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04 Nights / 05 Days |
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Arrive Safaga Harbor Please advise Arrival details {Sea Cruise Name & Exact Arrival Time} where you will be met by our representative with sign of your name then will accompany you by private air conditioned car to Luxor. Arrive Luxor our Private Professional Egyptology English Speaking guide will meet you to accompany you by private air-conditioned car to visit West Bank Valley of Kings Egyptian thought that (To speak the name of the dead is to make him live again" is certainly carried out in the building of the tombs), where the ancient Egyptians entombed their leaders. Many tombs have been raided, and many artifacts are in museums worldwide, but the guide will tell you interesting stories as you soak in the atmosphere. Then visit Temple of Queen Hatshepsut is one of the most dramatically situated in the world. The queen's architect, Senenmut, designed it and set it at the head of a valley over shadowed by the Peak. visit Karnak Temple built over 2000 years and dedicated to the Theben triad of Amon, Mut and Khons. Karnak can be a confusing place, its buildings spanning a long period in Egyptian history. Most visitors have very little time to see much of the temple, and many visits are needed to get even a brief idea of the temple as a whole Then visit Luxor Temple the center of the most important one, the festival of Opet (Once a year the divine image of Amun with his consort Mut and their son Khonsu would journey in their sacred barques from Karnak Temples to the temple at Luxor to celebrate the festival which was held during the inundation. It Built largely by Amenhotep III and Ramesses II, it appears that the temple's purpose was for a suitable setting for the rituals of the festival. Overnight in Luxor |
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Breakfast at hotel & Check-out our Private Professional Egyptology English Speaking guide will meet you to accompany you by private air-conditioned car to transfer to Aswan On The Way to Aswan will Stop to visit Temple of Hours in Edfu where the temple was excavated last century by Auguste Mariette. Its courtyard and surrounds were buried beneath sand and also houses built by local villagers. Deep within the temple is the sanctuary where a statue of Horus would have been cared for by priests. Temple of Kom Ombo the temple is unique because it is in fact a double temple, dedicated to Sobek the crocodile god, and Horus the falcon-headed god. visit The High Dam a modern wonder built to divert the Nile to prevent flooding and provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt . Then visit Philae Temple was dismantled and reassembled (on Agilika Island about 550 meters from its original home on Philae Island ) in the wake of the High Dam. The temple dedicated to the goddess Isis is in a beautiful setting which has been landscaped to match its original site. Then drive to hotel Check-in & Overnight in Aswan |
Day 3: |
Our Private Professional Egyptology English Speaking guide will meet you to accompany you by private air-conditioned Car to visit Abu Simbel ( the visit of Abu Simbel by convoy starts either at 04 .00 A.M or 11 A.M & it takes almost 8 hours ) where you will join the group of your language accompanied by local guide and visit to Abu Simbel where you will see (The Temple of Ramesses II)and (The Temple of Nefertari dedicated to Hathor) that was the last bastion of ancient Egyptian religion and hieroglyphic usage. It is also a superb example of threatened cultural heritage being saved in the face of modern civilization's march to change the environment. At the Temple of Abu Simbel, 65 feet high four statues of the king are shown sitting in pairs at the entrance. The head and upper body of the statues on the left fell down during the ancient period. East facing temple has the sculpture of the Re-Horakhty, the Sun God; excavated on the niche right above the entrance. The temple is build in such a manner that the rays of the sun illuminate even the innermost sanctuary of the temple and fall on the seated statues of the Ptah, Amun-Re, Ramesses II and Re-Horakhty twice a year, on 22nd February and 22nd October. Then drive back to Aswan then drive to Airport to Fly to Cairo Arrive Cairo Our rep will drive you to The Hotel Check-in & Overnight in Cairo |
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Breakfast at hotel Our private professional Egyptology English Speaking Guide will meet you to accompany you by air conditioned private car to visit The Great three Pyramids one of the seven wonders of the ancient World. The largest and oldest of the Pyramids of Giza is that of Cheops (Khufu) was built in the 4th dynasty about 2960 B.C and visiting them is an experience not to be missed to discover the main idea was to build the pyramids; the ancient Egyptian believed in their belief that the spirit life after death and existence eternal life. So, near the pyramid there they placed wooden boats, to be at the disposal of the king when he went on his journey of day and night with the sun god (RA), in the after world. In the front of the Pyramid of Khephre, we find the Sphinx carved from a single piece of stone, Eulogized in poetry, enthroned in legend, the Sphinx remains a symbol of strength, wisdom and mystery for eons. The body of a lion with the head of a king or God .The Sphinx faces the rising sun with a temple to the front which resembles the sun temples. Lunch at Oriental Restaurant. then visit Egyptian Museum which exhibited collections now exceed 120000 objects ranges from prehistoric era to the Greco – Roman period .It has actually been calculated that if you spend one minute at each exhibit it will take nine months to see the whole collection! Of course, everybody wants to see the treasures from Tutankhamen's tomb - these occupy a large area along almost two side of the upper floor. Chariots, gloves, jeweler, the famous mask - many of the antiquities from his tomb are displayed there. Then drive back to Hotel & Overnight in Cairo |
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Breakfast at hotel & Check-out . our Rep will meet you to accompany you by private air-conditioned car to transfer to Safaga Port for Final Departure |
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