Figures from Mark Twain to tycoons to heads of state have journeyed to Egypt for the adventure. Treasures and sights unfold at a stately pace: ancient columned temples, tombs containing inestimable riches, green fields irrigated by life-giving waters, looming desert ridges.
Of course, there are excursions before and after to the mysterious Sphinx and to the venerable and modern wonders of Aswan . Add Jerusalem . Compare with the 24-Days El Amarna Version

Enjoy the ultimate version of this Egyptian adventure. Enjoy the most luxurious steamer accommodation available: The Four Seasons Hotel and Mena House ( Palace Wing , overlooking the Pyramids , and even have the option of floating over the legendary Valley of the Kings in a hot air balloon, on this upscale package. Leave any day ( Subject to availability of air space & Nile cruise) . Compare with the 12-day version . we have included even the tips. No Hidden Charges . No Additional Tax

DAY 1 - CAIRO
onward to your hotel. Traditional sweets await you, with our compliments. Visa for Egypt maybe issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport for a limited number of citizens such as : American, EU , Canadian , EU Singaporean and Japanese citizens. Guests are to to pay for it upon arrival ( approx : $ 15 - subject to change ) . You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo . After exiting the terminal, our local representative will escort you to the hotel . Private air condition car for your transfer. Private chauffeur

DAY 2 - CAIRO (BL)
Private air condition vehicle for your tour today . Private chauffeur, private Egyptologist .
Your exploration of ancient Egypt begins today! We'll start after breakfast with the Egyptian Museum. Here you'll see the treasures of the ancient pharaohs including the mummies room , King Tut's Gold Treasure Room , statuary, and precious stones and metals. Travelers have long come to Cairo just to gaze on these sights alone. But there's more. After lunch Egyptian-style at Hadaik el-Azhar or Naguib Mahfouz restaurant , we'll tour Wekalet El-Ghouri Caravanserai, the Alabaster Mosque, Saladins' Citadel, and Sultan Hassan Madrassa , enjoy a leisurely walking tour of the legendary Khan El-Khalili bazaar district. Conclude a memorable day as we host you on a Nile dinner cruise complete with exotic Egyptian entertainment.

DAY 3 - CAIRO (BLD)
Private air condition vehicle for your tour today . Private chauffeur, private Egyptologist .
After breakfast we'll motor to Giza to tour the mysterious Sphinx, Cheops Royal Barge Museum, and the Pyramids on the edge of Cairo. Taking a camel ride (Included) is entirely your own choice! After lunch at the Mena House, we head for Memphis , Sakkara , and tour the Step Pyramid of Zoser , the Nobles Mastabas and Imhotep Museum .

Complimentary Dinner is included at a local home:
Meet the locals, you may wish to bring token gifts to exchange with the host family ( T shirt , small souvenirs of your home town):
This evening we'll venture where few ordinary visitors ever tread . . . right into the homes of some of the people of Cairo l! You'll be invited to a family dinner, and while you enjoy wholesome home-cooked specialties, you'll learn about and appreciate the outlook, aspirations, and way of life of your hosts. Be assured, as curious as you may be about your new friends, they're sure to have questions about your own background. Once the ice is broken, you'll enjoy a lively evening, and find that you have more in common than you ever suspected. Of course, you may enjoy a quiet evening with your travel companions, by letting us know your preferences.

DAY 4 - ABU SIMBEL / ASWAN (BL)
Private air condition car for your transfer. Private chauffeur .
Our Cairo personnel will escort you to the airport to board your flight to Abu Simbel where you PRIVATE car/driver and guide will be waiting for you in ABU SIMBEL , tour the mighty temples of Ramses the Great & Queen Neferatri then back to Aswan and your hotel : Movenpick Aswan or similar , please note that the legendary colonial style : Old Cataract ( is closed for renovations ).

Ramses the Great's huge desert temple at Abu Simbel marked the southern border of the pharaoh's dominions. Rescued from the rising waters of Lake Nasser by an international effort, it is a marvel of sacred engineering. Twice a year‹and only then the sun penetrates to the Holy of Holies, illuminating the stone figures of Ramses and Nefertari.

Fly back to Aswan , where afternoon High Tea is included on the famous terrace over looking the Nile, where Agatha Christi wrote " Death On the Nile " Remainder of the day at leisure.

DAY 5 - ASWAN- Board your Nile Cruise (BLD)
American or buffet breakfast at the hotel. Morning at leisure.

By noon we'll escort you to your Luxury floating hotel. You'll settle in to your cabin on your Nile cruiser, where a fruit basket awaits you, then enjoy lunch on board. We'll have the opportunity to experience Egypt at its most authentic, as we sail the Nile in a graceful Felucca, the age-old sailing vessel of the river. If you wish, try your hand at camel riding! We'll take a traditional caravan to enjoy tea with Nubian villagers. Back in Aswan, enjoy a welcome dinner on board your cruise.

DAY 6 - ASWAN / KOM OMBO (BLD)
Board a launch to visit the Temples of Philae, rescued from rising waters when the High Dam was built. Then, back aboard our cruiser, we'll sail down river at a stately pace to Kom Ombo, the twin temple dedicated to the crocodile river god, Sobek. While you are on board the cruise, afternoon tea will be served daily on deck.

DAY 7 - EDFU, ESNA (BLD)
Horse-drawn carriages meet us at riverside to take us through Edfu to the Temple of Horus, best-preserved in all of Egypt. Later, we'll cruise to Esna, and by evening, we'll be in fabled Luxor.
Egyptian sweets platter will be delivered to your cabin today with our compliments.

DAY 8 - LUXOR (BLD)
We'll cross the Nile to view an array of ancient splendors: the tomb chambers of the Valley of the Kings; the imposing tomb-temple of Queen Hatshepsut in the Valley of the Queens including Nefertari's Tomb ; and the Colossi of Memnon. In the afternoon we tour the charming Luxor Museum. Evening Sound & Light show at Karnak

DAY 9 - HOT AIR BALLOON OVER LUXOR, CAIRO (BD)
Rise early in the morning to get ready for an exciting trip today floating over the legendary Valley of the Kings in a hot air balloon, on this upscale package ( please deduct $250 if you prefer not to join in the balloon excursion). We'll visit the imposing Great Temple of Amon at Karnak and the Temple of Luxor before heading to the airport to catch our flight to Cairo. Private air condition car for your transfer. Private chauffeur. We'll settle you into your hotel. Dinner is included at La Bodega restaurant .

DAY 10 - Fayoum Oases (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 11 - DEPARTURE (aB)
Private air condition car for your transfer. Private chauffeur .Our Cairo-based staff escorts you to the airport, where you'll begin your journey home. Bon Voyage!

This tour starts daily in Cairo , throughout the year. Subject to the availability of air space & the Nile Cruise.

Please note that the Nile vessels and cruise itineraries are subject to change.
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• Per person sharing in Triple occupancy : US$ 4630
• Per person sharing in Double occupancy : US$ 4650
• Per person sharing in Single occupancy : US$ 5965

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