Nile Adventure with 2 Nights by Train

Arrival at Cairo International Airport. Reception, assistance and transfer to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

• Breakfast at the hotel. In the morning we will make a panoramic visit to the Three Pyramids of Giza: Cheops, Chefren and Mecerinos, the architectural complex considered the most important of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
• We will admire the Great Sphinx with a human head attributed to King Khafre and the body of a lion and we will visit the Temple of Khafre. Kefren and lion’s body and we will visit the Temple of Kefren. Stop for lunch.
• In the afternoon visit to Memphis, (open-air museum where we can admire several colossal statures of Ramses II, a large sphinx and other archaeological remains).
• We will continue our visits today by visiting the Sakkara Necropolis and its stepped pyramid, (it was an important cult center where a large number of animal mummies were produced. The pyramid that Imnotep, the first known architect in the world and who built it, stands out. designed for Pharaoh Djoser, since it was a revolutionary design as it was the first large pyramid).
• Transfer to the train station and departure around 8:00 p.m. by train with a sleeping car (on a Half Board basis) to Aswan.
• Dinner and overnight on the train.

• Breakfast on the train and arrival in Aswan around 9 a.m.
• Transfer to the motor ship and boarding the cruise.
• Lunch on board.
• We will visit the High Dam, considered the largest in the world at the time, with a body of 3,800 meters and a height of 111 meters. We will continue to see the Unfinished Obelisk, 42 ​​meters long and weighing 1,176 tons, in the pink granite quarries.
• We will continue to visit the temple of Philae or temple of the goddess Isis, built in Greek times and moved to the island of Egelikia to save it from the waters of the Nile after making the dam.
• Finally, we will take a felucca ride around the Aswan Islands. Return, dinner and overnight on board in Aswan

• Full board regime on board. Navigation towards Kom Ombo.
• Visit the temple dedicated to the gods Sobek and Haroreis.
• In this temple the relief of medicinal instruments stands out above all.
• As the years went by, the people of this town did not like to be associated with a god who represents evil (Sobek), so they added another god, Haroreis, as their brother and partner in the cult of evil. temple. Legend has it that Sobek, the evil Brother, plotted against his brother Haroreis and the population, upon seeing their beloved god abandon the town, he also left until leaving the town completely deserted.
• Sailing towards Edfu. Dinner and overnight on board.

• Full board regime on board.
• Visit to the Temple of Horus. It is the best preserved temple in Egypt and the most important after Karnak.
• One of its most curious characteristics is the lighting of the temple, with increasingly smaller rooms that gradually prevented the passage of light until reaching the dark sanctuary, which receives lighting only from the axis. Navigation to Luxor.
• Visit the Karnak Temple or the Karnak Temples, which is considered the largest temple in Egypt with its avenue of rams and its hall of 132 columns and visit the Luxor Temple dedicated to the god Amun – Ra where the avenue of the sphinxes, the Obelisk with more than 25 meters high and the statues of Ramses II and the Naos. Dinner and overnight on board in Luxor.

• Disembarkation after breakfast. Visit the Valley of the Kings where the tombs of the kings of the new empire are located when Thebes was the capital of Egypt and we will visit the funerary temple of Hatchepsut.
• In the grounds we can admire the chapels dedicated to Amenardis I, Shepenupet II and Nitocris I.
• Next, we find the Colossi of Memnon, two seated colossi of Pharaoh Ramses II of which only fragments of the base and torso, 17 meters high, remain.
• In the afternoon, transfer to the train station and departure around 8pm by train with a sleeper car (half-board) to Cairo.
• Dinner and overnight on the train

• Arrival in Cairo around 06:00h. After breakfast on the train, we will make a cultural visit to the city of Cairo to see the Saladin Citadel, declared a World Heritage Site and which has the Mohamed Ali Mosque or “Alabaster Mosque” and the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. , where Tutankhamun’s treasures are found. We will continue our visits today by visiting the Coptic neighborhood, which is where the church of San Sergio is located, where the Holy Family took refuge. Lunch in a typical restaurant and free time to shop in the famous Khan el Khalili market, transfer to the hotel and accommodation.

Breakfast at the hotel. Check out and transfer to Cairo International Airport.