Egyptian wedding tour and Nile Cruise

Dec. 18, 2012 - PRLog -- ®
Day 1: Arrival Cairo:
Meet & assist at Cairo International Airport where you will meet our representative . Transfer from airport to hotel by our modern, comfortable & private air conditioned deluxe vehicle. The tour manager will assist you at hotel & will confirm with you the pickup times for each tour. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 2: Giza Pyramids - Egyptian Museum:
Breakfast at hotel. Pick up by our representative & transfer to enjoy a tour to Giza Pyramids. Khufu's pyramid is the  largest of the three.  it  considered  one of the seven wonders of the world, and is the only one to have survived. Khephren's monument . The much smaller pyramid of Mycerinus had not been completed by the time of the king's death. Its intended granite revetment was only partially applied. The Great Sphinx is part of the funerary complex of Khephren. Its impressive leonine body with the royal head is sculpted in an outcrop of the native limestone. Part of the face, including the nose, has been deliberately damaged. The false beard has fallen off and is currently kept at the British Museum then Wonderful tour to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities near Tahrir Square in Cairo, which has the richest and most important collection of objects from Ancient Egypt in the world. The collection is constantly growing since the museum is the primary recipient of any finds made on the soil of Egypt. There you can contemplate the precious treasures of Tutankhamon, most famous king of the Ancient Egypt. The museum includes a Mummies room with extra cost. Back to hotel. Overnight in Cairo
Day 3: High Dam - Unfinished Obelisk - Philae Temple:
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan. Meet & assist at Aswan airport. Transfer to your Nile River cruise boat. Embarkation. Lunch on board. Transfer to visit to the High Dam of Aswan, Egypt's modern example of construction on a monumental scale. The controversial Aswan High Dam contains 18 times the amount of material used in the Great Pyramid of Khufu and created Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake.Continue to the Unfinished Obelisk which still lies in its granite bed in the quarry, left behind because of a severe flaw in the stone.Enjoy a tour to the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae which was famous during the Greco-Roman period. There you can see, in front of the first pylon, two granite lions. On the walls of the temple of Philae were inscribed the latest hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions. Dinner and overnight on board

Day 4: Kom Ombo & Edfu Temples:
Breakfast on board. Enjoy a visit to the double temple of the Hellenistic period on the eastern bank, the Temple of Kom Ombo. This unique construction is an architectonic conflation of two temples in one building. Lunch on board. Sail to Edfu.Transfer for an amazing tour to the Temple of the falcon god Horus at Edfu which is the best preserved example among the Greco-Roman temples of Egypt. It is also the repository of the most detailed legacy on matters of cult and temple function. Sail Aswan . Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 5: Valleyof kings - Hatshepsut Temple - Colossi of Memnon - Luxor & Karnak Temples:
Breakfast on board , visit Valley of the Kings, the most famous concentration of royal tombs in Ancient Egypt. Disappointed by the failure of the pyramids to protect their royal owners from robbery and desecration, the kings of the New Kingdom decided to adopt a more secure mode of burial. Instead of the pyramid, they opted for deep, rock-cut galleries and halls.Enjoy a visit to Deir el-Bahari, Steep cliffs in the shape of a horseshoe form a natural background to two monumental buildings standing side by side, each belonging to a different period. The earlier one, on the left, was built by King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (11th Dynasty), as a combined tomb and funerary monument. More than 500 years later, the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty), whose tomb is situated in the Valley of the Kings, used the same site for the construction of her funerary temple.Continue to the Colossi of Memnon. The first monument one encounters on a visit to the west bank of Luxor is the site of the funerary temple of Amenhotep III (18th Dynasty). The temple itself has all but completely disappeared, but the colossal twin statues of the king, which once stood proudly in front of the entrance to the temple, are still there to greet the visitor. Lunch on board.Transfer to visit the Luxor Temple, most important monument, and most sacred of sites. It was conceived as a remote southern annex to the temple of Karnak, at a distance of about 3 kilometres from it. Hence, it faces the Karnak Temple, and was connected to it by a long processional avenue, flanked by rows of sphinxes on either side. Many of those sphinxes have been unearthed and guard the entrance to the temple, but more still lie buried beneath the buildings of modern Luxor.Enjoy a wonderful tour to Karnak Temple. Three temples of Ancient Egypt claimed supremacy over all the others: the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, the Temple of Re-Atum at Heliopolis and the Temple of Amon-Re at Karnak. After you finish your tour transfer you to Luxor airport and back to Cairo airport and transfer you to you hotel in Cairo and overnight  
Day 6: Egyptian style Wedding in Cairo
After breakfast you will have a free day till 6 pm. at 6 you will be transferred to your Egyptian weeding an Egyptian band  called (Zaffa) will welcome you by a folkloric show including listening to oriental music of drams & flutes . The show contains upper Egypt dancing by sticks & dancing by tanora. Dinner at a board of Nile cruise during two hours enjoy the Nile River. return to your hotel .
overnight in Cairo  
Day 7: Back to your destination:
Breakfast athotel . Transfer to Cairo international airport to fly back to home. End of our services ©©©®©