EGYPT – Deluxe Tour

This is definitely the best way to tour Egypt.                   Why?

Because not only do you stay in Egypt's most superbly restored classic hotels, such as the  Old Cataract, Aswan, (as seen in the Agatha Christie film "Death on the Nile"), but you can explore the ancient sites and monuments when there are far fewer visitors. You are visiting privately, not as a member of a tour group. Your driver/guide will know how to arrange your schedule in order to avoid the tour groups that tend to descend at the same times each day. You will have Egypt nearly to yourself.

 

 

Egypt, in the deluxe manner.

 

One view of the Temple at Philae.

 

 

Day 1               Depart Hong Kong by air.

 

 Day 2             Arrive Cairo.

                        Met on arrival and transfer to the hotel.                          
Hotel: MENA HOUSE OBEROI (Palace Wing).    
An excursion to the Pyramids, the Sphinx, Memphis and Sakkara, this will include lunch, at a local restaurant.

          Room at the Mena House, note the pyramid through the window.

 

Day 3              Visit the Old Cairo Coptic Museum, the AMR Mosque and Churches and after lunch at a local restaurant, proceed to the Pharaonic Village.                  
Transfer to the station.

                        Depart Cairo by train in the evening. Overnight on the train.

 

 Day 4             Arrive Aswan next morning, transfer to the hotel.                      
Hotel: OLD CATARACT
In the morning take a half-day tour to the High Dam, Old Dam and Unfinished Obelisk.

 

Later, enjoy a sunset felucca ride to Elephantine Island and the Botanical Gardens.

 

 

Pictured left is the traditional felucca, or Nile sailing barge.

 

Day 5              A morning visit to Abu Simbel by air.

 Day 6             In the morning, transfer by car from Aswan to Luxor this will be by way of Kom Ombo, then onto Edfu and Esna.             
Hotel: OLD WINTER PALACE

 

 

 

Pictured far left is a statue at Edfu and

                                      right is a temple at Esna

 

 

Day 7              In the morning visit the West Bank seeing the Valley of the Kings and Queens, Colossi of Memnon and Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. In the afternoon tour the Karnak and Luxor Temples.

 

 Day 8             Transfer to the airport.                  
Depart Luxor by air, arrive at Cairo.

Met at airport and taken on a sightseeing tour that will  include lunch. Visit the Egyptian Museum, Citadel of Salak El Din, Mohamed Ali and Sultan Ali Mosques, and Khan El  Khalili Bazaar.                     
Hotel: RAMSES HILTON

 

 

One of the exhibits, a gold bust, of funerary objects that are kept in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Most of the treasures from Tutankhamen are usually displayed here, but they are sometimes on loan to other Museums.

 

 

Day 9              Transfer to the airport       
Depart Cairo by air

 

Day 10                        Arrive Hong Kong

 

COSTS.  Please call us for the cost of this vacation, as it does depend upon season and class of accommodation chosen.

 

This is a suggested Itinerary and it can be combined with other destinations in Egypt or vacation ideas.