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Re : Program 3 nights /1 nights /3 nights / 1 night Luxor/ 4 nights cruise / 1 Night Aswan / 3 Nights Sharm El Sheikh 2019 Feb 3, 2019 - Feb 19, 2019

Day (1) Sunday:

• Arrival to Cairo international airport • Meet and assist & Visa service at Cairo airport:

Transfer from Cairo international Airport to the hotel: - Air conditioned deluxe coaches will be ready at the airport parking area, group signs will be placed at the front and the side, bus capacity can fit up to 48 persons however we do recommend to use it for only 40 persons maximum. - Each bus will have toilet equipped with air freshener and Toiletries - Mic for the guides to brief the group about the destination

• Check in Procedures: - Rapid luggage delivery to rooms will take place upon the group arrival - Detailed passport list to be sent enough time before the group arrival in order to arrange smooth check-in operation.

• Overnight at the hotel

Day (2) Monday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel

Morning visit to the Pyramids & Sphinx of Giza

Giza Plateau Giza is on the West Bank of the Nile and takes in an 18-km-wide, which includes the Great Pyramids. Despite the crowds that visit the Pyramids every year, they are truly overwhelming when you stand before them, they have survived the rise and fall of great dynasties and conquerors and they share the flat desert surrounds with the Sphinx and a number of smaller pyramids and temples. Cheops the Great Pyramid is both the oldest and Largest, Chephren the medium Pyramid that retains part of the original Limestone casing that, once covered the entire structure and still contains the sarcophagus of King Chephren & the smallest Pyramid is that of Mycerinus built between 2525 and 2500 BC These ancient Monuments, which served as tombs for the Pharaohs, reckoned by the Greeks to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World will testify to the ancient Egyptian belief in resurrection and immortality. Sphinx was built by Cheops' Son Chephren and located near the three Pyramids, carved from a solid block of Limestone construction of the Pyramid of Cheops; the Great Sphinx combines the head of the Pharaoh with a Lion’s body Page 2! Of 10!

Optional activities at the Pyramids area:

➢ Interior visit to Chephren Pyramid ➢ Visit the solar boat museum ➢ Camel ride at the Pyramids

Lunch option: (not included in the rate offer)

1) Lunch at seasons Country Club:

Seasons Resort and Country Club offers a unique combination of beautiful landscaping, outdoor activities, and food and beverage outlets that Class A customers can enjoy. the Pyramids still can be seen from the roof of the restaurant where guests will enjoy hot lunch meal with refreshing beverages. Clients will have a change to cook their food by themselves.

• Transfer back to the Mena House hotel

Evening activity:

Sound and Light show at the Pyramids & Sphinx:

Have you ever wondered how life was thousands of years ago? This question and others similar thoughts inspired creators to accompany you for a short while to the past, by introducing the sound and light show. It is a magnificent show that brings creatively to life the rule of ancient . The artists skillfully created a show to present images of all historical eras. For an hour, you enjoy the sound and light show near the pyramids and the Sphinx. The history is re-told by the Sphinx, telling you the most ancient secrets of the world. In the 21st century, you go back in time thousands of years ago to see how they were built and survived! The show manages to convey the great humane spirit and creativity behind their creation. In one hour, the show would narrate the history of those great kings, their secrets, legends and secrets of ancient history.

• Transfer back to the hotel. • Overnight

Day (3) Tuesday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel.

Morning visit to Wissa Wassef art Gallery:

The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center is the home of a unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has produced extraordinary works admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world. The life work of its founder Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-1974) was dedicated to releasing the innate creativity of young .Egyptian villagers freed from the constraints of a formal education

for his achievements and particularly for the art center compound at 1983 Harrania.The career of Ramses Wissa Wassef was entirely devoted to art, which he regarded as the best means of communication between human beings. His pioneering teaching method was an act of love and faith in the potential of the child. He proved that nothing was impossible if one’s intelligence Stemmed from the Page 3! Of 10!

heart and if one’s artistic sensibility were genuine enough

(Evening potential music concert at Cairo Opera house: (schedule is not fixed yet

