EGYPT / ISRAEL - 2002 / 2003
CAIRO / NILE CRUISE / ASWAN / LUXOR / JERUSALEM
FAM trip for travel agents and spouse / companions
16 days
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Day 1, Saturday |
Depart from New York Kennedy airport. |
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Day 2, Sunday |
WELCOME TO EGYPT !!! You will be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. |
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Day 3, Monday |
Transfer to Cairo airport for flight to Aswan, board cruise ship. Afternoon sail on the Nile. |
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Day 4, Tuesday |
Visit the High Dam, Philae Temple, and Granite Quarries. Sail to Kom Ombo to visit the temple. Sail to Edfu. |
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Day 5, Wednesday |
Visit Edfu and sail to Luxor. |
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Day 6, Thursday |
Visit the Karnak and Luxor Temples. Overnight in Luxor hotel. |
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Day 7, Friday |
Morning visit to the West Bank. Afternoon transfer to Luxor airport for flight to Cairo. You will be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. |
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Day 8, Saturday |
Morning visit of the Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Valley Temple. Afternoon visit to the Egyptian Museum, the Citadel, the Alabaster and Sultan Hassan Mosques, and the Khan Khalili Bazaar. |
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Day 9, Sunday |
Transfer to the Cairo airport for your flight to Tel Aviv. WELCOME TO ISRAEL !!! You will be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. |
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Day 10, Monday |
In Jerusalem, with optional day trips available, or *one week motor coach tour |
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Day 15, Saturday |
Transfer to the Tel Aviv, airport for your flight to Cairo. You will be met at the airport and transfer to Cairo hotel. |
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Day 16, Sunday |
Transfer to Cairo airport for departure to New York .
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Costs per person: Travel Agent Spouse Companion Taxes Single Supplement |
From New York $2100.00 $2200.00 $2400.00 $ 50.00 $ 600.00 One week motor coach tour in Jerusalem $300.00 extra per person |
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INCLUSIVE FEATURES: |
Air transportation New York or Los Angeles/Cairo/Aswan and Luxor/Cairo/ New York or Los Angeles All hotels (or similar) as per itinerary Breakfast daily at all hotels - 3 meals daily on cruise All transfers and sightseeing as per itinerary by PRIVATE car with English speaking driver/guide in Cairo. While on the Nile cruise and in Jerusalem by motor coach tour. All taxes and service charges |
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RATES MAY VARY DEPENDING ON DEPARTURE DATES.
Optional Tour to ABU SIMBEL
Transfer to the airport for your flight to Abu Simbel where upon arrival, proceed to the Egypt Air ticket counter to reconfirm your return flight. From there proceed to the buses parked outside the terminal that will take you to the archaeological site. Our agent will provide you with the fees needed to purchase your entrance tickets. After walking a short distance you will view the most colossi temples in all of Egypt, and one of the best preserved. An English speaking guide/lecturer will meet you and conduct the tour. (This tour is run exclusively by Egypt Air).
Abu Simbel complex was built between 1300-1233 B.C. by one of the greatest Pharaohs, Ramses II. At the entrance to the Great Temple are four colossal statues of Ramses II in a seated position. Each is over 65 feet high. On the left is a smaller statue of Ramses Mother, Queen Ti, and on the right stands a statue of Queen Nefertari, his favorite wife.
Twice a year at the equinox the sun rises directly in front of the temple, and its rays are meant to penetrate the innermost chamber, casting its light on the statues. This feature of the Abu Simbel Temple is considered one of the greatest engineering feats of all times. Upon the completion of the new Aswan Dam, the area between Aswan and the Sudan border was inundated by the Nile waters.
The salvage project to protect this temple began in 1965. The Temples were dismantled (all 400,000 tons of them) cut, created and reassembled in the exact positions as before at the top of the mountain cliff, ninety feet above the old site. It is truly a remarkable achievement. About fifty nations helped in the rescue operation and contributions from all over the world were made to help defray the cost. You may pass this way only once in a lifetime, but certainly, when you have seen Abu Simbel, you know that you have seen one of the great wonders of the world.
The best time to take pictures of the temples is in the morning. After sight seeing, you will take your return flight to Aswan where you will be met and transferred to your deluxe Nile cruise ship.
Cost per person: $220.00
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