TESOROS DE EGIPTO

DAY 1 ARRIVAL IN CAIRO

Arrival at Cairo International Airport. Reception by a Spanish-speaking assistant and transfer to the hotel. Accommodation.

DAY 2 CAIRO – PYRAMIDS – ALABASTER MOSQUE – ANTIQUITIES MUSEUM (B, L)

Breakfast at the hotel. In the morning, we will take a panoramic tour of the Three Pyramids of Giza: Cheops, Chephren and Menkaure, the architectural complex considered the most important of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. We will admire the Great Sphinx with a human head attributed to King Chephren and the body of a lion and we will visit the Temple of Chephren. In the afternoon we will head towards the Citadel of Saladin, declared a World Heritage Site and which has the Mohamed Ali Mosque or “alabaster mosque”. We will continue our visits today by visiting the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, where the treasures of Tutankhamun are located. Lunch in a typical restaurant. Transfer to the hotel and accommodation.

DAY 3 CRUISE - ASWAN (B, L, D)

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Cairo Airport to take a flight to Aswan. Arrival in Aswan, transfer to the motor ship and boarding. We will begin with visits to the High Dam, considered the largest dam in the world at the time with a body of 3800 meters and 111 meters high, visit the Unfinished Obelisk with its height of 42 meters and weight of 1176 tons in the pink granite quarries and finally visit the Philae temple or temple of the goddess ISIS, built in the Greek era and transfer to Egelikia Island to save it from the waters of the Nile after building the dam. After the visits we will take a felucca ride around the islands of Aswan. Lunch on board. Dinner and night on board in Aswan.

DAY 4 CRUISE - ASWAN – KOM OMBO – EDFU (B, L, D)

Full board on board. Sailing to Kom Ombo. Visit to the temple dedicated to the gods Sobek and Haroreis. In this temple, the relief of the medicinal instruments stands out above all. Over the years, the people of this town did not like to be associated with a god who represents evil (Sobek), so they added another god, Haroreis, as his brother and partner in the temple cult. Legend has it that Sobek, the evil brother, plotted against his brother Haroreis and the population when he saw his beloved god leave the town, he also left until leaving the town completely deserted. Sailing to Edfu. Dinner and night on board.

5 DAY CRUISE – EDFU – ESNA - LUXOR (B, L, D)

Full board on board. Visit to the Temple of Horus. It is the best-preserved temple in Egypt and the most important after Karnak. One of its most curious features is the lighting of the temple, with increasingly smaller rooms that prevented the passage of light gradually until reaching the dark sanctuary, which receives light only from the axis. Sailing to Luxor. Visit to the Temple of Karnak or the Temples of Karnak, which is considered the largest temple in Egypt with its avenue of rams and its hall of 132 columns and visit to the Temple of Luxor dedicated to the god Amun - Ra where the avenue of sphinxes stands out, the Obelisk with more than 25 meters of height and the statues of Ramses II and the Naos. Dinner and night on board in Luxor.

DAY 6 DISEMBARKATION IN LUXOR - CAIRO (B)

Disembarkation after breakfast. Visit to the Valley of the Kings where the tombs of the kings of the New Kingdom are located when Thebes was the capital of Egypt and visit the mortuary temple of Hatchepsut. In the enclosure we can admire the chapels dedicated to Amenardis I, Shepenupet II and Nitocris I. Afterwards, we find the Colossi of Memnon, two seated colossi of Pharaoh Ramses II of which only fragments of the base and the 17-meter-high torso remain. Transfer to Luxor airport to board the flight to Cairo. Reception, assistance and transfer to the hotel. Accommodation.

DAY 7 CAIRO - AIRPORT (B)

Breakfast at the hotel. Check out and transfer to Cairo International Airport.