In 1869 Khedive Ismail gave instructions to build an Opera House on the occasion of the inauguration of the Suez Canal. It was called Khedivial (Royal) Opera House. The Khedive used this occasion to lay the foundation of an eloquent and durable symbol of the art of acting. This was the Khedive Opera House, which was constructed in only six months to the design of two Italian architects, Avoscani and Rossi. Outstanding specialists with wide experience in theater construction were brought to Egypt to carry out the work. Before the building was complete, the Khedive started to prepare a great performance for his project that should reflect glimpses of Ancient Egyptian history. He selected Mariette Pasha to prepare a story about the Egyptian history that could form the nucleus of the poem play. Mariette Pasha commissioned the Italian poem Gialanzoni to write the libretto, and the musician Verdi was commissioned by the Khedive to compose the music. The result was the famous opera, Aida, with its patriotic subject and passionate song and superb music, a masterpiece from the hands of these three geniuses. However, Aida had not been ready by the inauguration of the Opera House. Therefore, another masterpiece by Verdi; Rigoletto was performed on the occasion. Opera Aida itself was performed two years later. The Opera House was the first in Africa, where famous world Opera and symphonic masterpieces were performed. In the early morning of October 28th 1971, the great Royal Opera House was tragically burned down. .(Nothing was left except two statues made by the Egyptian artist Mohamed Hassan (1892-1961

Day (4) Wednesday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel

• Morning drive to Alexandria city

Alexandria Known widely as the "Pearl of the Mediterranean", Alexandria is Egypt's second largest city and center of industry. Greek warrior Alexander the Great ruled Egypt from his base in the coastal and cosmopolitan city in the fourth century bc, making Alexandria the capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt.

• Visit Catacomb, Pompay Pillar, Montazah

Pompey’s Pillar, A column of red Aswan granite standing some 90 feet high, with a circumference of 27 feet, the pillar was erected in honor of the Emperor Diocletian.

The Catacombs of Kom E-Shouqafa These tombs were tunnelled into bedrock at the time of the Antonine emperors in the 2nd century AD for a single wealthy family still practicing the ancient religion. Although the funerary motifs are purely ancient Egyptian, the architects and artists were schooled in the Graeco-Roman style.

:El Montazah Gardens This 114-acre complex belonged to the family of Mohamed Ali, which ruled Egypt from the mid-19th century until 1952. It is surrounded by great walls from the south, east, and west, a beach to the Page 4! Of 10!

north. The complex is adorned with beautiful gardens and palm trees, making it an ideal stop in Alexandria

• Optional Evening dinner at Greek club. • Overnight at hotel.

Day (5) Thursday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel. • Check Out from Hotel and transfer back to Cairo via Alexandria/Cairo desert road. • Visit Wady Al Natrun Monasteries en route.

Wadi El-Natroun well known as the monasticism area for Christians, embrace the Christian culture by visiting Al-Baramus Monastery, it is the one of the oldest monasteries in the area, proceed to Anba Bishoi Monastery, The cemetery of Anba Bishoi is inside the Anba Bishoi Monastery, your last stop will be to El-Suryan Monastery

• Arrive Cairo and Check in at hotel.

Day (6) Friday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel

Morning visit to :

The Egyptian Museum: is the most important depository of Egyptian antiquities anywhere in the world. It features artifacts from the Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman periods, including the celebrated mummies of ancient Egypt’s king and Tut Ankh Amun treasures.

The Citadel: situated on a highly visible spur of the Mokattam Hills of Old Cairo, was the nerve center of Egypt for almost 700 years. Construction of the grand structure began in 1176 and was completed by Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt in the late 19th century. Mamluk sultans and Turkish governors resided in the Citadel, which is among the world's most splendid monuments of medieval warfare. Facing the Citadel is the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, built between 1356 and 1363 and perhaps the most majestic monument of Arab architecture in Egypt and the Mosque of Al-Rifai was constructed in two phases over the period between 1869 and 1912, when it was finally completed. Lunch at local restaurant

The tour also includes a visit to Khan ElKhalili , known as the Turkish bazaar during the Ottoman period, was built in 1382 by Emir Djaharks ElKhalili, in the heart of what was then Fatimid City. Until this day, the bazaar is a center of trade and communion in the city, and offers a wide array of antiques, handcrafts of gold, silver and copper as well as numerous old coffee shops and local restaurants which attract both Egyptians and tourists alike.

