TRIP NOTES Cairo, Cruise & Coast 13 days | Starts/Ends: Cairo Discover the best of Egypt and its • Aswan - Take a leisurely boat trip to • Entrance Fees: USD$110-130pp, paid in ancient wonders on this 13 day Agilika Island to explore romantic Philae local currency • adventure. Marvel at the legendary Temple and wander around the colourful International flights and visa souqs • Tip for Nile Cruise staff. Tip for your tour Pyramids of Giza, visit Dendera's • Kom Ombo - Visit the Nile side Temple of guide - we recommend you allow USD exquisite Temple of Hathor and Kom Ombo $5-7 per day, per traveller for your guide, explore Luxor's Valley of the Kings, • Hurghada - Spend three nights at the Red though ultimately tipping is an entirely before cruising the River Nile to Sea. Relax by the beach, swim and opt to personal gesture Aswan and relaxing by the Red Sea snorkel or scuba dive in the clear coastal in beautiful Hurghada. waters COVID SAFE GUIDE What's Included DETAILED ITINERARY HIGHLIGHTS AND INCLUSIONS • Breakfast daily, 4 lunches and 4 dinners • 7 nights 4-5 star hotels, 4 nights aboard a Trip Highlights Day 1 : Optional Backstreets 5 star Nile Cruiser (en suite cabin) Of Cairo Tour • Cairo - Gaze in awe at the ancient • 1 overnight train from Cairo to Luxor Sunday. Welcome to Egypt and the start of Pyramids of Giza, explore the Necropolis (private 2 berth sleeper cabin) your holiday! Upon arrival at Cairo Airport of Saqqara and see King Tut's treasures • Economy class flight from Hurghada to you will be met by a representative from at the Grand Egyptian Museum Cairo On The Go Tours. The prominent sign • Luxor West Bank - Discover exquisite • Airport arrival and departure transfer on depicting our company logo easily identifies tombs at the Valley of the Kings, see day 1 and day 13 our representative. Cairo International Airport the towering Colossi of Memnon and • Touring - Cairo, Giza, Saqqara, Luxor, can appear to be a little chaotic to the explore the beautiful Temple of Queen Dendera and Aswan uninitiated, this is normal. Upon exiting the Hatshepsut • Hurghada - Red Sea stay airport you will be escorted to our awaiting • Luxor - Roam around the colossal Temple • Escorted by an Egyptian tour guide transportation and transferred to your hotel. of Karnak and take an optional tour of the degree qualified in Egyptology Here, your Egyptian adventure begins! beautifully illuminated Luxor Temple at • All relevant transfer and transportation in night private modern air-conditioned vehicles Enjoy a free day in Cairo before the rest of • Dendera - Explore the beautifully your Egyptian adventure. Perhaps relax by the preserved Temple of Hathor, with its What's Not Included hotel pool or for those that are arriving before exquisitely decorated ceiling • Tipping Kitty: USD$60-80pp, paid in local 8.30am, join our optional Backstreets of Cairo • Nile cruising - Cruise the River Nile from currency tour which departs the hotel at 10am (best Luxor to Aswan on board a 5 star river booked prior with your travel consultant). This cruiser Cairo, Cruise & Coast - 13 days updated on 28-09-2021 07:50:25 www.onthegotours.com This information has been compiled with care and good faith. They give an accurate illustration of the proposed arrangements for this holiday. Circumstances beyond our control such as changes in local conditions, inclement weather or other reasons could force us to make changes to UK 020 7371 1113 [email protected] this itinerary. Any costs shown are subject to change, though are an accurate reflection of costs at time of writing. Please also note that visa AUS 1300 855 684 [email protected] requirements are subject to change and are the responsibility of the traveller and not that of On The Go Tours. NZ 0800 44 77 69 CAN 1 866 890 7038 - 1 - USA 1 866 606 2960 SA 0800 990 311 TRIP NOTES Cairo, Cruise & Coast optional tour takes you off the beaten track buy genuine papyrus at quite reasonable We arrive into Luxor this morning and drop in Egypt's bustling capital, visiting Downtown prices. our bags off at the hotel. There's time to Cairo, the exquisite mosques and monuments freshen up in the hotel lobby before we of El Moez Street in Islamic Cairo, Garbage Continuing to the necropolis of Saqqara, we drive to Dendera which is one of Egypt's City and the incredible Cave Church of St. can explore the myriad tombs and temples best preserved temple complexes, located Simon. at this site and see Zhoser’s step pyramid- 60km north of Luxor. This vast complex constructed by Imhotep, the pharaoh’s chief covers 40,000 square meters and its temples, At 7pm this evening meet your guide and the architect in 2700 BC. Overnight - Cairo (B) chapels and shrines were gradually built over rest of the group at a Welcome Meeting. Day 3 : Grand Egyptian thousands of years. Dendera's crowning glory For those arriving a day or two earlier than is the 2000 year old Temple of Hathor Day One of the tour, one of our staff will be Museum with its exquisitely decorated ceiling, adorned on hand to advise on where best to enjoy Cairo - Luxor. Today we visit the new Grand with astronomical representations. After our your extra time in Cairo in advance of the tour Egyptian Museum, which houses a giant guided tour of this incredible site we return to commencing. We also have an Alexandria exhibition containing the treasures of King Luxor where you can spend the afternoon at Day Trip available to book for the Saturday Tutankhamun. In this incredible 490,000 sq.m leisure, relaxing by the pool. before your tour starts, or on the final day complex many of the exhibits are being of the tour and we can book pre/post tour displayed for the first time and artefacts have This evening at 5.30pm there is an optional accommodation upon request. Overnight - been brought together from across Egypt and visit is available to the Temple of Luxor. Cairo the world. The museum also makes use of The excursion is booked/pay locally at new technology including virtual reality. approx USD$25 including entrance fees and Day 2 : Pyramids of Giza buffet dinner. The Luxor Temple, a strikingly After our guided tour of the Grand Egyptian beautiful piece of architecture built by the Museum we head over to the National New Kingdom pharaoh Amenophis III, was Museum of Egyptian Civilization to visit the originally joined to Karnak by an avenue of fascinating Royal Mummies' Hall, where the sphinxes. The temple comprises a striking mummies of ancient Egyptian kings and array of great halls, courts and colonnades queens are on display. This incredible hall decorated with colossal statues of great contains 20 mummies in total and some are pharaohs including Ramses II and splendid so well preserved that they still have thick columns. An obelisk, one of a pair, remains locks of hair, visible finger nails and smooth at the temple. Its towering counterpart now blackened skin! At this museum please note stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, After a good night's rest, we have a full day that we will only visit the Royal Mummies' Hall, France. At night the temple is beautifully of touring planned for today. Our first stop this allowing free time to relax back at the hotel illuminated with powerful lights, making the morning is the famous pyramids and the iconic before boarding the overnight train to Luxor temple all the more evocative as the artificial Sphinx at the Giza Plateau. Sole survivors this evening. light creates an eerie spectacle as shadow from the ancient Greek listed Seven Wonders and light play off the colossal statues and of the World, the pyramids are the planet’s Please Note: the Grand Egyptian Museum reliefs. oldest tourist attraction. Known as Cheops, is set to open late 2021. An official date For those not opting for the optional Chephren and Mycerinus, the pyramids were has yet to be released. If travelling prior to excursion, there is time to relax and go for already more than 2,000 years old when the opening of the new facility we'll visit dinner. As we have an early start tomorrow, Herodotus the Greek historian visited them the Egyptian Museum instead. Overnight - you might want to retire early but if you have (5th century BC). A highly skilled corps of Sleeper Train (B) energy there are plenty of bars and late night mathematicians, masons, surveyors and stone entertainment available at all the big hotels. cutters carried out the job of building the Day 4 : Luxor & Dendera Overnight - Luxor (B) pyramids. 100,000 workers were used to carry out the backbreaking task of moving and laying the stones of the largest pyramid- Cheops and about 2.5 million limestone blocks, quarried locally and weighing in excess of 6 million tonnes, were used to construct it. Leaving the Pyramids of Giza, we’ll sometimes drop into a government supervised papyrus emporium. Here, you can Cairo, Cruise & Coast - 13 days updated on 28-09-2021 07:50:25 www.onthegotours.com This information has been compiled with care and good faith. They give an accurate illustration of the proposed arrangements for this holiday. Circumstances beyond our control such as changes in local conditions, inclement weather or other reasons could force us to make changes to UK 020 7371 1113 [email protected] this itinerary. Any costs shown are subject to change, though are an accurate reflection of costs at time of writing.