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8 Day Egypt at Glance Tour (Cairo and Nile Cruise)
Accessible Nile
Cruise
Egypt
This travel package is the best choice for travelers who adores Egypt and the Pharaonic civilization as it enable them to visit the monuments located in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, including the Pyramids of Giza, and all the major attractions of Luxor and Aswan as well.
This package includes a wonderful ride down the Nile between Luxor and Aswan for four nights in a luxurious deluxe five starts Nile Cruise Ship.
This Travel package is one of the best classical tours of Egypt that gives the traveler the chance to discover all the major wonders of the Pharaohs that were ever built on the Land of the Nile.
This trip is carefully designed to suit the needs and the requirements of any traveler who loves luxury and comfort. All transportations will be made using comfortable private air-conditioned minivans and all the accommodations will be in perfectly prepared rooms faultlessly designed to fit our disabled guests.
Your Nile Cruise will be on one of the best ships that sail down the Nile from Luxor to Aswan with a wheelchair accessible elevator. The tour guides escorting the guests will be highly educated and experienced in satisfying all the needs and the requirements a traveler might think of.
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Duration |
7 nights 8 days |
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Visited in this travel
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Cairo,
Luxor and
Aswan |
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Accommodation |
4 nights hotel Cairo , 4 nights Nile cruise |
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Meals |
Cairo with breakfast, Nile cruise full board |
Beverage |
not include |
Transportation |
by our
private
deluxe
coach |
Guide |
included |
Click map for |
Entrance fees |
included |
detailed route |
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The summary of the
itinerary |
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Day1 |
arrival in Cairo with the rest of the day free at leisure |
Day2 |
Cairo Tour: visiting the pyramids of Giza, the Egyptian Museum, and the Khan El Khalili Market. |
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Day3 |
take the airplane from Cairo to Luxor, embark your deluxe Nile Cruise, and visit the Karnak and the Luxor temples in the afternoon. |
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Visit the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Hatshepsut, and the Colossi of Memnon.
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Day5 |
Sail down the Nile in your Nile Cruise to Edfu to visit the temple of Horus, and then sail to Kom Ombo. |
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Visit the Temple of Sobek in Kom Ombo, sail to Aswan, and visit the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk, and the temple of Philae. |
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Take the airplane from Aswan to Cairo, a free evening at leisure in Cairo |
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Transfer to the Cairo airport for your final departure. |
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The full itinerary of the
Tour: |
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Day 1 : |
Cairo |
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Upon arrival in Cairo, the guest will meet the Select Egypt Travel representative who will be your best friend for the coming five days. We only deal with local highly educated and experienced company representatives who have fluent English and wonderful communication skills.
After the "meet and greet", the guest will be
transferred to his hotel, his home away from home, using
the best comfortable wheelchair accessible
air-conditioned minivans.
The guest will check in the hotel in a few minutes to enable him/her to rest and refresh for an amazing tour of Cairo in the next day.
The rooms in the hotel are designed to suit the needs of disabled guests.
Overnight in the hotel
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Day 2 : |
Cairo |
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The guest will enjoy a delicious breakfast to energize his power for his tour in Cairo.
After breakfast, you will meet up with your highly educated long experienced Egyptologist who will escort you for the rest of the day.
Your first visit of the day will be to the Pyramids of Giza, the most popular monument in the whole world, built by the pharaohs from the period starting from 2590 BC to 2480 BC. You will have the chance to explore the wonders of the Great Pyramid, the largest Pyramid ever constructed in Egypt which was built by King Cheops in 2589 BC, and it is the only remaining item in the list of the Greek Old Seven wonders of the world. You will discover the beauty of the lion's body and the human headed sphinx, one of the largest monolith statues in history of mankind.
Your tour will be accompanied, all the time, with wonderful historical interpretation explaining the reasons behind building such massive structure.
Your next stop of the day will be at the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities hosting the largest collection of Pharonic displays in the whole world including the startling treasures of King Tut Ankh Amun and the Royal mummies' hall. This is besides many other exhibitions form different Pharaonic periods.
