The Grand Isis Cruise on the Nile
Cruise Egypt in Style
onboard a Deluxe Air Conditioned Dahabiya

For Guests who want and can afford the Best. A Grand 14 -Day tour with Alexandria , Cairo and a Nile cruise onboard a Deluxe Dahabiya - Flying in Business class within Egypt .
We have even included all the tips. No Hidden Charges. No Additional tax

The New Alexandria Four Seasons Hotel
Compare with The 9 Day version : Cairo and the Dahabiya Cruise . Add Abu Simbel

Here's the best of Egypt : a good look at Cairo and a one week Yacht Felucca cruise along the Nile and even include the Abu Simbel Ramses temples in Nubia , locally escorted. Tour Starts Weekly in Cairo . The cruise boarding is in either Luxor or Aswan . Compare with the 15 day version with Alexandria . Add a beach resort stay at Sharm El Sheikh . Compare with the 11-day version . Compare with the Red Sea 17-Day version

DAY 1 - CAIRO Wednesday - Weekly in Cairo , year round
Our representative greets you at the airport and whisks you to your hotel. Visa maybe issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport for a limited number of citizens such as : American, EU , Canadian , EU Singaporean and Japanese citizens. You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo.

Hotels : City Stars Inter.continental . Nile Hilton , Cairo Conrad or Grand Hyatt or similar , or of course upgrade to the Four Seasons Hotel or the Mena House Oberoi ( Palace wing) , ok to mix and match stay between Four Seasons and Oberoi Mena House hotels , rates as listed below.
Our local rep. will meet you after you clear customs and passports formalities and exit the terminal, our local representative will escort you (private vehicle) to the hotel : Mena House Palace Wing . Grand Hyatt ( grand suite ) , The Four Seasons ( standard room) , or similar . (private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur ) to the hotel

DAY 2 - CAIRO - Thursday (BLD)
On your first full day in Egypt we show you the Egyptian Museum including the " Mummies Room" .
Lunch is included at a local restaurant . On to Al-Azhar Park and El Darb El-Ahmar , then the Citadel of Saladin, and Mohammed Ali Mosque, made of alabaster, then wander through the alleys of the charming Khan El-Khalili Bazaar district.

The Agha Khan Development Network The Azhar Park Project in old Islamic Cairo and the Conservation and Revitalization of Darb al-Ahmar historical treasures . Dinner is included at La Bodega restaurant.
Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, and private Egyptologist

DAY 3 - CAIRO- GIZA - Friday (BLD)
After breakfast , drive to the edge of Cairo , we are now in Giza , stand in awe in front of the Sphinx , and the mighty Pyramids of Giza, complimentary short Camel ride is included, to allow you a photo with the Pyramids in the background, time is limited , so please do not go for what the camel driver tries to convince you , i.e. go for a long ride around the Pyramids . Lunch is included at the Mena House or Meridien Pyramids. After lunch we head for Memphis & Sakkara , visiting some of the Mastabas and Zoser Step-Pyramid . Dinner is included at Abu El-Sid restaurant. Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, and private Egyptologist

Day 4 - Saturday - Cairo to Luxor ( or Aswan ) and board your deluxe air conditioned Felucca
Very early morning breakfast and transfer to Cairo Airport. Flight is included in our rate, in business class , subject to availability , tax included .
Morning arrival at Luxor . We'll meet you at the airport , and escort you to your deluxe air conditioned Nile cruise felucca or dahabbiya , Board Luxor ( or Aswan ) .

Embarkation in Luxor for a relaxing week sailing the Nile on a luxuriously appointed Dahabbiya.

After lunch, excursion to the West Bank for visits to the burial places of the Pharaohs - the Valley of the Kings - where Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922. Continue to the adjacent Valley of the Queens, the temple of Medinet Habu and the Colossi of Memnon.

Overnight moored on the Nile banks of Luxor. Sample : Sonesta Dahabbiya . Oum Kalthoum Dahabiya. El Bey  ,or similar . In the evening , your guide will call on you for a horse-drawn carriage ride throughout Luxor souks and Bazaar, as well as the water front. Dinner is included onboard your Dahabiya .

Day 5 - Sunday - Luxor - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
You will visit the magnificent temple complex of Amon-Ra at Karnak, with its vast hypostyle hall of 137 columns, followed by the imposing 28 th Dynasty Luxor Temple. Evening Sound and Light show at Karnak, please bring a jacket . Overnight moored in Luxor.

Day 6 - Monday - Luxor to Esna - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
Today will be a leisurely day. After breakfast, commence sailing to Esna where your Dahabbiya will moor

Day 7 - Tuesday - Edfu - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
This morning you will sail to Edfu to visit the wonderfully preserved Temple of Edfu. Overnight on board as we will look for an island in the middle of the Nile where we moor.

Day 8 - Wednesday - Kom Ombo - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
Today you will sail to Kom Ombo visit see the Ptolemaic temple dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon-headed Horus, god of the morning sun. Overnight moored beside a Nile island.

Day 9 - Thursday - Aswan - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
A leisurely day sailing to Aswan where the dahabiyya moors overnight. Evening Sound and Light Show at Philae Temple.

