God Amun Package 8-Days Around Egypt With Nile Cruise Private Tour – Code DLGAP8

In the morning and after having your breakfast, Your tour guide will meet you in the lobby of your hotel and you will be picked up to start your adventure by visitng the following sightseeing. First, you will visit the famous .

In Giza, you will visit the famous and iconic Giza Pyramids, which contain the pyramids of the powerful Fourth Dynasty kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.

The Great Pyramid was built by King Khufu to be his final resting place after his death. It is considered the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, with a height of about 140 meters. It was built by the engineer Hem Iunu to be the king's tomb. The construction of the pyramid took about 20 years and was built by thousands of Egyptian workers to be the miracle of its time.

We will also see the pyramid of King Khafre, which was smaller than the pyramid of his father, King Khufu, and is about 136 meters high. The valley temple of the pyramid was found in very good condition. King Khafre carved the Sphinx from a single piece of rock.

We will also visit the small pyramid of King Menkaure, which is only 62 meters high. Three small pyramids were found next to it for his royal wives.

After finishing, we will head to the Saqqara area. Saqqara area, which witnessed the construction of the iconic pyramid of King Djoser, is full of secrets and royal and princely tombs, as well as some tombs of ministers and dignitaries. The area also contains some royal tombs of the kings of the Third Dynasty.

Saqqara area contains the museum of the engineer Imhotep, who built the step pyramid, and also contains the Serapeum and unfinished pyramids of the kings of the Second Dynasty. Before the end of the trip, you will visit the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis, which was the first capital of ancient Egypt and was built by King Menes, the unifier of the northern and southern parts of Egypt.

After finishing your adventure, Your tour guide will escort you back to your hotel

In the morning and after having your breakfast, Your tour guide will meet you in the lobby of your hotel and you will be picked up to start your adventure by visitng the following sightseeing.

First, you will visit the famous citadel and Mohamed Ali mosque. This castle was built by the Ayyubid king Salah al-Din, who is considered one of the most powerful rulers in the Islamic era and who defeated the Tatars in the famous Battle of Hattin. Salah al-Din wanted this huge building to protect Egypt from any external dangers and to be a protective shield for the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Inside the castle, you will visit the mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha, or an Egyptian ruler in the modern era. Muhammad Ali Pasha was not Egyptian, but he founded the Alawite dynasty that ruled Egypt from 1805 to 1952. The last actual king of this dynasty was King Farouk.

The mosque is distinguished by being built in the Ottoman style and constructed from alabaster stones to imitate the Ottoman palaces in Turkey.

We then go to Coptic Egypt and you will visit the Hanging Church, which was built over the ruins of the Babylon Fortress and is considered one of the oldest remaining ancient synagogues.

After that, you will visit the Jewish temple known as the Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is one of the most beautiful Jewish monuments in Egypt, but there are many other Jewish temples in Egypt.

After finishing your adventure, Your tour guide will escort you back to your hotel

Our driver will pick you up from your hotel after checking out to Cairo Airport to take your flight to Luxor.

Upon arrival at Luxor Airport and outside the arrival hall, our guide will be waiting for you and after welcoming you, you will start your trip to Luxor's monuments located on the East Bank of the city.

Karnak Temple, which is considered the largest open museum and the largest archaeological site in the world. It was built by several kings as an expression of their gratitude and thanks to the Theban Triad Amun, Mut and their son Khonsu.

The temple contains several pylons, all of which are in very good condition and depict each king in his own pylon and his worship of the Theban Triad.

After that, you will head to Luxor Temple, which was built by King Amenhotep III in 1400 BC and contains constructions and shrines for the kings of the 18th and 19th dynasties. Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple are also connected by a sacred road, the Avenue of Sphinxes, 3 meters long, which represents the symbolic journey of the divine triad between the two temples.

After finishing your adventure, Your tour guide will escort you to your hotel in Luxor to check in.

Get ready early in the morning to take a hot air balloon ride, which is one of the most beautiful activities that can only be done in Luxor.

Enjoy flying in the horizon for 45 minutes where you will see the archaeological landmarks of the West Bank such as the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut, the magnificent Temple of Habu and the green agricultural areas that captivate the eye.

After completing this magical adventure. Your guide will take you directly to the West Bank trip to visit the Valley of the Kings, which bears witness to the greatness of the pharaohs who built tombs befitting their status as representatives of the living image of God on earth and their souls that would become gods in the afterlife.

