7 jours - Le Caire, Assouan et Louxor avec le meilleur d'Alexandrie (visite du musée GEM)

Welcome to Egypt. Our airport transfer team is available 24/7. As soon as you get out of the exit gate of the Terminal, you will find Ancient Egypt Tours representative, holding a sign, waiting to meet and greet you. He will escort you to your private A/C vehicle. You will be transferred to the hotel and the reception manager will assist you in check-in procedures as smooth as possible. Ancient Egypt Tours agent will contact you to agree on a meeting time with you

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Transfer from/to the airport is included in your tour package

Check-in in all hotels is at 14:00

Check-out is at 12:00

In case you arrive early then check-in limit you can enjoy waiting in the hotel until check-in time or you can ask your operator to book you a pre-tour extra night and get checked in immediately

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Optional Tour:

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2-hour open buffet dinner Nile cruise including a belly dancer, local band and skirt rotation performer if your tour starts in Cairo

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Sound and Light show if available

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Overnight in Cairo

Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo and then met your personal guide who will accompany you to Giza Plateau to visit one of the seven wonders of the ancient world  The great  Pyramid of Khufu’s (Cheops),3 small pyramids You will continue to explore the rest of Giza plateau including the sight of Khafre’s (kaphren) pyramid - Khufu's son, the second-largest pyramid on Giza site,, the remains of the funeral temple, the pyramid of Mankawra( Mykerinus) and 3 small pyramids. Then proceed to visit the Great Sphinx, the head of a pharaoh with a lion's body, which dates from the time of Chephren; the tour also includes a visit to the Valley Temple, which belongs to the pyramids of chefren This temple served definitely two functions: First, it was used for the purification of the mummy of the king before its burial. Second, it was used for making the Mummification process of the king. After visiting the pyramids, you'll then continue across the plateau for a photo opportunity of the three pyramids rising from the sands, with the Cairo skyline in the background. Proceed to have your lunch at local restaurant

Then Move to visit the Grand Egyptian Museum. The museum spans an area of 490,000 square meters and includes a number of exhibition halls, each of which is considered larger than many existing museums in Egypt and the world. The museum is one of the most important and greatest achievements of modern Egypt. It was established to be an integrated global cultural, civilization, and entertainment landmark, and to be the primary destination for everyone interested in ancient Egyptian heritage. GEM is the largest museum in the world to tell the story of ancient Egyptian civilization, housing a large number of unique and distinguished artifacts, including the treasures of the Golden King Tutankhamun, which are displayed in full for the first time since the discovery of his tomb in November 1922. This is in addition to the collection of Queen Hetepheres, mother of King Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, as well as the King Khufu Solar Boat Museum, and various archaeological holdings from the Pre-Dynastic Period up to the Greco-Roman eras.

Transfer to the train station for your overnight Sleeper train to Aswan. Dinner on the train, overnight Sleeper train to Aswan

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast on the train, Arrival, meet & assist by our representatives and transfer to  visit the world famous High Dam, An engineering miracle was constructed between 1960 and 1970. It aimed to increase economic production by further regulating the annual river flooding and providing storage of water for agriculture, and later, to generate hydroelectricity. The dam has had a significant impact on the economy and culture of Egypt, and then move to the Unfinished Obelisk, This obelisk is believed to belong to Queen Hatshepsut, one of the rulers of the 18th dynasty and the royal wife of king Tuthmosis II. The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt. It is unknown which pharaoh created this structure. It is nearly one third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected. If finished it would have measured around 42 m and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons. Then move to the beautiful located Philae temple Sail by felucca (Egyptian sailboat) to the island of Agilkia, Visit the temple that was removed from their original island of Philae which lies submerged most of the year by the waters of Lake Nasser. The main Temple of Isis and its monuments were built between the 26th-dynasty and the Roman period. you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Overnight in Aswan

Itinerary in Upper Egypt could be subject to some changes in time and order of visits but you will visit all the sites listed in your itinerary and you will be notified by your guide 

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Après le petit-déjeuner à l'hôtel, notre représentant vous transfère à la gare d'Assouan pour votre train à destination de Louxor, arrivée à Louxor. Accueil et assistance par notre guide, début de votre visite touristique à Louxor par une visite de la rive est du Nil. Vous visiterez le temple de Karnak, le plus grand lieu de culte jamais construit. Dans l'Égypte ancienne, le pouvoir du dieu Amon de Thèbes s'est progressivement accru au début du Nouvel Empire, et après la courte persécution menée par Akhenaton, il a atteint son apogée. Sous le règne de Ramsès III, plus des deux tiers des biens possédés par les temples appartiennent à Amon, comme en témoignent les stupéfiants édifices de Karnak. Bien que très endommagé, aucun site en Égypte n'est plus impressionnant que Karnak. C'est le plus grand complexe de temples jamais construit par l'homme, et il représente l'œuvre combinée de plusieurs générations de bâtisseurs antiques. Le temple de Karnak se compose en fait de trois temples principaux, de temples fermés plus petits et de plusieurs temples extérieurs situés à environ trois kilomètres au nord de Louxor, en Égypte, sur un terrain de 100 hectares. Karnak est le nom moderne du site. Son ancien nom était Ipet-isut, qui signifie "le plus sélect (ou sacré) des lieux".

