22/05/2015
Day (1) Wednesday:
Arrival to Cairo international airport
Meet and assist & Visa service at Cairo airport:
Transfer from Cairo international Airport to the hotel:
Air conditioned deluxe coaches will be ready at the airport parking area, group signs will be placed at the front and the side, bus capacity can fit up to 50 persons however we do recommend to use it for only 40 persons maximum.
Each bus will have toilet equipped with air freshener and Toiletries
Mineral water & wet tissues onboard the coaches
Check in Procedures:
Rapid luggage delivery to rooms will take place
Detailed passport list to be sent enough time before the group arrival in order to arrange smooth check-in operation.
Private check-in area, room keys will be displayed in envelops alphabetically (in case of one shot group).
Dinner at Khulkhal Arabian restaurant:
Khulkhal Arabian Restaurant was officially opened in the fall of 2007. Located on the deck of Maxim Compound, this most exclusive outlet has a splendid panoramic view of the River Nile and is surrounded by luxurious five stars hotels and numerous landmarks of Zamalek and Greater Cairo. Dining at Khulkhal is overwhelming since guests feel they are sitting in open air. At night‚ Guests will enjoy entertainment shows with a belly dancer, Tanoura Show “Spin Man” & listen to life DJ music.The word “Khulkhal” means “anklet” but the verb “khalkhal” simply means “shake and rock”. Enjoy the Khulkhal Arabian atmosphere starting from noon till 4:00 am.
Day (2) Thursday:
• Breakfast buffet at the hotel
Visit to Sakkara Step Pyramid & Memphis& Lunch:
The Step Pyramid of Zoser a third dynasty pharaoh was probably the first pyramid ever built. It is 62 meters high and stands on a stretch of high ground over-looking Memphis. Zoser’s pyramid marked the beginning of a new method of burial tomb construction. The pyramid’s architect, Imhotep, was at the time a widely respected architect, High Priest and famous doctor.
Lunch at Andria restaurant
Friendly service and sumptuous chicken have been key to this family-oriented restaurant's success over the years. Located near the Pyramids, this large restaurant features a spacious air-conditioned dining room with a fireplace for winter and a much-lauded garden terrace for summer. Soft lighting, pleasant views and the sizzle of the outdoor grill create a relaxed ambience. Chicken roasted to perfection is the house specialty. Kebabs, Kofta and quails are equally well prepared on patio grills.
Visit to the Pyramids & Sphinx of Giza
Giza Plateau is on the West Bank of the Nile and takes in an 18-km-wide, which includes the Great Pyramids. Despite the crowds that visit the Pyramids every year, they are truly overwhelming when you stand before them, they have survived the rise and fall of great dynasties and conquerors and they share the flat desert surrounds with the Sphinx and a number of smaller pyramids and temples.Cheops the Great Pyramid is both the oldest and Largest, Chephren the medium Pyramid that retains part of the original Limestone casing that, once covered the entire structure and still contains the sarcophagus of King Chephren & the smallest Pyramid is that of Mycerinus built between 2525 and 2500 BC.Sphinx was built by Cheops' Son Chephren and located near the three Pyramids.
• Transfer back to the hotel
Dinner onboard the Nile Maxim:
Guests will be transferred to the Nile bank to board the cruise for two hours sailing on the Nile page.Guests will enjoy sailing through downtown Cairo and the view of the best buildings and hotels in town together with live music entertainment of an Egyptian band, & a belly dancer while set menu Dinner is served.
Day (3) Friday:
• Breakfast buffet at the hotel
Visit to the Citadel, Mohamed Aly Mosque & Khan El-Khalili:
Citadel Salah El Din, the Ayyubid ruler of Egypt during the 12th century, built a fortress over looking Cairo in 1176 AD. The original fortifications were later torn down by Sultan El Nasir and Mohammed Ali to make room for their own mosques and palaces. For almost 700 years, to the death of Mohammed Ali in 1849, nearly all Egypt’s rulers lived in the Citadel, held court, dispensed justice and received ambassadors.
Within the citadel’s towering walls are the Mohammed Ali’s Alabaster Mosque (built in the image of the blue Mosque of Turkey).
Khan el-Khalili, once known as the Turkish bazaar during the Ottoman period, is now usually just called the ‘Khan’, and the names of it and the Musky market are often used interchangeably to mean either.
Lunch at Al Azhar Park (Studio Misr Restaurant):
Located in the heart of old historic Cairo and commanding stunning panoramic views of the world's most intriguing city, Al-Azhar Park offers every visitor a glimpse into the captivating past. Lush green landscaped gardens are an enjoyable sojourn away from city's major tourist attractions. Embracing valuable history, the park is home to the newly discovered Ayyubid wall, constructed by Salah El Din more than 800 years ago.Enjoy exotic settings, reminiscent of ancient times gone by. A variety of unique cafes and restaurants, that offer 5 star services, were built and thoughtfully positioned for visitors to appreciate the most dramatic views of Cairo. Perfect venues for private functions, you can create your own history.
