10-Day Christmas Tour in Egypt

Greetings from Egypt! Your guide will be waiting for you at Cairo's airport when you arrive, helping you with customs and setting up transportation to your accommodation. Get situated up and get some rest so you can go touring all day tomorrow.

Start a fantastic journey to Egypt's most famous attractions after breakfast. Start with the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus, then move on to the Sphinx, the world's biggest monolithic statue and the earliest known colossal sculpture. You'll also find the Valley Temple, which King Chefren is said to have built in the 26th century BCE and used in part for mummification. At the Egyptian Museum, among other magnificent pharaonic antiquities, you will see Tutankhamen's collection before leaving.

Then, starting with the enormous mediaeval Salah El-din Citadel and its contained Mohamed Ali alabaster mosque, formerly a bulwark against the Crusaders, we will tour Cairo's ancient downtown streets. The stunning domed ceilings, hanging lights, and cityscape vistas from this old stronghold are guaranteed to enthral. Continue seeing the Old Cairo churches and the Khan El Khalili Old Market before heading to bed.

Join a wonderful dinner cruise in the evening and spend two hours cruising down the Nile River while enjoying an Egyptian-style supper and live entertainment. Before returning to your accommodation for the evening, take in an amazing Nile sunset.

You'll take a quick flight to Luxor after breakfast. The distance between this little city in the Nile Valley and Cairo is 420 miles (676 kilometres). Visits to the greatest remaining temple in Egypt, the Karnak Temple, are among the day's activities. It was a significant religious center formerly and was founded in the Middle Kingdom. You'll also see the enormous Luxor Temple complex, which is situated on the east bank of the Nile. Around 1400 BCE, during the New Kingdom, it was established.

Take a boat today and begin your trip down the Nile. You'll go to the Valley of the Monarchs to witness the rock-cut tombs for kings and wealthy nobility from the sixteenth to the eleventh centuries BCE, including Tutankhamun. Following that, you'll stop at the Colossi of Memnon to view the remains of Amenhotep's memorial temple. Only two towering sculptures of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which were built to protect the temple's entrance, are still standing. the Hatshepsut Temple next. The centrepiece of Deir el-Bahri, a collection of funerary temples and tombs, is the monument to Queen Hatshepsut.

On your route to the temples at Edfu, your next stop today, you'll pass Esna Lock. The significance of these temples will be further discussed by your guide. Between 237 and 57 BCE work was done on the Temple of Horus at Edfu. One of Egypt's best-preserved sanctuaries, you can still pick out many of its inscriptions within. After supper, you may unwind on the boat while watching the Nile's sun set.

The river trip keeps on till it reaches Kom Ombo. The crocodile deity (Sobek) and falcon god (Haroeris) were honoured at the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo (Haroeris). Along with wall carvings and statues, many of the walls of its courts, halls, sanctuaries, and chambers are still in tact. The trip continues in the late afternoon to Aswan, where you'll spend the night.

Today, there will be time to tour the 1970-completed Aswan High Dam, which was started in the 1960s. At the time, it was a feat of engineering since it quadrupled Egypt's electrical supply and expanded its arable land by 30%. Visit the Philae Temple instead, whose construction started in 690 BCE.

then we will explore the majestic Abu Simbel Temples, a pair of temples constructed during Ramses II's 1279–1213 BCE rule in Egypt. 

Enjoy your meal and the night aboard the ship.

You'll board a flight back to Cairo this morning. Upon arrival, we will transfer you to your Cairo hotel to relax and in the evening you can do some shopping, try Egyptian cuisine, or just soak in the sunset views over the Nile River.

overnight hotel

The best site to begin your countryside journey is Tunis Village, which is situated across from the lovely Lake Qarun. Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo and drive you to Fayuom in a contemporary, air-conditioned vehicle. On a tour that offers a taste of Egyptian agricultural life, one may find the renowned pottery studios and schools in the hamlet as well as a few businesses that provide desert safari excursions to the area's stunning environs.

The magnificent Lake Qarun, which spans for miles along the main road near to Tunis Village, is a must-see in Fayoum. Every time you see a boat, you may be sure to hitch a ride. You can rely on the calm waves to provide you a tranquil experience as they gently raise and lower you.

Then, at one of the few safari shops strewn around Tunis Village, request to be taken to Magic Lake.

It's just beautiful to see this magnificent lake, which is hidden by a wall of sand dunes and undergoes seasonal colour changes.

Off-roading is exhilarating, but to get there, the tour leader will jam you into a whining 44 and drive you 45 minutes across the desert.

They will prepare a lovely dinner for you as soon as you get at the lake, lay out some blankets and Bedouin tea, and then help you slide down the dune on the sandboard to the amazing natural beauty.

Take a Felucca to Wadi Al Rayan, Egypt's largest natural oasis, where you may explore and take stunning images.

We will then transfer you to the Fayoum hotel where you may unwind and spend the night.

You will be picked up by our tour guide after breakfast to go to Wadi El Hitan, often known as the "Valley of the Whales," a fascinating UNESCO World Heritage site that was originally a lake and is now the home to coastal marine species that have survived for millions of years. The preserved fossilised whale remnants found here demonstrate how the mammal changed from a terrestrial to a marine species. There is no doubt that trips to this magnificent location are worthwhile. then we'll make a pit break for lunch at a nearby restaurant.

We'll then travel there. The Kom Aushim Museum is our next stop, and it's a great spot to pick up a map of the entire city of Fayoum. Construction of the Museum's first phase started in 1974. A image of Fayoum is shown beside artefacts that date from the Prehistoric through the Roman eras.

the stop that followed One of the largest Greco-Roman settlements in the Fayoum is Karanis (The Lord's Town). In the third century B.C., mercenaries from Ptolemy the Second's army first took up residence there. There are two temples in the city.

After that, we'll take you back to your hotel in Cairo.

The journey is over today. To catch your flight out, proceed to the Cairo airport. Travel safely!