We'll be waiting for you in the Cairo airport to give you your visa to help you with immigration controls and take you to your hotel, eating in a local restaurant in the evening.
Best of Egypt: 8 Day All Inclusive Tour from 869 US Dollar
Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Aswan Abu Simbel... on our complete tour we'll see all the unmissable sights in Egypt in 8 days. The best way to really discover the land of the Nile.
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We'll be waiting for you in the Cairo airport to give you your visa to help you with immigration controls and take you to your hotel, eating in a local restaurant in the evening.
Having eaten breakfast, we'll visit The Giza plateau where the 4th dynasty pyramids were constructed Khufu (Cheops) pyramid, it is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one that stands until now, it is the most attractive monument on the plateau 146.59 meters high and its sides at the base reached 230.37 meters in length. The tilt of their faces was 52 degrees. It is the greatest monument in Egypt and has almost 2,300,000 stone blocks. As an Arab proverb says: "man fears time, but time fears pyramids."
Khafra (Khefern) pyramid is 136.4 meters high, each side measures 215.25 meters and the inclination of its faces is just over 53 degrees. Its estimated volume is more than 1.6 million cubic meters. On its vertex, remains of the old original shiny limestone covering can still be seen.
The pyramid of Menkaura (Mykerinos) whose base measures 103.4 meters on each side and its original height was 65.5 meters, with a slope on all four sides of 51 degrees. It conserves at the base 16 courses of red granite that corresponded to the lower cladding of the monument. We will continue to visit the Valley Temple and the Great Sphinx built by Pharaoh Khafra (Khefern) it is 73 meters long, and almost 20 meters high.
Then with the visit to Egypt's most famous historical site over, we'll eat a traditional lunch and make our way to Memphis, Egypt's first capital, and to Saqqara, its necropolis.
Having rested at your hotel, we'll head to the Old Cairo, to the medieval area where we'll walk its oldest street, explore the Khan el Khalili market, and eat a typical dinner in the famous and historical Café of mirrors.
Today we'll visit the most emblematic spots in the centre of the city. We'll see the Citadel, explore the Alabaster Mosque, haggle in the Khan el Khalili, pass through the Coptic neighbourhood, eat, and marvel at the masterworks of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities which was built in 1902 and it exhibits a large number of items and treasures (exceeding 170,000 masterpieces) dating from the Prehistoric Period to the end of the Roman era, arranged in chronological order, exhibited in 42 rooms on the ground floor contains the largest of the exhibits, such as a massive statue pair of Amenhotep III and his wife Tiye, the colossal statues of Rameses II, the super famous pieces like the Narmer Palette, diorite statue of Khafre, bedroom furniture of Queen Hetepheres and the exhibits of the Amarna collection which include a colossal statue of the ‘heretic’ king Akhenaton. The upper floor there are 47 rooms housing about 3000 pieces of the treasure of Tutankhamun the boy-king’s tomb, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, including the shrines and tomb furniture the famous gold mask and sarcophagi.
Then in the evening, we'll eat in a local restaurant.
Having breakfast, we'll make our way to the airport to take a flight to Luxor, once called Thebes, the departure point for your cruise down the Nile.
Upon arrival, we visit the famous temples of the east bank ,luxor temple and karnak temple and spend the day on board the boat
Breakfast on board and Visit the following;
Valley of the
Kings is one of
the oldest Royal burial places in all over the world. It consists of more than
60 rock-cut tombs carved out of a big mountain which looks like a huge natural
Pyramid overlooking the Nile on the west bank of Luxor, more than a third of
this number of tombs used for burying the great pharaohs ruled Egypt from the
16th century to 11th century B.C which considered the glamorous days of Ancient
Egypt known as the New Kingdom period (18th, 19th and 20th dynasties), such as
the famous pharaohs Thotmosis lll, Sity l Ramses ll, Ramses lll, etc. Each tomb
consists of 3 or 4 large corridors decorated with bright and colorful
scenes, paintings and carvings representing philosophical ideas and future
vision of the Hereafter, which explained and illustrated in 9 Holly books such as the book of deads,
the book of caverns etc..., those large corridors end by the most important
point of the tomb which is the burial chamber supposedly to have the most
valuable objects of the treasure buried around the Pharaoh's mummy, as well we can see a very large
painting of goddess Nut the goddess of the Sky and the journey of day and
night, some of these burial chambers still has the sarcophagus you
hardly believe it is cut out of single piece of granite brought from Aswan
quarries 130 miles south of Luxor and taken dawn more than 300fts into the
mountain, So many excavators worked in Valley of the Kings, such as Howard Carter who discovered the
discovery of the discoveries of the 20th century which is the intact tomb of
King Tut Ankh Amon occurred in 4th of November 1922.
The Mortuary
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut is one of the best architectural buildings; it consists of
three levels connected to each other and has different scenes on its walls that
represent the queen's divine birth and commercial expedition to the land of Punt.
The temple is mainly dedicated to worshiping the god Ammon-Ra
The Colossi
of Memnon, are two
statues that represent Pharaoh Amenhotep III in a Seated Position in front of
his funeral temple.
