Ancient Egypt with Abu Simbel

Cross a thing off the Bucket List

The Great Pyramids of Giza are the most notorious picture of Egyptology and an outright should see on any outing to Cairo. Meet with your private guide, driver, and Egyptologist, and head to Giza to find this wonder and the lone enduring site of the first Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Start with a visit to the nearby Solar Boat Museum, home to the recreated Khufu sun-oriented boat. Step back from the historical center and wander about the amazing landscape of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Great Pyramids of Giza compared against the celebrated Sphinx sculpture. The sheer excellence and appeal of the Sphinx have beguiled world voyagers any semblance of Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, an impressive scene against the setting of the endless desert behind it. The secrets of the Great Pyramids have aroused the interest of guests for millennia. Enter the Great Pyramid of Cheops, otherwise called the Pyramid of Khufu. The most seasoned and biggest of the significant pyramids, The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made design on the planet for over 3,800 years.

A camel ride is an unquestionable requirement accomplish for all first-time Egypt explorers. Following your visit through this interesting zone, climb onto your dromedary and appreciate a ride in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Cross the desert scene protected by a portion of the planet’s most established antiquated constructions and take in the perspectives on the powerful pyramids, including the Pyramid of Chephren and Mykerinus. Camel rides in the Giza complex accommodate astounding photograph openings!

Unwind and appreciate a smorgasbord lunch at a nearby eatery, including a decision of a little jug of water, soda, tea, or espresso.

Eat at one of Marriott Mena House’s flavorful in-house cafés this evening.

The Journey Continues…

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Get onto a trip in Cairo with direct help to Luxor. The rough flight term is 60 minutes.

If it’s not too much trouble, note, gear limitations apply to this local flight. 1) Maximum of one checked pack, weighing up to 50 lbs (23 kg) – Economy, 70 lbs (32 kgs) – Business; Checked stuff can’t be bigger than 62 square inches (158cm). 2) Guests can likewise welcome a piece of lightweight baggage with the greatest load of 17 lbs (8 kg). Travelers flying in Business Class may welcome two bits of lightweight gear.

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Welcome on board!

Set aside some effort to get subsided into your stateroom and investigate the boat. This evening you’ll expedite at the port in Luxor.

Luxor is home to one of the world’s most noteworthy outdoor historical centers, with the remains of Karnak and the Temples of Luxor in simple reach alongside the East Bank of the city. With your private Egyptologist control, visit the great UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the landmarks of Karnak and Luxor, studying antiquated Egypt’s entrancing and long history. Start with a visit to the Temples of Karnak, walking around the Avenue of Sphinx to enter the complex. The Temples of Karnak make up the historical backdrop of Thebes and comprised of monster sandstone sections moved 100 miles along the Nile waterway, all-encompassing friezes. Find with your guide how the enormous façade was built. Proceed to Luxor Temple which was once joined to the Temples of Karnak by a 1.25-mile-long Avenue of Sphinx, a bit of which denotes the passageway to the sanctuary. The sanctuary dates to around 1400 BC and is committed to the restoration of authority instead of the Pharaohs, clique divine beings, or idolized adaptations of the lord in death. During the Roman period, the sanctuary and its environmental factors filled in as a legionary fort and went about as the home of the Roman government nearby.

Loosen up this evening ready the solace of your Nile journey and appreciate the evening of amusement, including neighborhood Egyptian music.

It’s All Ancient History

Probably the most staggering locales taking all things together of Egypt can be found on the West Bank of the Nile, close to Luxor. Meet with your private guide and driver to go through a half-day investigating the West Bank of the Nile, home to the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens. Start with a visit to the Valley of the Kings to investigate the acclaimed Tomb of Tutankhamun alongside two other fascinating burial places. Lord Tut became Pharaoh at the young age of nine or ten, and the disclosure of his almost unblemished burial place in 1922 captivated the world. For a time of almost a long time from the sixteenth to eleventh century BC, burial places were developed for the lords and incredible aristocrats of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt). Investigate the as of late remodeled morgue sanctuary of Queen Hatshepsut, the second truly affirmed female Pharaoh. She is by and large viewed by Egyptologists as quite possibly the best Pharaohs, ruling longer than some other lady of a native Egyptian tradition and recognized as the principal incredible lady throughout the entire existence of whom we are educated. Next head to the close by Valley of the Queens, where the spouses of Pharaohs were covered during the 18th through 20th Dynasties. End the visit toward the West Bank with a visit to the Colossi of Memnon, the last landmarks of the funeral home sanctuary of Amenhotep III.

Today you’ll sail to Edfu, by means of Esna. This evening you’ll expedite at the port in Edfu.

Loosen up this evening ready the solace of your Nile voyage and appreciate the evening of diversion, including nearby Egyptian music.

