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Egypt Part of Cape to Cairo Gold Tour10 days duration (11 days including travel days to and from Africa).
Today you will board your flight from home heading for Africa. If you are coming from Australia you will fly via Singapore, where you remain in transit until your flight to Cairo departs later this afternoon.
On arrival in Cairo (late tonight for those travelling from Australia) you are met and transferred to our centrally located city hotel for a two-night stay. Here at the hotel you meet up with your Tour Conductor and the other members of your group. (Meals Inflight)
We have the morning at leisure to acclimatise to our new surroundings. After lunch we pay a visit to the Citadel of Salah ad-Din with its prominent Mohamed Ali Mosque, also known as the Alabaster Mosque. (BL)
Today we are transferred to the airport for our flight to Luxor. On arrival in Luxor, sometimes called the “worlds’ greatest open air museum”, we will be met and transferred to our all suite Nile cruise boat for a fabulous four-night stay.
In the afternoon we undertake a visit to the impressive Karnak and Luxor Temples. Karnak was constructed over a period spanning thirteen hundred years and is the largest temple complex in the world. It was considered at the time to be “The Most Sacred of Places”. The Luxor Temple was built as a setting for the Festival of Opet in which the king was transformed into a divine being.
Following dinner we are treated to a traditional belly dancing performance. (BLD)
Today we concentrate on the West Bank of the Nile, known in ancient times as “The Place of the Dead”, where we visit the Valley of the Kings. Due to the Pharaohs’ fearing that structures such as the Great Pyramids of Giza would be plundered, they changed their thinking and started hiding their tombs as they have done in the Valley of the Kings. Two of the most well known Pharaohs buried here are Ramses II and Tutankhamun. We also visit the labourers’ camp, Deir el-Medina, just over the mountain from the Valley of the Kings and home to the many people who constructed the various tombs.
On our way back to Luxor we visit the Temple of Deir el Bahari, the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, dramatically overshadowed by the Peak of the Thebes, as well the Colossi of Memnon, both facing the River Nile.
After lunch we depart Luxor and sail to Esna. While travelling up the Nile we witness the local people farming the banks of the river as their ancestors have done for many thousands of years. (BLD)
Today we visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu. Edfu was also known as the Greek City of Apollinopolis Magna and was a religious and commercial centre. The Temple of Horus, located on its outskirts, was dedicated to the Falcon Headed God and dates back to 237 BC. After visiting the temple we rejoin our cruise boat and sail to Kom Ombo, “City of Gold”.
We have the opportunity to attend a Galabya Party after dinner tonight. (BLD)
After breakfast we visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, which is made up of two identical temples. One was dedicated to the Crocodile God, Sobek, and the other to the Older Falcon Headed God, Haroeies. Following our visit we complete the final leg of our voyage to Aswan.
Later we visit the Aswan High Dam and the Northern Quarry where the unfinished Obelisk has remained for centuries following a crack that formed in it at the time it was being fashioned. This is followed by a visit to the Philae Complex, situated on a small island in the Nile and dominated by the Temple of Isis.
After dinner we attend a Nubian Folkloric Show. (BLD)
This morning we will be taken to the airport for our short flight to Abu Simbel in Nubia, home to the famous Temples of Ramses II and his wife Nefertari. We are taken on a tour of these temples which are arguably the most impressive in Egypt. Following the tour we return to the airport for our flight to Cairo via Aswan.
On arrival in Cairo we are taken to our hotel strategically located near the Pyramids for an exotic 3 night stay. (B)
After breakfast we are taken to the Giza Plateau where we visit the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) as well as the Great Sphinx for a daytime viewing of these famous monuments. Napoleon Bonaparte summed them up in the following statement to his troops before the Battle of Giza in 1798: ‘From atop these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you’. They are arguably the most recognisable landmarks known to man and in addition, are the only of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World” still standing today.
This evening we are taken to the Giza Pyramids where we have dinner and view a spectacular Sound & Light Show. (BLD)
After breakfast we undertake a very interesting tour to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. Opened in 1902, it is world renowned for its Tutankhamun Gold Collection and the mummies of eleven of Ancient Egypt’s Pharaohs or their wives who are housed here.
Later we visit the Khan el-Khalili Market, founded in 1382 to control goods moving between the East and the West. Here we have an enjoyable lunch before having the opportunity to wander around the market and do any last minute curio, jewellery or clothes shopping before returning to our hotel.
This evening we have a final ‘tour farewell’ dinner hosted by Inca Tours. (BLD)
After a leisurely breakfast we are transferred to the airport for our early afternoon flight. (B, Meals Inflight)
We arrive into Singapore early this morning where you connect with your respective flights back home. You arrive home this evening. (Meals Inflight)
All prices are subject to currency fluctuations, additional airline charges and changes in costs from ground suppliers. We reserve the right to vary any part of the tour at our sole discretion as circumstances may require.
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