10 Days Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan Christmas holidays

After enjoying your delicious breakfast at your hotel, your tour guide will be waiting to take you on a different tour between Cairo and Giza.

Today's tour will begin with a visit to the Giza Pyramids, which were built using limestone, the finest quality of which was used to construct the outer layers of the pyramids. Other materials were also used, such as pink granite for the interior walls and basalt for the floors. Granite and basalt were also used to construct the pyramid's top, which was sometimes coated with gold.

The workers used various tools to break the blocks, such as picks, granite hammers, and copper chisels. After breaking them, they were transported to the construction sites by boats on the Nile or by employing a greased support. 

This is confirmed by a sculpture found in an ancient cemetery, which depicts a group of men pulling stones using a greased support. They were also lifted upwards through ladders made of bricks and covered with wax.

Examples of these pyramids include the Great Pyramid, which took between 10 and 20 years to build. The pyramid is surrounded by several major structures, including three pyramids for King Khufu's wives, two funerary temples, a small pyramid, and small mastaba tombs.

After that, you will go to one of the wonderful restaurants in Cairo before starting your visits to Cairo, where you will visit the Egyptian Museum in downtown, which is distinguished by the presence of many important artifacts such as the tomb of Tutankhamun and a statue of Ramses at the entrance, and many other things. The most distinctive thing about the museum is that the entrance to the museum is surrounded by two Greek columns, like the Temple of Philae.

Finally, you'll head to Coptic Cairo, a very important historical and archaeological site, especially for Christians. According to Christian belief, this is where the Holy Family came to Egypt and lived. Among the most important churches visited by the Holy Family are the Church of St. Sergius and the Hanging Church, a significant archaeological site built in the air, particularly from columns from the ancient Babylonian fortress. Then you'll return to your hotel before your next day.

Take your delicious breakfast then meet up with your Egyptologist guide to start your Alexandria day tours from Cairo, which is the second capital of Egypt, resides in it the famous Citadel of Qaitbay, the Medieval fortification which dates back to the 15th Century and originally created as a fortress to defend Alexandria. Alexandria the second largest city in Egypt was built by Alexander in 331 B.C. who was one of the great rulers in ancient Egypt.

The citadel is not the only Islamic monument in Egypt, but you can find many historical Islamic buildings in Cairo which are usually visited during islamic Cairo trips. You will visit the Roman Catacombs of Kom El-Shoqafa which is believed that it was started in the 2nd century A.D, Pompey's Pillar which was built around 300 AD for the Roman emperor Diocletian and Roman ruins at the site, and the Alexandria Bibliotheca which is an important library in Alexandria and serves as a cultural center. You will have lunch and an overnight in the Alexandria hotel. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After having breakfast you will visit El-Alamein Common wealth Cemetery which contains many cemeteries and memorials to commemorate the victims of the battle from different nationalities, there is also a church, a mosque, and a small museum, as well as the German exaltation and the Italian cemetery, also the Military Museum which consists of five halls, the main lobby on its sides murals that tell the stories of war and carved images of the leaders of the warring enemies. Then you will go and visit the Italian, the German, and the Australian Cemeteries, at the end of your Alamein tour from Cairo, you will be driven back to Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Your English-speaking tour leader will transfer you to Cairo International Airport after first having your breakfast in order to catch your flight to Luxor, (Thebes) which was the capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom and is considered the biggest open-air museum. you will start your Luxor Day Tours to visit Luxor Temple, which was dedicated to the worshipping of the god "Amun" and his wife" Mut" and their son "Khonsu", in the form of the god Min, the fertility god. Explore the Karnak Temple complex built by King Amenhotep IV and was known as Ipet Isu or the most select of places. At the end of the day, you will be escorted back to your hotel in Luxor for check-in and overnight. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

You will start the 6th day of your trip on Luxor West bank and trying Egypt Nile cruise tours by visiting the Valley of the Kings which has about 63 royal tombs, after having breakfast where kings and pharaohs of the New Kingdom rest in Peace, then go to visit the Temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu that was built by Ramses II in the 13th century BC in the ancient Egyptian capital Abydos, to be his house million years in which he worshiped and held religious rituals after his death, and it was believed that this is where God Amun first appeared. You will end your 6th-day tour by visiting the Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III which is known as Colossi Memnon, the gigantic statue of the King rising about 18 meters high. Then you will be transferred back to your hotel in Luxor. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Check out after having breakfast to start your visit to the Temple of Edfu, Known as the Temple of Horus, the Edfu Temple is one of the most beautiful and most luxurious Egyptian temples ever built, it was built in the 2nd century BC and is dedicated to the worship of the God Horus, Then continue your tour to visit Kom Ombo temples which is located above a high hill, overlooking the eastern bank of the Nile. The foundation of the temple dates back to the era of Ptolemy VI, which was built to honor, the crocodile god Sobek and one of the forms of God Horus which was worshipped in Kom Ombo. Transfer to your hotel in Aswan for check-in and overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

We will show you most of Aswan today, After having breakfast, you will start your Aswan day tours to visit the magnificent High Dam of Aswan which is located between Egypt and Sudan and is from the achievements of the century, after that, you will visit the Unfinished Obelisk in Egypt that was built in 1508–1458 BC by Queen Hatshepsut, that was made from a single piece of stone. Then you will visit the Temple of Philae, which was built to honor the goddess Isis. It was built by Ptolemy II and completed by the Roman Emperors. Overnight in Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Check out after having breakfast to start the fantastic tour to Abu Simbel Temples from Aswan, the temples were built by Ramses II and represent the miracles of ancient Egyptians in astronomy, engineering, and architecture, that was cut into a rock cliff, it was dedicated to Ramses the second and his wife, the two temples of Abu Simbel are hewn into the mountain by Ramses II. The Temple of Ramses II is dedicated to the four universal gods Ptah, Re-Her-Akhtey, Amun-Re, and to Ramses II himself. it is also called The Sun Temple of Ramses II. the smaller temple is built for his favorite wife, the Nubian Queen Nefertari. You will be transferred to Aswan Airport to take your flight back to Cairo and stay overnight in the Cairo hotel. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After taking the breakfast of the last day, we shall complete our departure form Cairo International Airport at the transfer by our professional tour leader.

Meals: Breakfast