12 Days Cairo and Desert Safari Adventure

12 Days
Private Tour
Everyday
From / per person
$1650

An excellent adventuring tour for ho looking for relaxing and spirituality not only by visiting the incredible ancient sites, but the golden and vast landscapes of Egypt in the Desert regions with Oasis’s, canyons and rock formations unseen by many. Sacred capital of ‘Thebes’ or Luxor in Upper Egypt is a sight to be seen also with its famous Temples and Tombs.

Included:

  • Met and assisted services by our expeditor.
  • All airport transfers by private deluxe A/C vehicle.
  • English speaking Egyptologist
  • All Transfers from Baharyia to Kharga by 4×4 car
  • Accommodation for four nights at a Cairo Hotel
  • Accommodation for one night at Bahariya Hotel
  • Accommodation for one night camping in the White Desert on full board basis
  • Accommodation for one night in a Dakhla Hotel
  • Accommodation for one night camping in Kharga on full board basis
  • Accommodation for two nights in a Luxor Hotel
  • Accommodation for one night on Sleeper Train from Aswan to Cairo
  • Camping equipment like sleeping bags, camel blankets, tents are included
  • All sightseeing tours as mentioned in your itinerary
  • Admission fees to the sights throughout the tours.
  • Lunch at quality local restaurants
  • 2 Bottles of water per person per day

Excluded:

  • International airfare to Egypt
  • Entry Visa to Egypt
  • Any extras and Personal Spending

Optional

  • Tipping

Tour Itinerary:

Day 1: Arrival to Cairo

Upon your arrival, wonders of Egypt expeditor will pick you up, drive to the hotel for check-in, spend the rest of the day/evening at your leisure, overnight in Cairo.

NB:
Enjoy an optional activity to the Sound & Light Show on Giza Plateau, by the magnificent Pyramids.

Day 2: Day tour to the pyramids – Sakkara – Memphis

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, then drive to Giza pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos, then the great Sphinx. Have lunch at quality local restaurant, then drive to the oldest cemetery of Sakkara ( its 6.2 square kilometers) where you will visit the first Pyramids build in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of pharaoh Djoser that was designed by Imhotep, the ancient Egyptian architect. Also a visit to the Teti Pyramid and some beautiful Tombs in there
Then drive to Memphis, the ancient Capital of Egypt to visit the colossal statue of Ramses II and his Alabaster Sphinx, heading back to the hotel.

NB:
Enjoy an optional activity to the Sound & Light Show on Giza Plateau, by the magnificent Pyramids.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 3: Cairo Sightseeing Tours

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, then drive mysterious Egyptian museum, which exhibits a collection now over 120000 masterpieces and antiquities like the collections of the boy king Tutankhamen and the royal mummies , Then drive to the Citadel of Saladin that is overlooking the city from the Muqattam Hills and Mohammed Ali Alabaster Mosque, a spectacular structure inside that was built in Turkish style and very similar to the Blue Mosque in Turkey and simply considered to be one of the greatest landmarks in Cairo.

Have lunch at quality local restaurant, Then explore the Coptic Cairo including some of old churches such as the Hanging Church, cavern church, the synagogues, then explore old market of Khan El Khalili famous heading back to the hotel ,overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Day 4: Bahariya Oasis from Cairo

Enjoy your breakfast, and then travel to Bahariya Oasis, approximately 4 hours drive from Cairo. Upon arrival, explore the hilltop ruin known as ‘the English House’. Then transfer to visit the Museum of Golden Mummies, Tombs of the Nobles, Alexander Temple, and Temple of Ain Meffetla.
Heading to the hotel for check overnight in Bahariya.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 5: Safari at White Desert – Black Desert – Camping
Enjoy your breakfast, and then adventure the White Desert passing through the Black Desert and the El Haize Village with its natural spring. Explore the Crystal Mountain and the stunning shapes of the volcanic rocks and petrified wood in the Valley of Agabat.
Upon arrival at the White Desert, tour to the amazing rock formations, watch the sunset and camp under the stars in this paradise of tranquility. Have Bedouin dinner in the desert. Overnight in a camp.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6: White Desert to Farafra Oasis – Dakhla Oasis

