“12-Day Egypt Tour: Cairo, Fayoum, Minya, Assiut, Abydos, Dendera & Nile Cruise”

• Explore the Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, and Valley Temple

• Visit the Egyptian Museum including King Tutankhamun’s treasures

• Optional: Khan El Khalili bazaar tour

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• Drive to El Fayoum Oasis

• Visit Lake Qarun, Wadi El-Rayan, and Magic Lake

• Explore Wadi Al Hitan (Whale Valley) – UNESCO World Heritage Site

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• Travel to El Minya

• Visit the tombs of Beni Hassan, showcasing Middle Kingdom art

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• Visit Tell El Amarna, ancient capital of Akhenaten

• Explore the Greco-Roman ruins of Tuna El-Gebel

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• Visit Monastery of the Virgin Mary (Deir Dronka)

• Explore rural Upper Egypt’s culture and hospitality

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• 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.