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The Great Wonders of Egypt (Ancient Egypt Tour )
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Cairo, Oasis desert safari and Nile Cruise Luxor Aswan |
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This travel package would
be the most perfect choice for travelers who are
visiting Egypt for the first time as it provides them
with a great opportunity to visit many historical sites
and do a number of interesting activities while they are
on their vacation to Egypt.
This Ancient Egypt Tours package would suit the requirements of all
travelers from different regions around the world as it
contains everything that Egypt has to offer to its
guests. The first stage of the journey will consist of
spending three nights to visit all the major highlights
and attractions in Cairo. The next stage will be having
a camp in the white desert and then spend one night in
the Bahariya Oasis to discover all the wonders of the
Egyptian white desert. The next stage of the journey
will be to spend three nights on board of a luxurious
deluxe Nile Cruise ships having all the facilities a
traveler might need.
Going on a Nile Cruise is one of the most recommended
activities to be done in Egypt. The ships are
luxuriously equipped, the food is great, the scenery
down the Nile is amazing, and the guest gets the chance
to visit all the highlights located in Southern Egypt.
One of the most significant features of this travel
package is that it enables the guest to discover all the
major attractions of Egypt being escorted with the best
experienced highly qualified and educated Egyptologists.
Everything in this travel package is faultlessly
designed to suit the needs and the requirements of
travelers coming from various backgrounds and different
regions from all over the world 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. Your Nile Cruise will be on
one of the best ships that sail down the Nile from Luxor
to Aswan. |
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Duration |
12 nights 13 days |
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| Cities Visited in this travel
package: |
Cairo,
Bahariya oasis. White Desert,
Luxor
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Aswan, |
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Accommodation |
3 nights Cairo - 3 nights Nile cruise - 1
night white Desert - 1 night Bahariya - 2
nights sleeping train |
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Meals |
Cairo with breakfast - oasis, Nile
cruise full board |
Beverage |
included only in desert camp |
Transportation |
by our
private
deluxe
coach -
jeep 4x4
- sleeper
train |
Guide |
included |
Click map for |
Entrance fees |
included |
detailed route |
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The summary of the
itinerary |
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Day 1 |
arrival in Cairo
with the rest of the day free at leisure
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Day 2 |
Cairo Tour: visiting the pyramids of Giza and the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities |
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Day 3 |
take the minivan to the
Bahariya Oasis passing by the wonders of the Black Desert and spend the night in a camp in the desert |
Day 4 |
transfer
to the
hotel in
the
Bahariya
Oasis
and
visit
the
Bahariya
Museum,
the
ancient
tombs of
the
Bahariya,
and the
temple
of
Alexander
the
Great
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Day 5 |
travel
back to
Cairo
and at
night
take the
sleeping
train to
Aswan
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| Day 6 |
arrive in Aswan, visit the High Dam and the
Philae Temple, and embark the luxurious Nile
Cruise, optional tout to the sound and light
show in the Philae Temple. |
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Day 7 |
Visit the temple of Kom Ombo and then travel to
Edfu by private minivan to visit the temple of
Horus in Edfu and reach Luxor at night to spend
the night there. |
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Visit the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of
Hatshepsut, the Colossi of Memnon, and the
Karnak Temple |
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Day 9 |
: check out the Nile Cruise and then transfer to
the train station to take the sleeper train to
Cairo |
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Day 10 |
arrive in Cairo and visit the Saqqara
Necropolis, the Saladin Citadel, and the Khan El
Khalili market. Check out and overnight in the
hotel |
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Day 11 |
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 private 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.
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.
The first stop of the day will be at the Egyptian Museum
of Antiquities hosting the largest collection of
Pharaonic 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 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.
Overnight in the hotel |
 
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Day 3 : |
Cairo –
Bahariya Oasis - White Desert |
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After having the
tasty breakfast in the hotel, it will be time to check
out the hotel . The guest will take the comfortable
private air-conditioned minivan heading towards the
Bahariya Oasis, 365 kilometers to the South West of
Cairo.
In the afternoon and after having lunch in the Bahariya Hotel, one of the
best hotels located in the western desert of Egypt
Escorted by your highly educated well experienced travel
guide, you will start your visits using the comfy 4X4
jeep.
We then we continue our trip to the Bahariya Oasis, and
on our way we visit the crystal mountain, one of the
most famous attractions of the white desert. This
Egyptian Western desert wonder consists of large quartz
naturally formed crystals inside many rocks and stones
creating a startling magical scene.
We proceed afterwards to reach the Aqabat, or the difficult passage, which
is an interesting section of the white desert hosting
the famous twin peaks, the ideal landmark for all the
travelers in the white desert.
Our last stop of the day is the most interesting as we
visit the internationally famous White Desert, the most
important attraction in the Western Desert of Egypt.
Covering a surface area of around three thousand
kilometers. It consists of bizarre chalk white rock
formations that were once the surface of a shallow sea
that covered this area in prehistoric times. The rocks
create all sorts of shapes like mushrooms, animals, and
strange looking sculptures. All this area has become a
natural protected area during the last few years.
At the end of the day, we set up our camp in the desert
to enjoy the magical atmosphere of the region, watch the
stars, have an amazing barbeque party, and spend the
night in our comfortable camp |
 
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Day 4: |
White
Desert - Bahariya Oasis
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We leave our camp
and head to the Bahariya Oasis
You can spend the rest of the day exploring the oasis
on your own style, or you can go to the amazing optional
tour of the Bahariya Oasis
The optional tour includes a visit will to the Tomb of
Bannantiu, discovered by Ahmed Fakhry in 1938, which is
a richly decorated tomb of a man who served both as a
priest and a prophet during the 26th dynasty. This tomb
is carefully painted and colored with scenes of the
afterlife with the Sun God Re starting his journey.