Your tour of the Museum will be accompanied by the perfect illustration of different stages of the Egyptian history.
Your last visit of the day will be to Khan El Khalili, the largest and most famous touristic market in the world. This bazar, built in 1382 during the Mamluk reign, is the best place to shop for Egyptian gifs and souvenirs to take home from Cairo.
All the sights visited is comfortably wheelchair
accessible
Overnight in the hotel
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Day 3 : |
Cairo - Luxor (Nile Cruise) |
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After having tasty breakfast, the guest will check out the hotel in Cairo.
Transfer using the most comfortable air-conditioned minivan to the Cairo international airport to take the flight going to Luxor.
Arrival in Luxor and then embark the best deluxe luxurious Nile Cruise, which will be your home for the coming four nights. You will have a nice comfortable cabin with wheelchair accessible bathroom. The elevator in the Nile Cruise is also wheelchair accessible to give you a marvelous chance to easily reach the sundeck to enjoy the wonderful Nile and greenery scenes.
You will start your visits in the afternoon by exploring the Karnak Temple, the largest religious Pharaonic structure ever built in the world. The kings of the Pharaohs staring from the 11th dynasty (2055 – 1985 BC) began adding their mark, one after the other, to this huge complex of Pharaonic temples. The Karnak temple includes the breathtaking hypostyle hall of the god Amun built by Ramses II in 1244 BC, the sacred lake of god Amun, and many more attractions.
Your next visit this evening will be to the Luxor Temple. Dedicated to the holy Thebian triad, the gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, it is one of the finest examples of the Pharaonic architecture. Although the construction work of the temple was mainly completed by Amenhotep
III (1390 – 1352 BC) and Ramses II (1279 1213 BC), many
kings who came afterwards have added their marks to this
great complex including Alexander the Great. The Luxor
temple was buried under sand and dust for years until it
was discovered in 1881.
All the sights visited is comfortably wheelchair accessible
Enjoy the evening in the Nile Cruise or touring Luxor on
your own style.
Overnight in the Nile Cruise. |
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Day 4 : |
Luxor (Nile
Cruise) |
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After a wonderful open buffet breakfast, you will start touring the wonders of the West Bank of Luxor.
Your first visit of the day will be the Valley of
the Kings, the necropolis of the Pharaonic New Kingdom. Starting from 17th dynasty, the Pharaonic Kings tried to hide their royal tombs from robbers.
This was why they began to dig their tombs deep inside a Thebian mountain that has a natural pyramid structure. These tombs have the finest colored decorations with the famous tomb of Tut Ankh Amun discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 and may other royal tombs belonging to the kings of the 18th and the 19th dynasty.
- Your next stop will be the amazing the mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut.
This temple was constructed by the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut (1473 – 1458 BC) as a unique structure rising from the desert in the shape of imposing terraces. This temple was used as a monastery in the Christian era. This is why it is famous for the name "El Deir Al Bahry", or the Western Monastery.
Your last stop of the day will be at the gigantic Colossi of Memnon. These two 18 meters high statues are the only remaining items of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III. During the roman era, music was heard coming out of one of the statues that were attributed, by the Greeks, as the legendary figure of Memnon greeting his mother Eos in one of the Greek myths.
All the sights visited is comfortably wheelchair accessible
Enjoy the evening in the Nile Cruise
- Sail to Esna and overnight in the Nile Cruise.
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Day 5 : |
Edfu – Kom Ombo (Nile Cruise) |
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After breakfast, you will have an early visit to the Temple of Horus in Edfu. This temple is the largest and best preserved Ptolemaic temple in Egypt. The building work of the temple started during the reign of Ptolemy III in 237 BC and the construction continued until 80 BC. The temple includes wonderfully decorated walls and stone capitals.
