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Le Passage Heliopolis MS Semeramis III Oa- Private 7-Night Cairo, Aswan, and Nile Cruise with Flights Day Discretion Day 1 Arrival Cairo Your Guide will transfer to hotel. check in 12.00 same day, Overnight in Cairo

Day 2 Pyramid and Cairo Tours (B) visit the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus, the Great , visit the Egyptian Muse- um, Overnight in Cairo

Day 3 Flight to Aswan / High Dam (B,L,D) Flight to Aswan, visit Aswan High Dam and the Unfinished . Overnight on cruise ship

Day 4 Sailing Kom Ombo / Edfu (B,L,D) Optional tour to Abu Simbel temple and Nefertiti temple. Sail to Kom Ombo, visit the Temple of Kom-Ombo, sail to Edfu Overnight on cruise ship

Day 5 Edfu / sailing to Luxor (B,L,D) Early morning visit the Temple of Edfu, sail to Esna Lock, sailing to Luxor Overnight on cruise ship

Day 6 Luxor Sightseeing (B) disembark. visit the West Bank, Valley of Kings, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El-Bahri and the two Colossi of Memnon. Optional tour Karnak & Luxor temple, Flight to Cairo Overnight on cruise ship

Day 7 Return to Cairo (B) Optional tour to visit Alexandria—Coptic & Islamic Cairo—Sakkara & Memphis Overnight in Cairo

Day 8 Departure (B) transfer to the airport for your flight

Cairo, Aswan & Nile Cruise Sleeper train Cairo/ Aswan/ Luxor

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4 nights in a hotel in Cairo with breakfast Entrance fees & boat 3 nights on a Nile Cruise ship, full board Gratuities 7x breakfast, 3x lunch, 3x dinner Domestic flights Cairo/Aswan – Luxor/Cairo All transfers by a PRIVATE A/C vehicle. CAIRO The Sphinx The Pyramids : Excludes enter the Pyramids The sphinx appears to have started in Egypt in There are three, built by Cheops, Chepren and Mycerinos, the largest the form of a sun god. being over 137m (450ft) high and containing some three million huge The sphinx is usually a head of a king wearing blocks of stone. his head dress and the body of a lion. Chephren's workers shaped the stone into the Khufu Pyramid Statistics lion and gave it their king's face over 4,500 A total of over 2,300,000 blocks of limestone and granite were used in years ago. The sphinx faces the rising sun with its construction with the average block weighing 2.5 tons and none a temple to the front, which resembles the sun weighing less than 2 tons. The large blocks used in the ceiling of the temples, which were built later by the kings of King's Chamber weigh as much as 9 tons. the 5th Dynasty. Construction date (Estimated): 2589 B.C.. Construction time (Estimated): 20 years. It is possible that it is Chephren. If that is so, it Total weight (Estimated): 6.5 million tons. would then be the oldest known royal portrait The estimated total weight of the structure is 6.5 million tons! in such large scale 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 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 larg- est 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 exploit- ed to the full. Visitors will be able to see the pyramids of Khufu and Men-

The Chapel of Hathour is located in the North Eastern section KOM OMBO — EDFU 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. Kom Ombo temple The Chapel of is Situated in the North Eastern section of the temple of Kom Ombo, a Roman style chapel con- structed in the 3rd century AD was dedicated to the god So- bek

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 Temple of at Edfu the Nile, it still holds some of the mummified croco- diles sacred to Sobek ASWAN Abu Simbel Nefertari Temple The first Temple was built by King Ramses II and is - cated to the God Re-Hor-, Amon, , 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 fig- ures 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, dedi- cated to the Goddess and to his wife Queen Nefer- tari. Queen Nefertari was the principal, and the most be-

Philae temple (The Temple of )

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 The Temple of Het-Hert (Hathor) which were overlooking the island of Bigeh before the The small temple of Het-Hert, just east of the great temple of removal of the buildings to Agilkia. The eastern one was Isis and facing towards the west, was built by Ptolemy VI never completed, but here are the chapels to and extended by Ptolemy VIII and the Roman emperors Arensnuphis and , Augustus and Tiberius.

Amenhotep III built Luxor Tem- LUXOR ple. 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 Houses the Great Temple of north to south. It was construct- , which was constructed ed on the site of a small Temple Karnak temple over a period of 2,000 years and of Amon, built by kings of the is the world's largest columned 12th dynasty. At the time of temple. From the grand avenue Amenhotep III the Temple was of ram-headed bear- only 190m in length and 55m in ing the name of Ramses II to the width. Basically, Luxor Temple great Hypostyle Hall with its 134 was consecrated to Amon in Luxor temple columns conceived by Seti I, on his fertility aspect. to the towering obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut and beyond to the Sacred Lake which bore Temple of Queen Hatshepsut the barques of the , the first woman to claim the title of Amun, and , pharaoh. Although images of the queen were systematically defaced by her successor, many of the reliefs the Valley of the Kings depicting major events of her reign remain. The columns in the Shrine of Hathor bearing the face of that god- the Valley of the Kings is complete- dess are of particular ly inferior as funerary complexes compared to the pyramids further The Colossi of Memnon north in Egypt. But the decorations here illustrate the thoughts and ide- Amenhotep III (18th Dyn) built a in as, There are usually 30-40 open Thebes that was guarded by two gigantic statues on tombs, but they size varies a lot as the outer gates. All that remains now are the 19.5m well as the artistic level of the wall statues of Amenhotep. Long after Amenhotep the decorations. Most visitors will be Greeks decided that the statue represented their satisfied with visiting 3-5 tombs hero, Memnon, son of Tithonus, and Eos,