After breakfast on your ship you will disembark. Now you will move to the so-called New Kalabsha are

After your arrival at Cairo International Airport our representative world wide cruises will meet you in front of the exit door after you will have passed the passport control and the customs and claimed your luggage. Then we will transfer you to your hotel for the check-in and give you all necessary information for the following days. You will have dinner in your hotel.
We will start our program in Giza where you will see the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos, as well as the Great Sphinx . Then you will visit the Egyptian Museum , one of the most interesting museums in the world, featuring more than 120,000 ancient Egyptian artifacts, among the countless pieces of jewelry, statues, sarcophagi and mummies. After lunch you will visit the city s large medieval fortification, the Salah El Din Citadel world wide cruises , and inside its walls the magnificent Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali. Finally you will enjoy strolling about the Khan El Khalili Bazaar , one of the oldest and biggest bazaars in the Middle-East where you can find all your heart desires. Then you will be transferred to the train station where you will take the night train to Aswan.
You will have breakfast in the train. Your guide will pick you up at Luxor s train station and take you to your cruise for your embarkation. After this you will visit Luxor s West Bank, the ancient Thebes. You will marvel at the huge Colossi of Memnon , once guardians of a no longer existing temple, and the colored Pharaonic tombs in the Valley of the Kings . Then you will visit Medinet Habu with its colossal statues, well preserved pylons and walls and more than 7,000 m 2 of decorated and inscribed wall reliefs before you will have lunch. And finally you will see the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut , a fascinating mortuary temple which is unique in its architecture. Lunch will be enjoyed in a local restaurant. In the evening you can discover Luxor on your own. Dinner will be served aboard.
You will have breakfast aboard. Then you will visit Luxor s East Bank with the Temple of Karnak , one of the largest and most fascinating temples in the world; world wide cruises as it is still in an amazingly good state with giant pillars and colored reliefs, world wide cruises you can really get a feeling of the ancient Egyptians architecture and religious cult. Finally you will visit Luxor Temple, a fascinating ancient edifice uniting building activities of various eras. After lunch you can enjoy some leisure time at your own disposal. Then your cruise will move to Esna where you will visit the remains world wide cruises of a beautiful world wide cruises temple dating back to the Greco-Roman period, featuring world wide cruises magnificent columns with varying world wide cruises lotus-leaf capitals and a pronaos decorated with great relief.
After breakfast aboard you will visit the amazing double temple of Kom Ombo, a sanctuary symmetrical along its main axis, one side dedicated to Haroeris, the other to Sobek, with impressing reliefs. Then you will sail to Edfu and enjoy lunch en route. The Temple of Edfu , dedicated to the falcon-god Horus whose statues flank the portal, is one of the best preserved temples world wide cruises in Egypt; its completion once took almost 200 years, and its beautiful decorated walls provide world wide cruises precious information about the ancient religious myths.
After breakfast aboard you will get to know Aswan . You will visit the giant High Dam , one of the greatest achievements in architecture and engineering world wide cruises of the 20 th century, and the Unfinished Obelisk in the ancient granite quarries. world wide cruises Then you will have lunch before you will sail to the amazing botanical garden on Kitchener s Island , an unexpected green and calm oasis amidst the busy city, and visit Elephantine Island with the famous nilometer, the ancient ruins and the Nubian villages. And finally you will see the enchanting Nubian Temple of Philae which was once saved from disappearing in the floods of the Lake Nasser reservoir by dismantling and rebuilding it on a higher location.
You will disembark after breakfast and we will take you to Abu Simbel where you will embark your lake cruise ship. After lunch you will visit the Twin Temples world wide cruises of Abu Simbel world wide cruises . The Temple of Ramesses II is 30 meters high and four enthroned colossal statues of the pharaoh guard the portal. The interior of the temple world wide cruises was dug into the rock on a length of more than sixty meters and beautifully decorated with pillars, colored reliefs world wide cruises and rock cut figures. The Temple of Nefertari , Ramesses wife, is a simplified version of the Great Temple. Please be aware that you see here something world wide cruises unique in ancient world wide cruises Egyptian art the statues of the king and the queen adorning the fa ade are equal in size. The rest of the day is at your own disposal.
