DAY 1 – CAIRO
Upon arrival to Cairo,
you will be met by Chrismar Travel representative and
transferred to your hotel for overnight.
DAY 2 – CAIRO
After breakfast, your private
Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up and start your
tour.
Drive to Giza and visit the Pyramids.
See the Sphin and the Valley Temple.
Continue to Memphis.
Lunch en route.
Continue to Sakkara
Continuing south, visit the Pyramid of Dahshour.
Return to Cairo and visit a Papyrus Institute on your
way to your hotel for overnight.
DAY 3 – CAIRO
After breakfast, drive to the
Egyptian Museum of Antiquities for a detailed, guided
tour.
Then visit Old Cairo and walk back in time, visiting
the Old Coptic Church and the Hanging Church.
Lunch
en route.
Continue to the Mohamed Ali Mosque and the streets of
Khan el Khalili Bazaar.
Return to your hotel for overnight.
DAY 4 – NILE CRUISE/ ASWAN
Transfer to Cairo
airport for your very early flight to Aswan.
Connect to your flight to visit Abu Simbel to visit
the 2 temples of Ramses II and Nefertari.
Fly back to Aswan.
Upon arrival to Aswan, you will be met by
Chrismar Travel representative and transferred to your Nile
cruise for lunch and begin sailing to Luxor. Visit the
Aswan High Dam.
Proceed to the Granite Quarries and the huge
Unfinished Obelisk.
Then take a short motorboat ride to visit the romantic and majestic
Philae Temple.
Return to your cruise for dinner & overnight.
DAY 5 – NILE CRUISE/ KOM OMBO
After breakfast, take a ride on
a Felucca around Elephantine Island.
Continue sailing around
Kitchener's Island, and
the Mausoleum of the Agha Khan.
Sail to Kom Ombo.
Dinner & overnight on board.
DAY 6 – NILE CRUISE/ EDFU
Visit the Temple of Kom Ombo.
Continue sailing to Edfu to explore the extraordinary
Temple of Horus using horse carriage to reach
the temple and back.
Dinner & overnight on board of the cruise.
DAY 7 – LUXOR
After breakfast, cross to the
West Bank of the Nile and visit the
Valley of the Kings, Rising out of the desert plain in a
series of terraces, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
On the way back to the river Nile, your road passes by
the famed Colossi of Memnon.
Dinner and overnight on board.
DAY 8 – LUXOR/ CAIRO
Disembark after breakfast.
Visit the
East Bank of the Nile
starting with the especially graceful
Temple of Luxor.
Proceed to the North of
Luxor
to the
Karnak
Temple.
Transfer to
Luxor
airport for your return flight to
Cairo.
Transfer to your hotel for overnight.
DAY 9 –
After breakfast, transfer to
Cairo
airport for your departure flight.