12 Dagen Caïro, Alexandrië & Nijlcruise per vlucht (inclusief Komombo) (Bezoek GEM Museum)

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 the three Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos and the great sphinx which consists of human Pharaonic head and lion body, continue to visit the Valley Temple in front of Sphinx dedicated to king Chephren, Proceed to have your lunch at local restaurant, Transfer to visitthe 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.

 Back To hotel,

Overnight in Cairo

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast. Transfer to the domestic airport. Departure by the plane to Luxor. then ourrepresentative will meet and greet you at the provided pick-up location within Aswan city. Check-in is not before 14:00 so you will make use of the excess time by going on an amazing tour to:

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Karnak temple; Karnak is an extraordinary complex of sanctuaries, kiosks, pylons and obelisks dedicated to the Theban triad but also to the greater glory of pharaohs. The site covers more than 2 sq km; it’s large enough to contain about 10 cathedrals. At its heart is the Temple of Amun, the earthly ‘home’ of the local god. Built, added to, dismantled, restored, enlarged and decorated over nearly 1500 years, Karnak was the most important place of worship in Egypt during the New Kingdom.

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Luxor Temple; Largely built by the New Kingdom pharaohs Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BC) and Ramses II (1279–1213 BC), this temple is a strikingly graceful monument in the heart of the modern town. Also known as the Southern Sanctuary, its main function was during the annual Opet celebrations, when the statues of Amun, Mut and Khonsu were brought from Karnak, along the Avenue of Sphinxes, and reunited here during the inundation.

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Embark by lunch time

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Meals Included:  Lunch & Dinner

Disembark and visit Valley of the kings; The west bank of Luxor had been the site of royal burials since around 2100 BC, but it was the pharaohs of the New Kingdom period (1550–1069 BC) who chose this isolated valley dominated by the pyramid-shaped mountain peak of Al Qurn (The Horn). Once called the Great Necropolis of Millions of Years of Pharaoh, or the Place of Truth, the Valley of the Kings has 63 magnificent royal tombs.

Queen Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple; At Deir Al Bahri, the eyes first focus on the dramatic rugged limestone cliffs that rise nearly 300m above the desert plain, only to realize that at the foot of all this immense beauty lies a monument even more extraordinary, the dazzling Temple of Hatshepsut. The almost-modern-looking temple blends in beautifully with the cliffs from which it is partly cut – a marriage made in heaven. Most of what you see has been painstakingly reconstructed.

Colossi of Memnon; The two faceless Colossi of Memnon, originally representing Pharaoh Amenhotep III, rising majestically about 18m from the plain, are the first monuments tourists see when they visit the west bank. These magnificent colossi, each cut from a single block of stone and weighing 1000 tonnes, sat at the eastern entrance to the funerary temple of Amenophis III, the largest on the west bank. Egyptologists are currently excavating the temple and their discoveries can be seen behind the colossi.

Sail By lunch time towards Edfu

 Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Arrival at Edfu and visit Edfu Temple; This Ptolemaic temple, built between 237 and 57 BC, is one of the best-preserved ancient monuments in Egypt. Preserved by desert sand, which filled the place after the pagan cult was banned, the temple is dedicated to Horus, the avenging son of Isis and Osiris. With its roof intact, it is also one of the most atmospheric of ancient buildings.

Sail to Kom Ombo.

Upon arrival, visit the temple of Kom Ombo; Standing on a promontory at a bend in the Nile, where in ancient times sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the riverbank, is the Temple of Kom Ombo, one of the Nile Valley’s most beautifully sited temples. Unique in Egypt, it is dedicated to two gods; the local crocodile god Sobek, and Haroeris (from har-wer), meaning Horus the Elder. Sail to Aswan

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Philae Temple; Built to honor the goddess Isis, this was the last temple built in the classical Egyptian style. Construction began around 690 BC, and it was one of the last outposts where the goddess was worshipped. The cult of Isis continued here until at least AD 550. The boat leaves you near the Kiosk of Nectanebo, the oldest part, and the entrance to the temple is marked by the 18m-high first pylon with reliefs of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos smiting enemies.