Note: This restaurant doesn’t serve alcoholic beverage
entranceway, set menu dinner will be served.
Visit to Egyptian Museum
Was established in 1900. It is by far the most valuable museum of Egyptian
antiquities in the world. Located in the heart of Cairo, it is within walking distance from most of the leading hotels in the city. The museum is divided into galleries exhibiting items from various periods in more or less chronological order, moving clockwise along the ground floor.The upper floor contains an area where the treasures of Tutankhamen are exhibited. All the items exhibited here came from his tomb found at the Valley of Kings at Thebes in what is now Luxor. Tutankhamen’s gold coffin is made of 450 pounds of solid gold and is considered one of the most beautiful possessions of humanity.
• Transfer to Giza Train Station.
• Take the train from Giza to Luxor City
• Dinner onboard the train.
Day (4) Saturday :.
• Early breakfast onboard the train.
• Transfer from Luxor Train Station to the Hotel.
• Check in and refresh.
• visit to the Luxor Temple.
Luxor Temple
Separated from the Nile only by a street, the Luxor temple sits in the city’s center. The temple’s main purpose was as a secret location for Amun, the lord of gods.
The Luxor temple was built by Amenhotep III in the 18th Dynasty.
The temple’s most distinguishing features are its interior rooms with magnificent inscriptions and hall of columns, each one capped with crowns of lotus flowers.
Lunch at Ponton dock in Sonesta S.G hotel
Venue: 850 sq. m wide docking terrace in front of Sonesta St. George hotel, a very nice location surrounded by the Nile and overlooking west bank
Afternoon visit t The Mummification Museum
is a new, and located near the Mina Palace Hotel.
The museum's features displays of both human and animal mummies. However, there are also displays of tools used in the mummification process, as well as artifacts of items buried along with the mummies for use in the afterlife. Almost anything one ever wanted to know about mummification can be learned here, including the mummification process itself. There is a statue of Anubis, the jackal-god who presided over the dead, at the entrance to the museum.
• Transfer back to the Hotel.
• Pick up to the sound and light Show at Karnak Temple.
Karnak Temple
The largest of its kind, the Karnak temple complex is about 3.5 km from Luxor Temple. Within its area, the grandest of all temples is dedicated to the great Pharaonic god, Amun. Leading to the temple is a procession of ram sphinxes that represents Amun.
Although begun in the Middle Kingdom, the temple’s vastness comes from successive dynasties which built on to it.
• Transfer back to the hotel
• Dinner at the main restaurant of the hotel.
Day (5) Sunday:
• Breakfast buffet on board
Early morning Hot Air Balloon ride over the West bank of Luxor:
One of the best ways of seeing Luxor and its monuments is from the air. Up until recently this could only be done in the early morning by hot air balloon
The hot air balloon trip over the West Bank is slow and graceful. It has to be an early start, as the balloons can only fly while the temperature is still relatively low
Visit the west bank of Luxor:
Valley of the Kings
It was called The Great, Noble Necropolis of Millions of Years of Pharaoh, and for five hundred years it was the burial place of Egypt’s New Kingdom rulers. Sixty-two tombs and twenty unfinished pits have been found here, seven of them in the large West Valley of the Kings, the rest in the East Valley of the Kings. It is the East Valley that is visited by most tourists. The Valley of the Kings was chosen as the royal burial place for several reasons. The quality of its limestone bedrock is generally good: solid, strong, and at least in some areas, relatively free of cracks and fractures.
Valley of the Queens
The Valley of the Queens, in Arabic Wadi al-Malakat, in ancient times was called Ta Set Neferu, a phrase that can mean The Place of Beauty and also The Place of Royal Children and Wives. It was used in the New Kingdom as a burial place for several royal wives, princesses, and princes. It is a lovely place, this small, Ushaped wadi, curving south and west. Rugged limestone cliffs jut upward, their strata turning and twisting in dramatic contrast to the horizontal beds of other Theban hills. There is a small cave at the base of these cliffs and when it rained, water would pour into it and then flow through the valley.
