Nile And Temples (with Abu Simbel)

 (3 Nights Cairo - 4 Nights Cruise)

   Boarding Mondays and Saturdays in Luxor

DAY 1: MADRID /  CAIRO

Arrival at Cairo International Airport, assistance with our representative and visa procedures. Transfer to the hotel.

DAY 2: CAIRO and Giza

Breakfast. During the morning, a panoramic visit to the Pyramids of Giza: Cheops, Kefren and Micerino, the Sphinx and the temple of the valley. In the afternoon we will visit the Egyptian Museum where there are more than 3200 masterpieces of the art of ancient Egypt. And a night hotel.

DAY 3: CAIRO / LUXOR

Breakfast and transfer to the airport to take the flight to Luxor. Arrival and boarding the cruise. Visit of the Luxor temples (dedicated to Amon –Ra and his wife represented in vulture) and Karnak (the temple of the temples) that form one of the most impressive complexes of Ancient Egypt. And night on board.

DAY 4: LUXOR / ESNA / EDFU

Breakfast and visit the Valley of the Kings, The Valley from where the Pharaohs were buried in hypogeums, Here the kings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties were buried, as well as some queens, princes, nobles and even animals. Queen Hatchepsut that is inside a monumental complex called the Deir El Bahar, we will also visit the Medinet Habu Temple and before crossing the Nile we stop by the Colossi of Memnon (statues of Amenophis III that constitute the testimony of the funerary temple built at the beginning from the fourteenth century BC). At the scheduled time we will sail towards Esna crossing the sluice and then towards Edfu, dinner, and overnight on board.

DAY 5: EDFU / KOM OMBO / ASWAN

Arriving in Edfu, he is the best preserved of all Egypt and was dedicated to Horus (the Halcon dis). Navigation to Kom Ombo and visit the temple that was dedicated to Horus and Sobek (the crocodile god) on its walls are represented the instruments of Egyptian medicine and the calendar. Navigation to Aswan, dinner, and overnight on board.

DAY 6: ASWAN

In the morning, visit the Temple of Filae, was consorted during the Ptolemaic and Roman times and was dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis and the Aswan Dam. And The Nubian Museum, where we admire many ancient cultures, dinner, and overnight on board.

DAY 7: ASWAN /  CAIRO

Breakfast and early morning we will be left by bus to Abu Simbel to make the excursion of the temples of Abu Simbel, the great temple carved into the rock was disassembled and reassembled to be saved from the waters. It is located about 300 km south of Aswan, already in the Nubian territory and was built to give more glory to Ramses II the Great, who is divinized, sitting next to Ptah, Amun-Ra and Harmachis. Transfer to the airport to take a flight to Cairo. Arrival in Cairo and walking tour in Medieval Cairo with its Mosques, Hostels, Cafes and its famous Bazaar khan El Khalili. And overnight in the hotel.

DAY 8: CAIRO / THE CITY OF ORIGIN

Breakfast. At the scheduled time, transfer to Cairo airport and flight to the city of origin.