Dreams of Egypt
(08 Days / 07 Nights)
Cairo / Luxor / Aswan / Alexandria
Tour Includes:
- Meet and assist at the airport
- All transfers.
- Entry fees for sight seeing as mentioned.
- 3 Night in 4stars Hotel in Cairo with breakfast.
- 1 Night in 4stars hotel in Luxor with breakfast.
- 1 Night in 4stars hotel in Aswan with breakfast.
- Overnight 1st class sets train Cairo Luxor, Aswan Cairo.
- 1st class sets train Luxor to Aswan.
- English tour guide / Egyptologist.
- Over day excursion to Alexandria.
- The meals as mentioned.
Tour Excludes:
- International flight ticket.
- Entry visa to Egypt.
- Meals not mentioned.
- Drinks.
- Camera fees.
- Tipping.
- Airport taxes for the departure.
Itinerary
Day 01:
On arrival at Cairo airport, you will be met by our representative who will welcome you and transfer you to your hotel in Cairo.
Overnight at hotel.
(No Meals)
Day 02:
After breakfast at the hotel. We take you on a full day city tour of Cairo, The heart of Egypt. Visit the great pyramid of Cheops. One of the seven wonders of the world, also see the pyramid of king Khephren and Menkaure then the sphinx carved from the natural bedrock at the bottom of the causeway of khephren’s pyramid. At evening transfer to the train station to take your 1st class sets train to Luxor.
(Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 03:
As you enjoy your breakfast on board the train. on arrival to Luxor we take you on a tour of the west bank of Luxor to visit the Valley of the Kings this is the Place where generations of pharos and nobles where buried in great splendor, housed in crypts cut into the cliffs. Even after over 3, 000 years the paintings retain their original colors until the story of civilization gone by. Later see the gigantic temple of Queen Hatshepsut, cut in the rock, Later we stop at the colossi of Memnon two giant statues are all that remain of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep, then we’ll check in our hotel, Later we take you on a tour of the east bank of Luxor to visit the magnificent temples of karnak, The majestic avenue of ram- Headed sphinx, the site of its sacred lake will leave you awe-struck. Then we’ll see Luxor temple completed by Ramses ll, the main entrance with two colossal statues of the pharaoh Ramses ll and the mighty obelisk leaves every visitor spell-bound, Then a felucca ride,
Overnight at the hotel in Luxor.
(Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 04:
After breakfast, checkout from the hotel, take your day time 1st class Sets train to Aswan, arrive Aswan chick in the hotel, free time
Overnight at the hotel in Aswan.
(Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 05:
Visit the high dam, the pride of Egypt and an ideal spot for a panoramic view of Aswan. Then we visit the unfinished obelisk, This obelisk was never detached from the rock as it developed cracks in several places, Later we precede you to see the temple of Philae, one of the three best preserved temples of Egypt. With the construction of the high dam this temple was relocated stone by stone, to its current location. At evening transfer to the train station take your 1st class train.
Back to Cairo.
(Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 06:
After breakfast arrive Cairo station, transfer to your hotel then start full day tour to visit the Egyptian museum which houses over 100,000 antiquities from all the periods of the ancient Egyptian history and don’t miss the treasures of Tutankhamen, Then visit the old Cairo which houses the crypt of the holy family and the hanging church and the synagogue of Ben Ezra, Then proceed you to the citadel of Saladin and we’ll see there Mohammed Ali Mosque,
Overnight at the hotel.
(Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 07:
After breakfast at the hotel we take you to Alexandria the second largest in Egypt city after Cairo we’ll visit the pompey’s pillar (a colossal granite pillar, 27 m height), cata- combs of Kom El Shokafa these Roman catacombs are rock-hewn in three levels, they date back to the first and early second century A.D. proceed to the fort of quaitbay at the northern top of the eastern harbor, on the site where the Greeks stood. Then visit the library of Alexandria, after that return back to Cairo,
Overnight at Cairo hotel.
(Breakfast, Lunch)
Day 08:
After breakfast, checkout then transfer to the airport for final departure.
(Breakfast)