Bahariya Desert & Nile Tour

Daily Itinerary

Day 1

Arrival to Cairo airport where you will be met by our representative and transferred to your hotel .
Overnight in Cairo .

Day 2

Meet with your Egyptologist tour guide at the lobby after breakfast to enjoy your tour visiting, The Pyramids of Giza, One of the seven wonders of the ancient world still remain awesome.  At the foot of the Pyramids, lies the Sphinx, which was discovered in 1912.  Continue your tour visiting Memphis, Egypt’s first Capital until the end of the Kingdom. Close to Memphis, we drive to Sakkara, the City of the dead with the famous step Pyramid of Djosser.  In the end of your tour you will be escorted back to the hotel for overnight.
Overnight – Cairo (B).
Meals: Breakfast

Day 3

Optional tour:
Drive to Alexandria after breakfast by van to visit the Pompey’s Pillarmade of Aswan rose granite.  Then visit the Catacombs of Kom El-Shokafa and the Roman Amphitheater, which is built in the 1st century A.D.  At the end of the tour you will be visiting the newly-opened Library of Alexandria, if you are interested.Return back to Cairo to Station for your train to Aswan.
Dinner and overnight on board train.
Overnight – Sitting Train (B).
Meals plan: Breakfast- Dinner.

Day 4

Breakfast on board train, Upon arrival at Aswan Station you will meet with our tour manager to transfer you to your hotel to check in and freshen up. Later you will be visiting the Philae Temple, the High Dam, and the Granite Quarries.
Then you will escorted back to your hotel for overnight.
Overnight – Aswan hotel (B).
Meals: Breakfast

Day 5

Optional tour to Abu Simbel by an air-conditioned van. Upon arrival you will visit the Great temple hewn in rock with the four colossal seated status of the king in front of the entrance.  After your tour you will be transfered back to your Nile Cruise for embarkation.  Later Sail on the Nile by felucca around Kitchener’s Island.
Overnight on Board.
Overnight – Nile Cruise (B.L.D).
Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6

Early morning sail to KomOmbo. Breakfast on board. Visit the Ptolemaic Temple shared by the two gods Sobek and Harories in KomOmbo.  Sail to Edfu.
Lunch on Board. Visit the Temple of Horus, Afternoon tea. Sail to Luxor Dinner on board in Luxor.
Overnight – Nile Cruise (B.L.D).
Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7

Breakfast on Board.
Cross to the West Bank visit the Valley of the Kings and Queens, where tombs of 64 Pharaohs and 57 Queens have been discovered, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon facing the Nile.
Lunch on board.  Afternoon free at Leisure for your enjoyments.Afternoon tea.
Dinner on board & Galabiya party.
Overnight in Luxor.
Overnight – Nile Cruise (B.L.D).
Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 8

Disembarkation Cruise after breakfast. Meet with our tour manager in Luxor to transfer you to your hotel for a wash and freshen up. Later meeting with your Egyptologist tour guide at the lobby to start your tour visiting the arnak Temple,is one of the greatest architectural achievements of antiquity.  Then visit the Temple of Luxor, which was started by Amenhotep III and completed by Ramses II.  Meeting with our local tour manager to transfer you to Luxor Station for your Sleepr train back to Cairo.
Dinner and overnight on board train.
Overnight – Sitting Train (B).
Meals plan: Breakfast

Day 9

Upon arrival at Cairo Station you will meet with your tour manager to transfer you to your hotel for check. Later meet with your Egyptologist tour guide at the lobby after breakfast to enjoy your tour visiting The Egyptian Museum, famous for its antiquities from Egypt’s Pharaonic period.  Continue your tour to Old Cairo, visiting the oldest part of Cairo to St.Sergious Church, where the Holy Family was hidden while they were in Egypt.Followed by visiting the oldest Jewish Synagogue of Ben Ezra.  Then you will be escorted back to the hotel for overnight.
Overnight – Cairo (B).
Meals plan: Breakfast

Day 10

Breakfast at hotel. Then drive from Cairo to Bahariya Oasis(400 km). Lunch when get there. Then meet with your Safari jeep driver to start driving (120 Km) to the white Desert to Camp there. On your way there you will visit Crystal & Black Mountain, there are several spots to enjoy watching the beautifull shapes of lime stones .
Dinner and overnight in Camp
Overnight – Bahariya Oasis (B.D).
Meals plan: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 11

Breakfast in Camp. Then start visiting the white and black desert while on the way back to the hotel for lunch and freshen up. Then you will start your visiting the Museum of Bahariya, which contains 4 mummies from the new rediscovered.
Then continue your tour visiting Banayouti Tombs, Pharaonic Tombs 26 Dynastey, among the scant remains of the Greaco-roman period.
At the end it is worth visiting the small Temple of Alexander the Great, at Qasr El-Migysbah, apparently the only place were his cartouche and image were found in Egypt. In the end of your tour you will be escorted back to Cairo for overnight.
Overnight – Cairo (B).
Meals plan: Breakfast.

Day 12

Transfer to Cairo airport for departure .