Overview
Travel Egypt. From the towering Great Pyramids in Cairo to Alexandria, it flaunts a rich historical backdrop of Greco roman dating back to the 4th century. Embark on a sleeper train towards Aswan city. Experience an authentic glimpse of life in the Nubian village. Get your felucca sails in position on a two-day trip toward Kom Ombo and Edfu temples while enjoying the Nile scenery and fertile green banks. Explore the valley of kings and Karnak temple complex. Discover the beauty of wadi Hittan in Fayoum while enjoying the desert safari. We have tailored this trip by using the least harmful means of transportation for the environment, and carbon offset the unavoidable aspects of the journey. Your trip is defined to deliver an "experience of a lifetime", showcasing the region's hidden gems you cannot find in guidebooks.
Itinerary
Day 1 Sunday Welcome to Egypt.
Upon arrival, meet your Tour Manager before customs clearance, who will assist and escort you to your ECO Village 60 Km from the Airport and 40 Minutes drive. Check-in in, receive your room key and stay overnight.
Day 2 Monday Pyramids of Giza, Grand Egyptian Museum
After Breakfast, your guide will pick you up to visit the pyramids with the worlds-famous tombs of Cheops, Chefren, and mykerinos, as well as sphinx; you will be privileged to watch some of the first fascinating sceneries. After completion, The Great Egyptian Museum at the Cairo Gate on the Giza Plateau (next to the Pyramids) became the jewel of Egypt's new crown and one of the world's largest, most modern, and most famous museums. The Museum will house more than 50,000 artefacts, including all the personal holdings of the Golden King Tutankhamun, all gathered for the first time in one place.
Note: The Great Egyptian Museum is scheduled to open in 2022; if it is not open alliteratively, you will visit the Egyptian national Museum Afternoon; you will get to see numerous pharaonic eras, including the Tutankhamun exhibition in our Egyptian National Museum trip. Meals Included; Breakfast & Lunch, and Dinner
Day 03 Tuesday: Eco Village Tour
Today, you will enjoy a day outing inside Cairo's 1st Eco Village, built on about 1,000 acres, located 60 km from Cairo airport; you will interact with the local community to get to know a society that works exclusively in sustainable industrial agriculture and is not harmful to the environment. All meals provided are organic, and even the fabrics and furnishings in your rooms are made of organic cotton.
PM Transfer to the Main railway station and ride a sleeper train to Aswan. Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch “Organic “Dinner on board trail try style
Day 4 Wednesday: Nubian Village, Tour of Aswan
Upon arrival in Aswan, a local driver will pick you up from the Railway Station and start a guided tour of Aswan's dams. The English built the first dam in 1898 -1902, the largest dam in the world, but Russia built a new significant high dam in 1960-1971. Next, visit the Philae temple, the temple of Isis and Hathor. It was saved and restored on the island of Agilkia because of water overflow when the High Dam was constructed.
Head to the Nubian village, check in at your Local guest House and enjoy your free time on the island.
in the afternoon, you have the opportunity to book a local felucca ride on the Nile around the island for 2 hours with an overview of the famous hotel of the old Cataract and visit the botanical gardens island Meals Included: Breakfast
Day 5 Thursday Felucca Sailing to Harbiab Island / Kom Ombo
Morning free or Abu Simbel Optional
You can book a trip to Abu Simbel, where you'll drive there (approx. 4 hours). As part of a guided tour (by a local expert guide in Abu Simbel), you'll visit the impressive rock temples of Abu Simbel. After sightseeing (approx. 1.5 - 2 hours), you'll return to Aswan. Overnight.
Noon time you start your Nile adventure by Sailing on a felucca " Feluccas is basic traditional Nile sailboats " made for a highly relaxing and enjoyable way to travel down the river. You sleep on the boat's deck (mattresses and blankets are provided, but if you prefer something between you and the blankets, you will need a sleep sheet on a sleeping bag liner of your own). Please note that the Felucca have a small toilet. , a (please bring a towel shower on the River, no soap ), leaving you stress-free to enjoy this tranquil and traditional experience on the Nile. About sunset, the will arrive in Harbiab Ialsnd, Enjoy a walk through the island and continue sailing to Kom Ombo.
Meals included: Lunch and dinner.