• Back to the hotel and overnight. Page 5! Of 10!

Day (7) Saturday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel

Today you will enjoy a medieval atmosphere while walking through the old gates of Cairo into Al Moez Street with its heritage of mausoleums, mosques, palaces and schools dating from Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluke and Ottoman Eras.

Cross Al Azhar Street to visit the caravansary-like Wekalet el Ghoury, and the Mamluke Style housed of Zeinab Khatoun.

Have lunch at Al Azhar Park amid the minarets of Cairo and the Citadel panorama.

After lunch visit the Ibn Tulun mosque, being the oldest intact mosque standing in Egypt dating to the ninth century and characterized by its unique spiral minaret copied from the mosque of Samaraa. Add to your knowledge of Cairo’s old houses by a visit to the Next door Gayer Anderson Museum, one of the famous locations where the James Bond film “The Spy who Loved Me” was shot.

Day (8) Sunday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel • Check-out • Transfer from your hotel to Cairo airport • Arrival to Cairo airport • Assist by emeco airport coordinators • Domestic flight Cairo/Luxor on board egypt air • Arrival to Luxor airport • Transfer form the Luxor airport to your selected hotel. • Check in and overnight.

Day (9) Monday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel. • Check-out • Transfer from your hotel to your selected Nile cruise. • Check in on board Nile cruise.

Afternoon visit to:

Luxor Temple Separated from the Nile only by a street, the Luxor temple sits in the city’s center. The temple’s main purpose was as a secret location for Amun, the lord of gods. The Luxor temple was built by Amenhotep III in the 18th Dynasty. The temple’s most distinguishing features are its interior rooms with magnificent inscriptions and hall of columns, each one capped with crowns

Karnak Temple The largest of its kind, the Karnak temple complex is about 3.5 km from Luxor Temple. Within its area, the grandest of all temples is dedicated to the great Pharaonic god, Amun. Leading to the temple is a procession of ram sphinxes that represents Amun. Page 6! Of 10!

Although begun in the Middle Kingdom, the temple’s vastness comes from successive dynasties which built on to it.

• Transfer back to the cruise • Afternoon tea on board • Night entertainment at the lounge bar “Belly dance show” • Dinner on board • Overnight

Day (10) Tuesday:

• Breakfast buffet on board

Visit the west bank of Luxor:

1) Valley of the Kings It was called The Great, Noble Necropolis of Millions of Years of Pharaoh, and for five hundred years it was the burial place of Egypt’s New Kingdom rulers. Sixty-two tombs and twenty unfinished pits have been found here, seven of them in the large West Valley of the Kings, the rest in the East Valley of the Kings. It is the East Valley that is visited by most tourists. The Valley of the Kings was chosen as the royal burial place for several reasons. The quality of its limestone bedrock is generally good: solid, strong, and at least in some areas, relatively free of cracks and fractures. The valley was convenient: a long wadi, along which a funeral procession could move, meanders from the northern end of the Theban Necropolis westward to the Valley of the Kings; footpaths provided easy access over the hills to areas to the south and east. It was easily protected: steep cliffs surround it and guard huts built above them provided 360 degree coverage. The large mountain at the southern end of the Valley of the Kings, al-Qurn or “Horn,” looks from the valley and only from the valley rather like a pyramid, a form associated with solar deities who play so great a role in the iconography of royal tombs.

