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12-Night Private Tour: Amarna and El Minya with Cruise and Train
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13 days (Approx.)
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Discover the new era of Egyptian historical sightseeing in Cairo. Visit and tour El Minya land of Akhenaten and the Royal Family Tomb of Akhenaten is the burial place of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, in the Royal Wadi in Amarna. Tour and visit Beni Hassan Tombs, Tuna EL Gabel and Tel El Amarna. Only through this tour, you can find the real historic treasures the Northern Tombs among which Ahmose tomb, Huya tomb and Mery-Re I tomb and the Southern Tombs among which, the tomb of Ay and tomb of Mahu. then continue to the most important tombs and temples in Luxor.
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Things To Know
- Budget hotels: Grand Pyramids hotel, Oasis Pyramids hotel, Cataract Pyramids Resort or similar
- All tours in Cairo or Nile Cruise are (Private Tours)
- 1 night Sleeper Train on Half Board
- Superior hotels: Cairo Pyramids hotel, Mercure Pyramids, Le Passage Heliopolis
- 4 nights in Cairo on BB
- Sitting Train from Cairo - Amarna - Luxor
- English-speaking guide (another language with supplement)
- 4 Nights on the board of our Deluxe Nile Cruise based on FB
- 1 night in Amarna 4* hotel on BB - sometimes 2 nights
- Guide will accompany all sailing days on Nile Cruise from Luxor to Aswan
- Our representative will Meet & Assist you at Cairo International Airport.
- 2 nights at Aracan Eatape Luxor hotel on Bed & Breakfast Basis.
- Private Egyptologist guide during the whole of your trip.
- Entry visa to Egypt
- All entrance fees
- Gratuities (recommended) Guide will advise you, keep small currency with you
- All entrance fees of monuments
- WIFI free in Hotels - Not available in Ship (No WIFI in Ship)
- X-Mass & New Year 20% supplement 20 DEC to 7 Jan will charge on-spot before check in by Cairo guide
- Entrance fees 50% for Students
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Guides are not allowed inside the tombs, so they will explain the history outside and inside is free time
- The day-to-day itinerary is subject to change due to traffic-sailing time through Nile Cruises - vacations. Clients will see all monuments and places mentioned in the itinerary
- English - Spanish guide any other language with supplement
- Egypt has a lot of activities, Guide will advise some extra optional excursions covering rest of Egypt tours, Our optional excursions are just recommendations to help our costumers to see the most remarkable sightseeing. Which doesn't mean that we enforce them to pay extra money.
- Private tour means Private guide & Vehicle Only for Viator costumers, 2-9 adult tour mean sharing two families same tours or transfers
- TV shows not working in ship through sailing for weak signal also no WIFI in ship
- The conditions and controls for the hotel stay in Corona are as follows: Health requirements - Providing a clinic and a doctor in the hotel, in coordination with the Ministry of Health - Ensure the quality of the personal protective equipment and sterilization materials used - Do not deal only with companies approved by the Ministry of Health and Population
- Hotel controls - Determine a maximum occupancy rate of the hotel of 25%, including Day-Use, until the end of May - Operating at a maximum of 50% of the hotel's capacity from the beginning of next June - Not to hold any parties or weddings inside the hotel - Prohibition of all types of night activity at the hotel - Clean the rooms on a daily basis using the tools of the infection prevention vehicle, and follow the instructions of the Ministry of Health - Clean and sterilize all tangible points every hour in public places, and public toilets, using disinfectants decided by the Ministry of Health - Allocating a hotel floor in each spa for quarantine cases, confirmed cases, and suspected cases of coronavirus - Continue to conduct a quick test for workers at the tourist portals in coordination with the Ministry of Health
- Guest controls - Install a sterilizer at the hotel entrance - The completion of the procedures for logging in to the guest electronically or with single-use pens - Sterilize the luggage of guests before arriving and leaving the hotel - Measuring the guests' temperatures when entering the facility each time - Providing hand sanitizer in the reception area and various facilities at all times - Cleansing all public areas regularly
- Controls for hotel restaurants - Ban the completely open buffet service and rely on pre-defined lists A ban on serving hookahs - Measurement of temperatures for restaurant goers - Leave no less than 2 meters between dining tables - Keep a distance of 1 meter between each person and another with the table - Maximum 6 chairs for the large table for families - Dependence on single-use cutlery as much as possible - Place sterilizers and sterilization wipes on each table - Putting out educational instructions around the restaurant