Day 06 Friday Kom Ombo / Luxor
After having your Breakfast prepared by your local Felucca crew, you will visit Kom Ombo temple and drive to Edfu temple, then continue to Luxor; upon your arrival in Luxor, you will check into your hotel in the evening, you will visit and enjoy guided sightseeing at the Luxor temple. Meals included Breakfast
Day 07 Saturday West Bank - Cairo
In the morning, you will start a guided tour to the West bank, visiting tombs in the famed Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut temple, and the mighty Colossi of Memnon. You'll visit Karnak Temple. in the afternoon, you catch a sleeper train to Cairo. Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner (Dinner and Breakfast served on the train tray style. Meals included: Breakfast.
Day 09 Sunday Cairo -Fayoum
At 06:25, you will arrive in Cairo and head to Tunis village in Fayum, about 120 Km from Cairo. You will reach the village in one and a half hours, check-n your room at a local guest house, and enjoy your free time wandering around visiting the pottery school on foot, riding a horse or riding felucca on the lake Lunch and Dinner at the village guest House
Day 10 Monday Safari/Alexandria
After breakfast you start your adventure with the 4x4 Jeep starts by driving to Wadi Al Hitan (whales Valley) The site has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, which was discovered in 1936 and is located 70 km west of the village of Tunis, deep in Western Sahara. You will find yourself inside an open-air museum and an area filled with fossils dating back 45 million. You will see preserved fossilized primitive whale skeletons, shark teeth, mangrove shells,
Next, you will visit the Fossil & Climate Change Museum, which hosts a variety of whale fossils and skeletons; then drive to naturally carved rocks surrounding the dunes, similar to elegant Arabian Palaces and then arrives on a rock called Al Safina before we continue our journey on the enchanted lake to bathe in the lake and prepare a barbecue lunch.
After lunch, we start sandboarding, visit Wadi El Rayan return to Tunis village and head with the car to Alexandria. Expect to return to the hotel at about 05:30 PM
Day 11 Tuesday: Tour Alexandria with Locals
A recommended local driver will pick you up to visit the Citadel and the Bibliotheca of Alexandria, visit El Menzah Park Kom El Shoqafa and the Jewelers Museum. The cost of the car is about 400 Egp Egyptian pounds, equivalent to approximately 19 dollars, not including entrance fees. Lunch and dinner at Pablo Restaurant and Cafe, Stanley branch overlooking the sea; cost per meal as per your choice from the menu will not exceed the equivalent of 15 dollars per person.
You’ll catch train No. 926 Alexandria - Cairo VIP departure in the evening at 19:00 pm. Arrive in Cairo at about 21:30 . Transfer to your Hotel and Over Night
Day 12 Wednesday: Final departure
After Breakfast, your tour manager will pick you up and head to the airport to safely catch a plane back home country
Included: Transfer & Sightseeing
- Transfer Airport to Eco Village
- Transfer to Rail Way Station
- Sleeper Train Cairo /Aswan
- Transfer to Nubian Village
- Transfer to Railway Station in Luxor
- Transfer from Cairo to fayoum
- Transfer from Fayoum to Alexandria
- Transfer to Alexandria Railway Station
- Transfer to your hotel in Cairo
- Final Departure transfer to Cairo International Airport
- Full Days Pyramids, Egyptian Museum with Lunch
- Full-Day Guided Tour in Aswan
- Full Day Guided Tour of Luxor West Bank, Karnak and Luxor Temple
- Guided Tour of Kom Ombo, Edfu Temple
- Full-day safari in fayoum
- Entrance Fees
Certificate
- Certificate for 100% offset the generated remission of this trip, not including your international flight
Not Included:
- Visa Upon Arrival
- Sightseeing with Locals in Alexandria
- Optional Sightseeing
Comfort Accommodations 4*
- Cairo: Eco Village on HB /Cosmopolitan on BB
- Aswan: Nubian Eco Lodge on BB
- Alexandria: Homestay with locals on BO
- Cairo /Aswan: On a Sleeping Train HB
- Luxor /Cairo: on Sleeper Train on HB
- Nile Adventure: Felucca Aswan to Hrabiab on FB
- Luxor: Hotel Stigenburger or Similar City View on BB
- Fayoum: Local Guest House
Meals Arrangement
- BB = Bed and Breakfast
- HB = Breakfast and Dinner
- FB = Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner( Stars with Lunch end with Breakfast)