All the sights visited is comfortably wheelchair accessible
Afterwards the ship will sail to the South to reach Kom Ombo at night
Enjoy the evening in the Nile Cruise
Overnight in the Nile Cruise
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Day 6 : |
Kom Ombo
– Aswan (Nile
Cruise) |
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After breakfast, you will have the chance to visit the amazing Temple Of Kom Ombo dedicated to two gods; Horus, the falcon god, and Sobek, the crocodile god. The Greco-Roman temple is famous for its matchless location overlooking the Nile. Construction work of the temple started in the 2nd century BC by Ptolemy VI and was completed during the reign of Ptolemy XII during the 1st century AD.
Your next visit of the day will be to the High Dam, built by the former Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1960s to reserve the Nile Water that was lost every year in the artificial Nasser Lake. The High Dam, that was viewed as an architectural miracle at the time, also generates a lot of the electricity consumed in Egypt
- The guest afterwards will go to visit the famous unfinished obelisk, a gigantic granite obelisk dating back to the Pharaohs New Kingdom. If this huge obelisk was completed it would have weighed more than 1197 tons. This will be a marvelous chance to understand how the ancient Egyptians were capable of building such gigantic structures.
Your final visit of the day will be to one of the most beautiful temples constructed in Egypt, the Temple of Philae. This fabulous temple dedicated to the goddess Isis was constructed as one of the finest examples of the combined architecture of ancient Egyptians and the Greco-Romans styles. This temple, due to the construction of the High Dam was all covered with water until it was relocated in its present day location in the Agilika Island by the UNESCO project that took 8 years from 1972 to 1980 to be completed
All the sights visited is comfortably wheelchair
accessible.
The guest will have the chance to go on the optional tour for the Sound and Light Show at the Philae Temple to enjoy listening to a great demonstration of the history of the temple and the story of the goddess Isis.
Enjoy the evening in the Nile Cruise or touring Aswan on your own style
Overnight in the Nile Cruise |
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Day 7 : |
Aswan -
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After breakfast, you will be transferred by the comfortable minivan to the Aswan airport to take the flight going to Cairo
Arrival at Cairo and checking in the hotel
A free evening to spend at leisure in Cairo
Overnight in the hotel
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Day 8 : |
Cairo
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After having the delicious breakfast, the guest will be transferred to the Cairo international airport for his final departure after a startling trip in Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan
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Price
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Accommodation |
Number of
guests |
1st
May - 30th Sep
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1st
Oct - 30th April
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Christmas - New Year
Easter Period
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5 Star |
2 guests |
670
Euro per person |
820
Euro per person |
980
Euro per person |
3 guests |
600
Euro per person |
745
Euro per person |
885
Euro per person |
4 guests |
565
Euro per person |
715
Euro per person |
850
Euro per person |
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Price includes: |
Four nights
accommodation in hotel in Cairo with Prepared rooms
for the disabled travelers.
On bed and breakfast basis.
Three nights accommodation in Nile cruise with
Prepared cabins for the disabled travelers.
On full board basis.
All local transfers by comfortable private A/C
minivan.
Sightseeing tours as mentioned in the program
Entry fees for the sites
English speaking guide in all the historical places
guide
Assistance and help during the day
All taxes
For the formalities and the safety of our customers,
we inform the Ministry of the Egyptian Tourism of
our programs.
There are no hidden costs whatsoever!!
Important Note:
we offer you with the possibility of having any
optional tour to visit any cities or monuments that
you wish to explore in any destination in Egypt that
are not included in your travel package.
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Price excludes: |
Entry visa of Egypt.
Personal expenses.
Beverage during meals.
Tips.
Entrance inside any of the Pyramids of Giza.
Visit the Mummies’ room in the Egyptian Museum
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Medical Equipments available to be rented: |
- Manual wheelchairs
- Power chairs
- Beach chairs
- Manual wheelchairs
- Commode shower chairs
- Raised toilet seats
- Manual bed hoists
- Walkers, canes, crutches
- Oxygen Cylinders
- Light weight scooters
- Oxygen Concentrators
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Monuments included in this travel package: |
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The Khan El Khalili touristic Market
The Egyptian Museum
The colossi of Memnon
The Temple of Horus in Edfu
The Temple of Sobek in Kom Ombo
The High Dam |
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