Obelisk.
We next transfer you to the Nile Cruise for check in and lunch on board. Afternoon we will take you to have a nice sailing to view Agha Khan and Botanical gardens .
After this nice tour we transfer you back to the Nile Cruise for dinner and over night on board.
After early breakfast on board of the Nile cruise (Free time on swimming pool) OR You have the possibility to book a unique and very special visit to Abu Simbel Temple by bus.
Lunch and dinner will be served on board the cruise ship.
Sail from Aswan to KomOmbo, visit KomOmbo temple, the temple shared by the two Pharaohs gods Sobek and Haroeris. Continue sailing to Edfu & overnight on board in Edfu.
After breakfast, you will visit the temple of Horus at Edfu, continue sailing to cross Esna lock and continue sailing to Luxor.
Arrival Luxor and start your first visits to East bank “Karnak & Luxor Temple”
Lunch and dinner will be served on board. Overnight on board.
After breakfast, disembarkation from the Nile cruise and move to visit Dendera Temple complex the whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mud brick enclosed wall, Dendera was inhabited in prehistory, a useful oasis on the banks of the Nile.
Facultative lunch at local restaurant.
Then we drive to Abydos, one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt and visit Abydos Temple, Today, Abydos is notable for the memorial temple of Siti I, which contains an inscription from the Nineteenth Dynasty.
Lunch at local restaurant during the tour.
At the end the of the day we will transfer you back to Luxor, helped with the check in at your hotel, and over night in Luxor.
After breakfast, check out and cross the Nile to the West Bank to visit the Valley of the Kings (3 tombs) Ramses first, Ramses The Third and Ramses the Ninth), where the pharaohs were buried in their grand tombs, visit the huge Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El Deir-El Bahari, visit the twin Colossi of Memnon.
You will have a free time at Luxor till the time-of-the sleeping train back to Cairo.
Dinner & overnight on board.
Breakfast on board of the train and upon arrival to Cairo, you will be met by your private Egyptologist in the train station and picked to start your visit and we will drive to the down town (TAHRIR SQURE) to visit “the Egyptian museum of antiquities, sitting in the shadows of Cairo’s modern town hall, the elegant coral-pink and copper-domed Egyptian Museum strikes a gentle pose. The restrained
neo-classical French exterior is little preparation for the awesome array of treasures and ancient wonders that wait silently behind its arched windows.
The Egyptian Museum is just simply unrivalled with over 136,000 items on display, not mentioning the hundreds of thousands in the basement. These items date back to the very origins of a united Egypt in 3,100 BC. The museum is renowned for holding the finest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.
Lunch at local restaurant after that visit the renowned Saladin Citadel that was built by Saladin in the 12th Century and was the seat of power for the following 700 years. On the premises is the Alabaster Mosque of Mohammed Ali, one of the landmarks in Cairo whose minaret can be seen from any part of the city. The Mohammed Ali Mosque was built in Turkish style. At the end of the day, we will transfer you to your hotel, overnight in Cairo.
After early breakfast, transfer to Cairo Airport for your flight back home.
- Include
- All transfers and visits in private services as per our suggested program using A/C car
- All entrance fees tickets as per our program with English speaking guide.
- 01 night accommodation in Cairo on BB basis (first stay)
- 01 night accommodation on the sleeper train from Cairo to Aswan on BB basis
- 03 nights’ accommodation on Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor on FB basis.
- 01 night accommodation in Luxor on BB basis
- 01 night accommodation on the sleeper train from Luxor to Cairo on HB basis
- 01 night accommodation in Cairo on BB basis (second stay)
- Exclude
- Entry visa to Egypt.
- International or Domestic flight tickets.
- Entrance fees ticket inside the Pyramids in Cairo
- Entrance fees ticket for the Grand Museum at Pyramids area (if open) and the mummy’s room.
- Entrance fees ticket for TUT Ankh Amoun tomb in the west bank in Luxor
- Entrance fees ticket for Seti First tomb in the west bank in Luxor
- Drinks, extra meals like lunches & dinners in Cairo & Luxor.
- Optional excursions during all tour.
- Tips for the driver, tour guide, tour leader, hotels, Nile Cruise and all services providers
- Any arrival or departure taxes (if applies in the future by the Egyptian authorities)
- Any future increase in the entrance fees tickets, fuel or in the local taxes during before client`s /group arrival.
kindly note the following :
– Only 20 % from the total number of cabins on Nile cruise
are allowed being reserved as Single and any extra single cabin over the
mentioned percentage will be charged as double cabin.
– No triple cabins available on the sleeping train.
Tour prices & Payment Policy:
25% Payment will be three months before client’s arrival.
25% Payment we be one month before client’s arrival.
50% payment will be one week before client’s arrival.
Children Policy:
- Child from 0 year till 5.99 years, free of charge sharing parent’s room/cabin.
- One child maximum sharing parent’s room/cabin.
- Child from 12 years & over will be charged full fare.
- Child from 06 till 11.99 years old will be charged
Cancellation fees:
In case of cancellation after confirmation, the below cancellation fee will be applicable.
– Cancellations between 40 & 30 days: 10 % from the total amount as a cancellation fee.
– Between 30 & 15 days: 25 % from the total amount a cancelation fee.
– Between 15 & 1 days : 50% from the total amount as a cancellation fee.
-No Show : full Cancellation fee