| Petra & Egypt 11 days / 10 nights |
Day 1 City Stars Tours representative will meet & assist you at Cairo International Airport and handle all your procedures at passport control, luggage area & customs formalities. After that you will be transferred to your hotel by a private air-conditioned vehicle. Overnight in Cairo. Day 2 After breakfast, enjoy a trip to the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren and Mykerinus. Then see the Sphinx and Valley Temple. Pay a visit to the Egyptian Museum where you can see the collection of Tutankhamen among many other splendid pharaonic artifacts. Transfer to railway station taking first class seating train to Aswan. Day 3 You will be met and assisted at Aswan train station and transferred to your hotel for check-in. In the afternoon visit the Elephantine Island by felucca boat. Back to hotel and overnight in Aswan. Day 4 See the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk, and the beautiful Temple of Philae, which is dedicated to the goddesses Isis and Hathor. Transfer to Aswan train station for departure to Luxor, where you will be met and taken to your hotel. Overnight in Luxor. Day 5 Enjoy an excursion to the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Hatshepsut, the powerful Egyptian queen, and the Colossi of Memnon. Then, visit the splendid Luxor Temple and Karnak Temples. Transfer to Luxor station taking first class seating train to Cairo. Day 6 You will be met at Giza train station, then transferred to your hotel. Free evening for leisure.At night at about 11:00 PM, drive via A/C van to Taba. Day 7 Arrive the Egyptian border Taba port, Driving to Wadi Rum we start by Bedouin Jeeps in the village and drive first to Lawrence's Spring and then to the sand dunes in Wadi Um Ishrin where you can also see some Nabatean inscriptions. We continue, visiting "Lawrence's House" from where there are some great views, and then to the Barragh Canyon. After sunset time we go back to Bedouin camp to enjoy our BBQ Dinner inside a Bedouin Tent. Afterward we drive back to Hotel in Petra for overnight. Day 8 Proceed the visit to the red rose rock city, the city of the Nabateans. Go through the Siq (canyon), then walk through the canyon and enjoy the beautiful carvings of statues, idols and niches on the way to the treasury. After treasury starting from a point close to the theatre, the Path to the high place of sacrifice. The High Place itself has been carved flat, and drainage channels have been cut into the rock to allow the blood of sacrificial animals to drain away. After that going down along the facades street to the Roman theatre, royal tombs, the Roman colonnaded street. Overnight in Petra. Day 9 Free day in Petra, at night, drive to Aqaba port take the ferry boat to Taba, meet & assist at Taba port, drive back to Cairo, overnight in Cairo. Day 10 Free day in Cairo. Overnight in Cairo. Day 11 Breakfast, transfer to Cairo International Airport for final departure |
