11 Days Journey Through History, Culture, and Beauty

The Second Day of 11 Days Journey Through History Culture and Beauty: Giza Pyramids Day Tour

Breakfast at the hotel, then start Giza attractions.

Giza Pyramids Complex

Depending on your arrival time and after having a smooth check-in, you will enjoy your lunch at a local restaurant before you head to the Giza Pyramids.

Your tour of the Giza Pyramids is one of the best things to do in Egypt and the only way to see the wonder of the old seven wonders of the ancient world. A visit to the Giza Pyramids offers a chance to know more about ancient Egyptian Civilization. Actually, you will have an opportunity to know about ancient Egyptian history during the fourth dynasty, the Old Kingdom. Meanwhile, visiting the Cheops Pyramid, Chephren Pyramid, and Menkaure Pyramid allows you to see these engineering miracles up close. Moreover, you can see the satellite pyramids (Queens Pyramids) and the boat pits.

The Valley Temple

Always close to the Nile River or one of its branches is the Valley temple or the Mummification temple. In fact, the Valley temple is the place where they practiced the mummification and the Opening of the Mouth ritual on the Kings’ body.

The Great Sphinx

The massive statue with a human head and lion body is still one of the biggest secrets for archeologists. Is it one sphinx, or is there a female sphinx, According to some sources, who built it?

Lunch

National Museum of Civilization (NEMC)

A new museum consists of two levels, the lower one houses 22 mummies of all the famous pharaohs of Egypt, including Ramses. The upper-level houses Egyptian artifacts, and more and more modern Islamic heritage is displayed.

Meals:

Breakfast, Lunch

Bahariya Oasis Day Tour

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, then you will start your two-day tour of the Egyptian Oases. It takes four hours to drive from Cairo to Bahariya Oasis, with a short break on the way. Upon arrival, we will enjoy a homemade lunch at a local house, then we will start our desert tour to

• Black Desert
• El Heiz village and its cold spring
• Crystal Mountain
• Aqabat area with different stone formation
• Sand dunes and sandboarding
• Old white desert
• Camping at the white desert
• B.Q dinner and overnight at a private camp

Breakfast at the campsite then start your tour to the New White desert especially the Rabbit, cones, chicken, and the Valley of tables. After checking the new white desert, we will head back to Bahariya for lunch, then drive to Cairo and overnight.

Meals:

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

East Luxor Day Tour

You will have an early departure to Cairo Airport after having breakfast at the hotel to take your internal flight to Luxor. Upon arrival, your guide will join you to explore Luxor attractions on the east bank of the Nile River.

Karnak temple

Start your Luxor tourist attractions with the biggest temple in the world, Karnak Temple. The tour will allow you to witness the architecture in ancient Egypt, sculpture, and education. Moreover, the wall reliefs explain a lot about ancient Egyptian religion and the daily rituals in the Egyptian temples. Also, there are a lot of things to see like Ptah temple, Khonsu temple, Mut temple, and Osiris Chapel. Besides the amazing Festival Hall of Thutmose III, there are the barque shrines of Ramesses III from the 20th dynasty.

In addition, the Great Hypostyle Hall, the Sacred Lake, the Scarab, the Botanical Garden, the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut, and the White Chapel of Senusret I are must-sees.

At the end of your tour, you will go to check in at your Nile Cruise and Lunch.

Luxor by night

Luxor temple is open till night and you will be amazed how nice it is when it’s lighted. Actually, the temple was built by two of the 18th-century Pharaohs, Amenhotep III, and Ramesses the Great. Also, Tutankhamun, Horemheb, and Hatshepsut added and decorated parts of the temple. Watch the reliefs of the Kadesh battle, the Divine Birth of Amenhotep III, and the Opet Festival Hall. Also, Luxor Cache, Ramesses the Great 6 Colossi, Obelisk, and Alexander the Great Chapel are must-see.

