Cairo - Beni Hassan and Amarna - Tuna Gabal - Abydos - Dendera Luxor - Dahabiya - Abu Simbel - Aswan - Alexandria
Egypt in depth in 24 days
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11th December 2024 to 3rd of January 2025
24 Amazing Days!
Embark on a journey with us, where history, archaeology
and culture intertwine to create an unforgettable
experience. Curated and led by our handpicked
professional experts, Past Preservers Experiences and Real
Egypt offer a one of a kind opportunity to not only
immerse yourself in the iconic landmarks of Egypt, but
also uncover hidden gems and seldom-seen sites, offering a
perspective few outsiders ever witness. Beyond the
wonders of Ancient Egypt, you’ll explore the medieval and
modern layers of Egyptian civilization, gaining a profound
understanding of its vibrant culture and people.
Over the course of 24 extraordinary days, you’ll journey
across Egypt in style and comfort. Our itinerary includes a
range of transport– from luxury coaches and horse-drawn
carriages to a five-day Nile cruise aboard an elegant and
traditional Dahabiya, and a camel ride through the
desert’s timeless landscape. Savor the flavours of Egypt in
local restaurants, enjoy a magical moonlit BBQ under the
stars and feel the warmth of true Egyptian hospitality as
we are invited into the homes of our cherished friends.
Don’t just visit Egypt – live it!
Day 1
Wednesday - 11th December 2024 (Arrival)
Arrival in Cairo, transfer to your hotel for overnight stay
Welcome meeting with our team of experts!
🛌 Accommodation: Saray Pyramids Hotel
Day 2
Thursday - 12th December 2024
Site Visit:
Saqqara: Imhotep Museum, Step Pyramid
Unas Pyramid: Nobles tombs, the Serapeum
Memphis: Colossi of Ramses, Open-Air Museum
Experience: Ramses Wissa Wassef Foundation.
🕜 Duration: 7-8 hours
🛌 Accommodation: Saray Pyramids Hotel
🍽 Lunch: Lotus Farm
Day 3
Friday - 13th December 2024
Site Visit:
Medium Pyramid
Dashour: Bent Pyramid, Red Pyramid
🕜 Duration: 7-8 hours
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture & Discussion
🛌 Accommodation: Saray Pyramids Hotel
🍽 Lunch: Picnic
Day 4
Saturday - 14th December 2024
Site Visit:
Giza:
Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, Valley Temple,
Khafra Pyramid, Menkawra Pyramid, Grand Egyptian
Museum
Experience: Camel Ride
🕜 Duration: 7-8 hours
🛌 Accommodation: Saray Pyramids Hotel
🍽 Lunch: 9 Pyramids Lounge
Day 5
Sunday - 15th December 2024
Site Visit:
Cairo: Egyptian Museum
🕜 Duration: 4-5 hours
🛌 Accommodation: Saray Pyramids Hotel
🍽 Lunch: Abo Tarek
Day 6
Monday - 16 December 2024
Depart Cairo for El Minya (4 hours)
Site Visit:
Beni Hasan
Tel El Amarna
🕜 Duration: 6-7 hours
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture with Dr. Mervat Nasser
🛌 Accommodation: New Hermopolis Cultural Village
🍽 Lunch: Picnic
🍽 Dinner: New Hermopolis
Day 7
Tuesday - 17th December 2024
Site Visit:
Tuna El Gabel
Drive to Abydos (4 hours)
🕜 Duration: 3-4 hours
🍽 Lunch: New Hermopolis
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture & discussion
