Departure Dates: Year Round

Additional Costs

Package Price

09/16/2006 to 03/31/2007*

04/01/2007 to 05/31/2007

06/01/2006 to 09/15/2006

Land Price  (year round)

Single Room Supplement

Airport Tax

Adult

$2299.00

$2199.00

$2099.00

$1299.00

$250.00

$125

Child**

$1899.00

$1799.00

$1699.00

$899.00

N/A

$125

*12/01 to 12/24: High Season Surcharge may apply    **Child: 2-11 years old, stay with adults without bed

Day

Itinerary

1

USA－Cairo, EGYPT

Board your overnight transatlantic flight.

2

Arrival in Cairo, EGYPT

Settle into your hotel and start soaking up the atmosphere of this exciting city. At 7 p.m. meet your traveling companions at a welcome drink with your Egyptian guide.

3

Cairo, EGYPT

A leisurely sightseeing day in and around Africa's largest metropolis starts at the EGYPTIAN MUSEUM with Tutankhamon's fabulous treasures, an exciting first encounter with the splendor of three millennia of Egyptian civilization. On to GIZA for a close-up look at the enigmatic SPHINX and the daunting Great Pyramids. Cheops', with an original height of 496 feet, is the most colossal ever built. A suggestion for tonight, return to Giza to enjoy the optional sound and light show.

4

Cairo, EGYPT

A leisurely sightseeing day in and around Africa's largest metropolis starts at the EGYPTIAN MUSEUM with Tutankhamon's fabulous treasures, an exciting first encounter with the splendor of three millennia of Egyptian civilization. On to GIZA for a close-up look at the enigmatic SPHINX and the daunting Great Pyramids. Cheops', with an original height of 496 feet, is the most colossal ever built. A suggestion for tonight, return to Giza to enjoy the optional sound and light show.

5

Cairo - Luxor, Egypt

This morning leave Cairo for ancient MEMPHIS to admire the 40-foot statue of Ramses II and the Alabaster Sphinx. On to SAKKARA'S "stairway to the sky," the oldest of all pyramids. Later transfer to the airport for your 300-mile flight up the Nile Valley to Luxor.

6

Luxor, EGYPT

After a morning at leisure, board your elegant hotel boat in time for lunch. This afternoon look forward to a grand start to sightseeing in the Nile Valley. See the stunning monuments of LUXOR and KARNAK, the greatest cities of ancient Egypt with, in their heyday, a combined population of more than one million. To walk among the pillars of the colossal TEMPLE OF AMON RA and along the AVENUE OF THE SPHINXES is an experience which you will treasure for the rest of your life. After dinner tonight you may want to take in the optional sound and light show at Karnak.

7

Focus on the VALLEY OF KINGS and VALLEY OF QUEENS on the west bank of the Nile, where generations of pharaohs and nobles were buried in great splendor in crypts cut into the cliffs. Sixty-two royal tombs have been uncovered so far, of which one, the tomb of Tutankhamon, was nearly inviolate when discovered in 1922. Visit DEIR EL-BAHARI, Queen Hatshepsut's monumental rock temple. Also stop for pictures at the two COLOSSI OF MEMNON guarding the valleys. In the afternoon start your leisurely cruise up Egypt's river of destiny. During the hottest part of the day sip a drink on the sun deck of your cruise boat and savor the panorama. See white-clad farmers with their donkeys, camels, and water buffaloes work lush green fields; and ever present on the horizon beyond the palm trees, the desert.

8

Focus on the VALLEY OF KINGS and VALLEY OF QUEENS on the west bank of the Nile, where generations of pharaohs and nobles were buried in great splendor in crypts cut into the cliffs. Sixty-two royal tombs have been uncovered so far, of which one, the tomb of Tutankhamon, was nearly inviolate when discovered in 1922. Visit DEIR EL-BAHARI, Queen Hatshepsut's monumental rock temple. Also stop for pictures at the two COLOSSI OF MEMNON guarding the valleys. In the afternoon start your leisurely cruise up Egypt's river of destiny. During the hottest part of the day sip a drink on the sun deck of your cruise boat and savor the panorama. See white-clad farmers with their donkeys, camels, and water buffaloes work lush green fields; and ever present on the horizon beyond the palm trees, the desert.

Focus on the VALLEY OF KINGS and VALLEY OF QUEENS on the west bank of the Nile, where generations of pharaohs and nobles were buried in great splendor in crypts cut into the cliffs. Sixty-two royal tombs have been uncovered so far, of which one, the tomb of Tutankhamon, was nearly inviolate when discovered in 1922. Visit DEIR EL-BAHARI, Queen Hatshepsut's monumental rock temple. Also stop for pictures at the two COLOSSI OF MEMNON guarding the valleys. In the afternoon start your leisurely cruise up Egypt's river of destiny. During the hottest part of the day sip a drink on the sun deck of your cruise boat and savor the panorama. See white-clad farmers with their donkeys, camels, and water buffaloes work lush green fields; and ever present on the horizon beyond the palm trees, the desert.
High Dam completed in 1970. Board a motor launch to the island of Agilka between the two dams and visit the TEMPLE OF ISIS transplanted from the submerged island of Philae. Also stop at the ancient GRANITE QUARRIES to see the famous, unfinished obelisk. Balance of the day at leisure to enjoy the lovely resort town at your own pace.

Morning free to catch up on postcard writing and shopping, or to join an optional flight (weather permitting; approximately US$165) to the huge sandstone temples of Abu Simbel. A special treat this afternoon: board a felucca and sail right across the blue waters of the river. En route see the ancient "nilometer" on Elephantine Island, Kitchener Island's lush BOTANICAL GARDENS, and the splendid Aga Khan Mausoleum on the left bank.

Today fly from Aswan back to Cairo. Time this afternoon for independent activities or to join an optional excursion to walled Old Cairo, with Saladin's 12th-century Citadel, the Alabaster Mosque, and the labyrinthine bazaar. And how about our optional dinner cruise on the Nile River tonight to celebrate the success of your Egyptian touring adventure?

12

Cairo－U.S.A.

Homebound flight.