Vous continuerez à explorer puis serez transféré sur la rive ouest de Louxor, où vous visiterez le temple mortuaire de la reine Hatchepsout à El Deir El Bahary La reine Hatchepsout fut la première grande femme de l'histoire : la précurseure de personnages tels que Cléopâtre, Catherine la Grande et Elizabeth I. Le temple mortuaire d'Hatchepsout est le point central du complexe de Deir el-Bahri, composé de temples mortuaires et de tombes, situé sur la rive ouest du Nil, en face de la ville de Louxor. Hatchepsout était une femme pharaon. Son temple, ce temple a été construit sur trois surfaces prenant la forme de balcons, consacré principalement au culte du dieu Amon, et à l'accomplissement des rites funéraires pour la reine connue sous le nom d'El Deir El Bahary.

La Vallée des Rois, créée et utilisée de 1539 à 1075 avant J.-C. environ, contient une soixantaine de tombes. Elle contient une soixantaine de tombes, de Thoutmosis Ier à Ramsès X ou XI. Le nom officiel du site était The Great and Majestic Necropolis of the Millions of Years of the Pharaoh, Life, Strength, Health in The West of Thebes, ou plus couramment, the Great Field. La tombe la plus célèbre est KV62, la tombe du roi Toutânkhamon. La découverte de la tombe du roi Toutankhamon a été faite par Howard Carter en 1922. La tombe de Toutankhamon a été la première tombe royale à être découverte qui était encore en grande partie intacte. Vous visiterez 3 tombes. De plus, un déjeuner vous sera servi pendant l'excursion.

Les Colosses de Memnon sont les deux statues de pierre massives du pharaon Amenhotep III. Depuis 3 400 ans, elles trônent dans la nécropole thébaine, de l'autre côté du Nil, en face de la ville de Louxor. La fonction première des colosses était de monter la garde à l'entrée du temple commémoratif ou mortuaire d'Amenhotep. Transfert à la gare pour votre train de nuit vers Le Caire, dîner dans le train. Train de nuit vers Le Caire.

Repas : Petit déjeuner, Déjeuner, Dîner

Have your breakfast on train, meet & assist by our representative and you will be transferred to  to Coptic Cairo to visit   Babylon Fortress and the Hanging Church, Church of St. Barbara, Church of St. Sergius and Ben Ezra synagogue.

Enrich you tour with a visit to Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque which is the very first mosque built in Egypt.

Before extending your trip, you will be served with a warm delightful lunch meal at a high-quality restaurant.

After lunch, you will move on to visit the Citadel of Salah El-Din, where you will see the view of all Cairo, as you will visit Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque which is considered the largest to be built in the beginning of the 19th century the ruler of Egypt (1805-1849) who ruled Egypt over 45 years & it is built in Baruk style.

If there is enough time, you will take a walk in Khan El Khalili Bazaar, the most Historically famous and oldest Market in the Middle East. Later, you will be transferred to Hotel 

Overnight in Cairo

Meal: Breakfast - Lunch

Breakfast, Ancient Egypt Tours Tours representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo, then drive to Alexandria by A/C car,  We will drive almost 210 kilometers to Alexandria City, the second largest city in Egypt known as “The Pearl of the Mediterranean. Visit to Pompay's Pillar. It was constructed in honor of the Emperor Diocletian at the end of the 4th century. Originally from the Temple of the Serapis, it was once a magnificent structure rivaling the Soma and the Caesarean. Then you drive to visit the Catacombs which are the largest Roman Cemetery consisting of three levels cut in the rock, Lunch at local restaurant in Alexandria

Then you drive along the Cornish to see the whole city passing over bridge of stanly land mark of modern Alexandria, and then we proceed to see the Qaitbay Citadel which was built on the site of the ancient pharaohs (lighthouse) of Alexandria  and Then you drive to visit  best sites in Alexandria Start with NEW library of Alexandria (The Bibliotheca Alexandrina) the biggest library in the world now with 8 million books, Site of lighthouse one of the seven wonders of ancient world Finally you will drive back to your hotel in Cairo.

Overnight in Cairo

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before you leave to the airport for your flight back home. Ancient Egypt Tours representative will pick you up and transfer you to the airport.

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Pick-up for international flights is 4 hours before departure time of your flight

For domestic flights, 3 hours before departure time is enough

If your flight is early before breakfast time you can make arrangements with the hotel to prepare a breakfast box for you to take it on your way to the airport.

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Meals: Breakfast

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Ancient Egypt Tours had a great time with you and hope you have enjoyed your time and was satisfied with the services you were offered