- Staff controls - Operating 50% of the workforce as a maximum - Carry out a quick examination of workers returning from vacation before receiving work - Workers in coastal cities get a vacation at least every 60 days - Commitment to measure their temperatures daily - There is housing for workers in the hotel, while providing isolation areas for the affected cases if they arise - Educating workers about all basic preventive measures against the emerging coronavirus
What's included in the package
Itinerary
Day 1
Arrival to Egypt Land of Pharaohs
Cairo
Superior: Cairo Pyramids hotel - Le Passage hotel Budget: Grand Pyramids hotel, Cataract Pyramids (as available)
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 2
Giza Pyramids & 3rd Dynasty Pyramids of Saqqara
Food Menu
Breakfast
Saqqara (Sakkara) Pyramids
Serapeum
Pyramids of Dahshour
Statue of Ramses II
Superior: Cairo Pyramids hotel - Le Passage hotel Budget: Grand Pyramids hotel, Cataract Pyramids (as available)
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 3
Cairo train to Al Minya - Beni Hassan
Food Menu
Breakfast
Beni Hassan
Tell el-Amarna
Overnight in Minya
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 4
Tuna el-Gebel, El-Ashmunein, Train to Luxor
Food Menu
Breakfast
Tuna el-Gebel
Luxor
Overnight at Aracan Eatape Luxor hotel
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 5
the Valley of the Nobles & Ramesseum tour
Food Menu
Breakfast
Luxor
Valley of the Nobles
Ramesseum (Mortuary Temple of Ramses II)
Temple of Medinat Habu
Luxor
Overnight at Aracan Eatape Luxor hotel
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 6
East Bank optional tour
Food Menu
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Temple of Karnak
Luxor Temple
Overnight on 5* Superior Nile Cruise on full board
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 7
Valley of the Kings tour
Food Menu
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Valley of the Kings
Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari
Colossi of Memnon
Luxor
Overnight on 5* Superior Nile Cruise on full board
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 8
Sailing to Edfu Temple and Kom Ombo Temple
Food Menu
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Temple of Horus
Temple of Kom Ombo
Overnight on 5* Superior Nile Cruise on full board
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 9
Abu Simbel Temple optional tour Aswan
Food Menu
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Abu Simbel Temple Complex
Overnight on 5* Superior Nile Cruise on full board
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 10
Aswan Sightseeing
Food Menu
Breakfast
Dinner
Aswan High Dam
Unfinished Obelisk
Temple of Philae
Aswan
Overnight in Sleeper train (Two beds per cabin - Breakfast & Dinner)
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 11
Arrival Cairo and Old Cairo tour
Food Menu
Breakfast
Hanging Church (El Muallaqa, Sitt Mariam, St Mary)
Synagogue Ben Ezra
Cairo
Superior: Cairo Pyramids hotel - Le Passage hotel Budget: Grand Pyramids hotel, Cataract Pyramids (as available)
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 12
Cairo Free day
Food Menu
Breakfast
Cairo
Superior: Cairo Pyramids hotel - Le Passage hotel Budget: Grand Pyramids hotel, Cataract Pyramids (as available)
This is your accommodation for the night before continuing tomorrow
Day 13
Fly Home Say Bye to Pharaohs
Food Menu
Breakfast
Cairo
Where to meet and pickup
Pickup and Dropoff
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 15 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
Our guide or airport representative will pick a customer from their hotel or airport. Upon your arrival at Cairo International Airport, our representatives will meet and assist you all through the formal procedures at Cairo International Airport. Same-day or next you will meet your Egyptologist guide who will explain your tour details, Show your activities, You can ask him about your dreams, of course, will get true. Our philosophy you are not our customer you are our friend, Feel like you are at home between your family.
Ticket Redemption
Direct access, no redemption is required
Reviews By Other Travelers
5Based on 7 reviews
What do other 7 guests say about 12-Night Private Tour: Amarna and El Minya with Cruise and Train
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entelechy77
5
Oct 2021
I don't normally do tour packages but Egypt has a lot of sights spread out all over and internal travel can be fussy. This tour company is one of the few to offer El Minya, and that drew me to it (always wanted to see Ahkenaten's intended tomb). The package is flexible and has optional bonus tour...
M
Merytat3n
5
Nov 2019
I booked this trip as it was one of the longest, covered a lot of the sights I wanted to see and the only one that went to Amarna. I was not disappointed! Friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable guides! Mohammad, Tharwat, and Rafai looked after us super well! We had Mohammad for Cairo, Tharwat for A...
