11 Days Islamic & Ancient Egypt

This trip help you to explore the history of Ancient Egypt on the long of Nile Valley, Start in Cairo to see the Pyramids before traveling to Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel by train to see the ruins and temples in these southern cities. Return to Cairo to visit sights from Cairo’s Islamic and Christian periods. This tour allow you to visit the most oldest and famous mosques in Egypt, especially in Cairo & Alexandria, enjoy walking in Old Islamic Cairo & El Moez Street.

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Included

  • – Meet and assist at Cairo Airport upon arrival & departure
  • – Accommodation for 5 night in Cairo including daily breakfast
  • – Accommodation for 2 night in Sleeper train including Dinner & Breakfast.
  • – Accommodation for 2 nights in Luxor including daily breakfast
  • – Accommodation for 1 night in Aswan including daily breakfast
  • – All transfers to / from airport & hotels by an A/C vehicle
  • – Entrance fees to all sites as indicated on the itinerary
  • – English speaking guide during your trips
  • – Meals at hotels and during tours as mentioned in the itinerary
  • – Bottled water during your trips
  • – Portage when needed
  • – All service charges and taxes.

Excluded

  • – International Airfare
  • – Entry visa to Egypt
  • – Any optional tours
  • – Personal Spending
  • – Beverage
  • – Tipping

Itinerary

Welcome to Cairo, Egypt (Around the Clock)
Your tour manager will meet and assist you at Cairo International Airport (Arrival procedures) and then he will escort you to the hotel by exclusive air-conditioned deluxe vehicle. At hotel the tour manager will assist with a smooth check-in and review your holiday itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for each tour. Overnight in Cairo.

  • Meals: Welcome Drink.

After breakfast transfer you to visit the pyramids area in Giza, Then a visit to Sakkara site to visit the Step Pyramids. Our day tour will end with a visit to the open museum at Memphis. At the end of day tour back to hotel & overnight.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

After breakfast transfer you to visit the Egyptian Museum, Treasures room for the child king Tutankhamen. Continue to Coptic Cairo to visit the Hanging Church and Ben Ezra Synagogue, then you will visit Old Islamic Cairo visit the citadel of Cairo which built by Saladin in the 12th Century and was the seat of power for the following 700 years. On the premises is the Alabaster Mosque of Mohammed Ali, one of the landmarks in Cairo whose minaret can be seen from any part of the city, Mohammed Ali mosque was built in Turkish style, very similar to the Blue Mosque in Turkey, & finally you will visit the oldest mosque built in Cairo by the Islamic opener Amr Ibn Alaas in 642. At the end of day tour you will be transfred to Giza Railway station to spend this night in Sleeper train traveling to Luxor.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

After breakfast in your Train, you will be transferred from Railway Station to check in your hotel & then visit Abu El Hagag mosque , Karnak & Luxor Temples in the East bank.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

After breakfast transfer to the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor and visit the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple at El Deir EL Bahari, and the Colossi of Memnon. Return to your Hotel.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

After breakfast transfer by air-conditioned vehicle to Aswan about a 3 hours and half drive from Luxor to Aswan. Upon arrival, you will be met and taken to your hotel for check-in. See the world famous High Dam and the Unfinished Obelisk, then on to the beautiful located Temple of Philae on Isis Island and the Granite Quarries, which is dedicated to the goddesses Isis and Hathor. Sail and move around Elephantine Island by a felucca boat. Back to hotel and overnight in Aswan.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast box, at 03:30 am start your trip to Abu Simbel Temples. It takes about a 3 hour and half drive one way from Aswan to Abu Simbel by a private air-conditioned vehicle. Upon arrival at Abu Simbel, enjoy the impressive Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, which is dedicated to the four universal gods Ptah, Re-Harakhte, Amun-Re, and to Ramesses II. Then return to Aswan. After that transfer to Aswan railway station for departure to Cairo. Sleeping train from Aswan to Cairo is about 14 hours. Overnight on board the train.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Dinner.

After breakfast and arrival to Cairo you will check in hotel & then will start full day Islamic Tour in El Moez street to enjoy a visit to El Moez street Cairo, the best place where you can discover the Islamic civilization ,as there are more than twenty nine Islamic sites. One of the main sites El Azhar, the first Islamic University. Then continue, Bab Zuweila which was built under the supervision of Badr Al Dein Al Gamal, then El Mouayad Mosque. Cross the road to Al Hussein Mosque. Continue walking to Al Hakim Mosque one of the Fatimide Mosques, then to Bab al Fetouh and Bab Al Nasr which were built under the supervision of Gawhar El Sakaly. El Azhar mosque the minaret of the Islamic world, established in 972 by the Fatimid general Gawhar al-Sakkal, then visit Al Hussein mosque which built in 1154 and named after the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Hussein Ibn Ali. El Aqmar Mosque. The Ayubid period, we can say that will be walking tour in the old part of Cairo city. At the end of the day we will transfer you back to your hotel. Overnight at your hotel.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

After an early breakfast in Cairo we drive for approximately three hours to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. It is here we visit the El Morsi Abu el Abass Mosque. The Mosque is located in a district with many other mosques and you have the remainder of the day to explore the surrounding area, then drive to see the most famous library in the world The Library of Alexandria, then Qaitbay Citadel established in 1477 AD by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa’it Bay, finally go to enjoy relaxing with the sea & green land of Montazah garden (It was built on a low plateau east of central Alexandria overlooking a beach on the). In the will travel back to your hotel in Cairo.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

After breakfast day tour in The and then visiting Mamlouks period with its many mosques as Sultan Hassan Mosque, Refaai Mosque, Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque, Qalaoun Mosque, Wakala El – Ghouri, Combining fascinating history with shopping in a lively Khan El Khalili Bazaar, this dates back to 1382. Later. At the end of the day we will transfer you back to your hotel. Last night in your hotel.

  • Meal: Breakfast, Lunch.

 

After breakfast in the hotel, will drive to air port for final departure, have a safe flight. There is an optional tour if there is time in that day.

  • Meals: Breakfast.

Prices

Double - May / Sep.

930$ Per Person

Double - Oct / April

985$ Per Person

Single - May / Sep.

1190$ Per Person

Single - Oct / April

1250$ Per Person

Notes

Tour Guide:
Egypt guided tours are highly recommended and our guides are knowledgeable Egyptologist guides who have academic qualifications to make your tour to Egypt extra special.

Transport:
Vehicles are new branded air-conditioned with a professional driver, but drivers in Egypt do not speak English and they cannot act as tour guides for the Egyptian monumental sights.

Tour Details
  • Start From 930$
  • Category Holy Tours
  • Duration 11 Days / 10 Nights
  • Tour Type Private Tour

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