🍽 Dinner: Local Home
🛌 Accommodation: House of Life Hotel
Day 8
Wednesday - 18th December 2024
Site Visit:
Abydos: Early Dynastic periods tombs, the Osirion,
Seti temple, Ramses temple, Om Seti tomb
🕜 Duration: 5-6 hours
🍽 Lunch: House of Life Hotel
🛌 Accommodation: House of Life Hotel:
Day 9
Thursday - 19th December 2024
Site Visit:
Travel to Dendera & Luxor (4 hours total)
Dendera: Temple of Hathor
Luxor: Luxor Temple, Avenue of the Sphinx
🕜 Duration: 4-5 hours
🛌 Accommodation: Embrace Hotel
🍽 Lunch: Lunchbox
Day 10
Friday - 20th December 2024
Site Visit:
Luxor: Karnak Temple, Luxor Museum
🕜 Duration: 6-7 hours
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture & discussion
🍽 Lunch: Loama Luxor Restaurant
🛌 Accommodation: Embrace Hotel
Day 11
Saturday - 21st December 2024
Site Visit:
Luxor: Colossi of Memnon, Valley of the Kings,
Howard Carter House, Hatshepsut Temple
🕜 Duration: 7-8 hours
🛌 Accommodation: Embrace Hotel
🍽 Lunch: Marssam Restauran
Day 12
Sunday - 22nd December 2024
Site Visit:
Luxor: Nobles’s tombs, Deir El Medina, Medinant
Habu
Experience: Pottery school
🕜 Duration: 6-7 hours
🛌 Accommodation: Embrace Hotel
🍽 Lunch: Local family home
Day 13
Monday - 23rd December 2024
Today we join the Safiya Dahabiya in Esna for our
cruise
Site Visit:
Esna: Esna Temple, Wekalet Al-Geddawi, AlQaisariya, El Hegz
🕜 Duration: 3-4 hours
Experience: Local homestay
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture & discussion
🛌 Accommodation: Safiya Dahabiya
Day 14
Tuesday - 24th December 2024 (Christmas Eve🎄).
Site Visit:.
El Kab: Nekheb, New Kingdom Tombs
Edfu: Temple of Horus.
🕜 Duration: 3-4 hours.
Experience: Horse-drawn carriage ride.
🌜 Evening Activity: Christmas Eve gala dinner.
🛌 Accommodation: Safiya Dahabiya
.
Day 15
Wednesday - 25th December 2024 (Christmas Day 🎄)
Site Visit:
Bisaw Island
El Selsela
🕜 Duration: 3-4 hours
Experience: Farm visit, Nile fishing
🛌 Accommodation: Safiya Dahabiya
🍽 Dinner: Christmas BBQ
Day 16
Thursday - 26th December 2024
Site Visit:
Daraw: Kom Ombo temple, Crocodile Museum, local
market, camel barn
🕜 Duration: 3-4 hours
Experience: swimming/kayaking, local market shopping
🌜 Evening Activity: Final dahabiya dinner
🛌 Accommodation: Safiya Dahabiya
Day 17
Friday - 27th December 2024
Drive to Abu Simbel (2 hours)
Site Visit:
Kalabsha Temple, Abu Simbel
Experience: Abu Simbel sound and light show (Optional)
🕜 Duration: 2 hours
🍽 Lunch: Lunchbox
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture & discussion
🛌 Accommodation: Eskaleh Hotel
Day 18
Saturday - 28th December 2024
Breakfast: Boat ride sunrise breakfast
Drive to Aswan (2 hours)
Site Visit:
Aswan: Nubian village, Animalia House Museum,
Elephantine Island
🕜 Duration: 5-6 hours
Experience: walking tour, Felucca ride
🛌 Accommodation: Artika Wadi Kiki Hotel
🍽 Lunch: Animalia
Day 19
Sunday - 29th December 2024
Site Visit:
Aswan: Unfinished Obelisk, Temple of Philae, Nubian
Museum
🕜 Duration: 5-6 hours
🍽 Lunch: Soliah Nubian Restaurant
✈️Fly back to Cairo
🛌 Accommodation: Villa Belle Epoque.
