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       Grand Egypt & Jordan Adventure     Egypt & Jordan    16 days    From US $ 895
 
Cairo, Aswan (felucca or luxury cruise) Luxor, Dahab, Jordan. Following a tour to the Pyramids & Sphinx in Cairo, this tour visits the main highlights of the Nile Valley between Aswan and Luxor, featuring a peaceful felucca or luxury cruise along the Nile. After a couple of days by the Red Sea, we enter Jordan where we spend time in the stunning desert scenery of Wadi Rum, explore the ancient city of Petra, swim in the Dead Sea, and visit several other sites including the Roman ruins at Jerash. The tour starts in Cairo and finishes in Amman.
 

Tour Highlights

The Pyramids & Sphinx; Egyptian Museum Tutankhamun exhibit; Luxury Nile Cruise; Valley of the Kings; Temple of Karnak; Mt. Sinai & St. Catherine's Monastery; Snorkelling at the Blue Hole; Wadi Rum Safari & Camp; Petra; The Dead Sea; Jerash

 

Itinerary

While Egypt's many historical sites are rightly famous, Jordan also has a lot to offer the modern traveller including historical remains from many different cultures, and beautiful scenery. We start by visiting the pyramids & sphinx and main sites in Cairo before featuring a luxury Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor. We visit St. Catherine's Monastery & Mt. Sinai, and enjoy some snorkelling, before heading to Jordan to travel up the King's Highway and visit Petra, Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea, among other sites.

 

You start your Egyptian adventure in Cairo with a visit one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the great pyramids at Gisa. Our next tour visits the famous Egyptian Museum, the Citadel, a couple of mosques, and the Khan-el-Khalili bazaar.

An overnight sleeper train takes you south to the beautiful town of Aswan, on the banks of the Nile just north of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser. Here the Nile is at its most attractive, and you have time to relax and watch feluccas sail lazily around the many small islands or experience traditional Egyptian life with a stroll along the mazy streets of the town’s colourful bazaar. We take you on a visit to the island temple of Philae and you have the option of a flight out to Abu Simbel, with its remarkable rebuilt temple to Ramses II, before beginning your cruise down the Nile towards Luxor.


 

You can relax by the pool and watching the world go by during the day, and enjoy different cuisines in the restaurant in the boat restaurant each evening. En route you will stop at the temples of Komombo and Edfu before finally reaching Luxor.


 

In Luxor you take a tour to the Pharaonic tombs in the Valleys of the Kings, visit Queen Hatchepsut and Medinat Habu temples, and also tour the vast temples of Luxor and Karnak.

 

From Luxor you travel back to Cairo where there is an option to visit the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, before we drive across the Suez Canal and into the Sinai peninsular where we spend a night at the foot of Mt. Sinai, next to St. Catherine's Monastery. After visiting the monastery and climbing Mt. Sinai (optional), we enjoy some spectacular snorkelling at the Blue Hole, just outside Dahab.

 

After crossing by ferry into Jordan, we feature an afternoon jeep safari amid the stunning desert & mountain scenery of Wadi Rum, before spending the night at a comfortable Bedouin camp. Our next stop is Petra, one of the highlights of the tour, where we have a full day tour of this world famous Nabatean city.

 

From Petra we head north up the scenic King's Highway to Amman, with stops to visit the crusader castle of Kerak, the intricate Byzantine mosaics at Madaba, and the peaks, churches and distant views at Mt. Nebo. We take a day trip out from Amman to bathe in the Dead Sea, and visit the Roman Ruins at Jerash. The tour finishes in Amman (Open Jaw flights are readily available to fly into Cairo and out of Amman).

  
Short Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive in Cairo. Transfer from airport to hotel

Day 2: Cairo - Pyramids, Sphinx & Saqqara tour

Day 3: Cairo - Egyptian Museum and City tour. Sleeper train to Aswan

Day 4: Aswan - board Nile Cruise. Tour Nubian Museum & Philae Temple

Day 5: Aswan (Abu Simbel option) Island felucca trip, cruise to Komombo and Edfu

Day 6: Cruise to Esna and Luxor

Day 7: Luxor - East Bank temples of Luxor & Karnak, evening sound & light show at Karnak

Day 8: Luxor - (hot air balloon option). West Bank sites (Valleys of the Kings & Queens, Temple of Hatchepsut etc.). Sleeper train to Cairo

Day 9: Cairo. Free day (Alexandria day trip option)

Day 10: Drive to Mt. Sinai

Day 11: St. Cathierine's Monastery. Snorkelling at the Blue Hole

Day 12: Ferry to Jordan. Wadi Rum jeep safari. Bedouin Camp

Day 13: Petra - tour

Day 14: Drive up the King's Highway to Amman via Kerak, Madaba, Mt. Nebo

Day 15: Tour to the Dead Sea and Jerash

Day 16: Amman - free time. Transfer to airport for flight home

Tour available round year
Infant less than 3 years old free of charge
Children less than 10 years old 50% discount
Group size: 02 - 06 Pax

Rates included:

All transportation

Entrance fees to the sites

Local tour guides at the sites

Hotel accommodation at deluxe 4* hotels on BB basis

Horse ride in Petra

Jeep Safari in Wadi Rum

Meets and assist at borders, airports

Rates does not included:

Tips and departure tax

Airline tickets

Travel insurance

Lunches and dinners

Any other item not mentioned in our offer

 

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                                                                                                           last updated July,2008

 

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