Investigate with an Expert

A pony carriage will be sitting tight for you and your private guide when you land from your Nile journey to investigate the Temple of Horus in Edfu. Committed to Horus, the hawk god, the sanctuary was worked from 230 to 57 BC by Ptolemy III and his replacements and is viewed as the best-saved faction sanctuary in Egypt on account of its later development date. Regardless of its late-time roots, it mirrors the conventional pharaonic design, and the Temple’s recorded structure messages give an incredible thought of how every one of the sanctuaries once looked, with insights concerning their development. It fell into neglect as a strict landmark when the Roman Empire prohibited all non-Christian love inside the Empire in 391. Edfu is a noteworthy sanctuary and is the second-biggest in Egypt after Karnak Temple.

Meet with your private guide and land from your Nile voyage to investigate by walking the Kom Ombo Temple, a novel Greco-Roman sanctuary committed to two divine beings: Sobek, the crocodile god, and Haroeris, the sun god. The Temple in Kom Ombo dates from around 180 BC, during a period known as the Ptolemaic time, and had a few increases based on it during Roman occasions. It stands directly on the bank of the Nile among Edfu and Aswan. The sanctuary is strange in that it is a twofold sanctuary, with one side devoted to the god Haroesis and the opposite side to Sobek. The plan is entirely even, with two one next to the other asylums and two equal ways driving through the external pieces of the sanctuary. The correct side is committed to Sobek-Re (the crocodile god joined with the sun god Re), alongside his better half (a type of Hathor) and their child Khonsu-Hor. Sobek is related to Seth, the foe of Horus. In the legend of Horus and Osiris, Seth and his devotees changed themselves into crocodiles to getaway. The antiquated Egyptians accepted that by respecting the fearsome crocodile as a divine being, they would be protected from assaults. The left side is committed to Haroeris, the ”Great Doctor” (a type of bird of prey-headed god Horus the Elder) alongside his associate Ta-Sent-Nefer, the ”Great Sister” (another type of Hathor).

Around evening time you’ll expedite at the port in Aswan.

Loosen up this evening ready the solace of your Nile voyage and appreciate the evening of amusement, including neighborhood Egyptian music.

A Journey Back in Time

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Get onto a departure from Aswan with the direct support of Abu Simbel. The inexact flight time is 45 minutes.

Kindly note, gear limitations apply to this territorial flight. 1) Maximum of one checked sack, weighing up to 50 lbs (23 kg) – Economy, 70 lbs (32 kgs) – Business; Checked things can’t be bigger than 62 square inches (158cm). 2) Guests can likewise welcome a piece of lightweight baggage with the greatest load of 17 lbs (8 kg). Travelers flying in Business Class may welcome two bits of portable gear.

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The two Temples of Abu Simbel are remarkable in style and viewed as the magnum opuses of antiquated Egypt. With your private guide, investigate the greatness and glory of the new Kingdom – a wonder of antiquated design yet in addition to current advancement. The whole construction was moved from its unique home in Aswan 180 miles away by street to its present area on a fake slope produced using a domed design, high over the Aswan High Dam supply to safeguard it from being lowered during the formation of Lake Nasser during the flooding of the dam. The migration project was a joint exertion between the Egyptian government and UNESCO, ensuring the Temples of Abu Simbel and downriver Philae under the bigger UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the ”Nubian Monuments”, and was probably the best test of archeological designing ever. The Temple of Ramesses II was committed to the four all-inclusive divine beings Ptah, Re-Her-Akhtey, Amun-Re, and to Ramesses II himself. The Temple of Queen Nefertari is additionally Called the Temple of Hathor who was the spouse of the Sun God so in a representative manner, the two Temples, that of Ramsses II and that of Nefertari, bring Ramesses II, Nefertari, Hathor, and the Sun God together as one. The estimated span of the visit to the sanctuaries is 90 minutes.

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Get onto a departure from Abu Simbel with direct assistance to Aswan. The inexact flight time is 45 minutes.

Kindly note, gear limitations apply to this local flight. 1) Maximum of one checked pack, weighing up to 50 lbs (23 kg) – Economy, 70 lbs (32 kgs) – Business; Checked things can’t be bigger than 62 square inches (158cm). 2) Guests can likewise welcome a piece of portable gear with the greatest load of 17 lbs (8 kg). Travelers flying in Business Class may welcome two bits of lightweight gear.

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Set sail on a Nile experience and take in the landscape around Aswan on board a customary, non-mechanized felucca. Delicately sail past the little, oval-molded El Nabatat Island, otherwise called Kitchener’s Island, and investigate the rich Aswan Botanical Island that highlights trees from the 5 landmasses. View the Mausoleum of Aga Khan having a place with Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah prior to cruising once more into Aswan.

Loosen up this evening ready the solace of your Nile journey and appreciate the evening of amusement, including nearby Egyptian music.

This evening you’ll expedite at the port in Aswan.

