Day 1 Cairo |
Arrival Cairo airport, transfer to your hotel. Dinner and overnight in hotel. |
Day 2 Cairo - Kharga Full Board |
Early wake up and transfer to airport for departure by plane to Kharga Oasis. Upon arrival, Visit the Christian Necropolis of Bagawat (IV-VI century A.C.), composed of several graves in the shape of small rooms, some decorated with frescoes of biblical scenes. Visit the Temple of Hibis (from outside). Afternoon visit the Archeological Museum and the central zone of the Oasis. Dinner & overnight in your hotel. |
Hibis
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Day 3 Kharga - Dakhla
Full Board |
Departure to Dakhla Oasis. visit El Qasr (Medieval Islamic Citadel and old capital of the Oasis, with a tight small streets and mud houses). Will end the day by visiting the Roman Temple of Deir El Hagar. Dinner & overnight in hotel. |
Deir El Hagar
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Day 4 Dakhla - Farafra - White Desert
Full Board |
Departure by car to Farafra Oasis, after a short tour in the Oasis, will start our adventure by jeeps to the Black Desert, the Valley of the Crystal ending by sunset at the White Desert. B.B.Q. dinner and overnight camping in the White Desert. |
White Desert
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Day 5 White Desert - Bahareya
Full Board |
Arrival to Bahareya check in your hotel, visit the Archeological sites: tombs, Temple of Alexander The Great, the Golden Mummies Museum. Would be very nice having a bath after this long trip in the sulfurous hot water spring of the hotel. Dinner and overnight. |
Alexander The Great
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Day 6 Bahareya - Siwa
Full Board |
Departure by jeep to Siwa, crossing the old caravan road (many check points will be met, where we will be required to show our passports). Visit the Lake of Sitra, on a limestone plateau on an undrained basin where low grass and bushes still survive. The settlement zone was large, over an area measuring 1000m by 500m. The entire region is so rich in fossil shells shaped coin, shark teeth, corals, etc.. Arrival to Siwa by sunset, check in your hotel, dinner and overnight. |
Road to Swia |
Day 7 Siwa
Full Board |
Full day dedicated to the discovery of Siwa and the surrounding, visit the Temple of Amon where Alexander the Great was declared as Pharaoh, son of the God Amon Ra. Visit Gebel El Maota (The Deads Mountain) and the Cleopatra’s Bath, with the opportunity of bathing in its hot water. Dinner & overnight in hotel. |
Mountain of the Dead
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Day 8 Siwa - Alamein - Alexandria
Full Board |
Departure to Alamein, the location which witnessed one of the biggest and most bloody fight of the 2nd World war from the 23rd of October till the 5th of November 1942. Proceed to Alexandria. Visit Kom El Shokafa (Roman Catacombs) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (inaugurated in October 2002 to the memory of the famous ancient library and witness of the celebrity of the Alexander The Great city, which was destroyed after taking fire in 45 B.C. Dinner & overnight in hotel. |
katakomb |
Day 9 Alexandria - Cairo - Home
Full Board |
After breakfast, transfer to Cairo airport for final departure. |
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