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The Wonders of Ancient Egypt Egypt November 26–December 10, 2018 (SOLD OUT) Sudan December 10-18, 2018 Escorted by Emily Teeter Make this the year for a trip of a lifetime. Hotel: Mena House Hotel Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner EXPLORE THE WONDERS OF ANCIENT EGYPT Wednesday, November 28: GIZA Today we encounter the last of the surviving Seven Wonders of the Ancient Our Egypt trip is currently World, the Great Pyramid of Khufu. sold out While exploring the Giza plateau, you enter one of the pyramids, visit the November 26– Sphinx, and examine the remarkably December 9, preserved solar boat of Khufu. 2018 (14 days) Hotel: Mena House Hotel From the Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner banks of the Nile, to Thursday, November 29: LUXOR the expanse After a morning flight to Luxor, we of desert, reach the temple of Amun-Re at Egypt has Karnak, with its maze of monumental long been gateways, obelisks, pillared halls, and a country colossal shrines. In Karnak’s open-air steeped in museum you walk among a variety of mystery and famous monuments. The remainder of filled with the day is yours to explore at leisure, wonder. Join us as we drive, fly, and before attending a private reception at cruise across this ancient landscape on Chicago House, the headquarters of the a comprehensive journey that includes Oriental Institute’s Epigraphic Survey. exclusive access to current excavations, research sites, and world-renowned Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort and Spa scholars. When you travel with the Meals: Breakfast and lunch Oriental Institute, you immerse yourself in history and embark on an exploration Friday, November 30: LUXOR of discovery. Today we cross the Nile bound for the Valley of the Kings and Queens. On ITINERARY: EGYPT arrival, we tour Tutankhamun’s tomb, and the tomb of Queen Nefertari with Sunday, November 25: IN TRANSIT its beautiful wall paintings. After lunch, Depart your hometown for Cairo. we visit the Colossi of Memnon and the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut Monday, November 26: CAIRO at Deir el-Bahri, two of the most elegant Your journey begins in Cairo with a stay and unusual monuments in all of Egypt. at the historic Mena House, a palatial hotel surrounded by 40 acres of lush Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort and Spa gardens, located in the shadow of the Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner Great Pyramid. On this first evening, we dine with tour leader Emily Teeter for an overview of our travels. Hotel: Mena House Hotel Meal: Dinner Exclusive Access: Tuesday, November 27: Private after-hours CAIRO/MEMPHIS/SAQQARA tour of the Egyptian We begin our tour exploring Memphis, Museum the ancient capital of Egypt, and the Private reception vast necropolis of Saqqara, where we at Chicago House in encounter the Step Pyramid of Djoser, Luxor the first large-scale stone building and Private tour and briefing on-site at the first pyramid. You will have time to the excavation at explore the Imhotep Museum, examine Edfu the Pyramid of Teti, whose burial Access to world chamber is covered with Pyramid Texts, renowned scholars and visit several tombs of nobles, each and researchers decorated with scenes of daily life and rituals. Saturday, December 1: LUXOR We return to the Nile’s west bank and tour the Tombs of the Nobles, some of the most impressive rock-cut tombs ever constructed. After viewing walls carved and painted with scenes of daily life and religious rituals, we continue on to Deir el Medina, a village founded for the artisans who built and decorated the royal tombs. Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort and Spa Meals: Breakfast & lunch Sunday, December 2: DENDERA/ABYDOS Today we drive north to Dendera, through villages of baked-mud houses and lush cultivated lands, where we visit the Temple of Hathor, goddess of love and music. On the walls of this Ptolemaic temple, we examine the vivid scenes of rituals enacted within and come face-to-face with one of the few representations of Cleopatra VII. © Tell Edfu Project We continue north to Abydos and the Temple of Seti I to marvel at what many consider to be the most beautiful reliefs Wednesday, December 5: EDFU/ in all of Egypt. KOMOBO This morning we visit Edfu, a well- Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort and Spa preserved Ptolemaic temple of the Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner falcon god Horus. Adjacent to the temple is the Oriental Institute’s Monday, December 3: LUXOR/CRUISE excavation site, where Professor Nadine This morning, while our luggage is Moeller, the director of the excavation, transferred to the new, deluxe Sonesta briefs you on their work and current St. George, our floating hotel, we discoveries as you explore the region’s continue touring the west bank in the early history. After lunch, we continue temples and chapels of Medinet Habu. to the temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated