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13 Days – 11 Nights Friday Departures Limited to 18 participants Tour Includes: • Escorted by Egyptologist Guide in • Deluxe Hotels • Deluxe 5 Day/4 Night Nile Cruise • Meals: Buffet Breakfast Daily, 3 Lunches, 1 Home Hosted Dinner, All Meals on Cruise • All Transfers as indicated • Sightseeing & Shore Excursions by Exclusive IsramBeyond Services • All Entrance Fees to Sites as indicated • Flights within Egypt as per Itinerary • Visa for Egypt (USA & Canadian Corniche – Alexandria passports only) ITINERARY Sunday: Cairo Highlights: Morning drive to Giza to see the Three Friday: En Route , the oldest surviving • Entrance to one of the Great Great Pyramids

S plendo r s of E gypt Depart the U.S.A. on your flight to Cairo, structures built by man; enter one of the • Visit the Solar Boat Museum Egypt. Pyramids. Visit the astonishing Solar Boat • Camel Ride by the Pyramids Museum, housing the oldest known ship • Visit King Tut’s Treasures & enter the Saturday: Cairo in the world buried for over 4500 years. Mummy Room at the Egyptian Museum Stand in awe at the magnificent Sphinx • Escorted Air Excursion to Arrival Cairo; meeting, assistance and transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day is at carved out of a single piece of stone, • Evening Sound & Light Show at the guarding the . Try a leisure. (B) camel ride Pyramids before continuing to the unique Karnak • Home Hospitality Dinner with an Bazaar for refreshments and some fantastic Egyptian family buys. After lunch, continue to the world • Visit Alexandria’s National Museum famous Egyptian Museum with objects and the famed Library of Alexandria covering 5000 years of ancient Egyptian • Explore ancient Memphis, Sakkara & civilization; see Tutankhamun’s treasures Dahshur and enter the fascinating Mummy Room. Overnight in Cairo. (B.L) Deluxe Hotels & Nile Cruise: City/Cruise Nights Accomodations Monday: Cairo / Luxor Cairo 2 Kempinski Nile Hotel – NILE CRUISE Deluxe Nile View Room Transfer to the airport for an early morning Nile Cruise 4 Sonesta St. George flight to Luxor. Arrive and transfer to your Cairo 2 Kempinski Nile Hotel – Nile Cruiser for a 5 Day/4 Night Cruise. Deluxe Nile View Room After lunch, visit the Avenue of the Sphinxes and the imposing of Luxor with its Alexandria 1 Steigenberger Cecil – grand colonnades, standing alone in the Superior Front Sea heart of town. Continue to the vast View Room Karnak Temple-Complex, built by generations of Cairo 2 Kempinski Nile Hotel – over a 2000-year period. Evening, Deluxe Nile View Room enjoy on board entertainment featuring (B) Breakfast (L) Lunch (D) Dinner belly dancing and an Egyptian folkloric show. Overnight in Luxor. (B.L.D)

10 | www.isrambeyond.com IsramBeyond (844) 947-7235 Tuesday: Luxor / Esna NILE CRUISE After breakfast, visit the Valley of the Kings containing the secretive tombs of New Kingdom Pharaohs. On to the beautifully terraced Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari. Pass the famed Colossi of Memnon, standing nearly 70 feet tall. Sail to Esna. Balance of the afternoon at leisure. Join your Captain for a welcome cocktail before dinner. Overnight in Esna. (B.L.D)

Wednesday: Esna / Edfu / Kom Ombo NILE CRUISE Early morning sail to Edfu. Visit the Temple of , the best preserved of all large Egyptian , built over 180 year period. In the afternoon arrive in Kom Ombo, a hill town over-looking the banks of the Nile. Visit the Greco-Roman Temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated to Horus, the Sun God and Sobek, the Crocodile God. This evening, a traditional fun-filled Galabeya party. Overnight in Kom Ombo. (B.L.D) Queen Hatshepsut Temple Thursday: Kom Ombo / NILE CRUISE exquisite, gleaming white Temple of . Friday: Aswan / Abu Simbel / Cairo After lunch, sail on a traditional Egyptian After disembarkation, board a short flight