Your next visit will be to the Temple of Alexander the
Great built by the great Macedonian king and army
leaders during his famous visit to Siwa in 331 BC. The
ruins of this temple, discovered by Ahmed Fakhry, the
most famous archeologist who excavated monuments in the
Western Desert, contains two sandstones chapels with
bas reliefs displaying Alexander presenting offers to
the gods Horus and Amun Re
Your next stop of this interesting day exploring the
wonders of the western desert will be at the Bahariya
Museum which was established in 2005 ad it displays the
local customs and traditions being practiced in the
region.
Overnight in the hotel in the Bahariya Oasis
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Day 5 : |
Bahariya Oasis
- Cairo - Aswan |
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After having
breakfast in the hotel, we will check out to take the
comfortable private minivan to go back to Cairo
In the evening we take the comfy sleeper train to Aswan
Dinner and overnight in the train
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Day 6 : |
Aswan |
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Arrive in Aswan in
the morning and we will then ride a small water boat to
begin our visits of the day
In the afternoon we start our tour visiting 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
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. -
We embark our Nile Cruise ship, Overnight in the Nile
Cruise
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Day 7 : |
Nile
Cruise |
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After having the
breakfast we prepare in the Nile Cruise 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.
You will have the chance to 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. - Sail towards Luxor
Dinner and over night in the Nile Cruise
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Day 8 : |
Luxor -
Nile Cruise |
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After a wonderful
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 Theban 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
Your last trip of the day will be to 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
Dinner and overnight in the Nile Cruise
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Day 9 : |
Luxor - Cairo |
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After having the
wonderful breakfast in the hotel, we check out
Have a free half day to spend in Luxor in our own style
In the evening the guest is transferred to the Luxor
Train station to the comfortable sleeping train back to
Cairo - Dinner and overnight in the train |
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Day 10 : |
Cairo |
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Arrive in Cairo in
the morning to start your tour of the city
Your first stop, while being transferred in the most
comfortable air-conditioned minivan, will be in the
Saqqara complex, the necropolis of the third dynasty of
the Pharaonic Old Kingdom. This rich archeological site
hosts a number of pyramids, with the startling step
Pyramid of Djoser built in 2665 BC, which is the oldest
proper pyramid ever built in Egypt and the most ancient
rock structure built in the history of humankind.
Saqqara also has many richly decorated tombs.
Your next visit will be to discover the Saladin Citadel,
built by the great Ayoubid king and warrior, Salah El
Dine Al Ayouby between 1176 and 1183 AD to protect Cairo
and Egypt against the foreign attacks. This citadel
became the seat of the power in Egypt for a very long
period afterwards. The guest will have the chance to
visit the startling Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque
lactated inside the citadel. Mohamed Ali, who is
considered the founder of Modern Egypt, decided to build
this amazing mosque between 1830 and 1848 AD to look
like the great mosques built by the Ottomans in
Istanbul, like the famous Aya Sofia Mosque
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.
Overnight in the hotel
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Day 11 : |
Cairo Final
departure |
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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 includes: |
Meet & assist services
Three nights' accommodation at hotel in Cairo on
bed and breakfast basis.
One night accommodation at hotel in Bahariya Oasis
on full board basis
One night accommodation at camp in White Desert on
full board basis
Three nights' accommodation on board of Nile cruise on
full board
Two nights' accommodation at sleeper train on half
board basis
Camp equipment in the desert (tents, sleeping
bags..) and Jeep
All transfers (private, in air conditioned minibus,
with driver) & English speaking guide
All taxes
Entry fees for the sites
For the formalities and the safety of our guests, we
inform the Ministry of the Egyptian Tourism of our
programs
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Price excludes: |
Entry visa of Egypt.
Personal expenses.
Beverage during meals.
International airfare.
Tips.
Entrance inside any of the Pyramids of Giza.
Visit the Mummies’ room in the Egyptian Museum.
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Notes
Tours Packages in Egypt |
Sightseeing is based
on private basis and not joining other guests.
The Nile Cruise programs can be changed without prior
notice due to navigational
circumstances, Select Egypt is not liable to these changes.
Domestic flight Abu Simbel / Cairo could be via Aswan
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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Monuments included in this
travel package:
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Sightseeing Tour
ancient Egypt |
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Ancient Egypt Tourism |
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The Pyramids of Giza |
The colossi of Memnon |
The Botanical Garden |
The Black Desert |
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The Sphinx |
The Temple of Horus in Edfu |
The Kalabsha |
The sand dunes The Heiz Oasis |
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The Egyptian Museum |
The Temple of Sobek in Kom Ombo |
The Saladin Citadel |
Ain Khadra,
The Santa Tree |
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The Khan El Khalili Market |
The High Dam |
Mosque of Mohamed Ali |
The Saqqara Necropolis |
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The Karnak Temple |
The unfinished Obelisk |
The Bahariya Museum |
The Aqabat of the White Desert |
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The
Luxor Temple |
The Philae Temple |
The English Mountain |
A Cave in the White Desert |
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The Valley of the Kings |
The Queen Hatshepsut Temple |
Pyramid Mountain |
ancient Egypt travel guide |
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