Egypt, Jordan, Israel
22 days/ 21 nights
From ancient times to modern history this journey will entertain and educate you like you have never experienced. Featuring top hotels and a Deluxe 5 star Nile cruise. You will relive 5000 years of history while being escorted by the most qualified and well educated guides anywhere.
Highlights:
Egypt includes Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, Sinai including a 4 day/ 3 night Deluxe Five Star Nile cruise.
Jordan includes Amman, Petra, Mt. Nebo, Madaba, Dead Sea, Jerash, Umm Qais and more.
Israel includes Beit Shean, Ghalilee, Tiberius, Nazareth, Caesaria, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and more.
The
Program:
Day
01: (Sunday) Arrive Cairo, staff assists
with clearing immigration and customs then transfers
you to the Le
Meridien Pyramids hotel. Overnight Cairo
Day 02: (Monday) International buffet breakfast then visit Memphis, the ancient capital, Sakkarra with the first pyramid, the Stepped Pyramid and Dahshur, with the first stone pyramids, the Bent and Red. Visit the new Imhotep museum. Overnight Cairo (B)
NOTE Optional Sound and light show at pyramids this evening.
Day
03: (Tuesday) After your buffet breakfast visit the Giza plateau featuring the Great Pyramid and Sphinx. Then tour the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities featuring King
Tut's treasures. Afterwards a visit to the Khan el Khalili bazaar where travelers have been finding bargains since the middle ages. Overnight Cairo (B)
Day
04: (Wednesday) Breakfast then it’s off to Old Cairo with it’s famous churches and synagogue plus the Citadel of Salah el Din and the Alabaster Mosque. Overnight Cairo (B)
Day
05: (Thursday) Breakfast, check out, staff transfers you to the airport, assists with checking in and you fly to Aswan. Arriving enjoy a tour of the High
Dam, the Temple
of Philae and the Pharaoh’s granite quarries with the Unfinished Obelisk. Enjoy the comfort of the Elephantine Island Resort. Overnight Aswan (B)
Day
06: (Friday) Breakfast, check out and staff transfers you to board your Deluxe 5 star Nile cruise. Lunch on board. Sail to Kom Ombo, visit the famous temple shared by two gods. Sail to Edfu. Dinner while sailing. Evening entertainment. Overnight Edfu. (B at the hotel, L, D on the cruise)
NOTE Optional tour to Abu Simbel this morning before boarding the cruise.
Tour includes transfers, flights, guided tour, entry fees, service charges and taxes. $250 per person.
Day
07: (Saturday) Breakfast then visit the Temple
of Horus. Sail to Esna and cross the river locks. Lunch and Dinner while sailing. Continue to Luxor. Overnight Luxor (B,L,D)
Day
08: (Sunday) After breakfast depart for the Necropolis
of Thebes to visit the Valley
of the Kings, Queen Hatshepsut’s temple and the Colossi
of Memnon. Return to the ship for lunch then visit the temples of Karnak and Luxor. Overnight Luxor (B,L,D)
Optional sound and light show at Karnak temple $30 per person
Day
09: (Monday) After breakfast disembark the cruise, staff transfers you to the Sonesta Luxor Hotel. Free day to enjoy Luxor.
Optional tour to see more of the Necropolis sites (valley of the queens, tombs of the artisans and nobles, Medinet Habu) $100 per person
Optional Tour to visit Dendara and Abydos temples $120 per person
Hot air balloon: $150 per person
Day
10: (Tuesday) Breakfast, check out, staff transfers you to the airport, assists with checking in and you fly to Cairo. Connect to Sharm
el Sheikh. Arriving Sharm staff transfers you to the Sheraton Resort. Overnight Sharm (B)
Day
11: (Wednesday) Take it easy, go to bed early for if you intend to climb Mt. Sinai to see the sunrise you will depart Sharm about midnight this day for the drive into the mountains. The climb is about 2.5 hours and only for those in good physical condition. The altitude at the crest will be about 8,000 feet and it can be very cold during the winter months. Overnight Sharm (B)
Day
12: (Thursday) If you do not intend to climb the mountain you will rise early this day, have breakfast then drive to the base of Mt. Sinai and visit St.
Catherine's Monastery with it’s famous Chapel of the Burning Bush. Visit the Rock
of Inscriptions, where travelers have left directions and messages for 8,000 years. See Ein
Kudra, traditionally hazarot for the Children of Israel, enjoy lunch at Habiba, a wonderful open air waterfront restaurant right on the Gulf of Aqaba. Return to Sharm and overnight. (B,L)
Day
13: (Friday) After breakfast, check out and staff transfers you to the airport, assists with checking in for a flight to Cairo. Arriving staff assists with exit formalities and checking in for your international departure to Jordan. Arriving Amman staff assists with clearing immigration and customs then transfers you to the Marriott. Overnight Amman (B)
Day
14: (Saturday) Breakfast, check out, depart Amman and travel the ancient King's Highway with stops at Madaba, where you will enjoy seeing the oldest known map of the Holy Land, set in Mosaic tile in the floor of the church. Stand on Mt. Nebo's crest and look on the Promised Land, just as Moses did. Visit the crusader castle at Kerak. Arriving Petra, overnight at the famous Movenpick Hotel, located right at the entrance to the carved city of stone. Overnight Petra (B)
Day
15: (Sunday) Breakfast then enjoy a full day to see Petra and the surrounding sites. Overnight Petra (B)
Day
16: (Monday) After breakfast, check out and drive north along the shore of the Dead
Sea to the Jordan Valley Marriott Dead Sea Resort.