2) Valley of the Queens The Valley of the Queens, in Arabic Wadi al-Malakat, in ancient times was called Ta Set Neferu, a phrase that can mean The Place of Beauty and also The Place of Royal Children and Wives. It was used in the New Kingdom as a burial place for several royal wives, princesses, and princes. It is a lovely place, this small, Ushaped wadi, curving south and west. Rugged limestone cliffs jut upward, their strata turning and twisting in dramatic contrast to the horizontal beds of other Theban hills. There is a small cave at the base of these cliffs and when it rained, water would pour into it and then flow through the valley. (The watercourse follows the left side of the modern road and footpath.) Some Egyptologists believe it was this feature that caused the valley to be selected for royal burials: the cave represented the womb of Hathor, the celestial cow, and water meant fertility. Burial here would by a physical symbol of rebirth in the afterlife. The valley’s floor rises only slightly and is covered with undulating hillocks into which tomb entrances could easily be dug.

3) Temple of Queen Hatshepsut One of the most memorable panoramas in Thebes is the approach to the memorial temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Turning west beside a small mosque, a paved road leads in a straight line to a dramatic expanse of rugged limestone cliffs that rises over three hundred meters (nearly one thousand feet) above the desert plain. The god Amen was given special prominence in the temple and that is why it was built almost exactly in the same axial line as the Temple of Amen at Karnak. Indeed, if you extend the principal axis of Hatshepsut temple five kilometers (three miles) east to Karnak, it runs within one hundred meters (three hundred feet) of the axis of the Temple of Amen-Ra. There had been a shrine to Hathor at Dayr al-Bahari for centuries before Hatshepsut ordered that her own temple be built there. A shrine to Hathor stood in the Page 7! Of 10!

Nebhepetra-Mentuhetep Temple immediately south, and Hatshepsut built her own Hathor shrine as close to it as possible. The ancient Egyptians called the temple Djeser-djeseru, Most Holy of Holies. Originally, a causeway connected it to a canal dug along the edge of the cultivation. The valley temple there was never completed, but the causeway leading from it was, and it measured 13 meters (40 feet) wide, 400 meters (1,200 feet) long. It was lined with statues and sphinxes that probably stood as close together as those leading to Luxor Temple. They were not inconsequential : the red granite sphinxes were over 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) long and each weighed seven and a half tons. Indeed.

4) Memnon Colossi The memorial temple of Amenhetep III, was the largest temple ever built in Egypt. When completed, it included a massive array of pylons, chambers, walls, and statues that covered an area of over 385,000 square meters (4,200,000 square feet). Unfortunately, the temple was built largely of mud brick and lay in the Nile floodplain where it was subject to the annual inundation. When it was abandoned and regular maintenance ceased, its brick walls dissolved and the stones were taken away and used by later kings in the construction of their own memorial temples. As a result, little of the huge complex is visible. Indeed, for most visitors, the two huge statues of Amenhetep III, known as the Colossi of Memnon, stand in isolation, and most visitors have no idea that the statues were a small part of a gigantic temple complex. The statues are truly spectacular: each is cut from a single block of stone that stood over 20 meters (65 feet) tall and weighed a 1,000 tons. The northern colossus was especially popular with ancient Greek and Roman travelers. In 27 BC, an earthquake cracked the statue, and for the next two hundred years it emitted an eerie whistling noise each morning as the sun rose and the temperature and humidity changed. Greek travelers claimed that this sound was the cry of Memnon, a mythical African warrior slain by Achilles in the Trojan War, to Eos, his mother and goddess of the dawn. To hear the statue cry was said to bring good fortune, and it quickly made the colossi a major tourist destination. Both colossi are covered with hundreds of Greek and Latin graffiti left by grateful visitors.

Extra options during the visit of the west bank:

Interior visit to Tut Ankh Amun Tomb – Valley of the Kings: Tutankhamoun died at only 19 years of age following a brief reign. Though extremely impressive to the modern world, the treasures of Tutankhamoun must have paled when compared to the tombs of the great Pharaohs that ruled for many years during Egypt's golden age.

