Light of Alexandria

Tour Itinerary

Our travel Rep will meet you in the airport in your arriving to assist you with airport formalities and afterwards transfer to your hotel in Cairo and help with check in. Overnight stay in Cairo.
After breakfast in the hotel and check out from hotel, you will start your sightseeing tour in Cairo with your private guide to visit Egyptian Museum with huge collection of antiquties and famous mask of Tutankhamon, Great Pyramids of Giza – one of the wounder of the world and famous Sphinx, also you will visit impressive Citadel of Saladdin and Mohamed Ali Mosque. Your trip will end in oldest bazaar in Cairo named Khan El Khalili, where you will have shopping for some souvenirs.After you will be tranferred to Giza railway station to take sleeper train to Aswan. Dinner and overnight on board.
Upon arriving in the morning to Aswan our REP will meet you at station and trasfer you to board Nile Cruise before lunch. Lunch on board with followed tour in Aswan to see High Dam with building of it was create reservoir of water, called Lake Nasser, Unfinished obelisk, which could be haviest obelisk ever cut in Ancient Egypt, if it has been completed. Also you will visit greatest Teple of Isis at Philae occupies about a quarter of the island.Dinner and overnight will be on board.

Early morning sail to Kom Ombo where you will see unique Kom Ombo Temple, because in fact it a doble temple built in Greaco-Roman period and dedicated to Sobek and Horus. Lunch will be on board while sailing to Edfu. In Edfu visiting Temple of Horus, second largest after Karnak.Return back to board and sail to Luxor. Dinner and overnight on board.

Breakfast will be on board, after u will visit West Bank of Nile River to explore Colossi of Memnon, two colossal statue of Amenhotep III, Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple dedicated to famous female pharaoh. Return back to board for lunch followed by tour to East Bank to see Karnak and Luxor Temples, which in past was connected by paved alley of Sphinxes. Dinner and overnight on board in Luxor.

After breakfast disembark cruise and in your choice free time for shopping or optional tours to Dandara Temple or Luxor Museum. In the evening transfer to railway station to take sleeper train to Cairo.
Upon arriving to Cairo you will start you way to Bahariya Oasis. The valley floor in oasis is covered with lush groves of date palms, ancient springs and wells and is strewn with numerous conical hills which probably once formed islands in a great lake during Prehistoric times. Lunch will be served followed by visit of Black Desert, is very volcanic place and looks like the moon. Climbing one of the many soft peeks, the view from the top is really nice. Then proceed to snow-white White Desert in the true sense of the word “made” from the Cretaceous with numerous mushroom formations here, created by wind and sand. You will enjoy there the famous “Crystal Mountain”. In the evening you will have barbeque dinner and overnight in camps under stars sky.
After breakfast take your way to explore place with many tombs dug into the sides of the Bahariya mountains during Roman times and then visit the Valley of the Golden Mummies a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis, discovered in 1996, where have found around 250 mummies dating to several different periods in history. Afterwards drive back to Cairo to check in hotel and overnight there.

After brekfast check out from hotel with followed tranfer to Cairo International airport to fly to your country.

Back To Top Tour Includes – Meet and assistance upon arrival and departure by our representative in all airports
- Assistance during your stay, tours and excursions
- All transfers by modern air-conditioned vehicles
- 2 nights hotel accommodation in Cairo on bed and buffet breakfast basis
- 2 nights accommodation aboard sleeper train in first class
- 3 nights cruise accommodation on full board basis
- 1 night accommodation in camping in the White Desert
- All sightseeing tours as per the tour itinerary
- All shore excursions as per the cruise itinerary
- Lunch meals during tours as per itinerary
- Professional Egyptologist speaking tour guide
- Entrance fees to the sights as per tour itinerary
- All hotel taxes and charges
Tour Excludes – Personal expenses
- Optional tours

Payment Facilities:

1) Online Payment by Credit card visa or Master via our secure payment page on our website http://www.albaraagroup.com/Travels/Check_Payment.aspx

2 ) Bank transfer:
Albaraa Travel Egypt -bank details:
Account Name: Albaraa Travel
Account No: 566166
Bank: Arab African International Bank
Branch: Hurghada
Swift: ARAIEGCXXX

Payment Plan:
25% down payment required to secure the booking ( by credit cards )
75% balance in pick up from your hotel in the tour day. ( credit card / or / cash )

Tour guide
Egypt guided tours are highly recommended and our guides are knowledgeable Egyptologist guides who have academic qualifications to make your tour to Egypt extra special

Vehicles used  
Vehicles are new branded air-conditioned with a professional driver, but drivers in Egypt do not speak English and they cannot act as tour guides for the Egyptian monumental sights

What to bring
Passport valid for 6 months
Comfortable shoes
Cotton clothes in summer
Warm clothes in winter
Sun block
Sunglasses
Hat
Photo/Video Camera

Look forward to hearing from you soon, hope that my offer will meet your approval.  
Best regards,

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Most of us –even those not particularly interested in Egyptian history– are familiar with black-eyed image of dark and beautiful Queen Cleopatra, rolling out of a carpet and into the shocked presence of Julius Caesar. But even more fascinating than the dark and sexy screen vixen we’ve seen depicted in dozens of films is the real Cleopatra. An incredibly intelligent, vibrant, and ruthless woman, Cleopatra was an intriguing historical character.

The Queen’s real history began in 49 B.C., when Cleopatra was in her early twenties. After a failed attempt to establish herself as the sole Pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra was driven from the palace by Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Cleopatra’s brother, husband, and co-ruler). But she soon returned with an army, setting up camp outside the palace in Alexandria and setting herself and her brother into something of a stalemate.

Soon, Julius Caesar of Rome took up residence in the palace, trying to bring peace between brother and sister. But when summoned to the palace by Caesar for a peace conference with Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra was barred entrance by her brother. Desperate for Caesar’s help (and with something of a flair for the dramatic), Cleopatra came up with a plan to sneak into the palace. She had her servant roll her in a carpet and present the carpet to Caesar. Her dramatic gesture won over Caesar, and when Cleopatra rolled out and begged him for help regaining her throne, he agreed.

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Left free to rule, Cleopatra was a popular ruler. Her main goal as Pharaoh was to keep Egypt free from the Roman Empire, which was rapidly expanding. So she allied herself with Roman general Mark Antony, who was rival to Octavian, next-in-line for the Roman throne. And though their relationship was beneficial to Cleopatra and to her throne, she actually loved Antony –a love which would become legendary as time went on– and bore him three children.

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