• Day 1

  Arrival Day

  
  
  Arrive at Cairo airport terminal. Once you step the land of the pharaohs, you will find El Mahmoud travel team with their warm greetings holding sign with your name. Your team will help you to go through airport customs and formalities then your luggage will be collected. After finishing all procedures your tour leader will escort you to check in your hotel.

  (No Meals).
• Day 2

  Giza Pyramids, Sphinx & Egyptian Museum

  
  
  After breakfast; drive with your Egyptologist to visit the Egyptian museum where you will find artifacts, relics, statues and Jewelry from all of the Pharaonic times. Stop for lunch at a local restaurant, then proceed to visit one of the oldest Seven Wonders of the World Giza Pyramids which were constructed 4500 years ago to show you power of wealth of pharaohs in the Old Kingdom. Continue to the Sphinx of Giza, a Greek word which means a statue with an animal body & head of a human being and was worshipped in ancient days as the guardian god. At the end of this exciting tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel & over night.

  Meals: (breakfast & lunch)
• Day 3

  Cairo to Luxor - By domestic flight

  

  
  After breakfast; you will check out of your hotel in Cairo, then our representative will transfer you to the airport for a domestic flight to Luxor. Upon arrival; our team will meet, assist and transfer you to local restaurant to have lunch before check in your hotel in Luxor. Free evening to enjoy the tranquility of Luxor. It’s time to imagine that you have traveled 4000 years ago and living as an ancient Egyptian, away of all hustles and annoyance. Over night at your hotel in Luxor.

   

  Meals: ( breakfast & lunch)
• Day 4

  West Bank of Luxor - Valley of kings,Hatshepsut temple& Memnon statues

  
  
  After breakfast you will meet your Egyptologist to cross to the West bank of Luxor. Start your most exciting visit to the Valley of the Kings where you will see exclusively painted tombs of pharaohs that dated back to 1500 B.C. (Your ticket covers up to 3 tombs excluding Tutankhamun and Ramses VI “extra ticket”) Next you will stop by the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahary, the unique designed temple cut in the hill in the form of 3 terraces showing her divine birth, expedition sent to Punt, transportation of her two obelisks and their erection in 7 months. Continue to the Valley of the Queens where the 84 colored tombs for the queens of the New Kingdom and their children (Your ticket covers up to 3 tombs excludes Nefertarty tomb). On the way; you will get a Photo stop at the colossi of Memnon area, built for king Amenhotep III in front of a big temple but destroyed by earthquakes. Have lunch at a local restaurant then relax in the hotel & over night.
  Meals: ( breakfast & lunch)
• Day 5

  East bank of Luxor - Karnak and Luxor temples

  
  

  After breakfast;You will meet your Egyptologist and start your new day by visiting the biggest temple Karnak as it encloses smaller temples dedicated to the triad worshipped in Luxor besides, Hatshepsut's obelisks dedicated to the god to show her devotion to him. Drive for few minutes to reach Luxor temple which was linked with Karnak temple in ancient times by an avenue of Sphinx. You will see pharaonic, Islamic, Christian and Greco-Roman arts. Stop for lunch at local restaurant and drive back to your hotel. Free evening at leisure, you can stroll in the streets to experience bargaining with vendors or enjoy city tour riding a horse carriage. Over night at your hotel in Luxor.

  Meals: ( breakfast & lunch)
• Day 6

  Edfu and Kom Ombo

  
  

  Breakfast at hotel & check out then you will be transferred to Aswan city by private air conditioned vehicle. On the way; you will stop by Edfu temple Ptolemaic temple dedicated to god Horus. The temple took 180 years to be built. Continue driving towards Kom Ombo temple to visit the temple shared by two Gods; crocodile headed god Sobek and the falcon headed god Haroeris. Lunch boxes will be carried from Luxor. Continue towards Aswan, check in your hotel upon arrival & over night.

  Meals ;( breakfast & lunch box)
• Day 7

  Aswan - Philae temple, High dam, Quarries & Felucca ride

  

  
  After breakfast; you will meet your Egyptologist to start your visit to Philae temple. Relocated in Agilika Island which is reachable by a motor boat, dedicated to goddess Isis who was worshipped till 6thC.AD. Continue your trip to the High Dam which was an engineering miracle when it was built 1970. Next you will visit the unfinished Obelisk in Aswan quarry to see how ancient Egyptians quarried granite to build temples and obelisks. Lunch at local Nubian restaurant is followed by a felucca ride around Lord Kitchener Island (Or the botanical garden) and the mausoleum of Aghakhan. At the end of the day, you will be transferred back to your hotel & over night in Aswan.

  Meals ;( breakfast & lunch)
• Day 8

  Overland to Abu Simbel / Sleeper train to Cairo

  
  

  
  Breakfast box & check out your hotel, then you will join the 04:00 a.m. convoy to Abu Simble temple; built by the mightiest pharaoh Ramses II to show his power to the Nubians. They are relocated on higher island after building the High Dam. Drive back to Aswan, lunch at local restaurant. Evening; you will be transferred to train station to board back to Cairo, dinner & over night onboard.

  
  Meals: ( breakfast & lunch & Dinner)
• Day 9

  Cairo - Saladdin Citadel, Mohamed Ali mosque, Old Cairo& Khan el Khalili bazaars

  
  

  Breakfast onboard early morning, then our representative will meet & assist you at Giza station, transfer you to meet your Egyptologist and start your visit to Old Cairo to see the first church (St. Sergius church) Hanging church & the first Jewish Synagogue (Ben Ezra). Continue to The Citadel of Saladdin; who chased Crusaders from Jerusalem to Cairo after being victorious. He was appointed as a ruler & he protected himself by building the fortress then it became residential place that encloses other buildings like the mosque of Mohamed Ali (the founder of the royal family of Modern Egypt) or Alabaster mosque built 1845 A.D. considered the most celebrated mosque in Egypt. Stop for lunch at local restaurant, then you will enjoy your last visit in Egypt at the old market of Khan El Khalili where you will find many bazaars for your last shopping. At the end of the day; you will be transferred to your hotel in Cairo to check in & over night.

  Meals: ( breakfast & lunch)
• Day 10

  Final departure

  
  
  After breakfast you will check out your hotel, then you will be transferred to Cairo international airport for final departure.

  Meals: ( breakfast)
• We are special in:

  1- Flexibility, we are tailor- made programs to suit your vacation dates.
  2- Our programs are valid all year round with the mentioned prices, except (Christmas, New Year, Easter seasons... etc. (supplement will be requested).
  3- We provide fluent speaking languages Egyptologist (most common languages).
• Rates

  Hotels			Price per person in
  Hotel	City	Stars	Single Room	Double Room	Triple Room
  Le Meridien Pyramids or similar	Cairo	5*	$2450 USD	$1750 USD	$1650 USD
  Steigenberger Nile Palace or similar	Luxor	5*
  Helnan or similar	Aswan	4*

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