EGYPT - 2002 / 2003
CAIRO / NILE CRUISE / ASWAN / KOM OMBO / EDFU / ESNA / LUXOR
FAM trip for travel agents and spouse / companion
Departs from
New York every SATURDAYExtensions and upgrades available
9 days return to list of FAMS
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Day 1, Saturday |
Depart from New York |
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Day 2, Sunday |
Arrive Cairo, transfer to your hotel. Overnight RAMSES HILTON HOTEL, Cairo |
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Day 3, Monday |
Morning visit of the great pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and the Valley Temple. Afternoon tour the Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Alabaster and Sultan Hassan Mosques, and the Khan El Khalili Bazaar. (b) |
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Day 4, Tuesday |
Transfer to the Cairo airport for flight to Luxor to board Nile cruise ship. Visit the West Bank, Valley of the Kings and Queens, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, and the Colossi Memnon. (b,l,d) |
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Day 5, Wednesday |
We Visit of East Bank, Karnak and Luxor temples. Sail to Esna. Continue to Edfu. (b,l,d) |
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Day 6, Thursday |
Tour Edfu, sail to Kom Ombo to visit the temples. Arrive Aswan. (b,l,d) |
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Day 7, Friday |
Visit Aswan, the Philae Temple, High Dam, and Unfinished Obelisk. (b,l,d) |
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Day 8 Saturday |
Transfer to Aswan airport for your flight to Cairo. Transfer to your hotel. (b) Overnight RAMSES HILTON HOTEL, Cairo |
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Day 9 Sunday |
Early morning departure from Cairo to New York |
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INCLUSIVE FEATURES |
Air transportation on Egypt Air: New York / Cairo / Luxor and Aswan / Cairo / New York All hotels and meals as per itinerary On the Nile cruise 3 meals daily All transfers and sight seeing PRIVATE car with English speaking driver / guide except on the Nile cruise and Abu Simbel by motor coach All taxes and service charges |
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COSTS PER PERSON
Travel agent Spouse Companions Taxes Single Supplement |
low season - please note, you will be traveling with regular passengers New York $1550.00 $1650.00 $1825.00 $ 80.00 $ 300.00
OPTIONAL Abu Simbel $ 220.00 $ 220.00 Rates SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON DEPARTURE DATE. September 02 |
Optional Tour to ABU SIMBEL - 2002
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, Rames 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
RATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON DATE OF DEPARTURE
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