The Unfinished Obelisk; Aswan was the source of ancient Egypt’s finest granite, used to make statues and embellish temples, pyramids and obelisks. The large unfinished obelisk in the Northern Quarries has provided valuable insight into how these monuments were created, although the full construction process is still not entirely clear. Three sides of the shaft, nearly 42m long, were completed except for the inscriptions. At 1168 tonnes, the completed obelisk would have been the single heaviest piece of stone the Egyptians ever fashioned.

High Dam; Egypt’s modern example of construction on a monumental scale, the controversial Aswan High Dam, 13km south of Aswan, contains 18 times the amount of material used in the Great Pyramid of Khufu and created Lake Nasser, one of the world’s largest artificial lakes. Transfer back to the cruise ship

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Je ontbijt aan boord voordat je van start gaat.

Optionele rondleidingen

Transfer naar de luchthaven van Aswan en vertrek met het vliegtuig naar Caïro. Aankomst en transfer naar het hotel.

Overnachting in Caïro.

Maaltijden: Ontbijt

Breakfast, Egypt Today 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,  you drive to visit 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 Aleandria.

Overnight in Aleandria

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Ontbijt. Vrije dag.

(Optioneel) bezoek het War Museum of Alamain

Overnachting in Alexandrië.

Maaltijden: Ontbijt

Ontbijt. Transfer naar Cairo met een airco auto. Aankomst en transfer om de Citadel van Salah el-Din te bezoeken, waar u het uitzicht op heel Caïro zult zien, omdat u de Mohamed Ali Alabaster Moskee bezoekt, die wordt beschouwd als de grootste die in het begin van de 19e eeuw werd gebouwd, de heerser van Egypte (1805-1849) die over 45 jaar Egypte regeerde en het is gebouwd in Turkse stijl

Voordat u uw reis verlengt, wordt u geserveerd met een warme, heerlijke lunchmaaltijd in een restaurant van hoge kwaliteit. Na de lunch

Ga verder naar het oude Caïro om gefascineerde gebouwde wonderen te bezoeken, zoals de Hangkerk die werd gebouwd in de 3e en begin van de 4e eeuw.ook in de Basiliek stijl., de Abu Sirga-kerk en de Ben Ezra Synagoge die dateert uit het begin van de 15e eeuw na Christus Het werd gebouwd in de basiliek stijl boven de grot waarin de Heilige Familie zijn toevlucht nam. Sluit je tour in Caïro af met een bezoek aan de Amr Ibn el-Aas moskee, de allereerste moskee gebouwd in Egypte, daar rijd je naar Khan Elkalili Bazar, (als er genoeg tijd is), een van de beroemdste en oudste bazaars in het Midden-Oosten. Je wordt teruggebracht naar je hotel.

Overnachting in Caïro

Maaltijden: Ontbijt, Lunch

After Breakfast, Ancient Egypt Tours representative will pick you up from your hotel, to enjoy an excursion to visit the Step Pyramid of Zoser, the world’s oldest major stone structure. It was built in the 3rd Dynasty (around 2630 BC) for King Djoser, the museum of Imhotep, the tomb of a high official, the pyramid of king Titi, the pyramid of king Unas.

Proceed to have your lunch at local restaurant in Giza.

After that transfer to Memphis, which was founded by King Menes, and was the capital of Old Egypt during the Old Kingdom, it was considered to be a center of rule and culture for over 3000 years the first capital of Egypt, the city reached a peak of prestige under the 6th dynasty as a center for the worship of Ptah, the god of creation and artworks. The alabaster sphinx that guards the Temple of Ptah serves as a memorial of the city’s former power and prestige. The Memphis triad, consisting of the creator god Ptah, his consort Sekhmet, and their son Nefertem, formed the main focus of worship in the city. Memphis declined briefly after the 18th dynasty with the rise of Thebes and the New Kingdom and was revived under the Persians before falling firmly into second place following the foundation of Alexandria and see the Statue of Ramses-ii-16 meters high, the alabaster sphinx. Pyramids of Dahshur

You will continue to explore Then transfer to the south and visit the Red Pyramid and Bent pyramid at Dahshur, Dahshuris a famous royal Necropoils in Egypt holds many famous Pyramids includes the red and bent Pyramids of king Snefru. The site is about 40 km from Cairo, the city. Then proceed to have your lunch at local restaurant. you will be transferred back to your hotel.

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