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Descend into a world of ancient wonders to discover the lands behind the legends. Walk past towering stone icons, through avenues of sphinxes, and into royal valleys amid the desert sands. Then, cruise down the Nile and anchor at remote islands and beside the Theban Hills. End your adventure in Cairo, where historic mosques mingle with today’s modern bustle.
Trip Highlights :
- Uncover the Pyramids of Giza, the only Wonder of the Ancient World to have survived the modern era
- Visit the enigmatic Great Sphinx, the largest monolith statue in the world
- Continue to Saqqara, the pharaohs’ royal graveyard for more than 3,000 years, and enter the Imhotep Museum
- Explore the Valley of the Kings, a series of tombs hidden in the Theban hills
- Tour the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, devoted to one of the few female pharaohs
- View the 64-foot-high Colossi of Memnon
- Visit Edfu’s Temple of Horus, an amazingly well-preserved temple and a 2,000-year-old example of the architecture of its era
- Sail to Kom Ombo to visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, built during the Greco-Roman period and noted for its twin deities, Sobek and Horus
- View a number of the city’s 500 mosques, which display some of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in the world
- Visit the citadel that was built in the 12th century by mighty Salah el-Din and originally used as a fortress before it became the residence of the Sultans until 1850
- Stop at Mohammed Ali Mosque, also known as the Alabaster Mosque
- Enter the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, which houses the famous masks of Tutankhamen
Note: All accommodations are on twin-shared basis. Single supplement will be served on request and will cost an additional USD 950.