Egypt Highlights & Nile Cruise

Sun and Sand

The Great Pyramids of Giza are the most notorious picture of Egyptology and a flat-out must-see on any outing to Cairo. Meet with your private guide, driver, and Egyptologist, and head to Giza to find this wonder and the solitary enduring site of the first Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Start with a visit to the adjoining Solar Boat Museum, home to the reproduced Khufu sun-oriented boat. Step back from the exhibition hall and wonder about the amazing view of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Great Pyramids of Giza compared against the popular Sphinx sculpture. The sheer magnificence and charm of the Sphinx have perplexed world explorers 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 Pyramid of Chephren, otherwise called the Pyramid of Khafre. The second tallest and second-biggest of the significant pyramids, it sets on bedrock 33 feet higher than Khufu’s pyramid, which causes it to seem, by all accounts, to be taller.

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

Unwind and appreciate a smorgasbord lunch at a neighborhood café, including a decision of a little container of water, soda, tea, or espresso.

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

Investigate with an Expert

Appreciate a private air terminal exchange joined by an English-talking agent.

Load onto a trip in Cairo with direct assistance to Luxor. The rough flight length is 60 minutes.

If it’s not too much trouble, 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 stuff can’t be bigger than 62 square inches (158cm). 2) Guests can likewise welcome a piece of lightweight gear with a most extreme load of 17 lbs (8 kg). Travelers flying in Business Class may welcome two bits of lightweight gear.

Appreciate a private air terminal exchange joined by an English-talking guide.

Welcome on board!

Set aside some effort to get subsided into your stateroom and to investigate the length of your 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 remnants of Karnak and the Temples of Luxor in simple reach alongside the East Bank of the city. With your private Egyptologist control, visit the amazing UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the landmarks of Karnak and Luxor, studying old Egypt’s entrancing and protracted 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 goliath sandstone sections shipped 100 miles along the Nile stream, all-encompassing friezes. Find with your guide how the enormous façade was developed. Proceed to Luxor Temple which was once joined to the Temples of Karnak by a 1.25-mile-long Avenue of Sphinx, a part of which denotes the passage to the sanctuary. The sanctuary dates to roughly 1400 BC and is devoted to the restoration of authority instead of the Pharaohs, clique divine beings, or revered forms of the ruler in death. During the Roman period, the sanctuary and its environmental factors filled in as a legionary post and went about as the home of the Roman government nearby.

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

A Walk Through the Past

The absolute most fantastic destinations on the whole 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 popular Tomb of Tutankhamun alongside two other intriguing burial chambers. Lord Tut became Pharaoh at the young age of nine or ten, and the revelation of his almost unblemished burial chamber in 1922 entranced 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 amazing aristocrats of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt). Investigate the as of late remodeled funeral home sanctuary of Queen Hatshepsut, the second generally 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 main extraordinary 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.  Overnight at the port in Edfu.

It’s All Ancient History

A pony carriage will be hanging tight for you and your private guide when you land from your Nile voyage to investigate the Temple of Horus in Edfu. Committed to Horus, the bird of prey god, the sanctuary was worked from 230 to 57 BC by Ptolemy III and his replacements and is viewed as the best-protected clique sanctuary in Egypt as a result of its later development date. In spite of its late time inceptions, it mirrors the conventional pharaonic engineering, and the Temple’s engraved structure messages give an amazing 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 journey to investigate by walking the Kom Ombo Temple, a one-of-a-kind Greco-Roman sanctuary devoted 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 abnormal in that it is a twofold sanctuary, with one side devoted to the god Haroesis and the opposite side to Sobek. The plan is totally even, with two next to each 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 significant other (a type of Hathor) and their child Khonsu-Hor. Sobek is related to Seth, the adversary 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 regarding the fearsome crocodile as a divine being, they would be protected from assaults. The left side is devoted to Haroeris, the ”Great Doctor” (a type of the hawk-headed god Horus the Elder) alongside his associate Ta-Sent-Nefer, the ”Great Sister” (another type of Hathor).

Keep cruising forward to Aswan, where you’ll expedite at the port this evening.

A Journey Back in Time

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

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 counterfeit 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 antiquated monolith, and an awesome viable exhibition of the strategies utilized by old experts to make great minutes. Imprints from laborers’ devices are still unmistakably obvious on the bedrock.

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

The Journey Continues…

Toward the beginning of today, you’ll land from your boat and say goodbye to the team.

Appreciate a private air terminal exchange joined by an English-talking guide.

Load onto a trip in Aswan with direct assistance to Cairo. The inexact flight length is one hour and 30 minutes.

Kindly note, gear limitations apply to this local 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 portable baggage with a most extreme load of 17 lbs (8 kg). Travelers flying in Business Class may welcome two bits of portable gear.

Appreciate a private air terminal exchange joined by an English-talking delegate.

Cairo and the encompassing region around the Nile have been occupied for centuries, and the core of old Cairo is as yet home to a large group of old remains recounting the narrative of the Persians and the early development 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 vestiges are the city of Cairo’s most established unique design – 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, perhaps the most established 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 migrated from Alexandria following the Muslim triumph of Egypt. See the Church of Saint Barbara, a dependable illustration of antiquated Coptic engineering celebrating a fourth-century nearby holy person. End the day with a visit to the Coptic Museum which houses the biggest assortment of Egyptian Christian relics on the planet and significant instances of Coptic craftsmanship.

Investigate a City of Contrasts

Dive into the chronicled foundation of Egypt on a half-day private visit with a prepared Egyptologist direct through the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities which houses an inestimable fortune of archeological finds. This area holds the fortunes from the burial chamber of King Tut, Egypt’s most well-known young King!

Unwind and appreciate a smorgasbord lunch at a neighborhood eatery, 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 a lively scene: a labyrinth of shops fixed with trinkets and collectibles, eateries and cafés, workshops, mosques, and food sellers. The sights and sounds intermix in a captivating showcase over floating smells of newly heated bread and cooking meats. Walk around Al Moaz Street with your private guide, and wonder about the biggest convergence of middle age structural fortunes from the Islamic world. End the evening with a noteworthy supper at the Egyptian café 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 lodging by private vehicle.

Head Home

Appreciate a private air terminal exchange joined by an English-talking delegate.