Enjoy your breakfast, then drive to Farafra Oasis where you can enjoy Bir Setah hot spring as well as local artist Badr’s unique Mud Brick Museum. Then drive from Farafa to Dakhla (approximately 4 hours). Upon arrival, explore the Roman Temple Deir El Hagar in its serene surroundings and the Roman burial ground Mezzawaqqa. Heading to your hotel for check in. Overnight in Dakhla.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7: Kharga Oasis Camping

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, and then pay a visit to Islamic Village of Al Qasr, move onto Kharga Oasis to visit the oasis’s Ethnic Museum. After that visit, the Roman Temple of Hibis & Nadura from outside as well as the early Christian cemetery with its chapels painted with murals at Bagawat, then heading to Paris Oasis, for camping. Overnight in camping in Kharga.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8: Luxor from Kharga Oasis

Have your breakfast then an early morning traveling to explore the Temple of Dush, dedicated to Isis and Serapis, and then headed to your hotel for check in (The drive to Luxor is approximately 5 Hours).

Meals: Breakfast

Day 9: Day tour in Luxor

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, then drive to the West Bank of the River Nile to explore the Valley of Kings (three tombs visited inside Valley of the Kings are determined by the Egyptian Government as to preserve them from the large flow of visitors, therefore are rotated throughout the year and cannot be confirmed as to which tombs prior to your visit ), then drive to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (one of the female female Pharaohs known as El Deir EL Bahari , then before crossing to the east bank will be stop to the Colossi of Memnon.
Have lunch at quality local restaurant, drive to the East Bank and the famous Karnak Temple the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name (Ipet-isut) means “the most sacred of places.” The Temple, or, more correctly, the complex of Temples, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars. Heading back to the hotel, Overnight in Luxor.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 10: Day tour in Aswan – Sleeper Train to Cairo

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, and then drive to Aswan (Approximately 3 hours). Upon your arrive you will your day visiting the High Dam which was built in the 1960’s to provide the much needed electricity and irrigation for the country, Then drive to the ‘Unfinished Obelisk’ which still lies in the granite quarries which provided ancient Egypt with building materials. It would have been the largest piece of stone ever handled.
Have lunch at quality local restaurant, and then get the boat to Angilika Island, exploring the Temple of Isis at Philae, which is one of the Nubian temples rescued before the High Dam was built. Enjoy Philae’s long colonnades, towers and reliefs, which include the last surviving hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions in Egypt. Finally, heading to Aswan train station taking the Sleeper Train to Cairo. Dinner and overnight in the Sleeper Train.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, Dinner

Day 11: Optional tours in Cairo

Enjoy breakfast with sunrise views on the train before arriving Cairo, upon your arrival wonders of Egypt expeditor ill pick you up and heading to the hotel for check-in. Spend the rest of the day at your leisure. Overnight Cairo.

NB:
Optional tour available for lovely relaxing Nile Dinner and entertainment Boat Cruise to end your Egyptian experience. Belly Dancer, Tanoura Show and live traditional music included.
Meals: Breakfast

Day 12: final departure

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to Cairo International Airport for your final departure
Meals: Breakfast

Price per Person:

  • Five stars hotels in Cairo & Luxor
  • Qasr El Bawity Hotel Bahariya Oasis
  • Campsite White Desert
  • Desert Lodge Dakhla Oasis
  • Campsite in Kharga Oasis

MAY-SEPT. OCT.-APRIL
Double $ 1650 $ 1750
Solo $ 2950 $ 3000

  • Prices – Per Person in Sterling per Tour and can be paid in US$ or Euros by credit card via a secure payment system with no extra surcharge. Current prices valid through April 30.2017 excluding Christmas Holidays.
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