• Transfer back to the cruise • Sailing to Esna • Lunch on board • Afternoon at leisure to enjoy the cruise facilities • Cross the locks at Esna and sailing to Edfu • Captain welcome cocktail party • Followed by night entertainment at the lounge bar (disco Music) • Dinner on board • Overnight

Day (11) Wednesday:

• Breakfast buffet on board • Morning visit to Edfu temple by horse carriages

The temple of Edfu This is not only the best-preserved ancient temple in Egypt, but also the second largest after Karnak. It was believed that the temple was built on the site of the great battle between Horus and Seth. Hence, the current temple was but the last in a long series of temples build on this location

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• • • • • Sailing to Kom Ombo • Lunch on board • Afternoon free to enjoy the sailing • Afternoon tea on board • Visit Kom Ombo temple

The temple of Kom Ombo Is actually two temples consisting of a Temple to Sobek and a Temple of Haroeris. In ancient times, sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the riverbank near here. The Temple has scant remains, due first to the changing Nile, then the Copts who once used it as a church, and finally by builders who used the stones for new buildings.

• Back to the cruise • Sailing to Aswan • Dinner on board • • Galabya Party on board the cruise, traditional costumes party Each guests will be surprised by his/her gift at the cabin, we will arrange Galabyas for all the group from the shop on board the cruise, our team along with the cruise team will distribute the Galabyas into the cabins while the group doing the shore excursion.

• Overnight

Day (12) Thursday:

• Breakfast buffet on board • Morning visit to Philae temple, unfinished obelisk and the high dam

The High Dam The Old High Dam was built by Sir W. Wilcox on Behalf of the British authorities in 1898. It is constructed of Granite quarried in the Aswan area. The official opening took place in 1902. In the 1960’s another dam was built by the Egyptian Government.

Philae Temple: Was dismantled & reassembled (on Agilika Island about 500 m from its original home on Philae Island) in the wake of the High Dam. The Temple dedicated to the Goddess Isis, is in a beautiful setting, which has been landscaped to match its original site. Its various shrines & sanctuaries, which include a temple of Hathor, a Birth House & two pylons, celebrate all the deities involved in the Isis & Osiris myth.

The Unfinished Obelisque: Much of the red granite used for ancient temples and colossi came from quarries in the Aswan area. Around these quarries are many inscriptions, many of which describe successful quarrying projects. The Unfinished Obelisk located in the Northern Quarry still lies where a crack was discovered as it was being hewn from the rock. Possibly intended as a companion to the Lateran Obelisk, originally at Karnak but now in Rome, it would have weighed over 2.3 million pounds and would have been the worlds largest piece of stone ever handled. However, a crack in the stone occurred, which caused it to be abandoned. Tools left by its builders have given us much insight into how such work was performed. The site has recently been renovated and equipped with tourist facilities. Nearby is the Fatimid Cemetery.

• Transfer back to the cruise • Lunch on board • Afternoon felucca ride on the nile • Back to the cruise • Dinner on board • Overnight Page 9! Of 10!

Day (13) Friday:

• Breakfast buffet on board • Check-out from Nile cruise. • Transfer from the cruise to your selected hotel in Aswan. • Check in at Hotel and Overnight.

Day (14) Saturday:

• Breakfast at the hotel. • Check-out from your hotel • Assist by emeco airport coordinators • Domestic flight Aswan/Sharm El Sheikh via Cairo on board Egypt air • Arrival to Sharm El Sheikh. • Meet and assist by emeco airport coordinators • Transfer from the airport to hotel. • Check-in • Afternoon at leisure to enjoy the hotel facilities

Day (15) Sunday:

• Breakfast at the hotel. • Rest of the day is at leisure to enjoy the red Sea resort.

Day (16) Monday:

• Breakfast at the hotel. • Rest of the day is at leisure to enjoy the red Sea resort.

Day (17) Tuesday:

• Breakfast buffet at the hotel • Check-out • Transfer to Sharm El Sheikh international airport • Arrive Cairo international Airport to connect with your international flight. • Assist with emeco airport coordinators

The Rate will be as follows: (minimum 20 PAX travelling)

Per person in double USD 2334.00 SGL supplement USD 1400.00

Domestic airfare CAI/LXR-ASW/CAI-CAI/SSH/CAI USD 435.00 (LIABLE TO CHANGE)

Initial Deposit: USD $150 Page 10! Of 10!

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