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Of Ancient Egypt Egypt Alternative Adventure The Wonders Of Ancient Egypt February 7 – 20, 2015 Escorted by, Claudia Ragonesi and Jan L Nash Tour Price US $ 3000 Overview Egypt is one of those places we may have dreamed about or known about but may not have had the opportunity to visit. This unique tour offers a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to experience Egypt with a custom guided program that combines Nature, History, Adventure, and Spiritual Experiences in some of the most magnificent spots in the world. Jan has fallen in love with the Western Desert, and from her deep longing to share its peace and beauty; she and Claudia are inviting a small group of people (18) to join them on this journey. The group will gather on February 7, 2016 in Cairo where we will visit the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx, and there Day 1: Sunday, February 7th, 2016 have private time in the King's and Queen's in Ghori we will witness the Sufi Dervish / Welcome to Egypt Chambers. Dancers. Welcome to Egypt! You’ll be met and assisted Overnight Cairo: Mövenpick Pyramids Hotel Some other highlights of the trip include by a Tour representative at the Cairo airport Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner visits to many sites in Bahariya with a and then you will be escorted by Tour staff to the Mövenpick Hotel Cairo Pyramids. We will Day 4: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 stay in the Old Oasis Hotel. We plan a have a Meet and Greet dinner at 8 pm. night in the White Desert dancing and / Memphis and Step Pyramid at Sakkara Overnight Cairo: Mövenpick Pyramids Hotel camping under the stars with the Bedouin After breakfast we will visit Memphis and Meals: Dinner at Hotel Sakkara then tour a date palm farm and visit a people. We will visit the warm, welcoming Hathor Chalet surrounded by Day 2: Monday, February 8th, 2016 training center for carpet marking. Bring your EP for purchasing a carpet as they do not desert farms of the Oasis people and / Intention Circle and “Wikala of Ghori" enjoy the sun, the clear skies and clean accept credit cards. They do ship all over the We will gather in the lobby at 10 am to form world. The afternoon will be spent at the air, filled with the essence of orange a circle where all of us are equal. We will Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali and the El trees, date palms and roses. There we can introduce ourselves, share logistics, and set Khalili Bazaar. After the tour we head back to relax in the hot springs, nap in the our intentions of individual and group nature. hotel. hammocks and enjoy the incredible quiet Overnight Cairo: Mövenpick Pyramids Hotel where no plane has flown overhead in the Bring your printed itineraries. At 3 pm we will depart to the old cafe district of Cairo for a Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner past 8 years! We will also stay on the West Bank of the Nile overlooking tombs walking tour. Dinner at El Fechoa, then off to Day 5: Thursday, February 11th, 2016 and temples where we may create the fantastic spiraling evening to “Wikala of / White Desert and Bahariya Oasis Tour ceremony together. For 14 glorious days Ghori" At 07:00 In the morning we will pick you up and 13 nights. will gather in intention This is a show of Sufi and Tanoora dancing. from your hotel in Cairo and transfer you to circles, celebrate the elements, share The performance consists of eight music Bahariya Oasis about 350 km east of Cairo. initiations, develve into Shamanic players on stage and another eight Tabla This journey takes about 4 hours. Lunch will Drumming with Claudia and Friedel players dressed in white oriental robes. The be served at Bahariya Oasis hotel. Then (owner of Hathor Chalet), practice Tabla is the most famous oriental percussion continue driving to visit the Valley of the meditation, co-create community, instrument: it is considered to be the oriental Golden Mummies. That is a huge burial site at experience Sacred Circle Dance led by drums. Other instruments include the Saggat; Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt Jan and Friedel, and take belly dancing the Mezmar, which sounds like the western and the Tomb of Bannantiu in the Bahariya lessons from Abul Auf, our guide. flute; the Rabbaba, a string instrument unique Oasis. Then a visit to English Mountain. Is also to Egypt with a distinctive sound; and the known as Jebel Williams. After the British Nay, an old oriental instrument created in the captain stationed here. The ruins of the World era before Islam in the Arabian peninsula. War I fortress that the British controlled are on After the show we head back to hotel. the top. The British monitored the movements Overnight Cairo: Mövenpick Pyramids Hotel of Sanusi tribes from Libya from this lonely Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner