12 Days Around Egypt: Cairo, El-Fayoum, El-Minya, Assiut, Abydos, Dendera, and 4 Nights Cruise LXR/ASW

• After breakfast you will be in company with our Egyptologist guide when your journey begins by visiting the greatest pyramids of Giza and meet Sphinx while he guarding this part of history.
• Then heading towards Sakkara contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolisfor the ancient Egyptian capital, and where you will also visit the Pyramid of Djoser which called the Step Tomb, built by the royal architect Imhotep and you will have the opportunity to visit his archaeological museum. And the Tombs of Old Kingdom will be visited as well.
• The Egyptologist will take you to visit Dahshour and its pyramids.
• Lunch high reputation local restaurant in Giza.
• Then you will have rest in one of our local restaurant to enjoy your lunch.
• Transfer back to your hotel for overnight.

• Breakfast at hotel.
• Now it's time to visit the Egyptian Museum where you can see about 250,000 ancient pieces' displays the real meaning of art. And it's noteworthy that Tutankhamen section would be watched with his enclosed treasures.
• Moving toward Old Cairo where you will visit the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As which the oldest surviving mosque in Egypt and Africa, visit the Hanging Church the oldest churches in Egyptwhich dates to the third century. It belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. And finally will visit Ben Ezra Synagogue the oldest Jewish temple in Cairo.
• Lunch in one the most guaranteed restaurant in the Down-Town.
• Now it's time to visit Khan-El Khalili and to walk into Mamluk Egypt and feel this era's vibe.
• Transfer back to your hotel for overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• The Egyptologist guide will pick you up to drive about 80km to reach El-Fayoum which is one of Egypt’s richest and most treasured natural landmarks.  Lake Qarun received its protectorate status, not only because of its obvious beauty and importance for birds and people, but also for its unparalleled historical, natural and scientific importance.
• The trip will be proceeded by visiting the national park of Wadi Rayan which is full of amazing landscapes such as oases, mountains, rock formations and waterfalls.
• Enjoying your picnic lunch.
• Drive will be proceeded until reach El-Minya governorate directly to your hotel and check-in.
• Overnight at the hotel.

• Accompanied Egyptologist will pick you up to visit the necropolis of Tune El-Gebel which is considered the largest cemetery Graeco-Roman in Egypt. And Since more than 100 years' archaeologists attempt to discover the secrets in the sand of the desert. Most of the buildings belong to the Ptolemaic and Roman period between 300 BC and 300 AD.
• Then continue to Al Ashmunien, the ancient city of Hermopolis, where you will visit the open museum with the two colossal baboon statues and the ruins of the basilica church with its Rose granite columns.
• Now it's the last stop of the day to visit Beni Hasan, this site includes some of the most impressive tombs of the Middle Kingdom. Its rich and well-preserved tombs attest the economic prosperity that it enjoyed.
• Back to the hotel and overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Pick up from the hotel to visit Tall Al-Amarna, it’s a site of the ruins and tombs of the cityof Akhetaton in Upper Egypt, on a virgin site on the east bank of the Nile River. Akhetaton is one of the few ancient Egyptian cities that has been carefully excavated.
• Then you will be heading to Al Muharraq Monastery, 48 kilometers north of Assiut. Where were The Holy Family, (the child Jesus and his mother St. Mary, St. Joseph the carpenter and Salome; their helper), rested in that modest house after it was repaired and restored by St. Joseph, and it’s a chance to know why they stayed there more than 6 months which is considered the longest term of their Holly journey.
• Then you will visit The necropolis of Meir, and here are the graves of the monarchs, mayors and priests of Cusaefrom the ancient Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdom.
• Drive directly to Abydos.
• Check-in the hotel and overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Pick up from the hotel to visit Shunet El Zebib which is made of hardened mudbricks and was built by the ancient Egyptianking (pharaoh) Khasekhemwy. And it's also considered the first building over the whole history.
• Visit the temple of Seti the first (the great temple of Abydos) which is one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. The temple was built by pharaoh Seti I. At the rear of the temple there is the Osireion and it contains the best-coloured high Reliefs in Egypt and Abydos King List, showing the cartouche name of many dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from the first, Narmer or Menes, until Ramses himself.
• Enjoying lunch in high quality restaurant.
• Drive to reach the complex of Dendera temple which is one of the best-preserved templecomplexes of ancient Egypt. And it was known also as Hatour Temple, the goddess of love, music and dancing.
• Drive directly to your hotel in Luxor and overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Our representative will pick you up from the hotel to the Nile Cruise.
• Chick-in the cruise and the lunch will be served on board.
• The Egyptologist guide will pick you up to start your first visit around the Eastern bank of the Nile to Karnak temple which comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, and Luxor temple was constructed approximately 1400 BCE.
• Dinner on board and overnight.

• Breakfast on board.
• You will be met with the Egyptologist guide for the most valuable tour around the Western bank of the Nile, where you will be charmed of knowing the secrets of Valley of the Kings (three tombs included), as much as you will be thrilled with the stories of Hatshepsut temple, and finally the Colossi of Memnon.
• Lunch on board and sailing from Luxor will be started.
• Dinner on board and overnight on the Nile cruise.

• Breakfast on board.
• The Egyptologist guide will pick you up in local traditional transportation to visit Edfu Temple which is one of the most striking and complete of ancient Egyptian temples and is dedicated to the worship of the god Horus. Situated on the western bank of the Nile.
• Lunch on board.
• Pick up from the Nile cruise with the Egyptologist giude to visit the temple of Kom-Ombo and see how it's unique as a building because of its double design and duplicated for two sets of gods, one half dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and the other half to Horus the Elder.
• Dinner on board while the sailing is proceeds to Aswan.
• Overnight on board.

• Breakfast on board while the Nile cruise is docked in Aswan.
• Pick up from the Nile cruise to visit the temple of Philae Island which is famed for its beauty and was known as the "Pearl of Egypt'. And the High Dam which is one of the world's largest embankment dams.
• Back to the Nile cruise and lunch will be served on board.

Optional trip possibility Suitable time to make an additional tour to the Nubian Village by the motor boat and feel the vibe of the Nubian life and its colorful oriental homes.

• Dinner on board and overnight.

• Breakfast on board.

Optional choice

• Before the sunrise you will be met with our representative.
• In a private A/C modern vehicle you will travel from Aswan to Abu Simbel village, and your private Egyptologist will be accompanied.
• After about Three hours you will reach the greatest temple of the great king Ramesses the second.
• The Egyptologist will take you and travel through time to explore what is among the most awe-inspiring monuments of Egypt. It was cut into the living rock by King Ramesses II (the Great) of the Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1264 BC. The temple is most well-known for the four imposing seated colossal statues that dominate its façade. One of these collapsed because of an ancient earthquake, and its fragments can still be seen on the ground.
• Transfer back with the same vehicle from Abu Simbel to Aswan.
• Check-out the cruise and our representative will pick you up to Aswan airport for a domestic flight to Cairo where you will catch your return home flight.