We meet with members of the Oriental to Horus the Elder and the crocodile Institute’s Epigraphic Survey to discuss god Sobek. We study the unique their newest research. We then continue architectural features surrounded by to the Ramesseum and visit the beautiful Nile scenery before we set sail memorial temple of Ramesses II, whose for Aswan. ruined statue inspired Shelley’s famous poem, “Ozymandias.” After lunch on Hotel: On board the Sonesta St. George our ship we finish the day under the Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner columns and statues of Luxor Temple, where the Oriental Institute has worked Thursday, December 6: ASWAN for decades. We start the day exploring the granite quarries, where an unfinished obelisk Hotel: On board the Sonesta St. George which would have been ancient Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner Egypt’s tallest monument, still lies. We continue to the High Dam, a project Tuesday, December 4: LUXOR/EDFU that forever changed the Nile’s annual This morning is at leisure in Luxor. You cycle, impacting the economy, politics, are free to relax on board, shop in the and ecology of modern Egypt. We take bazaar, or visit the Luxor Museum or the a small boat to visit Philae, a beautiful Museum of Mummification. During lunch gem of a Ptolemaic temple dedicated we set sail for Edfu, where we dock for to the goddess Isis. After lunch you the night. explore the Nubian Museum before enjoying dinner on board the Sonesta Hotel: On board the Sonesta St. George St. George. Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner Hotel: On board the Sonesta St. George Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner Friday, December 7: ASWAN Travel with us as we journey up We disembark this morning and fly to the Nile, into the Sahara Desert to Abu Simbel, where the rock-cut temples explore the ancient lands of the of Ramesses II and his Queen Nefertari Nubians. were saved from the rising waters of the Nile. We explore these temples built to inspire awe in the ancient Nubians, SUDAN where a sense of wonder can still be AND ANCIENT NUBIA felt 3,200 years later. In the afternoon, we fly back to Aswan for an evening at December 10-18, 2018 (9 days) leisure. Prepare to embark on an exploration that is truly, off the beaten path... Hotel: Sofitel Old Cararact Hotel Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner Saturday, December 8: CAIRO This morning we visit the Temple of Kalabsha, a Roman era tribute to a lower Nubian sun god. In the afternoon we fly back to Cairo for an evening at leisure. Hotel: Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel Meal: Breakfast Sunday, December 9: OLD CAIRO We start out on a morning tour of Old Cairo, where we visit the Coptic Monday, December 10: CAIRO/KHARTOUM Museum, the Church of St. Sergius, and We arrive in Khartoum, the capital of the Ben Ezra synagogue. After lunch in Sudan, and meet with our tour leader the dazzling Al-Azhar Park, we explore Emily Teeter, and our local guide. the daily life of Cairo, whose warren of streets are lined with some of the Hotel: Corinthia Hotel best examples of medieval Islamic Meal: Breakfast architecture in existence. The afternoon ends with shopping in the renowned Tuesday, December 11: KHARTOUM suq, the Khan al-Khalili, and time to Today we visit the Archaeological refresh before we bid farewell to ancient Museum with its spectacular collection Egypt with an exclusive after-hours of Nubian artifacts, some excavated by private tour of the Egyptian Museum the Oriental Institute. We explore the and a farewell dinner. temples of Semna East and West and a portion of the monastery at Faras which Hotel: Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel were recovered during the UNESCO Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner campaign to save monuments from being flooded by the Aswan Dam. After lunch we travel to Omdurman where we view the tomb of the Mahdi who led an uprising against the British. After visiting the museum of the House of the Khalifa, we roam the local suq. The day ends with a sunset cruise to the confluence of the Blue and White Nile. Hotel: Corinthia Hotel Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner Wednesday, December 12: KARIMA This morning we drive across the wide expanse of desert to Karima. We dine and stay overnight at the Nubian Rest House at the foot of Gebel Barkal at the Fourth Cataract. Hotel: Nubian Rest House Meals: Breakfast, lunch, & dinner Thursday, December 13: Sunday, December 16: MEROE GEBEL BARKAL/NAPATA/EL KURRU Today we explore the necropolis at Today we explore the World Heritage Site Meroe, made famous by photographs of Gebel Barkal, the “Holy Mountain” and taken by James Henry Breasted. These foremost site for worship of the Nubian steep-sided pyramids each contain a god Amun. We travel to the royal capital chapel, many decorated with scenes of at Napata and the necropolises at el Kurri the king or queen and the gods.
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