EGYPTIAN EXPERIENCE BY SLEEPING TRAIN

Description

Cairo – Alex - Aswan - Luxor - 7 Nights

 

DAY 1 – Arrive Cairo

Meals: 0

Upon arrival at Cairo finalize your passport through Immigration and Customs.

Your REP will transfer you to your hotel

-At night Dinner cruise by night on the Nile with entertainment with guide and AC van + open buffet dinner

-Over night at hotel

Mercure le sphinx Deluxe 4 stars hotel

 

DAY 2 – Pyramids

Meals: B, L,D

After Breakfast  check out and going by car to the area of one of the wonders of the ancient world.. Here is the Great Pyramid of king Khufu, along with other 8 pyramids and the Great Sphinx.. Within the area you will have the chance to enter inside one of the pyramids. Then we will visit Old part in Cairo where we can see the hanging church

Air-conditioned van - Private Guide –Lunch and dinner included)

Transfer to Aswan by night train overnight in sleeping train

 

DAY 3 – Aswan Tour

Meals: B,L

Arrive to Aswan  Private full day tour of the, Obelisk and Philae Temple

The unfinished Obelisk lies in the quarry north of the city and would have been the largest ancient Egyptian obelisk if it had been finished. The Philae Temple was actually moved from its original site due to the construction of the High Dam.  (Lunch included)

Overnight in Aswan

1 night in Aswan at Basma hotel. B.B.

 

DAY 4 – Luxor

Meals: B,L

Check out then going to Luxor by road and night stay in Luxor

afternoon visit to Luxor, the East Bank with the magnificent and most sacred temple  Luxor Temple then have lunch

Enjoy the hotel facilities

1 night in Luxor at Etap hotel. B.B

 

DAY 5 – Luxor / Cairo

Meals: B, L, D.

After breakfast ahead to visit to the West Bank including the Valley of the Kings and Temple of Queen Hatshepsut..and the two colossi of Memnon

Then Enjoy your lunch in local restaurant.

Proceed to Cairo by night train overnight sleeping train

 

DAY 6 – City Tour Cairo

Meals: B, L

Upon arrival to Cairo you will  visit the Egyptian Museum. The museum is the house of the magnificent ancient Egyptian antiquities from different periods throughout the ancient Egyptian history.

The magnificent treasure of King Tutankhamen, whose tomb was recently discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter, had been moved to this museum along with his famous 11 kg mask of gold.

Afternoon you will enjoy a tour at a tour at Khan al-Khalili Bazar which is one of the oldest markets in the East. Unique places where you can buy souvenirs, watch the illuminated mosques of the Fatimid Cairo, meet local people, drink the tasty Egyptian tea and try the water pipe, also we have chance to visit workshops for Gold,

After Lunch move to the first fort in the Islamic Period in Cairo Salah Alden citadel and  Alabaster Mosque  of king Mohammad Ali then transfer to the hotel

Mercure le sphinx Deluxe 4 stars hotel

 

DAY 7 – Over Day to Alexandria

Meals: B, L

Early this morning, head from Cairo to Alexandria. In Alexandria, you will visit the fort of Quaitbay (built on the original site of the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria and from the lighthouse ruins), the Catacombs of Kom El Shokafa (a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and other artifacts influenced by the Hellenistic, and the Roman theatre.. Lunch is included. In the evening, return Cairo.

Mercure le sphinx Deluxe 4 stars hotel

 

DAY 7 – Departure To Home

Meals: B,

After Breakfast at the appropriate time you will be met at your hotel to transfer back to the Cairo airport for your departing flight to home.

Price includes

*3 nights in Cairo at Mercure Le Sphinx Hotel B.B.

*1 night sleeping train Cairo / Aswan H.B

*1 night in Aswan at Basma hotel. B.B.

*1 night in Luxor at Etap hotel. B.B

*1 night sleeping train Luxor/Cairo .H.B

*All Transfers in Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Alexandria.

*Sightseeing Cairo, Luxor, Aswan,  Alexandria including lunch.

*Dinner on Nile cruise in Cairo.

*Transfer by bus from Aswan to Luxor.

 

Price excludes:

*Entry visa to Egypt ($ 25. -)

* International airfare tickets.

*Drinks and meals not mentioned above like soft drinks, alcoholic, etc…..)