Day 1- Cairo
Arrived at the airport of Cairo where our representative will accomodate you and assist in the various steps to follow. You will be then accompanied in the private car to your hotel. Night in hotel.
Day 2 – Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. Visit plate of Gizeh with the three large Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god under an aspect avenger. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid with degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the mastabas.... And to finish the day, visits of Memphis, a colossus of Ramsès II out of alabaster of beautiful dimensions. Night in hotel.
Day 8- Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. The morning, transfer in private car to the airport of Luxor to take the flight in direction of Cairo. Flight Luxor/ Cairo. Arrived at Cairo, reception and Visit of the Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed Ali also the coptic district, this district is older than the city itself: it should be seen to have an idea of the atmosphere in which the first Christians in Egypt lived.coptic Churches,Coptic museum, church of Serge Saint. Stop by the visit of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who shelters more than 250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon. Night in hotel.
Day 4 - Cairo/Alexandria/ Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. Early the morning, departure towards Alexandria in the private car , this city built into 332 before JC by the Greek architect Dinocrates on the order of Alexandre the Large one. Visit initially fortress of Qayet bai recently restored. Passage to the Column of Pumped, then Visit of the amphitheatre Roman of Egyptian women el-Dick, released in 1963, pilot single of the many places of spectacles built in Alexandria. To lunch. Visit famous library of Alexandria building to the futurist architecture (library and interesting archaeological museum), visits of the catacombs of Kom El Shuqqaffa (Ier and IIè century. ap. J.-C.) and its hypogean on several levels, which are among the most important Roman burials in Egypt. At the End of visit, the return to Cairo night in hotel.
Day 5 - Cairo/Luxor
Breakfast in hotel. Early the morning, transfer to airport of Cairo to take the flight in direction of Luxor. Flight Cairo/Luxor. Arrived at Luxor, reception by our representative and discovered Valley of the Kings, where the majority of the Pharaons of XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, of the girls, sometimes of wire of the kings of XIX and XX dynasties. Then continuation towards the two imposing Colossi of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic funerary temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist nowadays any more. And finally the visit of the Temple of Hatshepsout, the funerary temple of Hatchepsout, dedicated to the Amon god, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple thébain is single and is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the mountain thébaine to which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by approach ramps transfer in the private car to your boat of cruising. Installation in your cabins. lunch. Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to the glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses were venerated there. It is the known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of Luxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Rê and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go up in Amenhotep III and Ramsès II. Dinner and night on board.
Day 6 - Luxor/ Esna/Edfu
Breakfast on board. In morning, beginning of navigation in direction of Edfou. Lunch . After the Passage of the Lock of Esna, navigation and arrival with Edfu in the evening. Dinner and night on board.
Day 7 - Edfu/Kom Ombo
Breakfast on board . Departure in the barouche for the visit of the Temple of Edfu, the Holy City of Horus and the temple built in its honor. This temple with extravagant dimensions is preserved best of all Egypt. Lunch . Navigation towards Kom Ombo. Visit Temple of Kom Ombo, whose characteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon). Navigation to Aswan. Dinner and night on board.
Day 8 - Aswan
Break fast on board . Visit Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the Isis goddess, then the granite career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Nasser Stopping giving rise to the Lake Nasser. Lunch . Walk into feloucca around the Eléphantine island is the best means of feeling the Nile and of releasing themselves with the sandstone of the wind. To dinner on board followed on one oriental show (evening costume with Eastern spectacle: dancer and traditional music). Night on board.
Day 9 - Aswan
Breakfast on board. Unloading and Transfer in the private car to your boat on the Lake Nasser. Lunch . Visit temple of Kalabsha, the first Nubian temple has to be moved and of that of Ramsès II has Beit El Wali, transported thanks to UNESCO to save it water of the New Stopping. Dinner has followed by a Nubian Spectacle. Night on board .
Day 10 - Aswan/Kalabsha/Beit El Wali/Wadi El Sebou
Breakfast on board . Beginning of Navigation towards Wadi El Sebou. To lunch on board . Free day devotes has navigation and the relaxtion on board . Spectacle of light has Wadi El Sebou. Dinner and night on board
Day 11 - Wadi El Sebou/Dakka/Amada/Kasr Ibrim
Breakfast on board . The morning, visits temple of Wadi El Sebou devoted has Amon-Ra and that of dedicated Dakka of Thot. Navigation towards Amada. To lunch on board . Visit temple of Amada of the time of Thoutmosis III. Navigation towards Kasr Ibrim. Dinner and night on board
. Day 12 - Kasr Ibrim/Abou Simbel
Breakfast on board. Sight on the temple of Kasr Ibrim (of the exterior). To lunch on board . Navigation towards Abo Simbel and visit of the temples of Abo Simbel, the temple dedicated to Ramsès II and of its splendid Néfertari wife.sound and Light in Abo Simbel (option). Dinner and night on board .
Day 13 - Abou Simbel/ Cairo
Breakfast on board . Then transfer in the private car to the airport to take the flight in direction of Cairo (with stopover). Flight Abo Simbel/ Cairo. Arrival to Cairo, reception and transfer to your hotel. Remain free day. Night in hotel.
Day 14 – Cairo
Breakfast in hotel and transfer in the private car to the international airport of Cairo for your departure.
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