Explore Egypt from Cairo to Abu Simbel overland tour 10 days 9 nights

Our tour guide will pick you up to start your trip by visiting the Giza Pyramids. See the Great Pyramid of Cheops, one of the seven ancient wonders, then Chefren and Menkaure, the Valley Temple of the second pyramid, and the Great Sphinx statue, with a lion’s body and a human face, guarding the pyramids. After lunch, drive to the ruins of Memphis, the first capital of Egypt, to see the colossi of Ramses II and the beautiful Alabaster Sphinx. Finish your tour at Saqqara, the first great necropolis, which has the first pyramid built in the world, the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. Go back to the hotel and stay overnight in Cairo.    

Our tour guide will pick you up to start your trip to visit the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), also known as the Giza Museum, a major archaeological museum located near the Pyramids of Giza. 
Overview: 
*Location: 
Approximately 2 kilometers from the Giza Pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo

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It is anticipated to be the largest archaeological museum in the world, with around 100,000 artifacts on display. Right now it holds the most important treasure found in the world: the Tutankhamun tomb, which Howard Carter found in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. The treasure collection includes more than 3500 masterpieces of antiquities.  

Then drive to the Citadel of Salah Eldin, which was built in 1173 to protect Cairo from the Crusaders and which houses the masterpiece Turkish Mohamed Ali Mosque. Then have your lunch. After that, visit Old Coptic Cairo: the Hanging Church, Abu Serga Church, which is known as the Holy Crypt Church, and the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Finish your tour in the heart of old Islamic Cairo at Khan El Khalili Bazaar.      
Back to the hotel and overnight in Cairo.    

Early in the morning after breakfast, our tour guide will pick you up to drive to El Minya.   
It’s a very special tour for Egyptian history lovers because you have a chance to see the beautiful paintings   
of the Beni Hassan tombs, the heritage city of Akhenaton at Tell El Amarna, and a different experience   
inside the great Catacombs of bird mummies.   
  
Tuna el-Gebel, El-Ashmunein, Mallawi Egypt   
Early in the morning, around 6 o’clock, our guide will pick you up from your hotel to drive south of Cairo to El Minya province to start your tour and visit the great plain where Akhenaton received his divine inspiration to build his city. After that, you will drive to the Tuna El Gebel necropolis, where you can see Petosiris, the Ibis bird tombs and the tomb of Isadora, dating back to the 2nd century AD. Lunch will be served in El Minya city. Then go back to your hotel and overnight in El Minya.   
  

In the morning, around 8 o’clock, you will join our guide to visit Beni Hassan. There you can see the tomb of Bakhet III, who was the governor of the Oryx Nome, as well as the tomb of Khnumhotep, who was governor under Amenemhat III, and the tomb of Khety from the 11th Dynasty. Have lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch, drive to Tell El Amarna, where you will see the north tombs, including the tombs of Ahmose and Huya. Later, drive to Assiut, the largest city in Upper Egypt, to stay overnight.  

Start your trip by visiting Abydos, about 135 km and 2 hours from Luxor. It is notable for the memorial temple of Seti I, which contains an inscription from the nineteenth dynasty known to the modern world as the Abydos King List. It is a chronological list showing cartouches of most dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from Menes until Seti I’s father, Ramesses I.    
Then drive to Dendera, which is located about 60 km north of Luxor, to visit the unique Dendera Temple. It contains the Temple of Hathor and is one of the best-preserved temples, if not the best-preserved one, in all of Upper Egypt. The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a mud-brick wall. The present building dates back to the times of the Ptolemaic dynasty and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius. However, it rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back at least as far as Khufu, and it was the Pharaoh Pepi I who built the temple. It was once home to the celebrated Dendera Zodiac, which is now displayed in the Louvre in Paris. There are also Roman and pharaonic Mammisi, ruins of a Coptic church and a small chapel dedicated to Isis, dating to the Roman or the Ptolemaic epoch. Next, drive to Luxor to stay overnight.    

Early in the morning, you will drive to the West Bank to visit the Valley of the Kings, which has 63 tombs and chambers. Then drive to the Colossi of Memnon of Amenhotep III, which are located west of the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. After that, you will be directed to the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, which was built for Queen Hatshepsut.    
Have your lunch. After lunch, you will visit the Karnak Temple Complex, which comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings near Luxor.    
Then drive to Luxor Temple, which was constructed approximately in 1400 BC. It was dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship. Overnight in Luxor.    

Early in the morning, drive to Kom Ombo, an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo in Aswan. It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and some additions were later made during the Roman period. The building is unique because its double design meant that there were courts, halls,  
sanctuaries and rooms duplicated. The southern half of the temple was dedicated to Sobek with Hathor and Khonsu. The   
northern part of the temple was dedicated to Horus. The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis. Next, drive to Edfu Temple, which is located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu and is one of the best-preserved shrines in Egypt. The temple was built in the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 237 and 57 BC. There are important scenes and inscriptions of the Sacred Drama, which relates the age-old conflict between Horus and Seth. Next, drive to Aswan and overnight. 

Early morning optional tour to Abu Simbel temple   

The Abu Simbel twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC during the 19th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. They serve as a lasting monument to the king and his queen Nefertari. They were submerged under the water of Lake Nasser after the High 
Dam was built, so UNESCO cooperated with the Egyptian government to move them onto an artificial hill.  
This temple, known as the Temple of Ramses II, beloved by Amun, was dedicated to Ptah, Re-Her-Akhtey, Amun-Re and to Ramses II himself. The small temple of Nefertari is called the Temple of Hathor.  

Aswan sightseeing: start your tour by visiting Philae Temple, which is dedicated to the goddess Isis and is now located in a new location on Agilkia Island. Then drive to the Unfinished Obelisk, which is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt. Then continue to the High Dam, which was built between 1960 and 1970. It is 111 meters high. Next, fly to Cairo and stay overnight in Cairo.    

Transfer to Airport for final departure