Tour of Cairo and Nile Cruise

DAILY ITINERARY

• DAY 1: ARRIVE CAIRO/MEMPHIS/SAKKARA/PYRAMIDS/SPHINX/MUSEUM 
  Arrive in Cairo. Meet our representative who will assist. Transfer to your hotel. Start your full day tour of Memphis and Sakkara, followed by visits to the great Pyramids of Giza (only 100 people a day are allowed inside, so the chance to go inside is remote), the Valley Temple and Sphinx. Continue with a visit to the Egyptian Museum. Enjoy dinner at oriental restaurant. Dinner & Overnight in Cairo. (B,D) 
• DAY 2: FLIGHT TO ASWAN/ BEGIN NILE CRUISE (DAY 1): 
  Early morning transfer for a flight to Aswan. Upon arrival, transfer to cruise embarkation 12:00. Visit to Elephantine Island, Lord Kitchener’s Botanical Garden and the Agha Khan Mausoleum. Lunch and dinner on board, drinks excluded. Dinner & Overnight Aswan (B,L,D) 
• DAY 3: NILE CRUISE (DAY 2): 
  Breakfast on board of the cruise. Visit Aswan High Dam and the Quarries, where the Granite stones were cut to build the ancient monuments and the Dam. See the Unfinished Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, and the Temple of Philae. Return to cruise. Lunch will be served on board drinks excluded. Sailing to Kom Ombo. Visit the unique Twin Greco Roman Temples of Kom Ombo. Sail to Edfu. Dinner will be served on Board. Drinks excluded. Enjoy Oriental Galabia Party. Dinner & Overnight in Edfu (B,L,D) 
• DAY 4: NILE CRUISE (DAY 3): 
  Breakfast on board of the cruise. A horse drawn carriage will take you to the largest and most preserved Egyptian Temple of Edfu of Horus. Return back to your ship. Sail to Esna, pass the Lock, and sail to Luxor. Lunch will be served on Board drinks excluded. Dinner will be served on board. Drinks excluded. Enjoy a show of Belly Dancer. Dinner & Overnight in Luxor (B,L,D) 
• DAY 5: FLIGHT LUXOR/CAIRO/TRANSFER TO AIRPORT/FLIGHT TO JORDAN 
  Breakfast will be served on Board, and then at leisure. Check out from the cruise 12:00. Have your lunch at an Oriental restaurant. Drinks excluded. Begin your Sight seeing in Luxor. Visit to Valley of the Kings, where dozens of ancient tombs have been discovered and then continue to the famous and most impressive Karnak Temple, which was built over a period of 2000 years. We complete the sight seeing with a visit to Avenue of the Sphinx and the Temple of Luxor. Have your dinner at an oriental restaurant, drinks excluded. Transfer to airport 21:00 for flight to Jordan Dinner & Overnight in Amman (B,L,D) 
• DAY 6: AMMAN / MT. NEBO / MADA / PETRA 
  After breakfast we have a short tour of Amman and continue to Mt. Nebo followed by a visit to Madaba. Continue to Petra. Petra is the legacy of the Nabateans, an industrious Arab people who settled in southern Jordan more than 2000 years ago. Admired then for its refined culture, massive architecture and ingenious complex of dams and water channels. Much of Petra's appeal comes from its spectacular setting deep inside a narrow desert gorge. The site is accessed by walking through a kilometer long chasm walls, soar 200 meters upwards. Dinner & Overnight in Petra (B,D) 
• DAY 7: PETRA 
  After breakfast we tour Petra site. Transfer to Amman airport for a flight home. 
• OPTIONAL 
  Going north of Jordan, or cross the border to Israel. Dinner & Overnight in Jerusalem (B,D) 
• DAY 8: MT. OF OLIVES / GETHSAMENE / * TEMPLE MOUNT / * DOME OF THE ROCK / BETHESDA / VIA DOLOROSA / ECCE HOMO / HOLY SEPULCHER / ORIENTAL BAZAR / UPPER ROOM 
  After breakfast we drive up Mt. Of Olives. Here over looking the Temple, Jesus taught his disciples, prophesized the destruction of Jerusalem. From here the entire city of Jerusalem unfolds before us. Down the slopes below is Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus was taken captive. From here we enter the Old City. Your guide will tell to you about the battle of Jerusalem’s old city during the 1967 war. Visit the Western Wall and its Underground Tunnel, 488m long tunnel along the largest stones of the wall, above the main rock of 60m long, on which the foundations of the Temple were built. Here you can also see water cisterns from times of the Hasmoneans. * If time permitting and no Muslim prayer is held, we walk up Temple Mount and view Dome of the Rock mosque. We continue to Pools of Bethesda, located just north of the temple mount, where Jesus healed the man at the waters of the pool. Walk through Via Dolorosa stations. We pass Ecce Homo Arch where Jesus trial took place and stop by the Church of Holy Sepulcher near Golgotha. We walk through the Oriental Bazaar and visit Upper Room of the Last Supper. Dinner & Overnight - Jerusalem (B,D) 
• DAY 9: TRANSFER TO TEL AVIV AIRPORT / FLIGHT HOME 
  Transfer to Tel Aviv airport for a flight home

To book, or for further information, please contact Cecelia at the Egypt & Beyond office on tel : 011 678 6165 or 011 678 4777. Fax: 0866 920 305/6. Email : Cecelia@egyptandbeyond.co.za

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