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Summary for Egypt

  • We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in Egypt because of the high threat of terrorist attack. Attacks could occur at any time, anywhere in Egypt.
  • Tourist areas and popular destinations such as Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan, Giza, Alexandria, Red Sea and Sinai resorts, Upper Egypt and places throughout the rest of Egypt are potential terrorist targets, as are commercial and public areas known to be frequented by foreigners. We continue to receive reports that terrorists are planning attacks against a range of targets, including but not limited to places frequented by foreigners. These include tourist resorts and hotels, transport infrastructure, including the Cairo metro system and its stations, and other symbols of the Egyptian government.
  • The Egyptian media has reported a significant increase in security at mosques, churches, tourist areas, the Cairo metro system, government ministries and facilities, and most agricultural and desert roads leading to tourist towns.
  • Past terrorist attacks have targeted foreign tourists resulting in large numbers of deaths and often coincided with local holiday weekends. The security posture of Egyptian security forces remains at elevated levels in the Sinai and throughout Egypt.
  • You should reconsider your need to travel to the Sinai at this time because of the very high threat of terrorist attack. Australians could be inadvertently caught up in any attacks directed at others.
  • On 24 April 2006, three explosions took place in the resort town of Dahab (Sinai) resulting in a number of deaths and many injuries, including to Australians. Suicide bombers attacked Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) and Egyptian Police vehicles in the northern Sinai on 26 April 2006. These attacks underline the ongoing terrorist threat to tourists.
  • Political developments in the region may prompt large demonstrations across the region, including in Egypt. These demonstrations could turn violent and should be avoided.
  • Courtesy of Smartraveller.gov.au

Current 21 July 2008

ADVENTURE BEFORE DEMENTIA TOURS
EGYPT

From only

$1750(AUD) per person twin share

(10 Nights / 11 Days )
 (3 Nights Cairo - 1 Night First class sleeping train - 3 Night Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor - 3 Nights Hurghada on the Red Sea Riviera)

Day  01 
On arrival at Cairo InternationalAirport, you will be met by our SafeTraveller-Osoris tour guide, who will assist you through passport control formalities, luggage identification & portage. He will transfer you by air-conditioned private car to your hotel and organize your check-in. Overnight Cairo.

Day  02 
After breakfast at the hotel, meet our professional Egyptologist tour guide who accompanies you by private air-conditioned car to start your day drive to desert to visit Pyramids imageof Giza, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. In front of the Pyramid of Kefren, stands the Sphinx, which was discovered in 1912 carved from a single piece of stone. It is a lion with a portrait of a Pharaoh's head, it is believed by many to be a likeness of Pharaoh Kefrenthen, visit The Valley Temple.  You will have a free time around the Pyramids for riding Camels & Horses and take photos. Visitthe Bazaars for fine brassware, copper, perfumes, leather, silver, gold, antiques …etc. then drive you back to your hotel in Cairo. Overnight Cairo.

imageDay  03 
After breakfast at the hotel, meet our professional Egyptologist tour Guide and accompany you by private air-conditioned car to visit the Egyptian Museum one of the world’s most famous museums, filled by a magnificent collection of antiques including; Mummies, Sarcophagi and fabulous treasures of TUT ANKH AMUN's tomb. Visit the  Bazaars for fine brassware, copper, perfumes, leather, silver, gold, antiques …etc. the SafeTraveller- Osoris tour guide will meet and transfer you to the railway station for travel by sleeping train to Aswan at 8:00 PM, hot dinner on board train the food is served in cabin or in train restaurant according to your choice. Overnight on train. 
      
Day  04 
Breakfast on board the train is served in your cabin. Arrive at Aswan at 8:15 AM a SafeTraveller-Osoris tour guide will meet you & accompany you by air-conditioned private car to your Presidential Nile cruiser with full board basis.
 Important note : The program of Presidential Nile Cruise 3 Nights from Aswan to Luxor will be every Saturday , Wednesday & Friday as Nile cruise's scheduled
embarkation before lunch on board the cruiser. The cruise’s professional  Egyptologist tour guide will meet you and tour the High Dam which is an engineering miracle. It provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt; visit the Temple of Philae dedicated to the goddess lsis.  Lunch on board cruiser. Sail to Kom Ombo.  A visit the Temple shared by two Gods Sobek and Haroeris is recommended: the magnificent Ptolemaic temple is in a dramatic setting on high ground beside the Nile, surrounded by sugarcane fields. 
Captain’s party, includes Egyptian folklore, belly dance & dinner. Sail to Edfu. Overnight on cruiser.