Meals:

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

West Luxor Day Tour

Morning breakfast on board the Nile Cruise, then your guide will join you to explore Luxor tourist attractions on the west bank of the Nile River.

Valley of the Kings

A must-see while you are in Egypt. All the kings of the New Kingdom, starting with Thutmose I of the eighteenth dynasty, the nineteenth dynasty kings, and also the twentieth dynasty kings, are buried in the valley. Also, Tutankhamun's tomb in the valley was the only tomb found intact. The valley is known for what’s called the Curse of the Pharaohs and the grave robbers. The walls of the tombs are covered with hieroglyphic inscriptions, and religious books such as The Book of the Dead, The Book of Imyduat, The Book of Night, The Book of Heavenly Cow, and The Opening of the Mouth.

Thus, with your ticker, you can visit 3 of the opened tombs, including the tomb of King Ramesses V, the tomb of King Ramesses I, the tomb of King Ramesses X, the tomb of King Ramesses XI, the tomb of Merenptah, and the tomb of King Ramesses III. After you finish your tour of the Valley, you will proceed to the next stop

Hatshepsut temple

Queen Hatshepsut engineer Senmut built this unique in its location and decoration for his majesty. Here, you can witness the agriculture in ancient Egypt, the trade in ancient Egypt, fishing in ancient Egypt, and the clothing at that time. That’s not all; the temple has an amazing chapel for Hathor, another one for Anubis, and a venue for Sphinxes. Besides, the Queen propaganda is called the Divine Birth and the Punt Expedition.

Colossi of Memnon

Enjoy a few minutes in front of the second biggest statues in Egypt after the massive ones of Abu Simbel. Amenhotep III decorated the entrance of his mortuary temple with his statues, which showed him in a seated position on the throne with his mother and wife. After a strong earth quack in 27 BC, they suffered from cracks, and the Greeks called them Memnon. Listen from your guide Why? And shoot some photos.

Later on, you will go back to your Nile Cruise for lunch and start sailing for the rest of the day to Edfu City and overnight

Meals:

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Edfu & Kom Ombo Day Tour

Enjoy an early departure before breakfast to visit Horus Temple in a horse carriage.

Edfu temple

Horus temple is one of the best Pharaonic temples built in the Greco-Roman period, and together with Dendera temple, they are the best-preserved temples. Watch some of the best wall reliefs in Egypt and know more about festivals in ancient Egypt, especially the Good Union between Horus and Hathor. In fact, the struggle between Horus and Seth with the help of Isis is designed here in a complete version. Back to the cruise for breakfast and sail to Kom Ombo.

Kom Ombo temple | Double temple of Sobek and Horus

Kom Ombo temple on the east bank of the Nile River took 385 years to build, starting with King Ptolemy V. Also, Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII added parts, while Roman emperors Tiberius, Domitian, Caracalla, Geta, and Macrinus added decoration. Fortunately, Kom Ombo has reliefs never found anywhere else, such as the surgical instruments, calendar, and temple division by Maat. Besides, you can see the hospital or the Sanatorium, the Nilometer, and the Crocodile Museum with a lot of mummified crocodiles.

Meals:

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Aswan Day Tour

You will start your day with an early departure to visit the amazing temples of Abu Simbel in Nubia.

• The Great Temple of Ramesses the Great
• Hathor temple or Nefertari temple

Back to the Nile cruise for lunch and then start Aswan attractions

High Dam

Aswan High Dam is the second dam built after Aswan Dam, or the Khazan, in 1971 and it is one of the best projects of the 20th century. However, the dam caused some negative consequences, such as the submersion of the Nubian temple's water. Near the High Dam is the Egyptian-Soviet Friendship Monument, which honors Russian-Egyptian friendship. Meanwhile, you see the Kalabsha temple from the High Dam, one of those temples relocated after building the High Dam.