Day 10 - Friday - Aswan / Cairo / Alexandria - (BLD)
Today you will visit the Philae Temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis, a structure rescued from the rising waters of Lake Nasser at the time of the High Dam's construction, after which we fly back to Cairo and your hotel . Air fare is always included , in business class , from the airport in Cairo proceed with your private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur and private guide to Alexandria and your hotel: Helnan Palestine or the Four Seasons ( standard room ) . Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, for all your transfers in Aswan , Cairo and Alexandria

DAY 11 - ALEXANDRIA - Sunday (BLD)
Conqueror of the Mediterranean Coast - Alexander the Great
In 332 BC, Egypt was laboring under Persian military control when Alexander the Great arrived to drive out the invaders without the shedding of a drop of blood. The Persian governor surrendered and the conquering hero was hailed as a liberator and given Egypt's double crown symbolizing control of Upper and Lower Egypt. Alexander reinstated Egypt's traditional government and founded the city of Alexandria at the country's most important crossroads: where the Nile meets the Mediterranean.

Today, we'll get to known Alexandria in depth, as we visit the Roman Amphitheater, the Koum El Shougafa Tombs, lunch is included in an Alexandrine restaurant.

Today our tour includes as well : Qayet built on the same site of the ancient wonder of the world : the famous Alexandria Light House. A brief stop at " El Selsela" the site of the Underwater reserve where Cleopatra Place was discovered, as well as Caesar Kiosk , then its off to the new site for the Alexandria Library before heading back to south. Time permitting we 'll visit the new museum in Alexandria , the building was originally built in 1926 for the US consulate in Alexandria and is a masterpiece in 1920's architecture & Mediterranean style buildings. Return to the hotel late afternoon

In the evening we enjoy a leisurely walking guided tour of the old medina and " El Raml " Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, and private Egyptologist . Dinner is included back at the hotel ( pre-set menu )

Octavious visiting Alexander the Great's Tomb in Alexandria just after the Roman Emperor defeated Cleopatra & Marc Anthony.  He left his coat as a token of respect to Alexander the Great. The search continues for Alexander the Great's Tomb.

DAY 12 - ALEXANDRIA / CAIRO - Monday (BLD)
Breakfast , check out , proceed south towards Cairo , always in your private air-conditioned vehicle, with your private chauffeur and private guide . Midway between Alexandria and Cairo, we stop to visit the Wadi El Natroun Monastery, one of the most important sites for the Egyptian Coptic Church Establishment. Reach Cairo early evening and your hotel : Grand Hyatt or the J. W. Marriott Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur, and private Egyptologist . Dinner is included at your hotel ( pre-set menu)

DAY 13 - CAIRO -Tuesday (BL)
On Desert Safari for the Day - Fayoum Oases - And you thought the Pyramids were old
We leave Cairo by sunrise ( private air conditioned car/driver/guide): Full day Fayoum Oases including:
Hawara Pyramid, El Lahoun Pyramid, Ruins of Karanis, drive by Lake Qarun, lunch is included at a local restaurant.

The wilds of the desert begin right on the outskirts of Cairo, and continue for hundreds of miles to the east and west, through sands, rock, mountains, oases, and a surprising variety of scenery and inhabitants.

Join us for a day ranging across the desert like modern nomads. In place of camels, we’ll travel in comfortable, reliable four-by-four Toyota Land Cruisers. Your guide and drivers will meet you at your hotel, and soon you’ll leave bustling Cairo behind as you undertake the drive toward the Oasis of El Fayoum, 150 kilometers to the southwest. Hard as it is to believe, a great inland sea once covered these sands. It was a holy reserve of sacred crocodiles, symbolized by the god Sobek.

We’ll visit the temple of Kom Oshim, drive over ancient lake beds, and alongside the waters of today’s Fayoum Lake to reach the fishermen’s village of Chak Chouk. There we’ll stop for a lunch of fish caught fresh that morning. There will be time to wander the village lanes and discreetly watch the everyday activities of baking flatbread, irrigating crops from the lake’s waters, and bringing in the catch. We’ll also include the craft and pottery museum where the best works of local artisans are on display.

Then it’s into our four-by-fours again, for an off-road adventure! We’ll head alongside and across desert washes, between dunes, and over ancient lake beds for 35 kilometers to the Valley of the Whales ( In Arabic : Wadi-El-Hitan) . Incredibly, these great mammals once thrived - almost forty million years ago- in waters surrounded by sands. We’ll stop and gaze in amazement at their fossilized remains alongside smaller sea creatures that remain in stone.
This valley was discovered in 1936 , by the German geologist George Schweinfurth in the northwestern corner of Wadi El-Rayan.

The valley provides evidence of one of the major changes in this mammal evolution has been declared by the UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. It is believed that these land based whales once had feet that may have helped them somewhat while ashore . A team from the University of Michigan discovered in the late 80's that these Zeuglodon whales did have rudimentary feet , this was a startling discovery , suggesting that whales of Wadi -El-Hitan had recently started living in water as well , these whales were not related to any of the whales we have today , rather a more slender body and may grow up to 75 feet long. Several skeletons of whales are exposed in the sand. George Schweinfurth named this extinct specie the Zeuglodon Isis Whales .

In the evening, you’ll return to your hotel in Cairo. Land transportation in air-conditioned four-wheel-drive Toyota Land Cruiser with the services of driver and English-speaking driver. Lunch is included

DAY 14 - CAIRO/ Departure - Wednesday (B)
Our representative escorts you to the airport for your homeward flight. Bon Voyage
Private air-conditioned vehicle, private chauffeur .

• Six day cruise Sail the Nile in Timeless Style
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• The 9 Day version : Cairo and the Deluxe Dahabiya cruise