Egypt Travel Hub

Day 1: Arrive Egypt
Memphis Tours representative will meet & assist you at Cairo International Airport. After that you will be transferred to your hotel by a private air-conditioned vehicle. Overnight in Cairo.   

Day 2: Giza Pyramids / Egyptian Museum
After breakfast, check out from your hotel, 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 the sleeper train to Aswan. Dinner & overnight on board the train.
Breakfast, Dinner

Day 3: Aswan / Elephantine Island
You will be met and assisted at Aswan train station and transferred to your hotel for check-in. In the afternoon move around the Elephantine Island by felucca boat. Back to hotel and overnight in Aswan.
Breakfast

Day 4: Aswan Sightseeing
After breakfast, check out from your hotel, then start your blissful day kicking of at the High Dam before heading to the Unfinished Obelisk, and the beautiful Temple of Philae, which is dedicated to the goddesses Isis and Hathor. Transfer by air-conditioned vehicle to Luxor. Overnight in Luxor.
Breakfast

Day 5: Luxor Sightseeing
After breakfast, check out from your hotel, then move to enjoy an excursion to the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Hatshepsut; the powerful Egyptian queen, and the Colossi of Memnon. Proceed to visit the splendid Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple. Transfer to Luxor station taking the sleeper train to Cairo.
Breakfast, Dinner

Day 6: Taba
In the morning, you will be met at Giza train station, drive via A/C vehicle to Taba about 06 hours driving per way. Arrival Taba - Free time for relaxing - dinner & overnight in Taba.
Breakfast, Dinner

Day 7: Jordan / Wadi Rum
In the morning, transfer to Taba hights marina, take the ferry boat to Aqaba- Arrive Aqaba board. 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. Transfer to hotel in Petra for overnight.
Breakfast

Day 8: Canyon & the high place of sacrifice
After breakfast, visit the rose red 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.
Breakfast

Day 9: Back Cairo
Breakfast, Free time in Petra. Afternoon,drive to Aqaba port to take the ferry boat to Taba, meet & assist at Taba port, drive back to Cairo,from Taba to Cairo is about 06 hours driving one way . Overnight in Cairo.
Breakfast

Day 10: Final Departure
Transfer to Cairo International Airport for final departure.
Breakfast

Inclusions:
• Meet & assist at Cairo International Airport.
• Accommodation in Cairo for 2 nights including daily breakfast.
• Accommodation in Aswan for 1 night including daily breakfast.
• Accommodations in Luxor for 1 night including daily breakfast.
• Two ways transfer (Cairo - Aswan - Luxor - Cairo) by sleeper train based on half board.
• Accommodation in Taba for 1 night including dinner.
• Accommodation in Petra for 2 nights including daily breakfast.
• All sightseeing tours in Cairo, Aswan, Luxor & Petra.
• Local English speaking guide at site  in Petra
• Transfer by an air-conditioned vehicle.
• Entrance fees & English Egyptologist  guide during your trip.
•Mineral waterthrough out trip in Cairo and Giza.
• Transfer from Aswan to Luxor by an A/C vehicle.
• All transfers to / from airports & stations by an A/C vehicle.
• Transfer from Cairo to Taba & return by an A/C vehicle.
• Ferry boat Taba - Aqaba & back.
• Portage when needed.
•  Free Mobile phone during your stay, charged for about (30 min. Local calls or 2 min. International Calls).
• All taxes & service charge.

Exclusions:
• International Airfare
• Egypt entry visa, for non restricted nationalities you can buy it upon arrival before passport control. Visa Cost $ 15  = 11 Euro per person adult or child.
•Entrance fees to special archaeological sites like (Mummies room at the Egyptian Museum - Inside one of the Pyramids – Tutankhamen Tomb at valley of the Kings)
• Any optional tours not mentioned in the itinerary
• Meals except where indicated
• Drinks and any personal expenses
• Tipping Kitty

Notes:
1- Prices are quoted in Euro and based on double occupancy. Moreover; prices are valid till 30/04/2011 except during Christmas, New Year’s Eve & Easter Feasts. Moreover; rates could be changed without prior notice, shall the government increase taxes.
2- You must have a valid passport to enter Egypt. (You must have at least 6 months of validity beyond your scheduled return date.)
3- Certain nationalities require an entry visa to be obtained prior to travel into Jordan - Please review with your holiday manager.
4- You can travel from Cairo to Aswan and from Luxor to Cairo by a internal flight instead of the sleeper train.
5-You can travel to Jordan by international flight from Cairo directly to Amman instead of taking the ferry boat.
6-Sleeper trains are designed and equipped according to a satisfactory standard and quality that was set up by the Egyptian Railway Authority.
7- Sleeping train from Cairo to Aswan is about 14 hours.