The Valley of the Kings contains the tombs of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Dynasties. Among the greatest and most famous kings buried in the Valley of the Kings are King Ramses II, King Seti I and King Thutmose III, the great warrior.

We continue the journey and go to visit the temple of the great queen and the most famous queen who ruled Egypt, Queen Hatshepsut, who was famous as a female queen from a royal lineage, where her great engineer Senmut built her funerary temple as an architectural masterpiece that has no equal in the ancient world.

Queen Hatshepsut ordered the recording of the most important events that occurred during her reign, such as her trade trips to the land of Punt (currently Somalia).

Before the end of the journey, we will stop to see the guardians of the valley, which are the statues of the great king Amenhotep III, known as the Colossi of Memnon, where a temple for King Amenhotep III was surrounded by them, but it was destroyed as a result of a great earthquake that struck ancient Egypt, but its ruins can still be seen.

After the end of the journey, we will return to the Nile boat to sail towards the city of Edfu and enjoy lunch while sailing on the Nile

After breakfast. Get ready to visit the Temple of Edfu, dedicated to the worship of the god Horus, symbolized by the falcon. The Temple of Edfu is one of the most complete temples with little to no noticeable defects, and there was a model of the sacred boat in the main chamber of Horus.

After the visit, you will return to the Nile cruise to have lunch and enjoy sailing until you reach the city of Kom Ombo.

Here you will visit the Temple of the god Sobek in Kom Ombo, symbolized by the crocodile, which was considered in ancient mythology as one of the evil gods, but in the Ptolemaic era it was sanctified as a protective god.

You will also see inside the temple the Museum of Mummified Crocodiles, where the Pharaohs mummified many crocodiles very well as a kind of sanctification and respect.

After the visit, you will return to the Nile cruise to continue sailing to the city of Aswan.

Enjoy dinner on the boat with some Nubian shows.

Early in the morning, your guide will coordinate with the reception on the boat to prepare your breakfast boxes as you will take a trip to the most beautiful and greatest archaeological sites in Egypt, which is the Abu Simbel Temple Complex.

At 10:00 am, you will head with your guide to travel to the city of Abu Simbel and it will take about 10 hours to get there.

Once you arrive, you will visit the Abu Simbel Temple, which was built by the great King Ramses II as a witness to the power and greatness of this king who conquered Egypt's southern enemies and imposed his control over large parts of Nubia and imposed tribute on them.

To prove his control, he built this great edifice for himself and also built a smaller temple for his wife, Queen Nefertari, to prove his love and appreciation for her as a beloved royal wife.

Do not forget to take many souvenir photos of this wonderful place because it truly deserves many photos due to its enormous size.

After the visit, you will return to Aswan and go to the Nile boat to enjoy lunch.

After breakfast, you will check out from the Nile boat.
Your guide will take you on a tour of the ancient landmarks of Medina and you will visit

Philae Temple, which is considered one of the most beautiful Ptolemaic temples and is located on Agilkia Island. It is one of the most famous temples that UNESCO saved from drowning after the construction of the High Dam, which flooded many places with water after its construction.

Philae Temple was located before its rescue on Philae Island, which was drowned after the construction of the High Dam. The name Philae means (beloved) in ancient Greek. The temple was dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, the protective goddess, and inside the temple there are some buildings dedicated to the worship of the goddess Hathor, the goddess of music and finally.

One of the first kings who built a temple on an island in it was King Thutmose III, the great warrior who conquered and defeated the Nubians and expanded the southern borders of Egypt to their maximum extent.

After that, we will go to visit the High Dam, which was built by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser to control the Nile floods that used to come annually and drown many agricultural lands.

The High Dam is considered one of the facilities of great benefit because of the control it achieved in the Nile waters, so that Egypt became an agricultural country with different types throughout the year, and it also protected Egypt from the dangers of flooding.

Before the end of our tour, we will head to the incomplete obelisk, which is located in an ancient quarry used by the Pharaohs to extract very hard flint stones to build giant and strong temples that are not affected by the factors of time.

There is the obelisk that was not completed due to some technical defects and the impossibility of its use, and it was intended for Queen Hatshepsut. This obelisk was supposed to be in the Karnak Temple, but it was left as it was, giving us a good idea and telling us that the Egyptian obelisks were cut from a single stone block.

After our visit, your guide will take you to your destination, whether it is your hotel in Aswan, Aswan station or Aswan airport.