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Private 7-Night Cairo, Luxor, and Nile Cruise, with Flights Day 1 Arrival Cairo Your Guide will meet you at the airport and transfer to hotel. check in 12.00 s Day 2 Pyramid and Cairo Tours (B) visit the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus, the Great Sphinx, Lunch by client (own expense) visit the Egyptian Museum, Day 3 Flight to Luxor/ East Bank (B,L,D) flight to Luxor. Board your ship, visit the Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple. Day 4 Luxor West Bank/ Edfu (B,L,D) Optional tour: Luxor hot balloon Visit the Valley of the Kings, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, and head to the Colossi of Memnon. sail to Edfu Day 5 Edfu / Kom Ombo (B,L,D) breakfast, visit the Ptolemaic Temple dedicated to Horus at Edfu. Sail to Kom Ombo visit Temple of Sobek, dedicated to Sobek the crocodile god, Day 6 Aswan Sightseeing (B,L,D) Optional tour: Abu Simbel by Van, visit the High Dam and the Unfinished Obelisk, Day 7 Return to Cairo (B) breakfast, disembark from cruise. flight to Cairo. Optional tour to visit Alexandria OR Coptic & Islamic Cairo OR Sakkara & Memphis Day 8 Departure (B) transfer to the airport for your flight Cairo & Nile Cruise start Luxor / end Aswan INCLUDES in this tour 3 nights in a hotel in Cairo with breakfast 4 nights on a Nile Cruise ship, full board 7x breakfast, 4x lunch, 4x dinner EXCLUDES in this tour Entrance fees Philae boat Gratuities Domestic flights Cairo/Luxor Aswan/Cairo All transfers by a PRIVATE A/C vehicle.
The Sphinx CAIRO The Pyramids : Excludes enter the Pyramids There are three, built by Cheops, Chepren and Mycerinos, the largest being over 137m (450ft) high and containing some three million huge blocks of stone. Khufu Pyramid Statistics A total of over 2,300,000 blocks of limestone and granite were used in its construction with the average block weighing 2.5 tons and none weighing less than 2 tons. The large blocks used in the ceiling of the King's Chamber weigh as much as 9 tons. Construction date (Estimated): 2589 B.C.. Construction time (Estimated): 20 years. Total weight (Estimated): 6.5 million tons. The estimated total weight of the structure is 6.5 million tons! The base of the pyramid covers 13 acres, 568,500 square feet and the length of each side was originally 754 feet, but is now 745 feet. The sphinx appears to have started in Egypt in the form of a sun god. The sphinx is usually a head of a king wearing his head dress and the body of a lion. Chephren's workers shaped the stone into the lion and gave it their king's face over 4,500 years ago. The sphinx faces the rising sun with a temple to the front, which resembles the sun temples, which were built later by the kings of the 5th Dynasty. It is possible that it is Chephren. If that is so, it would then be the oldest known royal portrait in such large scale The Grand Egyptian Museum The Grand Egyptian Museum is situated between modern Cairo and the ancient pyramids, where the desert joins the floodplain. Poised between worlds, it has been conceived as a portal through time. It will be the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization. The museum will cover approximately 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history and house more than 100,000 artefacts. Its location, planned to draw visitors back through the ages to ancient Egypt, has been exploited to the full. Visitors will be able to see the pyramids of Khufu and Men- KOM OMBO EDFU Kom Ombo temple Contains a temple and settlement site. It is dedicated to the gods Sobek and Haroeris and dates from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. It was built as if there were a wall down the middle, and each of the gods has his own entrance and sanctuary. On the banks of the Nile, it still holds some of the mummified crocodiles sacred to Sobek The Chapel of Hathour is located in the North Eastern section of the Temple of Kom Ombo and it consists of a rectangle shaped chapel constructed higher than the ground and reached through climbing some steps. The Chapel of Sobek is Situated in the North Eastern section of the temple of Kom Ombo, a Roman style chapel constructed in the 3rd century AD was dedicated to the god Sobek Temple of Horus at Edfu
ASWAN Abu Simbel Nefertari Temple The first Temple was built by King Ramses II and is dedicated to the God Re-Hor-Akhty, Amon, Ptah, and King Ramses II as a deified King. Its façade is 35m long and 30m high. The façade has four seated colossi of the King; each one is 20m tall and represents the King seated on his throne wearing the double crown, accompanied by 3 small figures of his wives, daughters and sons flanking his leg The Temple of Nefertari The Temple of Queen Nefertari is located 120m from the Temple of Ramses II and was also built by Ramses II, dedicated to the Goddess Hathor and to his wife Queen Nefertari. Queen Nefertari was the principal, and the most be- Philae temple The Temple of ISIS The Outer Court is flanked by two colonades, the eastern and the western one, which was never completed. The western one holds windows which were overlooking the island of Bigeh before the removal of the buildings to Agilkia. The eastern one was never completed, but here are the chapels to Arensnuphis and Mandulis, LUXOR Karnak temple Houses the Great Temple of Amun, which was constructed over a period of 2,000 years and is the world's largest columned temple. From the grand avenue of ram-headed sphinxes bearing the name of Ramses II to the great Hypostyle Hall with its 134 columns conceived by Seti I, on to the towering obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut and beyond to the Sacred Lake which bore the barques of the Theban Triad, Amun, Mut and Khonsu, the Valley of the Kings the Valley of the Kings is completely inferior as funerary complexes compared to the pyramids further north in Egypt. But the decorations here illustrate the thoughts and ideas, There are usually 30-40 open tombs, but they size varies a lot as well as the artistic level of the wall decorations. Most visitors will be satisfied with visiting 3-5 tombs (The Temple of Isis ) The Temple of Het-Hert (Hathor) The small temple of Het-Hert, just east of the great temple of Isis and facing towards the west, was built by Ptolemy VI and extended by Ptolemy VIII and the Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius. Amenhotep III built Luxor Temple. The architect and overseer of the works of construction was the genius Amenhotep, son of Habu. The Temple run close and parallel to the river Nile from north to south. It was constructed on the site of a small Temple of Amon, built by kings of the 12th dynasty. At the time of Amenhotep III the Temple was only 190m in length and 55m in width. Basically, Luxor Temple was consecrated to Amon Ra in his fertility aspect. Luxor temple Temple of Queen Hatshepsut the first woman to claim the title of pharaoh. Although images of the queen were systematically defaced by her successor, many of the reliefs depicting major events of her reign remain. The columns in the Shrine of Hathor bearing the face of that goddess are of particular The Colossi of Memnon Amenhotep III (18th Dyn) built a mortuary temple in Thebes that was guarded by two gigantic statues on the outer gates. All that remains now are the 19.5m statues of Amenhotep. Long after Amenhotep the Greeks decided that the statue represented their hero, Memnon, son of Tithonus, and Eos,