Post Build Excursions

15OCT10

Pick up from Baron Heliopolis Hotel for 14 persons at around 08:30 and start a full day tour to visit the great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx , Sakkara Step Pyramids and Dahshur Pyramid Return to hotel around 5:30 PM.

The full day tour includes entrance fees, set menu lunch , private English speaking guide   and transportation by our deluxe air-conditioned vehicle

16OCT10

12:00 NOON  Pick up at Hotel Baron

Day tour to the Egyptian Museum and Khan El Khalili Bazaar , back to hotel around 4:30 PM

The day tour includes entrance fees, set menu lunch , private English speaking guide   and transportation by our deluxe air-conditioned vehicle

17OCT10

Day free with your own arrangements

18OCT10

6:30 AM Pick up from Baron Heliopolis Hotel for 13 persons

Transfer to Cairo airport for domestic flight to Luxor for one-way transfer

CAI/LXR            MS351  07:45 AM-08:55 AM

Meet and assist at Luxor airport upon arrival from cairo then transfer to M/S Movenpick Royal Lilly.

Boarding, lunch on board, in the afternoon visit the East Bank” Karnak & Luxor Temples” , dinner on board and overnight in Luxor.

19OCT10

Breakfast on board, visit the West Bank” the Valley of the Kings & Queens , the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El Dier El Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon”

Sail to Edfu , lunch on board , afternoon tea , dinner on board and overnight in Edfu

20OCT10

Breakfast on board, visit Hours Temple in Edfu , sail to Kom Ombo , lunch on board , visit the temple shared by two Gods Sobek & Haeroirs in Kom Ombo

Afternoon tea during sailing to Aswan, dinner on board and overnight in Aswan

21OCT10

Breakfast on board then visit the High Dam, the temple of Philae and the unfinished Obelisk , lunch on board , in the afternoon sail on the Nile by felucca around Kitchener’s Island , afternoon tea , dinner on board and overnight in Aswan

22OCT10

Depart from the boat in Aswan at about 4:00AM. Breakfast box to take with.

Drive through spectacular desert scenery to Lake Nasser.

Abu Simbel is situated 280km south of Aswan.

The two temples of Abu Simbel are the most magnificent temples in the world. The first Temple was built by the Ramses II, the other for his wife Queen Nefertari.

The temple was dedicated to the deified Pharaoh, King Ramses II,  known also as the great builder and the gods Amun-Re, Re-Herakhte and Ptah. In a fit of precision and architectural egotism, Ramses II  had the entire temple carefully angled and oriented in order that the sun’s rays would align twice a year on his date of his ascension to the throne (21 February) and on his birthday (21 October) and illuminate the inner sanctum of the temple. This incredible natural phenomenon provides for a most spectacular sight, which has come to be referred to as the Sun Festival of King Ramses II. Crowds pack in to the temple before sunrise and watch the shafts of light slowly creeping through the rock hewn inner Hypostyle Hall (replete with further statues of the king) and through to the Sanctuary. Significantly, the sun illuminates statues of Amun-Re, Re-Herakhte and Ramses the god, whilst the statute of Ptah - the god of darkness - remains in the shadows.

Famously, the temple was re-located in a multi-million dollar operation in 1972, further up from the shoreline of Lake Nasser, which had threatened to erode the foundations of this monolithic temple complex. For this reason, the sun now strikes a day later than Ramses had originally planned, though the event this morning itself is no less stunning. After the event, there will also be plenty of time to explore the Sun Temple of King Ramses II and also the Temple of Hathor and take plenty of pictures. 

Arrive Aswan Approximately 12:00 PM

Desert Tour/camel excursion including transportation to St. Simeon’s Monastery by motor boat.  Visit Nubian Museum ending with tour at Aswan Souk.

Time TBD:  

Depart for Aswan airport for domestic flight to Cairo.

ASW/CAI          MS386  5:55 PM -7:20 PM  Arrive Cairo

 

Meet and assist upon arrival at Cairo airport.  

 Transfer those staying overnight to Baron Heliopolis Hotel