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Egypt Highlights
8 Days / 6 Nights • Cairo (3), Nile Cruise (3) From $1759

 

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Included Highlights

  • Round trip airfare from New York

  • Air transportation Cairo/Aswan-Luxor/Cairo

  • All transfers and baggage handling

  • 3-nights hotel accommodations in Cairo

  • Buffet breakfast daily

  • Full-day Pyramids, Sphinx, Mosques, Bazaar and Museum of Antiquities tour with lunch

  • 4-day / 3-night Nile Cruise

  • All meals and shore excursion on cruise

  • Tourlite International document wallet, luggage tags and travel tips booklet

  • Not included: Tourist visa for Egypt, $25, can be obtained at point of entry.

Day 1/Tue Depart USA


Depart New York via overnight flight to Cairo, Egypt.


Day 2/Wed Cairo


Arrive Cairo airport where you will be met by Tourlite representatives and escorted to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.


Day 3/Thu Cairo


Full-day excursion begins with a visit to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities.
Continue with visits to the Citadel of Salah El Din, Mohamed Ali Mosque known as the Alabaster Mosque‚ Sultan Hassan Mosque and the oldest bazaar of the Middle East, the Khan El Khalili. Lunch included. Continue with a visit to one of the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza. Balance of the day is at leisure.


Day 4/Fri Cairo/Aswan/Kom Ombo/Edfu


After breakfast you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Aswan. Upon arrival transfer to your Nile cruise ship. Today’s excursion includes a visit to the High Dam and an excursion to the beautiful Temple of Isis on Philae Island. Lunch on-board. Sail to Kom Ombo. Visit the Greco-Roman Temple
dedicated to Horus the Sun God and Sobek the Crocodile God. Continue sailing to Edfu.  Dinner on-board and overnight in Edfu.


Day 5/Sat Edfu/Luxor


Breakfast on board. Visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu and sail via Esna Lock to Luxor. Lunch on-board. Dinner on-board and overnight in Luxor.

 

Day 6/Sun Luxor


Breakfast on-board. Cruise along fields of sugar cane, which line the West Bank, to see the Twin Colossi of Memnon, the enormous seated statues that guard the entrance to the Valley of Kings, set in the Libyan Hills and the
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Lunch on-board.  Afternoon is at leisure. Dinner on-board and overnight in Luxor.


Day 7/Mon Luxor/Cairo


Breakfast on-board. Disembarkation after breakfast and transfer to the airport for your flight to Cairo. Arrive in Cairo where you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Balance of the day at leisure in Cairo.


Day 8/Tue Cairo/USA


Transfer to the airport for return flight to the US or to another optional exiting destination.

 

Enhance your vacation with....

A 3-day extension to the Valley of the Golden Mummies — The newly unearthed Valley of the Golden Mummies.  A chance to be one of the first to visit these incredible new finds. A few years ago, an oasis in the middle of the desert 230 miles southwest of Cairo yielded a spectacular discovery.
The valley of the Golden Mummies, a group of Egyptian tombs containing over 60 mummies, perhaps hundreds more.

Per person double/triple occupancy ...................................................$599
Single Supplement............................................................................$480
 
Or ...
 
An optional tour — Sound & Light everywhere — Cairo, Luxor, Aswan. What better way to become absorbed in the past than through this narrated and illuminated experience of the past............................................ $40- 45



2006/2007 Dates & Rates 
(TUESDAY); Air Inclusive Tours. Prices listed are for departures from
New York and are per person double occupancy. For Add-ons see page 68.  For detailed hotel/cruise ship descriptions please refer to pages 69-74.

CAIRO

SHEPHEARDS

NILE CRUISE NILE PRESIDENTIAL CRUISES

JAN. 10, 17, 24, 31, FEB. 07, 14, 21, 28, MAR. 07, 14, 21, 28, APR. 04 $1,759
APR. 11,18 2039
APR. 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 30 1869
JUN. 06, 13, 20, 27,
JUL. 04
2299
JUL. 11, 18, 25 2369
AUG. 01, 08, 15, 22, 29,
SEP. 05, 12
1899
SEP. 19, 26, OCT. 03, 10, 17, 24, 31 1999
NOV. 07, 14, 21, 28, DEC. 05, 12 1939
DEC. 19, 26 2599

Single Supplement Hotel & Nile Cruise 350

1. Add; $215-$285 U.S. Egyptian airport taxes, 9/11security fees and fuel surcharges, depending on airline used. Weekend surcharges apply.
2. An additional supplement from $200 to $500 may apply if using other than Egyptair Transatlantic Airfare.
3.“LAND ONLY RATES” - Without International Airfare (NYC/CAI/NYC) deduct:
                a) Jan. 01- Mar. 31 & Nov. 01-Dec. 31 $650,
                b) April, May & Aug. 01-Oct. 31 $700, c) Jun. & Jul. $1125
4. Departures in "BOLD" indicate Easter and Christmas/New Year periods.
5. Itinerary sequence may vary depending on departure date. Hotels and Nile cruise ships may be substituted with similar ones.
6. Any deviation will entail additional charges.
7. A visa is required to enter Egypt. Visas, for US citizens, can be arranged to be provided upon arrival in Cairo for $25 per person.
 
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