Philae temple

Isis temple is one of the most beautiful Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt. It was built during the Greco-Roman Period on an older temple from ancient times. Philae Temple is one of those temples relocated from Philae Island to Agilkia Island. Indeed, the temple of Philae is dedicated to goddesses Isis, Osiris, Hathor, and Horus. The ISIS temple has unique architectural features such as the Mammisi, the colonnade, the Coptic Church, the French graffiti, and the two obelisks that helped in the decipherment of the hieroglyphic language.

Unfinished Obelisk

A short visit to the granite quarries from where they cut the granite blocks for obelisks, the Osireion temple in Abydos, and the Khafre temple in Cairo. Do some exercises, climb the wooden steps, and watch from the top of the unfinished obelisk.

Back to the Nile Cruise and overnight.

Meals:

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Grand Egyptian Museum Day Tour

Enjoy your last breakfast on board, then check in and head to Aswan Airport to take your flight to Cairo. Upon arrival, you will start your Giza tour of the best tourist attractions.

Grand Egyptian Museum

Enjoy some of the best Egyptian artifacts in the National Museum of Cairo, including mummies, Tutankhamun treasures, papyri, mummified animals, textiles, and a lot more.

Spend as much time as you like at the Egyptian Museum, exploring the Amarna period, the Greco-Roman period, the wooden maquettes, and much more.

Lunch Meal

Enjoy your lunch meal at a local restaurant.

Meals:

Breakfast, lunch

Saqqara & Dahshur Day Tour

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, then start a full-day tour of the oldest pyramids in Egypt in Saqqara and Dahshour.

Saqqara (Sakkara)

Saqqara was the cemetery of Memphis, the oldest capital of Egypt. It was used from the Archaic Period until the Late Period and the Christian era. It has more than 14 Pharaonic Pyramids and a lot of Pharaonic tombs. Actually, the Serapeum Mereroka Tomb and Kagemni Tomb are among the top tourist attractions.

Unas Pyramid

The Unas Pyramid in Saqqara is a very small pyramid that dates back to the fifth dynasty, the Old Kingdom. The Pyramid is about 43 meters in height, and it was built by the last king of the 5th dynasty. Fortunately, Unas Pyramid is famous for the Pyramid Texts. In fact, these Pyramid texts will be known later in the Middle Kingdom as Coffin Texts and in the New Kingdom as the Book of Dead. The Unas Pyramid complex has a long causeway and ruins of the Mortuary Temple, and it was built between the Sekhemkhet and Djoser complexes.

Djoser Step Pyramid complex

The Step Pyramid of Djoser dates back to the third dynasty and is the first stone structure in the world. Imhotep, Djoser's vizier, built this complex for his Pharoah with six mastabas, or layers, above ground and a series of tunnels below. Actually, the complex offers a lot to see, such as the southern tomb, the House of South, the House of North, Serdab, and the Heb Sed Festival court.

Princess Idut's tomb

Princess Idut's tomb was not originally for her, but it is one of the most beautiful tombs in Saqqara, discovered in 1920. In fact, the tomb is full of daily life scenes like fishing scenes with fishing boats, fishing nets, and spears. Also, we can see Hippos fighting together, butchers slaughtering an ox, and a farmer bringing in a steer. Another beautiful scene for the farmers crossing the river was a row of horned bulls and mooing cows. Besides, there is a scene of a female hippo giving birth and a crocodile lurking behind with open jaws, waiting to eat the newborn baby. Lastly, the tomb has a very beautiful False Door and an offering table.

Lunch meal

Enjoy your lunch meal at a local restaurant by the Saqqara exit between the palm trees

Dahshour Red Pyramid & Bent Pyramid

Explore the second and third oldest pyramids in Egypt, dating back to the fourth dynasty, King Sneferu. Discover why the bent pyramid is called bent and why the red pyramid is called red, and you have free access to the pyramids from inside.

Meals:

Breakfast, and lunch

The Last Day of 11 Days Journey Through History, Culture, and Beauty 

Morning breakfast and free time till the final departure to Cairo airport

Meals:

Breakfast