Lunch and
the boat sail first to Esna about 5 hours and after crossing the lock keep
sailing to Edfu you have dinner and stay on board overnight in Edfu.
We begin the day by visiting the Temple of Edfu, dedicated to the god Horus, the war God and perhaps the most important of the Egyptian deities, the best-preserved temple and most spectacular temple in the country.
Then we'll continue our cruise, sailing towards Kom Ombo, where we'll visit its temple, dedicated to the Gods Sobek and Horus - whose location makes it one of the most beautiful. Then at the end of the day we continue to sail the River Nile, towards Aswan.
The day begins with a bus trip to the Temples of Abu Simbel, the most famous in all Egypt, saved from rising waters thanks to co-ordinated international effort. We'll return to Aswan to visit the temple of Philae, found on a beautiful island known as the Jewel of the Nile, returning to the cruise ship to eat. Then after lunch, we'll sail around the region in a Felucca, a traditional wooden boat found along the Nile, arriving back to the cruise to spend the night on board .
Having breakfast, we'll take you to the Aswan airport, where we'll take the return flight to Cairo. And when there, we'll help you to take your international flight.
We'll adapt the departure time from Aswan depending on the timing of your flight from Cairo. If it leaves early, we'll leave Aswan earlier and offer you a continental breakfast, or something to go. If your Cairo flight is in the evening, we'll offer you breakfast on board the boat before taking you to Aswan to take your flight to Cairo.
* Price per person in a double room
* Supplement $ 75 usd for the excursion of Abu Simbel by bus optional
* The confirmation of the boat name is made one week before the start of the trip
Booking policy
Nile dream offers flexible down payment just 50% to start preceding your booking, such as hotel room, cruise cabin, domestic flight ticket etc. As for the rest either money transfer 2 days before your arrival date, or in cash to be handed to Nile dream rep. upon arrival
Children Policy
• 1 - 03.99 Free of Charge
• 4 - 5.99 pay 25% of tour price
• 6 - 11.99 pay 50% of tour price
• 12+ pay full tour price as per adult
Children, less than 12 years will pay the cost of domestic
flights if the tour includes it.
Cancellation policy
It will be a Cancellation fee charged according to the following scale.
• 2 months 60 days before your arrival date you will be charged 10%of the total price.
• 1 month 30 days before your arrival date you will be charged 20% of the total price.
• 2 weeks 14 days before your arrival date you will be charged 50% of the total price
• Less than 14 days before your arrival date you will be charged 100% of the total price. Any Cancellation to a domestic flight Ticket for any case and any time during your stay, you will be charged a Cancellation fee according to the Airline's company Cancellation policy
Emergency Cancellation policy
Nile dream tour is very concerned about the safety of our customers, so for some reasons such as government travel warning and Airline issues and any other safety issues you will be informed about the full refund Cancellation policy
Tipping system
Tipping is a common way of showing appreciation and satisfaction to good service in Egypt. So, it is a way of life and expected. Nile dream tour set a Kitty system. Instead of giving it individually which is exhausting to your budget, kindly requested hand the set amount kitty to Nile dream rep. upon arrival, it includes drivers, porters, Nile cruise staff etc. It does not include tour guide; you can hand your appreciation directly to him.
Precautions against Covid-19
Regarding avoid the spread of Covid-19. We will apply the following precautions
1- Guests are obliged to wear masks from the start to the end of the tour, including the members of the service (guide, drivers etc...) it will be provided to whom they need it during the tour
2- The temperature of the guests will be measured daily, excluding those maintaining in quarantine and display fever or symptoms, those with a temperature of more than 37 degrees Celsius (99 Fahrenheit) will be full refunded.
3- we should respect one-meter safe distance as possible as we can and the tour consists of not more than 6 persons
4- Disinfection gel and Alcohol will be available before, during and after the service moreover the transportation will be cleaned very well by disinfection solutions before and after each service.
• Meet and greet service by our representatives upon your airport
arrival.
• Transfers
in private vehicle with air conditioning.
• 4 Airport
transfers. (2 in Cairo, 1 in Luxor, 1 in Aswan)
• Domestic Flight Tickets Economy Class
•
English-speaking tour guide during your excursions
•
Main Entrance Fees
•
Excursions according to the itinerary.
• This
itinerary could be changed in order according to the circumstances of service
not to be canceled
•
Accommodation in Cairo for 3 nights, on full board.
•
Accommodation on board Nile cruise 4 nights, on full board
• Tourism
Police Permission
• Tax
• Entry Visa to Egypt
• Personal
spending.
• Extra
Entry Ticket to inside the Pyramids.
• Extra
Entry Ticket to the tombs that have a special entrance in Luxor
• Optional
Activities.
•
Drinks
• Tipping
• Anything not mentioned above.
info@niledreamtours.com
www.niledreamtours.com
Nile Dream is operated by
Travel Code Tours
License number/2303
102 Haram St. floor 6- Giza,Egypt
T: +201001623406
T: +201142770257
This page would have not appeared without the voluntary efforts and extreme cooperation from Nacho Ares and the philologist Maty Guerrero, thanks to the materials provided by both of them such as photos, videos, links and ideas