DAY 1 – CAIRO
Upon arrival to Cairo,
you will be met by Chrismar Travel representative and
transferred to your hotel for overnight
DAY 2 – CAIRO
After breakfast, your private
Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up and start your
tour.
Drive to Giza and visit the Pyramids.
See the Sphinx and the Valley Temple.
Continue to Memphis.
Lunch en route.
Continue to Sakkara
Return to Cairo and visit a Papyrus Institute
on your way to your hotel for overnight.
DAY 3 – CAIRO
After breakfast, drive to the
Egyptian Museum of Antiquities for a detailed, guided
tour.
Visit Old Cairo and walk back in time, visiting the
Old Coptic Church and the Hanging Church.
Lunch en route.
Continue to the Mohamed Ali Mosque and the streets of
Khan el Khalili Bazaar.
Return to your hotel for overnight.
DAY 4 – NILE CRUISE/ ASWAN
Transfer to Cairo airport for your very early flight
to Aswan.
Connect to your flight to visit Abu Simbel to visit
the 2 temples of Ramses II and Nefertari.
Fly back to Aswan.
Upon arrival to Aswan, you will be met by
Chrismar Travel representative and transferred to your Nile
cruise for lunch and begin sailing to Luxor. Visit the
Aswan High Dam. Proceed to the Granite Quarries
and the huge Unfinished Obelisk.
Then take a short motorboat ride to visit the romantic and majestic
Philae Temple.
Return to your cruise for dinner & overnight.
DAY 5 – NILE CRUISE/ ASWAN
After breakfast, take a ride on
a Felucca around Elephantine Island.
Continue sailing around
Kitchener's Island, and
the Mausoleum of the Agha Khan.
Dinner & overnight on board.
DAY 6 – NILE CRUISE/ EDFU
Sail to Kom Ombo
and visit the Temple of Kom Ombo.
Continue to Edfu to explore the extraordinary
Temple of Horus using horse carriages to reach the
temple and back.
Sail to
Esna,
cross the lock and continue to
Luxor.
Dinner and overnight on board.
Evening: Enjoy the sound and light show at Karnak Temple.
DAY
7 – NILE CRUISE/ LUXOR
After breakfast, cross to the West Bank of
the Nile and visit the Valley of the Kings.
Rising out of the desert plain in a series of terraces, the
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
On the way back to the river Nile, your road passes by the famed
Colossi of Memnon.
Lunch on board.
In the afternoon, visit the
East Bank of the Nile
starting with the especially graceful
Temple of Luxor.
Proceed to the North of
Luxor
to the
Karnak Temple.
Dinner and overnight on board.
DAY 8 – SHARM EL SHEIKH
Transfer
to Luxor airport for your flight to Sharm El
Sheikh.
Upon arrival to Sharm El Sheikh, you will be met by
Chrismar Travel representative and transferred to your
hotel.
Free day at leisure.
Overnight at your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh.
DAY 9 – SHARM EL SHEIKH
Free day to enjoy this fabulous resort by the Red Sea.
DAY 10 – ST.
CATHERINE
Free
morning at leisure.
In the afternoon, depart Cairo and drive to the city
of Suez. Take the tunnel under the Suez Canal
and arrive at the Sinai Peninsula. Drive (approx. 6
hours) to St. Catherine for dinner and overnight.
DAY 12 – ST. CATHERINE MOUNTAIN/ CAIRO
Wake up at 3:00AM, climb the
Mountain of Moses and enjoy the sunrise.
Once on top, witness the most beautiful and spectacular sunrise you
have ever seen.
This hike is only for people who are very fit and are experienced
in hiking.
Descend and have breakfast at the hotel.
Visit the Monastery of St. Catherine.
In the afternoon, drive to Cairo and transfer to your
hotel for overnight.
DAY 13 –
After Breakfast, transfer to Cairo airport for your
departure flight.