Itinerary

Today you arrive at Cairo international airport, where our Ace Global representative will assist you with all your customs and immigration procedures. You will be driven in a modern air-conditioned vehicle to your hotel for check in.

Conrad Cairo Hotel (no meals)

Enjoy a leisurely buffet breakfast served at your hotel. You will be introduced to your Egyptologist who will take you on your tours. Visit the Pyramids of Giza and the famous Sphinx. Your tour will include a camel ride. Lunch today is reserved at Andrea restaurant or similar. After lunch, you will be taken on a tour of Sakkara. Experience Egypt's long and rich history in our exciting double tour to the city of Memphis and the necropolis of Sakkara. At vast Sakkara, you will see the famous Step Pyramid of King Zoser, the first freestanding stone structure in the world.

Enjoy buffet breakfast at your hotel. Today is scheduled for visits to Egyptian Museum of antiquities, Bazaar and Islamic Cairo.

Each year in the spring, tribal chieftains sent a representative to Motu Nui to search for the first egg laid by Manu Tara, the sacred bird. The sponsor of the successful hunter was named Bird Man for the year, with all rights and privileges thereof. Rocks covered with Bird Man petroglyphs surround Orongo, many overlaid with fertility symbols, and a grouping of stones nearby has been identified as a solar observatory. Return to your hotel for an afternoon at leisure.

Your Egyptologist will escort you today on a fascinating tour of 7,000 years of Egyptian history with a visit to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. The Museum houses the world's greatest collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts Including 12 rooms filled with golden treasures from the world-famous tomb of the boy-king Tutenkhamun. Proceed to the fascinating Khan El-Khalili Bazaar - reputed to be the largest bazaar in the Middle East. Originally founded as a watering stop for caravanserai in the 14th century, the bazaar has now grown to vast proportions. As you wander through the labyrinth of narrow streets you will find workshops and stalls selling all manner of things from woodwork, glassware and leather goods to perfumes, fabrics and Pharaonic curiosities. Lunch is scheduled at Naguib Mahfouz restaurant or similar.

After lunch, take a fascinating tour of Islamic Cairo, including the beautiful and graceful Mohamed Ali Mosque and the ancient Citadel; a spectacular medieval fortress perched on a hill above the city. Originally built by Salah El-Din in 1176 to fortify the city against the Crusaders, the Citadel was modified and enlarged over the centuries by subsequent rulers and today is a complex of three mosques and four museums. After the tour, you will be driven back to your hotel.

Conrad Cairo Hotel (B, L)

Enjoy your buffet breakfast at hotel. Your representative will assist with checkout procedures. You will be taken to Cairo domestic airport, where you will board your Egyptair flight to Luxor. Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your Nile cruise boat, M/S Sun Ray. Begin your tour of Luxor with a visit to the West Bank of the Nile to explore the Valley of the Kings, a vast City of the Dead where magnificent tombs were carved into the desert rocks, decorated richly, and filled with treasures for the afterlife by generations of Pharaohs.

Enjoy your breakfast buffet on board. After breakfast, visit Luxor Temple. Your Egyptologist will guide you on a tour of the East Bank of the Nile, starting with the strikingly graceful Temple of Luxor dedicated to the god Amun. Proceed to the Temple of Karnak, built over more than a thousand years by generations of Pharaohs. The great "Hypostyle Hall" is an incredible forest of giant pillars, covering an area larger than the whole of Notre Dame Cathedral. Later you sail to Edfu, where you will spend the night. Lunch and dinner are served on board.

M/S Sun Ray Cruise (B, L, D)

Enjoy your buffet breakfast on board. Visit Edfu Temple. This morning, explore the largest and most completely preserved Pharaonic - albeit Greek-built - temple in Egypt, the extraordinary Temple of Horus at Edfu. Sail to Kom Ombo & visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated to the crocodile-god Sobek. The temple stands at a bend in the Nile where in ancient times sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the riverbank. Sail to Aswan, where you will spend the night.

M/S Sun Ray Cruise (B, L, D)

Enjoy breakfast buffet on board. This morning visit Aswan High Dam, Philae Temple and the Unfinished Obelisk. Your Egyptologist guide will escort you to visit the Aswan High Dam, Egypt's contemporary example of building on a monumental scale. Take a short motorboat ride to visit the romantic and majestic Philae Temple on the Island of Agilka. Next we proceed to the Granite Quarries, which supplied the ancient Egyptians with most of the hard stone used in pyramids and temples, and still hold a huge unfinished obelisk. In the afternoon (weather permitting) take a ride on a felucca, a typical Egyptian sailboat, around Elephantine Island, Lord Kitchener's Botanical Gardens, and the Agha Khan Mausoleum. You will spend the night in Aswan.

M/S Sun Ray Cruise (B, L, D)

After buffet breakfast on board, you disembark the cruise in Aswan. You will be transferred to Aswan airport to board your flight to Abu Simbel. Visit the temples of Abu Simbel. The two temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel are each fronted by colossal statues up to 20 meters high, and are famed as the most impressive monuments remaining of Ancient Egypt in modern times. Recently the temples were threatened by the waters of Lake Nasser, and with the help of a UNESCO campaign they were cut into blocks, raised piece-by-piece, and reassembled in a new position higher up the hillside. After your Abu Simbel excursion, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Cairo via Aswan. On arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel, where you will spend the night.

Conrad Cairo Hotel (B)

Enjoy breakfast at your hotel. After breakfast, you will have time to checkout from your room. You will be transferred to Cairo International airport with the help of your local Ace Global representative who will assist with departure formalities.

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RATES PER PERSON BASED ON A DOUBLE OCCUPANCY

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