Sights and Insights

The amazing Aswan High Dam was a wonder of design when it was built. Initially considered to Egypt’s water system of farmland to moderate against dry season and starvation in low-water years, and flooding in high-water years. Visit the dam with your private guide and go through half-day finding out about Aswan. The dam dislodged more than 100,000 Nubians in Sudan and Egypt the same and was essential for a significant movement project for archeological locales under the UNESCO Nubia Campaign, including the Abu Simbel sanctuaries and Philae. Different destinations were ultimately overwhelmed by Lake Nasser, the world’s biggest fake lake that was made by the Aswan High Dam. At that point head to Philae and the Temple of Isis on Agilikia Island. Stop at the stone quarries to see the incomplete pillar, the biggest known old monolith, and an awesome useful showing of the techniques utilized by old specialists to make great minutes. Imprints from laborers’ apparatuses are still obviously noticeable on the bedrock.

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Get onto a trip in Aswan with direct help to Cairo. The surmised flight span is one hour and 30 minutes.

Kindly note, gear limitations apply to this territorial flight. 1) Maximum of one checked pack, weighing up to 50 lbs (23 kg) – Economy, 70 lbs (32 kgs) – Business; Checked things can’t be bigger than 62 direct inches (158cm). 2) Guests can likewise welcome a piece of portable baggage with a most extreme load of 17 lbs (8 kg). Travelers flying in Business Class may welcome two bits of lightweight baggage.

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For an exceptional private supper, experienced board and oriental felucca boat and inundate yourself in the rich social legacy of Cairo as you voyage down the powerful River Nile. Subsequent to being moved to the wharf, board your boat for the night and appreciate an extraordinary night on the Nile. Your own server serves you a 3-course supper as you take in the sparkling horizon of Cairo around evening time. The monumental lodgings, spans, and the actual waterway give a captivating setting to this evening’s experience. Enjoy the scrumptious cooking, appreciate the installed amusement and open your faculties to Cairo’s evident charms. Subsequent to showing up back at the dock, you will be moved back to your convenience.

Investigate a City of Contrasts

The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, otherwise called the Egyptian Museum, is a genuine mother lode of Ancient Egypt’s relics, with a broad assortment of in excess of 120,000 things split between its shows and storerooms. Dive into the authentic foundation of Egypt on an entire day private visit with your Egyptologist manage through the world’s biggest assortment of Pharaonic relics, respecting the fortunes that are put away here for care. Tie together the loftiness of Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel with an assortment of archeological finds including sculptures, gems, ornaments, stone caskets, papyrus, antiquated coins, and the tales of well-known Egyptologists. Wonder about the flawless magnificence of the Mask of Tutankhamun and his final resting place – Egypt’s most popular adolescent lord – in spite of the fact that his mummy is as yet in its unique burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings. Investigate the Royal Mummy Hall with your included extra charge, where a portion of the world’s most influential individuals are presently resting, unearthed from their burial chambers in the Valleys of the Kings and Queens.

Unwind and appreciate a smorgasbord lunch at a nearby café, including a decision of a little jug of water, soda pop, tea, or espresso.

As the day attracts to a nearby, Cairo’s Khan Khalili Bazaar turns into an energetic scene: a labyrinth of shops fixed with gifts and collectibles, cafés and coffeehouses, workshops, mosques, and food merchants. The sights and sounds intermix in a captivating presentation over drifting fragrances of newly prepared bread and simmering meats. Walk around Al Moaz Street with your private guide, and wonder about the biggest convergence of archaic engineering treasures from the Islamic world. End the evening with a paramount supper at the Egyptian eatery Naguib Mahfouz, situated in the core of the market. The café is one of Cairo’s first-class eating foundations. After supper, get back to your inn by private vehicle.

Walking the Magical Streets

Cairo and the encompassing territory around the Nile have been possessed for centuries, and the core of old Cairo is as yet home to a large group of old remains recounting the account of the Persians and the early rise of Christianity. With your private guide and driver, head to the remaining parts of the Babylon Fortress, initially developed by the Persians around the sixth century BC. These remnants are the city of Cairo’s most established unique construction – while the pyramids are more seasoned, they are close by Giza. Inside the limits of the Fortress of Babylon are various significant Coptic Christian Churches, including the Church of St. Sergius and Bacchus Church, otherwise called Abu Serga, built on where the Holy Family is accounted for to have rested at during the finish of their excursion into Egypt. Visit the Hanging Church, probably the most seasoned places of worship in Egypt. Its nave is suspended over an entry and the congregation was the seat of the Coptic Pope for quite a long time after it was moved from Alexandria following the Muslim success of Egypt. See the Church of Saint Barbara, an enduring illustration of antiquated Coptic engineering honoring a fourth-century neighborhood holy person. End the day with a visit to the Coptic Museum which houses the biggest assortment of Egyptian Christian ancient rarities on the planet and significant instances of Coptic craftsmanship.

Unwind and appreciate a smorgasbord lunch at a nearby eatery, including a decision of a little jug of water, soda pop, tea, or espresso.

Bon Voyage

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