Egypt highlights from Hurghada

Your Tour Guide Tours representative will pick you up from your hotel in Hurghada to Hurghada airport for flight to Cairo where you will be met by your private tour guide who will join you to discover:

The Egyptian Museum 🏛 :

The home to the largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, The museum displays a rare collection of 5000 years of art ,including treasures from 👑 Tutankhamun and artifacts dating back to 4000 BC. Over 250,000 genuine artifacts are presented .

Unfortunately you have no enough time to see everything over there , that is why your visit to the Egyptian museum will be divided into two parts , a guiding tour and some free time to look around the museum on your own , at the end of the guiding tour the meeting time⌚ and point will be fixed.

Lunch:

Lunch 🍽 will be served in one of the best local restaurants in town , lunch is including just the drinks are extra paid.

Giza Pyramid Complex:

Tour the Giza Plateau, upon arrival to the pyramids area you got to go outside the vehicle to go through a checkpoint , then you start your tour around the site of the ancient pyramids of Cheops , Chephren and Mycerinus . six little pyramids,

The great sphinx 🦁:

the ancient world’s largest monumental sculpture, carved from a single ridge of limestone and the Valley Temple , which belongs to the Pyramid of Chephren The complex dates back to the 4th dynasty 2400 years B.C.

Finally, transfer to Cairo airport to catch your flight to Aswan for overnight.

Early morning, breakfast boxes then join your private tour guide to enjoy a private guided tour to Abu Simbel Temples by private car:

Temples of Abu Simple:

The Temples of Abu Simbel are amongst the most interesting of all anicent Egyptian temples. Located close to the southern border with the Sudan, it is 280 km south of Aswan and consists of two rock-cut Temples which both date back to the reign of King Ramses II (1290-1223 BC).

One temple is dedicated to King Ramses II himself, and the other temple is dedicated to his beloved wife Queen Nefertari.

Lunch:

Lunch 🍽 will be served in one of the best local restaurants in town , lunch is including just the drinks are extra paid.

After that you start your tour to visit to Aswan Highlights:

The High Dam: 

The High Dam of Aswan is one of the most important achievements of the last century in Egypt, even for many years it was a symbol of the New Era of the Revolution of 1952. It provided Egypt with water and electricity and secured the country of the risk of the destructive inundation.

The Unfinished Obelisk: 

The unfinished obelisk of Aswan is known to be one of the largest among them. It was constructed by Hatshepsut, the queen of Thutmose II, who also ruled Egypt as a Pharaoh from 1478 to 1458 B.C., jointly with Thutmose III,

Philae Temple: 

Philae Island was a rocky island in the middle of the Nile, south of Aswan . It was called "Apo" which means Ivory. It was also known by the Greek "Elephantine", probably because it was an important center of trade, especially for ivory. After building the High Dam the temple of the Goddess Isis was moved to a new island was called Egilica , and it was completely reshaped to imitate Philae Island as closely as possible.

Overnight in Aswan 

After breakfast, catch the 1st class train to Luxor Accompanied by your private Egyptologist tour guide to see Egypt’s ‘open-air museum’. See Luxor : Luxor it self as a city is divided by the river Nile in two banks , eastern bank and western bank , you have some sightseeing to visit on the east and more on the west , you are starting the tour visit the east bank of Luxor , the first visit will be to

The Karnak Temples:

No site in Egypt is more impressive than Karnak Temples , where generations of pharaohs wished to record their names. Walk 🏃through the Great Hypostyle Hall , to reach the sacred lake 🌅 of the temple ,The Karnak complex is actually three main temples situated on 247 acres of land considered as the largest religious center ever built .

Unfortunately you have no enough time to see everything over there so your visit will be divided in two parts a guiding tour and some free time⌚ , by the end of the guiding tour the meeting point and the meeting time will be fixed.

Next visit will be the restaurant for 🍴Lunch , lunch will be served in a nice local restaurant , it's including in the tour , just the drinks are extra paid.

After lunch, you start the tour around the west bank of Luxor visiting the Valley of the kings, the royal 👑 cemetery of the pharaohs of the New kingdom, 63 tombs are over there, unfortunately most of them are closed for safety reasons or for restorations, around 10 tombs are opened nowadays, your tour guide will recommend you the best of the opened ones to visit.

The Valley of the Kings:

the burial ground of the pharaohs rulers from the 18th to 20th dynasty , For a period of 500 years beginning in the 16th century BC, tombs were built along this valley for pharaohs , including that of the great Pharaoh Ramses II and boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen. Found in 1922 by British 🎩 archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter. The tomb of Tutankhamun is extra paid , 300 Egyptian pound each ,over there they don't accept any other currency but Egyptian pound , so if you are interested make sure you have some Egyptian money .

Next visit will be to the temple of the queen Hatshepsut , a memorial temple was built to keep the memory of the queen , one of the most famous women in the ancient Egyptian history , after the historical background you will get some free time for photographing 📷 .

The Temple of Hatshepsut:

Temple of Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt’s first female pharaoh , She came to power during the New Kingdom after the death of her father, Tuthmose I, and her half-brother and husband, Tuthmose II, who succeeded her father on the thrown.

Colossal of Memnon:

Two massive stone statues of king Amenhotep III are the only remains of a complete mortuary temple. the statues are made from blocks of quartzite stone which exist in Cairo then moved 700 KM to Luxor. representing the king Amenhotep III sitting on his throne flanking the entrance of his own temple .

After the historical background you will get some free time for photographing 📷 .

At the end of the day, you will be transferred by a private air-conditioned vehicle to your hotel in Hurghada.

Our Tour Guides are group of Egyptologist professional licensed tour guides , members of The Egyptian General Tourist Guides Syndicate . based in the major touristic cities in Egypt .since they graduated they started working as free lancer tour guides for many international travel agencies in Egypt .In the meanwhile they joined our team work. with all the knowledge they have , the experience they gained and the passion to our beloved country Egypt we decided to take a step forward to reach you and offer our services ☺ .

New branded air-conditioned vehicles with professional drivers . Our vehicles are different sizes according to the number of travelers . We keep updating our vehicles to always get the best modern ones .

- Wake up call ☎ ( from the hotel reception )

- Breakfast box ( order one day before the trip )

- Passport, or at least a copy

- Cap , hat , camera 👒 📸

- Sun creams 🌞🌞

- Sun glasses 🕶

- Comfy shoes 👟

- Extra money 💳💰for optional and personal expenses