Day 20
Monday - 30th December 2024
Drive to Alexandria (2-3 hours)
Site Visit:
Alexandria: Greco-Roman Museum, Library of
Alexandria, El Montaza Royal resort and palace
Experience: Walking tour of old market
🕜 Duration: 5-6 hours
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture & discussion
🛌 Accommodation: Paradise Metropole
🍽 Lunch: Seafood restaurant
Day 21
Tuesday - 31st December 2024 (New Years Eve 🎉)
Site Visit:
Alexandria: Roman Amphitheatre, Pompey’s Pillar,
Kom El Shoqafa Catacombs, Qait Bay, Abu El Abbas
Mosque
Experience: Walking tour of old market
🕜 Duration: 6-7 hours
🚗 Drive to Cairo (2-3 hours)
🌜 Evening Activity: New Year's Party
🛌 Accommodation: Villa Belle Epoque
Day 22
Wednesday - 1st January 2025 (New Years Day)
Site Visit:
Cairo: Cave church, Coptic Old Cairo, Coptic Museum,
Amru Ibn El Aas Mosque
Experience: Ell Fustat Crafts Centre
🕜 Duration: 5-7 hours
🍽 Lunch: Skyrim restaurant
🌜 Evening Activity: Lecture & discussion
🛌 Accommodation: Villa Belle Epoque
Day 23
Thursday - 2nd January 2025
Site Visit:
Cairo: Islamic Art Museum, the Citadel, Ibn Tulun,
Gayer Anderson Museum, Khan El Khalili market
Experience: Walking tour of Medieval Cairo in El Moez
Street.
🕜 Duration: 6-7 hours
🛌 Accommodation: Villa.
Day 24
Friday - 3 January 2025 ( Departure)
✈️ Pick up from your hotel. Transfer to Cairo Airport.
Optional additions to the above itinerary
Extension in a Red Sea resort such as El Gouna
-2 Days Safari to Fayoum Oasis.
-5 Days trip to Siwa Oasis
Booking Information
Included in your tour:
-Airport transfers
-Tours as listed
-Tour Guide fees
-Meals as listed
-Accommodation as listed
-Dahabiya Cruise, 4 nights 5 days with all meals included in a private double cabin
-Experiences as listed
-Entry Fees to sites
-Domestic Flight – one way – Aswan to Cairo – Economy Class – Per Person
Not included in your tour:
-International flights to Egypt
-Drinks during included meals
-Optional tours
-Tipping
Notes:
-This amazing 24-day cultural experience to Egypt can be yours for only $4300 per person.
If you book early, we are offering a discount of $300 so you only pay $4000 per person.
Price per person is based on two sharing (Single supplement $1200)
PAYMENT OPTIONS
We only need a 25% deposit to confirm your booking. The balance of 75% is due 90 days prior to the start of
the tour.
Payment options – please choose from:
A: Credit Card Online Payment
B: Bank Transfer
(A) Payment Link (Credit card):
Please follow this link to our sister company Annie Travel to process your 25% payment.
https://secure-egypt.paytabs.com/payment/link/134821/5451289
(B) Bank Transfer:
Bank Name: Commercial International Bank Egypt (CIB)
Beneficiary Name: Real Egypt
IBAN Numbers:
Euro: EG870010017300000100042341147
USD: EG120010017300000100042341139
EURO: 100042341147
USD: 100042341139
Swift Code: CIBEEGCX
Phone no: +201100022242
Bank Address: 1 – Hawad El Gezira St – Maadi – Cairo – Egypt
Bank Phone No: +20225268225
Real Egypt Address: 21 A – st 100 – Maadi – Cairo – Egypt
Beneficiary Phone No: +201100022242
Please make sure that transaction fees are paid by the sender and add ¨PAID IN FULL¨ to your transaction request.
Once payment has been sent please confirm to [email protected]
Cancelation Policy
In case of cancellation by the guest, a percentage % of the total quote will be retained as cancellation fees as
referred in the below chart, with a minimum of 100 USD, plus any other amount charged by the
accommodation providers and flight companies as per their providers’ cancellation policies which are not
covered by the % cancellation fees from the quote of those specific items. Supporting documents of flights and
accommodation cancellation charges can be provided upon request.
90 days or more 15%
89 – 31 days 50%
30 – 21 days 75%
20 – 8 days 90%
7 days or less 100%
Contact us
Email:[email protected]
Phone Number:+201100022242
08 days - Cairo-Luxor-Dahabiya Cruise-Aswan-Abu Simbel
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Highlights of Egypt and Dahabiya Cruise in 8 days
Day 1
Visit Saqqara. Include the Step pyramid, Titi pyramid, the Nobles tombs.
