Information Duration: 6 Group size : +2 Destination : Cairo , Luxor Category: 3* Season: All seasons Airfare Included: No Customizable: Yes Day 1: Cairo Arrived at the airport of Cairo where our representative will accommodate you and assist in the various steps to follow. You will be then accompanied in the private car to your hotel. Night in hotel . Day 2: Cairo Breakfast in hotel. Visit plate of Gizeh with the three large Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god under an aspect avenger. Then [ Read More ]
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Information Duration: 8 Group size : +2 Destination : Luxor,Aswan Category: 3* Season: All seasons Airfare Included: No Customizable: Yes Day 1: Luxor Arrived at Luxor, reception by our representative and Visits Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to the glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses were venerated there. It is the known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of Luxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Rê and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest [ Read More ]
Information Availability: Everyday Group size : +2 Price Per Person : 145$ On the first day you will be picked up from your hotel in Sharm by an air-conditioned vehicle at approximately 6.15 and taken to Sharm El Sheikh Airport where you will board your plane to fly to Cairo. The flight takes approximately 50 minutes. Once you have arrived, you will be met by our Egyptologist guide who will accompany you for the day. You will visit the Egyptian Museum first where you will get a guided tour of the best areas then some free time to explore yourselves. [ Read More ]
Day 1: Pyramids Tour Our assist will pick you up from Port Said port to show you our pharaonic city, transfer to Cairo by (AC) private van approx (3 hours) to visit one of the world’s seven wonder the pyramids (of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus), then see the incredible sphinx mythological creature with a human head and a lion body Then visit (Valley temples) this temples belong to the Pyramids of Chephren, visit (Step Pyramid of Zoser) this is first Egyptian pyramid, it was built for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser by his vizier Imhotep, and it built in the [ Read More ]
The pyramid at Meidum is thought to have been originally built for Huni, the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty. It was completed and probably usurped by his successor, Sneferu, who also turned it from a step pyramid to a true pyramid by filling in the steps with limestone encasing. The Meidum pyramid was built in different stages, beginning as a seven-step pyramid to which an additional step was added at a later stage. It appears to have collapsed sometime during the New Kingdom. A subsidiary pyramid is located on the south side, between the main pyramid and the enclosure [ Read More ]
The Pyramid and The Sphinx The Great Pyramids consist of the Great Pyramid of Giza (known as the Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu), the somewhat smaller Pyramid of Khafre (or Chephren) a few hundred meters to the south-west, and the relatively modest-sized Pyramid of Menkaure(or Mykerinos) a few hundred meters further south-west. The Great Sphinx lies on the east side of the complex. Current consensus among Egyptologists is that the head of the Great Sphinx is that of Khafre. Along with these major monuments are a number of smaller satellite edifices, known as “queens” pyramids, causeways and valley pyramids. The Giza pyramids have been recorded in the Giza [ Read More ]
Philae is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt. The complex was dismantled and relocated to a nearby island in connection to the UNESCO project started because of the construction of the High Dam, after being partly flooded by the first Aswan Dam for half a century. The most conspicuous feature of both islands was their architectural wealth. Monuments of various eras, extending from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, occupy nearly their whole area. The principal structures, however, lay at the south end of the smaller island. The most ancient were the remains of a temple for Isis built in the [ Read More ]
Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the River Nilein the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes) and was founded in 1400 BCE. , Known in the Egyptian language as ipet resyt, or “the southern sanctuary”, the temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, and Chons and was built during the New Kingdom, the focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-isut) to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in [ Read More ]
Saint Catherine”s Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954), this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, which also lays claim to that title. The oldest record of monastic life at Sinai comes from the travel journal written in Latin by a woman named Egeria about 381-384. She visited many [ Read More ]
Medinet Habu is the name commonly given to the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, an important New Kingdom period structure in the location of the same name on the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its intrinsic size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramses III. The temple, some 150 m long, is of orthodox design, and resembles closely the nearby mortuary temple of Ramses (the Ramesseum). The temple precinct measures approximately 700 ft (210 m). by 1,000 ft. (300 m) and contains more than 75,350 sq ft (7,000 m2) of decorated wall reliefs. Its walls are relatively well preserved and it [ Read More ]