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lunasamocha
5
Aug 2019
The entire tour was fantastic
The guides were very informative
The cruise & crew were very helpful
We enjoyed our tour specially Karnak temple we paid extra for it as was optional excursion
You must see and do it
Search Availability
Things to know
Included
- Budget hotels: Grand Pyramids hotel, Oasis Pyramids hotel, Cataract Pyramids Resort or similar
- All tours in Cairo or Nile Cruise are (Private Tours)
- 1 night Sleeper Train on Half Board
- Superior hotels: Cairo Pyramids hotel, Mercure Pyramids, Le Passage Heliopolis
- 4 nights in Cairo on BB
- Sitting Train from Cairo - Amarna - Luxor
- English-speaking guide (another language with supplement)
- 4 Nights on the board of our Deluxe Nile Cruise based on FB
- 1 night in Amarna 4* hotel on BB - sometimes 2 nights
- Guide will accompany all sailing days on Nile Cruise from Luxor to Aswan
- Our representative will Meet & Assist you at Cairo International Airport.
- 2 nights at Aracan Eatape Luxor hotel on Bed & Breakfast Basis.
- Private Egyptologist guide during the whole of your trip.
Not Included
- Entry visa to Egypt
- All entrance fees
- Gratuities (recommended) Guide will advise you, keep small currency with you
- All entrance fees of monuments
- WIFI free in Hotels - Not available in Ship (No WIFI in Ship)
- X-Mass & New Year 20% supplement 20 DEC to 7 Jan will charge on-spot before check in by Cairo guide
- Entrance fees 50% for Students
Additional Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Guides are not allowed inside the tombs, so they will explain the history outside and inside is free time
- The day-to-day itinerary is subject to change due to traffic-sailing time through Nile Cruises - vacations. Clients will see all monuments and places mentioned in the itinerary
- English - Spanish guide any other language with supplement
- Egypt has a lot of activities, Guide will advise some extra optional excursions covering rest of Egypt tours, Our optional excursions are just recommendations to help our costumers to see the most remarkable sightseeing. Which doesn't mean that we enforce them to pay extra money.
- Private tour means Private guide & Vehicle Only for Viator costumers, 2-9 adult tour mean sharing two families same tours or transfers
- TV shows not working in ship through sailing for weak signal also no WIFI in ship
- The conditions and controls for the hotel stay in Corona are as follows: Health requirements - Providing a clinic and a doctor in the hotel, in coordination with the Ministry of Health - Ensure the quality of the personal protective equipment and sterilization materials used - Do not deal only with companies approved by the Ministry of Health and Population
- Hotel controls - Determine a maximum occupancy rate of the hotel of 25%, including Day-Use, until the end of May - Operating at a maximum of 50% of the hotel's capacity from the beginning of next June - Not to hold any parties or weddings inside the hotel - Prohibition of all types of night activity at the hotel - Clean the rooms on a daily basis using the tools of the infection prevention vehicle, and follow the instructions of the Ministry of Health - Clean and sterilize all tangible points every hour in public places, and public toilets, using disinfectants decided by the Ministry of Health - Allocating a hotel floor in each spa for quarantine cases, confirmed cases, and suspected cases of coronavirus - Continue to conduct a quick test for workers at the tourist portals in coordination with the Ministry of Health
- Guest controls - Install a sterilizer at the hotel entrance - The completion of the procedures for logging in to the guest electronically or with single-use pens - Sterilize the luggage of guests before arriving and leaving the hotel - Measuring the guests' temperatures when entering the facility each time - Providing hand sanitizer in the reception area and various facilities at all times - Cleansing all public areas regularly
- Controls for hotel restaurants - Ban the completely open buffet service and rely on pre-defined lists A ban on serving hookahs - Measurement of temperatures for restaurant goers - Leave no less than 2 meters between dining tables - Keep a distance of 1 meter between each person and another with the table - Maximum 6 chairs for the large table for families - Dependence on single-use cutlery as much as possible - Place sterilizers and sterilization wipes on each table - Putting out educational instructions around the restaurant
- Staff controls - Operating 50% of the workforce as a maximum - Carry out a quick examination of workers returning from vacation before receiving work - Workers in coastal cities get a vacation at least every 60 days - Commitment to measure their temperatures daily - There is housing for workers in the hotel, while providing isolation areas for the affected cases if they arise - Educating workers about all basic preventive measures against the emerging coronavirus