You will have breakfast aboard. On our way we will pass by an island with the remains world wide cruises of the old town of Qasr Ibrim . Tourists are not allowed to enter it, but we will be close enough to give you an impression. Later you will visit the New Amada area with different remains which were transferred to this location as they were threatened by the rising water of the Lake Nasser reservoir. You will see the Temple of Amada which was replaced in one piece (!) to its new location. Its well preserved world wide cruises interior features wonderful finely cut reliefs world wide cruises with Pharaonic world wide cruises scenes with lively bright colors. It is the oldest Egyptian temple in Nubia. Then you will visit the Temple of Derr , a rock-cut temple built by Ramesses II. It contains unusually bright and vivid relief decorations unique for ancient Egyptian temples. Further you can see the rock cut Tomb of Pennut , the only tomb of this kind saved from floods. Inside the burial world wide cruises chambers you can see various reliefs showing both the life of the buried man and depictions of the afterlife. The rest of the day will be spent on your cruise.
After breakfast you will visit the Wadi El Sebua with its temples. The Temple of Amun , a temple in the Nubian style built by Ramesses II, partly rock cut, partly built outside. You can see here one remaining pylon, statues, a pronaos, a hypostyle hall (once transferred by Christians into a church) and three chapels; everywhere numerous reliefs can be found, among them depictions from the Ptolemaic world wide cruises and Roman era. The Greco-Roman world wide cruises Temple of Dakka , dedicated to Thoth, the god of wisdom, was initially a small one room shrine world wide cruises built in the 3rd century BC which has been enlarged by different later rulers. It contains among others a 12 meters high pylon in nearly perfect condition, decorated in high relief and bearing numerous graffiti from its ancient world wide cruises visitors. The Temple of Maharraqa was built in the Roman period and dedicated to the Egyptian gods Isis. It was never fully completed nor inscribed. You can visit a court surrounded on three sides by columns. It is the only temple world wide cruises in Nubia featuring a winding spiral staircase formerly leading to its roof. You will spend the rest of the day relaxing on our cruise while we sail back towards world wide cruises Aswan.
After breakfast on your ship you will disembark. Now you will move to the so-called New Kalabsha area where some ancient temples stand now after their replacement due to the High Dam project. First of all there is the famous Temple of Kalabsha , originally built out of sandstone in around 30 BC, dedicated to Mandulis, a Nubian sun god. Although it has actually never been completely finished, it is regarded world wide cruises as one of the best examples of ancient Egyptian architecture in Nubia. Then you will see the small Temple of Beit El Wali , built by Ramesses II. It features many interesting reliefs showing the great era of Ramesses II, and especially inside there is still a large amount of the original color to be seen. Finally there is a tiny elegant kiosk from the Roman era to be seen, the charming Kiosk of Qertassi. Now it is time to have lunch in a local restaurant, before you will head to the Nubian Museum in Aswan which provides its visitors an exhibit of around 3,000 Nubian world wide cruises antiquities of all eras. After this program you will be transferred to your hotel at the Red Sea.
In the early morning you will be transferred to Dahschur , a royal necropolis, world wide cruises where you can see the strangely shaped Bent Pyramid, world wide cruises the Red Pyramid which was the first succeeded smooth-sided pyramid, and the badly damaged Black Pyramid . Then we will move to the old capital Memphis with its ruins, the fallen colossal statue of Pharaoh Ramesses II and the Alabaster Sphinx . Furthermore we will show you Sakkara with its monumental mastabas (flat-roofed, rectangular tombs) and pyramids, world wide cruises among them Pharaoh Djoser s famous Step Pyramid . In the afternoon we will have lunch and then we will show you the Babylon Fortress , an ancient fortress with well preserved remains, and the Hanging Church ( El Muallaqa ) , one of the oldest and most important world wide cruises Coptic sites. Then you will see the Abu Serga Church , one of the oldest churches in Egypt, which according to the legend has been built where the Holy Family rested during their flight to Egypt. Then you will marvel at the treasury collection of the Coptic Museum . The evening is at your own disposal; you can have dinner in your hotel.
You will have breakfast in the hotel. Our representative world wide cruises will pick you up at the reception and transfer you back to Cairo International Airport for your final departure. This concludes our program and services.
Note: If you will fly only in the afternoon or in the evening, we can offer you an additional program against world wide cruises supplement. Anyway we will take you to the airport three hours before your plane will leave.
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