Visit Dahshur. Include the bent pyramid and the Red pyramid.
Lunch at Saqqara- a good place to try Egyptian food. Normally they serve mixed grill, kofta, and lots of small dishes filled with appetizers.
Visit Giza. view the Great Pyramid, The Sphinx, Khara pyramid, Menkawra pyramid and, the nobles tombs
Night stay in Cairo .
The tour duration 8-9 hours.
Optional extras
Going Inside the great pyramid
Camel rides
Attend Giza sound and light show in the evening.
Day 2
Transfer to Cairo airport and fly to Luxor.
About 1 hour flight.
Pick up at Luxor airport.
Visit The Valley of the Kings, The Colossi of Memnon and Hatshepsut temple.
The tour duration is 5-6 hours.
Lunch and Check in the hotel.
Afternoon:
Visit Habu temple
Visit a local farmer family in Luxor and have dinner in their house.
The tour duration 3- 4 hours.
optional extras- Queens Valley
Night stay in Luxor .
Day 3
Check out from the hotel after breakfast.
Visit Karnak and Luxor temple.
The tour duration about 3-4 hours.
Transfer from Luxor to Esna. About 1 hour drive,
Check in to the Dahabiya Cruise.
Lunch on board.
Sailing for about 4-5 hours to El Hegz Island.
Going on a walking tour in El Hegz village and visiting a local family there.
Dinner and overnight on board.
Optional Tours :-
Hot air balloon ride over the west bank during the sunrise. The tour duration is about 2 hours, including 50 minutes flight.
Donkey ride in the fields
Day 4
Breakfast on board.
Sailing
Visit El Kab ancient tombs and temple ruins.
Sailing.
Lunch on board.
Visit.
Sailing.
Dinner and overnight stay on board.
Day 5
Breakfast on board.
Visit Bisaw Island and village, and meet more locals and learn about the lifestyle in a remote Egyptian village.
Enjoy a ride with local fishermen helping them in fishing in the Nile River.
Sailing.
Visit El Selsela ancient sandstone quarry and shrines.
Sailing.
Special barbeque dinner by moonlight and overnight stay on board.
Day 6
Breakfast on board.
Visit Kom Ombo temple, Daraw town, camel market( according to availability), and local market.
Lunch on board.
Sailing.
Farewell dinner and overnight stay on board near Aswan.
Optional Tours:-
Philae temple sound and light show.
Day 7
Check out from the Dahabiya after breakfast.
travel to Abu Simbel(3 hours’ drive along the desert)
Visit the 2 temples of Abu Simbel
Drive back to Aswan and stop at the High Dam.
Note: Aswan – Abu Simbel – Round trip flights are available occasionally.
The tour duration 8-9 hours.
Lunch
Boat tour in the Nile in Aswan to view the following: Elephantine Island – Agha Khan Mausoleum – The Cataract – The Nobles tombs
The tour duration is 2 hours.
Transfer to Aswan airport and fly to Cairo.
Arrive in Cairo airport and transfer to the hotel.
Night stay in Cairo.
Day 8
Visit the Egyptian museum. Including King Tut Ankh Amon collection and The Animals mummies room.
lunch at Abo Tarek, famous for Koshri as the most common fast food in Egypt, mix of rice, pasta, lentils, chickpeas, fried onion, and tomato sauce.
Walking tour in Downtown Cairo. The most famous among the area is Tahrir square, the birthplace of Egypt’s great revolution, and visit the places where important events happened during the Egyptian revolution.
Visit the Citadel. Including the Alabaster mosque of Mohamed Ali.
Walking tour in El Muizz St, of Medieval Cairo. The most preserved area with medieval Islamic architecture such as Mosques, Houses, markets, and other Medieval architecture. It’s a perfect place to experience the local culture of Egypt today.
Visit Khan El Khalili market.
The tour duration 9-10 hours.