Morning set sail to Aswan. Visit the Aswan S plendo r s of E gypt (sailboat) which glides along High Dam and the quarries where “felucca” with your IsramBeyond escort/guide from the stone for the ancient monuments and the Nile, passing by Lord Kitchener’s Aswan to the mighty Sun Temple of Abu modern dam of Aswan were cut. View the Island and the dramatic white marble Simbel, flanked by four giant stone statues gigantic, unfinished Obelisk of Queen Aga Khan Mausoleum. Nubian show this of Ramses II. The temple was reclaimed Hatshepsut. Continue by motorboat to evening after dinner on board. Overnight from the dam and reconstructed in its the beautiful island of to see the in Aswan. (B.L.D) present and unforgettable location. Return

Ramses II Statue close up, Abu Simbel

IsramBeyond (844) 947-7235 www.isrambeyond.com | 11 Village on the Banks of the Nile, Aswan flight to Cairo where you will be met and include lunch in Alexandria. Overnight at architecture was born. See the first large transferred to your hotel. This evening, your hotel. (B.L) buildings built in hewn stone in history. enjoy a Sound & Light Show at the Stand before the soaring centerpiece Step Pyramids. Overnight in Cairo. (B) Monday: Alexandria / Cairo of Zoser, the first stone structure to appear in the world. Continue Departing Alexandria, we’ll first visit for Saturday: Cairo magnificent Montazah Palace Gardens and lunch at one of the country clubs before you visit the , a Morning drive to Old Cairo to visit the then the . On to the Pyramid of Dahshur Royal Jewelry Museum fascinating link between the first Pyramid beautiful Coptic Church of St. Sergius, Fort of Qaitbay, erected on the northern S plendo r s of E gypt of Sakkara and the mighty Pyramid of where Jesus and the Holy Family stayed tip of Eastern Port on the site of the after fleeing Jerusalem. Continue to the Giza. Explore the imposing ancient Pharos of Alexandria. Return to and the . Return to Cairo restored, 10th century A.D. Ben Ezra Cairo for overnight. (B) for overnight. Synagogue (subject to opening schedule (B.L) and permission), the oldest in Egypt. Tuesday: Cairo Wednesday: En Route Proceed to the Mosque of Mohammed Depart this morning to explore ancient Ali at the Citadel of Saladin. Continue Transfer to Cairo Airport for your departure , with its colossal statue of to the bustling Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, Memphis flight; or extend your journey to Israel, where shopping is an exotic experience. Ramses II, founded in 3100BC as the first Jordan or Dubai, please inquire. (B) Afternoon is at leisure. This evening, join capital of the newly united kingdom of an Egyptian family at their home and Upper and , and her vast and Please Note: The cruise line reserves the enjoy a delicious home-made dinner while astounding of Sakkara, where right to alter the sailing schedule. learning about the Egyptian way of life. A unique experience! (B.D) LAND & CRUISE PRICES PER PERSON (USD) (Includes Intra-Egypt Domestic Flights) Sunday: Cairo / Alexandria Jan-Dec ‘20 After breakfast, drive from Cairo to Friday Departures Twin Single Alexandria. Arrive in Alexandria; drive Jan 3 thru Mar 27, Apr 17 $4590 $6750 along the dramatic 15-mile waterfront Apr 3 & Apr 10 5175 7695 Corniche, the city’s crescent running along Apr 24 thru May 8 4365 6400 the eastern harbor. Visit the Alexandria May 22 & May 29, Jun 19 thru Sep 18 4365 6400 National Museum with more than 1800 May 15* 4440 6570 archaeological artifacts dated from Jun 5^ & Jun 12^ 4365 6400 Prehistoric and Pharaonic times to Coptic Sep 25-Dec 11 4780 6995 and Islamic era; stop at Pompey’s Pillar Dec 18 & Dec 25 5575 8365 and the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa. *May 15 departure uses the Four Seasons Alexandria Continue on to the Library of Alexandria, ^During Dry Dock period for Sonesta St. George Cruise, cruise will be performed by Farah Nile Cruise. a spectacularly designed homage to its Nile Cruise embarks in Luxor – Monday Sailings. ancient namesake. Today’s itinerary will All tours conducted by professional Egyptologist Guides utilizing Exclusive IsramBeyond vehicles and services throughout.

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