Optional
Shore Excursions Package
5 shore excursions
Including shore excursions in all five port-of-calls
English speaking guide, transportation, and entrance fees
LUXOR:
Drive to the the Temples of Karnak and visit this nearly
200-foot-long temple featuring three bark chapels, a hypostyle hall of eight cthis
elegant temple resting
was begun by Amenhotep III
and largely
completed by Ramses II, though later builders added to it, including Alexander
the Great and several Roman emperors. An avenue of sphinxes once connected it to
Karnak Temple almost two miles away.
THEBES:
Cross the Nile by driving on the bridge from Luxor to the City of the Dead
in Thebes. On the way you will view the enormous sandstone Colossi of
Memnon, formerly part of the royal mortuary temple of Amenhotep III.
These two seated figures are 59 foot high, and covered by graffiti scratched by
the Roman Emperor Hadrian and other travellers of antiquity. Co ntinue
the drive to visit the Valley of the Kings, taking the
small-cart-train to the the hidden valley of rock-carved tombs of ancient
Egyptian Pharaohs that was home to 64 tombs including such celebrity tombs of
Ramses I, III, IV, IX; Amenhotep III, Tutankhamun, and Seti I (cameras and
entrance to some tombs are with extra fees). Then visit the Valley
of Queens, with 70 tombs, housing the most magnificent tomb that belongs
to Queen Nefertari -beloved wife of Ramses II.
EDFU:
Riding
a horse drawn carriage you will go to the Temple of hawk-headed Horus
in Edfu. You will visit this immense temple which was started to be built
in 237 BC and completed in 200 years, and is considered one of the best
preserved temple in Egypt. The Court of Offerings has a colonnade of 32
colums covered with reliefs, and a magnificent falco n
made of black granite guards the entrance to the steps. The small granite
shrine at the rear of the
sanctuary is hewn from one single block, and dates from the 30th dynasty.
KOM OMBO:
Visit
the Ptolomaic Twin Temple of Sobek and Horus, which dates
back from Ptolomaic and Roman Times. The magnificent colored reliefs in the
forecourt show the purification of King Ptolemy XIII by temple Goddesses.
Kom Ombo was also a center of
medical healing. In Kom Ombo you will see the mummified alligators.
ASWAN:
You will sail with “felucca”s (locally built authentic small wooden
sail-boats) around Elephantine Island and visit Visit the Temple
of Philae of Isis representing a fusion of the three great
civilizations: Egyptian-Greek and Roman.
You will drive to the Gigantic High Dam built between 1960 and
1971 to control the flooding of the Nile, which presents a good picture taking
opportunity. You will see the 1170 ton Unfinished Obelisk, made
out of granite, admire the technology of Ancient Egyptians. Time
permitting, you will visit some local ornament and fragrance manufactures for
shopping.
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