lookout. It is an easy walk or jeep ride to the top until the sun set. Day 3: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 Overnight: Bahariya / Old Oasis Hotel /Pyramid & Sphinx and Egyptian Museum Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner After breakfast we will visit one of the last remaining Wonder of the Ancient World: the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx. The afternoon after lunch, we will go to the papyrus shop then visit the Egyptian Museum. This museum contains many important pieces of ancient Egyptian history and houses the world’s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities. This includes many treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamen. In the evening, we all shall Day 6: Friday, February 12th, 2016 Day 11: Tuesday, February 17th, 2016 / White Desert and Crystal Mountain / Farm Tour and Marsam Road House After breakfast. Continue driving by 4*4 Jeep After breakfast. Drive from Dakhla Oasis to to the White Desert to visit the Black Desert Luxor. We will see first-hand how crops are and the natural hot spring of Valley of El irrigated and grown by walking through the Haize. We continue on to see the rocky fields. We will visit the cows, donkies, horses, formations in the Valley of Agabat before and camels. Then surprises in the court yard as arriving to the White Desert National Park. Auf is sharing his talents with us!! We set up the camp among the white rock Overnight: Desert Paradise Lodge formations of the White Desert. We plan to Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner enjoy wonderful sunset views. Then your Day 12: Wednesday, February 18th, 2016 Bedouin guides will cook you a delicious meal / Valley of the Kings and Carter House for dinner. We then dance and sleep under the stars. After breakfast journey to the Valley of the Kings. Also called the Valley of the Gates of Overnight: Camping under the stars Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner Day 9: Saturday, February 15th, 2016 the Kings. For a period of nearly 500 years. From the 16th to 11th century BC. Tombs Day 7: Saturday, February 13th, 2016 / Water Element Day El Qasr the longest continuously inhabited were constructed there for the Pharaohs and / Hathor Chalet site in Dakhla. There are still original. powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. The Wake up early to enjoy an amazing sunrise valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, views in the White Desert before your Interestingly decorated buildings to visit as no new construction is permitted within the opposite Thebes (modern Luxor). Within the bedouin breakfast at the campsite then drive heart of the Theban Necropolis. Next we will to El Dakhla Oasis HATHOR-CHALET old city. A modern gleaming white mosque stands outside the walls of the old city while visit to Carter House. You can see where Seminar and Workshop Center for just inside an old tapering mud-brick Howard Carter lived. Everything inside this Meditation-Dance, Shamanic-Drumming and minaret soars above the houses. There are historic museum home is from that time Exceptional Journeys at Bir El Gabal. Bir buildings with carved wooden door lintels period, and it takes you back to the time of means hot springs and there are 2!! Earth with Koranic inscriptions, which date back the discovery of the tomb of Tutankamun. Element Day. Orientation. Welcoming by 500 years. The streets are narrow and Then we will go to the Alabaster shop for an Friedel. covered in places. There are many low parts opportunity to shop for souvenirs and gifts. Overnight: Beir El Gabal Tourist Camp supported with ancient palm beams that you Following the shop and lunch we will visit Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner have to duck under. Some of the buildings the Ramesseum Temple. The Ramesseum is rise upwards for some 4 stories. Ancient the memorial temple or mortuary temple of kilns have been found that show that Pharaoh Ramesses II. Also known as Ramses pottery is not a new handicraft here in the Great. Back to Hotel for dinner. Dakhla. The Ayyubid Nasr al-Din mosque Overnight: Desert Paradise Lodge and the House of Abu Nafir provide Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner examples of traditional Islamic buildings. Day 13: Thursday, February 19th, 2016 The House of Abu Nafir is built on the site / Karnak & Luxor Temple and Luxor Museum of a temple and hieroglyphs can be seen on After breakfast we will visit Karnak Temple. the old door jambs. One of the most The temple complex has four parts. Then interesting rooms is found at the Court of visit to Adele and his Essential Oil and Spices the Madrasa, it has red and white decoration Shop. After lunch a visit to Luxor Museum and high windows letting in shafts of followed by Alladin's Shop.
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