Horus

Day 1 – Cairo:

Arrived at the airport of Cairo where our representative will welcome you and assist in the

various steps to follow. You will be then accompanied in private vehicle to your hotel.

overnight at hotel.

Day 2 – Cairo/Aswan:

Breakfast at hotel. Visit plate of Gizeh with the three Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and

Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god

under an aspect avenger. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid

with degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the mastabas.... And to

finish the day, visits of Memphis, a colossus of Ramsès II out of alabaster of beautiful

dimensions.The evening, .

Day 3 - Aswan/Kom Ombo:

Breakfast in the hotel. transfer in the private vehicle to Cairo airport to take your flight to

Aswan. Arrival, welcome and visit of the Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the

Isis goddess, then the granite career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Nasser

Stopping giving rise to the Lake Nasser. Transfer in privte vehicle to the boat. Installation in

your cabin.lunch. Beginning of navigation in direction of Kom Ombo. To dine on board

followed on oneoriental show (evening costume, Nubian dancer and traditional

music).dinner and night on board

Day 4 - Kom Ombo/Edfou/Esna/Luxor:

Breakfast on board. Visit Temple of Kom Ombo, whose characteristic is to be dedicated to

two divinities: Sobek (with head of crocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon).lunch.

Navigation until Edfou. Departure in the barouche for the visit of the Temple of Edfou, the

Holy City of Horus and the temple built in its honor. This temple with extravagant

dimensions is preserved best of all Egypt. Navigation towards Louxor. dinner and night on

board.

Day 5 – Luxor:

Breakfast On Board. Discovered Valley of the Kings, where the majority of the Pharaons of

XVIII to the XX dynasty were made bury and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of

the royal wives, of the girls, sometimes of wire of the kings of XIXe and XXe dynasties. Then

continuation towards the two imposing Colossi of Memnon, last vestiges of the gigantic

funerary temple of Amenhotep III which does not exist nowadays any more. And finally the

visit of Deir el-Bahari the Temple of Hatchepsout, the funerary temple of Hatchepsout,

dedicated to the Amon god, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple thébain is

single and is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the

mountain thébaine has which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by approach

ramps. lunch. Free afternoon. Dinner and Night on board

Day 6 – Luxor/Cairo:

Breakfast On Board . Visit Temple of Karnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to

the glory of the Amon god, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses

were venerated there. It is the known religious site oldest in the world. And the Temple of

Louxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his two aspects of celestial Amon-Rê

and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go up in Amenhotep III and Ramsès

II. Release of the cabin before 12h00. Afternoon, felucca ride on the Nile. The evening,

transfer in private vehicle to Luxor airport to take your flight to Cairo . arrival in Cairo,

welcome and transfer to the hotel.

Day 7 – Cairo:

Breakfast, Visit of the Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed Ali.

Then visit Coptic area, this district is older than the city itself: it should be seen to have an

idea of the atmosphere in which the first Christians in Egypt lived. Coptic Churches, Coptic

museum, church of Serge Saint. Finish day visit with the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities,founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who shelters more than

250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon. Dinner and overnight at

hotel.

Day 8-cairo:

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer in private car to Cairo airport for your departure.