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Day  05 
Breakfast on board. Tour guide will meet you then visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu. Edfu is a friendly town which produces sugar and pottery. It is also a hub of a road network. The main attraction here is the Temple of Horus, which is considered by most to be the best preserved cult temple in Egypt. Lunch, Sail to Esna, then to Luxor: dinner and overnight on cruiser.

Day  06 
imageBreakfast on board. The tour guide will meet you and cross to the West Bank to visit Thebes Necropolis. The tombs date from the 6th dynasty to the Greco-Roman period although most of them actually date from the New Kingdom. Visit  the Valley of the Kings & QueensThe valley is to the north of Hatshepsut's Deir El-Bahari temple. It was here that kings from 18th to 20th dynasties cut their tombs in the limestone cliffs. That was long time after their ancestors abandoned the pyramid-shape tomb. Visit El Deir El Bahari of Hatshepsut , the great temple of Hatshepsut is built at the bottom of sheer cliffs in Luxor's west bank in a wonderful site.  View the Colossi of Memnon, the sitting mighty Colossi of Memnon originally belonged to King Amenhotep III. They were once flanking his big mortuary temple that was leveled to the ground by time.  Lunch and dinner on board.  Overnight on cruiser.

Day  07
Disembarkation after breakfast from Nile Cruise. your tour guide will meet and accompany you by air-conditioned private car to transfer to Luxor bus station to travel to Hurghada by super jet bus with large  and comfortable seats,  equipped with TV, video. It’s about a 4 hour drive, which takes you via a long chain of mountains, with their different colors, which run parallel to the coastline, separated from the sea only by a plain. Arrive Hurghada. You will be met and assisted by a SafeTraveller-Osoris tour guide and transferred to your hotel.  Overnight and dinner in Hurghada.
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Day  08 & Day 09 
Breakfast at hotel. Free days to enjoy sun ,  sea and beach  Our tour guide will help you to choose from a selection of tours, including:- scuba diving, snorkeling, rowing,  horse riding,beach buggy, wind surfing and Safari Tours .  Overnight  and dinner in Hurghada .

Day  10 
Breakfast, then your tour guide  will accompany you by private air-conditioned car to transfer to Hurghada bus station for your onward drive back to Cairo by super jet  air-conditioned bus with large, comfortable seats with TV, video. It’s about a 6 hour drive.  On arrival in imageCairo, you will be met and assisted by a SafeTraveller- Osoris tour guide, and transferred to your hotel.
Optional tour can be arranged to Sound and Light Show. Your tour guide will take you by private air-conditioned coach to the English Sound & Light Show in the evening performances of the extravaganza at the worlds most famous ancient sites, the Pyramids in Giza) Afterwards you will be transferred back to your hotel. Overnight  Cairo.

Day  11 
After breakfast your SafeTraveller-Osoris tour guide will meet you after check out from your hotel and transfer you to Cairo international airport. He will assist you with luggage check in at your airline counter. He will also assist you through passport control formalities.


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 Rate will be Based on 2 persons
Rates are per person in Double / Twin Rooms cost ($1750.00AUD)
Note:
The above price is valid from 21 July 2008 to 01 November 2008

The price includes:
3 Nights in Cairo in Grand Pyramids Hotel  5 Stars Based on bed & buffet breakfast .for more information please click here: http://www.grandpyramidshotel.com/index.html
1 Night First Class Sleeping Train  from Cairo to Aswan with hot Dinner & Breakfast. For more information Please Click here: http://www.sleepingtrains.com/
3 Nights in Nile Cruise Presidential  5 Stars Based on Full board Basis (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner). For more information please click here: http://www.pnccruises.com/about.htm
Important Note:  the program of Presidential Nile Cruise 3 Nights from Aswan to Luxor will be every  Saturday, Wednesday and Friday as Nile Cruise's schedule
3 Nights in Hurghada in Club Golden 5 Hotel 4 Stars Deluxe Based Half Board Basis (Breakfast and Dinner).for more information please click here:  http://www.golden5.com/en/clubgolden5/index.asp

 All transportation in the program by air-conditioned private car or coach 
First Class Super Jet  Coach Tickets from Luxor to Hurghada and from Hurghada to Cairo.
All Sightseeing in the program with professional Egyptologist English Speaking tour guide & Entrance fees during sightseeing in the Program
 Service charge & tax

The price excludes:
 Entry visa  (cost per person  $30.00AUD ) 
Optional Sound & Light Show in Cairo (cost per person  $80.00AUD ) including , entrance fees , English Show and transportation by A/C private Car.