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Nile Cruises
06 Nights / 07 Days
Nile Cruise ( Luxor / Luxor )
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Note That The Schedule Sailing Date For Nile Cruise For 06 Nights
( Luxor / Luxor ) { Every Saturday & Tuesday } |
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| Day 1: |
| Embarkation On Board Cruise before Lunch (
Your Accommodation On Board Cruise Will Be On Full Board Basis Starting
With Lunch & Ending With Breakfast ) then visit Karnak temple
& Luxor temple The Temple of Luxor was the center of the most
important one, the festival of Opet. Built largely by Amenhotep III
and Ramesses III , it appears that the temple's purpose was for a
suitable setting for the rituals of the festival The festival itself
was to reconcile the human aspect of the ruler with the divine office
, The Temple of Karnak is actually three main temples, smaller enclosed
temples, and several outer temples. This vast complex was built and
enlarged over a thirteen hundred year period. The three main temples
of Mut, Monthu and Amun are enclosed by enormous brick walls , Dinner
& Overnight in Luxor |
| Day 2: |
| Breakfast
,cross to the west Bank . visit the Necroplis of thebes , Valley of
the kings , the temple of Queen Hatshepust ,and the colossi of Memnon
Once a year, on the occasion of the Festival of Opet, in the second
and third month of the flood season, a solemn procession would transport
the sacred barque of the god from the temple of Karnak to the temple
of Luxor, was built by Amenophis III on the foundations of a previous
religious structure, dating from the time of Queen Hatshepsut. The
Queen had also ordered the construction of six kiosks, at the stopping
points of the sacred barque of Amun, along the original Eighteenth-Dynasty
dromos, the sacred avenue that connected the temple of Luxor with
the temple of Karnak. From the Eighteenth Dynasty on, the effigies
of the sacred barges of Amun, Amun of Karnak paid a visit to Amun
of Luxor, also known as Amun-em-ipet, meaning ‘Amun-Who-Is-In-His-Harem’,
revitalizing the Amun of Luxor Sail to Esna. Cross the lock. Sail
to Edfu Dinner & Overnight in Edfu |
| Day 3: |
| Breakfast,
visit the temple of Horus in Edfu Dedicated to Horus, the falcon headed
god It was believed that the temple was built on the site of the great
battle between Horus and Seth. Hence, sail to Kom Ombo, visit the
temple of two gods Sobek and Haroeris, .arriving by boat at the Temple
of Haroeris and Sobek, the magnificent Ptolemaic temple is in a dramatic
setting on high ground beside the Nile, surrounded by sugarcane fields.
Dedicated jointly to Haroeris, sail to Aswan .Dinner & Overnight
in Aswan |
| Day 4: |
Breakfast , then visit The world-famous High
Dam it was built 1960s , then visit Phila temple dedicated to the
goddess lsis, which include a temple of Hathor, a Birth House and
two pylons, celebrate all the deities involved in the lsis and Osiris
view of the elephantine island by felucca ( sailing boat ) and visit
the agha khan Mausoleum Take a felucca to the Mausoleum, atop a hill
at the southern end of the west bank. The Agha Khan use to spend every
winter in Aswan and was buried here in this magnificent mausoleum,
modeled on the Fatimid tombs in Cairo Dinner & Overnight in aswan
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| Day 5: |
| Breakfast ,Free at leisure. Sail to Edfu Stop
for view of Kombo temple . Dinner & Overnight in Edfu . |
| Day 6: |
| Breakfast on Board Cruise then Sail to Esna
visit the temple of God Khnum Sailing to Luxor. Dinner & Overnight
in Luxor . |
| Day 7: |
| Disembarkation after breakfast & visit
luxor museum ( End Of Nile Cruise Sightseeing & End Of Our Services
) Program
Includes :
06 Nights On Board Five Stars Nile Cruise On Full Board Accommodation
( Start With Lunch & End With Breakfast ) With Sightseeing As
Mentioned Above in Your Program Itinerary .
Entrance fees during sightseeing with professional English Egyptologist
guide as Nile Cruise program
Service charge & taxes . |
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