egypt tour package 6 nights 7 days cruise luxor and aswan  - القاهرة - مصر

egypt tour package 6 nights 7 days cruise luxor and aswan 

6 nights 7 days pyramids,sphinx, saqqara, memphis ,egyptian museum, luxor, aswan cruise Day 1 pick up from cairo airport and transfer from the airport to the hotel by expert tour guide and private car Day 2 In the morning after breakfast go to the pyramids and sphinx of giza stand on desert plateau some 15 kms out of cairo immutably majestic as they have been for thirty - five centuries. then go to the step pyramid at saqqara was buit for the pharaoh Zoser by imhotep - architect, physician, philosopher and statesman- the prototype in fact of human genius in the year 2816BC the first large -scale stone structure in history the step pyramid marks a transitional phase in the evolution of an architectural and mystic concept from the simple mastaba to the smooth sided pyramid in its final form the saqqara area about 27 kms south west of cairo is also the setting for the pyramids of unas and userkaf and the mastabas of Mereruke , Ti and ptahotep here too is the serapeum where the scared Apis bulls mummified we re entombed each in a massive sarcophagus in covernous underground galleries adjoining saqqara is memphis site of the capital established by mena who united upper and lower egypt into one kingdom and founded the first Dynasty about 3400 BC A gigantic statue of ramses II now fallen but still whole then go back to the hotel. Day 3 in the morning after breakfast go to the egyptian museum of antiquities houses the richest stone of remains from 3,000 years long age of ancient egyptian civilization, including the treasures from tut ankh amun is tomb in the night catch the train to aswan at first class you will spend all the night in the train . Day 4 in the morning arrival to aswan station pick you up by private car our guide will be waiting have a sign shows your name on it and transfer to the cruise full board nile cruise then Visit the High Dam, the Temple of Philae Lunch on board. Sail on the Nile by felucca around Kitchener's Island and AghaKhan Mauso