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Day 1 - cairo
Arrived at the airport of Cairo where our representative will welcom you and assist in the various steps to follow. You will be then accompanied in private vehicle to your hotel.. overnight at hotel
Day 2 - Pyramids,Memphis
Breakfast at hotel. Visit plate of Gizeh with the three large Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god under an aspect avenger. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid with degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the mastabas.... And to finish the day, visits of Memphis, a colossus of Ramsès II out of alabaster of beautiful dimensions.The evening, transfer in the private vehicle to the station of Cairo to take the sleeper train for Aswan.overnight in the train.
Day 3 - Aswan/Kom Ombo (navigation Monday, Wednesday or Friday
Breakfast in the train. Arrival at the station of train of Aswan,welcome and visit of the Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the Isis goddess, then the granite career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Nasser Stopping giving rise to the Lake Nasser. Transfer in privte vehicle to the boat. Installation in your cabin.lunch. Beginning of navigation in direction of Kom Ombo. To dine on board followed on oneoriental show (evening costume, Nubian dancer and traditional music).dinner and night on board
( Day 4 - Kom Ombo/Edfou/Esna/Luxor (navigation Monday, Wednesday or Friday)
Breakfast on board. Visit Temple of Kom Ombo, whose characteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon).lunch. Navigation until Edfou. Departure in the barouche for the visit of the Temple of Edfou, the Holy City of Horus and the temple built in its honor. This temple with extravagant dimensions is preserved best of all Egypt. Navigation towards Louxor. dinner and night on board.
Day 5 -
Breakfast On Board. Discovered Valley of the Kings, where the majority of the Pharaons of XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, of the girls, sometimes of wire of the kings of XIXe and XXe dynasties. Then continuation towards the two imposing Colossi of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funerary temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist nowadays any more. And finally the visit of Deir el-Bahari the Temple of Hatchepsout, the funerary temple of Hatchepsout, dedicated to the Amon god, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple thébain is single and is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the mountain thébaine has which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by approach ramps. lunch. Free afternoon. Dinner and Night on board
Day 6 - Luxor
breakfast On Board . Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to the glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses were venerated there. It is the known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of Louxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Rê and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go up in Amenhotep III and Ramsès II. Release of the cabin before 12h00. Afternoon, felucca ride on the Nile. The evening, transfer in privte vehicle to the station to take the sleeper train to cairo . Dinner and night in train
Day 7 - cairo
breakfast in the train. The morning, arrival in Cairo, welcome and Visit of the Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed Ali. Then visit Coptic area, this district is older than the city itself: it should be seen to have an idea of the atmosphere in which the first Christians in Egypt lived. Coptic Churches, Coptic museum, church of Serge Saint. Finish day visit with the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who shelters more than 250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon. dinner and overnight at hotel.
Day 8-cairo
breakfast at hotel.transfer in private car to the cairo airport for your departure
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