Overnight Jordan Valley (B)
Day
17: (Tuesday) Breakfast, check out then travel north to visit Jerash, one of the best preserved of the Roman Decapolis capital cities. From here to Umm
Qais (where Jesus drove the demons out of men and into swine. Matthew 8:28-32). Look down from the hills over the Sea of Galilee. Continue to Beit Shean, staff assists with exit formalities and you cross to Israel.
Arriving staff transfers you to Tiberius and the comfort of the Sheraton (or similar). Overnight Tiberius (B)
Day
18: (Wednesday) Breakfast then depart for the Golan Heights. On to Birkat Ram to visit one of the Druze villages. Drive via Kiryat Shemona and the Hula Valley to Safed where we will visit synagogues and the artists colony. Then to Nazareth to visit the city’s Christian holy sites.
Overnight Tiberius (B)
Day
19: (Thursday) After Breakfast, check out and drive to Acre for a visit of the Crusader castle and fortifications. Then to Haifa. Visit the Bahai Shrine and its incredible gardens. At Mount Carmel you will enjoy a breathtaking panoramic view of Haifa Bay and the western Galilee. Then down the coast to Caesaria, the ancient port city of Herod the Great. Visit the Roman theater and the Crusader fortress. Continue to Tel Aviv and the comfort of the Renaissance hotel (or similar). Overnight Tel Aviv (B)
Day
20: (Friday) Breakfast, depart Tel Aviv for Jerusalem. Arriving we will walk the Old City visiting the renewed Jewish Quarter; the Western Wall (“Wailing Wall”), the Temple area, the colorful bazaars and the Via Dolorosa plus the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Then proceed to Bethlehem* for a visit to Rachel’s Tomb and the Church of the Nativity. Enjoy the comfort of the David Citadel hotel (or similar). Overnight Jerusalem (B)
Day
21: (Saturday) After breakfast we will head to Mt. Scopus to enjoy the panoramic view of Jerusalem. Visit the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of the Agony. Drive to Mt. Zion and visit the tomb of King David, the Room of the Last Supper and the Dormition Abbey. Continue on to the New City and visit the Israel Museum’s Shrine of the Book with the famous Dead Sea scrolls and the new Supreme Court building. Visit the newly renovated Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem (the memorial site to the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust). Visit the Hadassah medical center and Marc Chagall’s stained glass windows. End the day in the picturesque Ein Karem, birth place of John the Baptist. Overnight Jerusalem (B)
Day
22:(Sunday) Staff transfers you to the airport for your international departure.
TOURS
INCLUDE:Transfers by Air-Conditioned vehicle starting with your arrival to Cairo. Domestic flights within Egypt and international air from Cairo to Amman. Hotels and Nile cruise based on double occupancy. Nile cruise features upper decks, outside, Nile view cabin. Meals as outlined by B for breakfast, L for lunch and D for dinner. Fully escorted from arrival to Cairo (except when crossing international borders). Your guide in Egypt is a licensed Egyptologist while in Jordan and Israel they are expert licensed guides with all fluent in English. Baggage handling in Egypt of no more than 2 pieces of luggage per person however baggage and personal effects are at the owner's risk at all time during the tour. Entry fees to sites visited in the program, service charges and taxes.
NOT
included are:Items of a personal nature such as entry visa’s, entry or departure taxes, beverages with meals, tips, laundry, telephone, porterage in Jordan or Israel, anything not specifically mentioned as included.
Tour Cost: $5945 per person, double occupancy
Single supplement: +$1195
NO triples allowed
CALL FOR AVAILABLE DEPARTURES
Tours must be booked at least 45 days prior to arrival.
Prices and
itinerary subject to change without notice.
Holiday events:
Most hotels and cruises in Egypt have special Christmas and New Year festivities.
In most cases these are mandatory for all guests.
As an example the prices generally are from $75 to $150 per person however we
do not know the actual price until a month or so before the holiday.
THESE ARE NOT INCLUDED IN YOUR TOUR INVOICE.
You pay them at the location on check out.
Single Price is for Single
occupancy hotel rooms and cruise cabins based on a minimum of two
travelers. Single travelers (one person on the tour) would have additional
cost.
FREQUENT
TRAVELERS: You are welcome to arrange your own international
air or we can assist. Also if you are a member of any hotel chain
frequent traveler program you are welcome to use your points for hotel
rooms and the cost of the tour will be reduced accordingly OR if you
want to accumulate points plus take advantage of membership hotel
room upgrades let us know which program you want to use.
Terms and Conditions
Email us at travelegyptinfo@gmail.com
or call Toll Free in the USA/Canada 1 (877) 778-3497 for full details.
Return to Ancient
Kingdoms Tour