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
One of the most memorable panoramas in Thebes is the approach to the memorial temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Turning west beside a small mosque, a paved road leads in a straight line to a dramatic expanse of rugged limestone cliffs that rises over three hundred meters (nearly one thousand feet) above the desert plain. The god Amen was given special prominence in the temple and that is why it was built almost exactly in the same axial line as the Temple of Amen at Karnak. Indeed, if you extend the principal axis of Hatshepsut temple five kilometers (three miles) east to Karnak, it runs within one hundred meters (three hundred feet) of the axis of the Temple of Amen-Ra. There had been a shrine to Hathor at Dayr al-Bahari for centuries before Hatshepsut ordered that her own temple be built there.
Memnon Colossi
The memorial temple of Amenhetep III was the largest temple ever built in Egypt. When completed, it included a massive array of pylons, chambers, walls, and statues that covered an area of over 385,000 square meters (4,200,000 square feet). Unfortunately, the temple was built largely of mud brick and lay in the Nile floodplain where it was subject to the annual inundation. When it was abandoned and regular maintenance ceased, its brick walls dissolved and the stones were taken away and used by later kings in the construction of their own memorial temples. As a result, little of the huge complex is visible. Indeed, for most visitors, the two huge statues of Amenhetep III, known as the Colossi of Memnon, stand in isolation, and most visitors have no idea that the statues were a small part of a gigantic temple complex. The colossi a major tourist destination. Both colossi are covered with hundreds of Greek and Latin graffiti left by grateful visitors.
• Lunch boxes to aranged for the group.
• Transfer to Hurghada city.
• Check in at Hurghada hotel.
• Dinner at the main restaurant of the hotel.
Day (6) Monday:
• Breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Full Day Mahmya.
Departure:
09:00 Boats sail from the new Hurghada Marina to Mahmya on Giftun Island
Snorkeling:
A one hour is provided for snorkeling excursion by boat
(Snorkeling equipment is included and available at the Aqua Centre on Mahmya)
Activities:
Beach Volleyball - Soccer - Swimming – Snorkeling
Lunch (open Buffet):
Salad Bar: Tahina, Coleslaw, Tuna, Cheese & Oriental Salad’s
Sides: Rice & Pasta cooked Italian Style
Main Course: Fish & Chicken
Dessert: Fresh Fruit
Please note that all drinks are extra and paid by the guest at time of service.
Departure:
Boats sail from Mahmya on Giftun Island to Hurghada Marina
Dinner at Little Buddha.
Little Buddha is the sister venue of the well-reputed Buddha Bar Paris Little Buddha Hurghada successfully combines the ultimate fine dining experience, a magnificent cocktail bar and pumping club night. Little Buddha’s restaurant is the place to be for that "special occasion". The menu tantalizes the taste buds with a fusion of Japanese, French and Pacific cuisine. Little Buddha’s Executive Chef prepares dishes ranging from 'Poached Lobster Tail with Avocado and Corn Salsa' to a simple 'Stir Fried Five Spice Squid', as well as an exquisite and extensive selection of Sushi, which can be taken at the Sushi Bar. The far eastern décor, the candlelit tables make this not only a restaurant but a full luxury experience.
Day (7) Tuesday:
• Breakfast buffet at the hotel.
Quad Runners Safari.
Duration: 3 hours
Description:
Transfer from hotels to the Quads garage location
Quads Riding Briefing
Quads ride Start to Bedouin Tent station 20 - 25 Km
View the Bedouin settlement (OM OGIRA)
Bedouin Tea hospitality / Camel ride 10 minutes
Quad ride Return back to garage location 20 - 25 Km
Dinner at Hard rock Coffee in Hurghada.
The Hard Rock Cafe Hurghada is situated on the coastal road (Alkora Road) in Alnawara Center. The cafe, while reflecting the charm and flavor of the local architecture, is still Hard Rock through-and-through, offering an extensive collection of incredible rock memorabilia, a fabulous mouth-watering menu, and thirst-quenching cocktails to suit your every desire. With everything from a great outdoor area and cool pool bar facility to live music, and DJ's after midnight, the Hard Rock Cafe Hurghada is the hottest spot in town. A must see for locals and visitors alike. Stop by and visit for your rock
• Transfer back to the hotel and overnight.
Day (8) Wednesday:
• Breakfast buffet at the hotel.
• Transfer to Cairo and check in at the hotel.
• Rest and refresh.
Dinner at Abu El Sid restaurant
For years ago, Egyptians would tell you that the only worthwhile place to sample the local cuisine was in a private home. Now, have an excuse to dine out on national favorites, Abu El Sid a restaurant-bar in a 1900s apartment on the Nile island of Zamalek, Egyptian restaurant offers authentic cuisine with old recipes that are truly unique in an atmosphere characterized by both traditional and post-modern trends.
• Transfer back to the hotel and overnight.
Day (9) Thursday:
• Breakfast buffet at the main restaurant of the hotel.
• Final departure.
