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Spiritual Tour of Egypt (itinerary "A" includes Jordan and Sinai)  - Itineraries November 2011

Itinerary "A" - 17 Days. Taba, Petra, Mount Sinai, Dahab, Aswan, Luxor and Cairo.

Monday 31 October 2011
Depart Johannesburg on Egypt Air flight MS 840 Depart 21:45

Day 01 - Tuesday 01 November  2011
Arrive Cairo International airport, flight MS840 at 05:40, be met, assisted and transferred to fly on MS301 (Depart 08:00) to Sharm el Sheikh (Arrive 09:00). Transfer to 5 Star Taba Sofitel, about 2 hours drive. Lunch, Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel

Day 02 – Wednesday  02 November 2011
Day excursion to Petra. Transfer to Marina at Taba. Board a high speed ferry to Aqaba. Transfer to Petra and return to Aqaba. Return to Taba Sofitel, Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 03 - Thursday 03 November 2011
Breakfast at Sofitel Taba. Transfer to Dahab. Check into Dahab Merdien Hotel.  Lunch, afternoon spent at leisure.  Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 04 - Friday 04 November 2011
Day spent at leisure. Breakfast at hotel.  Optional visit to the Blue Hole to dive or snorkel.  Lunch and Dinner at hotel. After Dinner (for those who wish to climb Mt. Sinai) transfer at about midnight to Mount Sinai.  We climb Mt. Musa (Moses Mountain, Mount Sinai) to watch the sunrise. There are two principal routes to the summit. By the longer and less steep track known as Siket El Bashait, is possible to ascend either on foot or by camel hired from the Bedouin along the way - approximate time on foot two and a half to three hours. The climb is achievable by a moderately fit person. The steep, more direct route (Siket Sayidna Musa) ascends the 3,750 "steps of penitence" directly up the ravine behind the monastery. This route may only be used during daylight hours.

Day 05 -  Saturday 05 November 2011
Descend and visit Saint Catherine's Monastery. The monastery is one of the oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries in the world. The monastery is Greek Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I between 527 and 565, enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush ordered to be built by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush; the living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original. The site is sacred to Christianity and Islam. Transfer back to hotel in Dahab.  Lunch and Dinner at the hotel. Overnight at  hotel.

Day 06 – Sunday  06 November 2011
Day spent at leisure. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at hotel. Time to relax and gather your breath.

Day 07 - Monday November 2011
Early breakfast at hotel, check out from hotel and transfer  to Sharm El Sheikh International Airport. Fly on Egypt Air Flights MS 304/MS395 (Depart 11:00) to  Aswan via Cairo  (Arrive 15:35) Check-in five star Nile Cruise ship. (Persons travelling on itinerary "B" will join the tour at this stage.)  Late afternoon Felucca sail on Nile River. Dinner and overnight on cruise ship.

Day 08 – Tuesday  08 November 2011
Early Breakfast,  transfer to visit Philae Temple which sits on an island in the artificial lake between the Old Dam and the new High Dam. This is another edifice rescued from the new water levels caused by the construction of the High Dam. Previously, before any dams were built, the temple stood on the sacred island of Philae, in the corner of a small bay on the East of the Nile. With the building of the Old Dam in 1898, the temple was submerged for most of the year, emerging only in August and September, when the gates of the dam were opened to allow the annual flood through. However, the building of the new dam meant that the temple would be under a constant depth of 4 metres of water, and the constant movement of the water would have eroded the foundations. Between 1972 and 1980, the temple was moved to the higher islet of Agilkia, where it can now be visited by boat all year round. Visit unfinished obelisk. Lunch on cruise ship.
Sail to Kom Ombo and visit Kom Ombo Temple. The Temple known as Kom Ombo is actually two temples consisting of a Temple to Sobek and a Temple of Haroeris. In ancient times, sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the river bank near here. The Temple has scant remains, due first to the changing Nile, then the Copts who once used it as a church, and finally by builders who used the stones for new buildings.

Day 09 - Wednesday 09 November 2011
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on cruise ship.

Day 10 - Thursday 10 November 2011
Visit Edfu, which is known for the major Ptolemaic temple, built between 237 BCE to 57 BCE, into the reign of Cleopatra VII. Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved. Built from sandstone blocks, the huge Ptolemaic temple was constructed over the site of a smaller New Kingdom temple.
Nile cruise to Luxor. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on board.

Day 11 -  Friday 11 November 2011

Arrive Luxor. Breakfast and check-out from cruise ship. Transfer to visit Luxor Temple which is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the River Nile in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes). Margi will facilitae a meditation and channeling with Lord Serapis Bey.
Known in the Egyptian language as ipet resyt, or "the southern harem", the temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu and was built during the New Kingdom, the focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-isut) to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in a celebration of fertility – whence its name.
Transfer to and check-in to The Stiegenberger  Nile Palace Hotel. Lunch at hotel, afternoon at leisure. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 12 - Saturday 12 November 2011
Transfer to optional Balloon flight. Transfer to visit the West Bank. The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the past 3400 years they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. Continue to the Valley of the Kings (Arabic: وادي الملوك Wadi Biban el-Muluk; "Gates of the King")is a valley in Egypt where for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the kings and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt). The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, across from Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis. The wadi consists of two valleys, East Valley (where the majority of the royal tombs situated) and West Valley.
The area has been a focus of concentrated archaeological and egyptological exploration since the end of the eighteenth century, and its tombs and burials continue to stimulate research and interest. In modern times the valley has become famous for the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (with its rumours of the Curse of the Pharaohs), and is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. In 1979, it became a World Heritage Site, along with the rest of the Theban Necropolis.
Continue to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. The Temple of Deir El-Bahri is one of the most characteristic temples in the whole of Egypt, due to its design and decorations. It was built of limestone, not sandstone like most of the other funerary temples of the New Kingdom period. It is thought that Senimut, the genius architect who built this Temple, was inspired in his design by the plan of the neighboring mortuary Temple of the 12th Dynasty King, Neb-Hept-Re. The Temple was built for the great Queen Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty), to commemorate her achievements and to serve as a funerary Temple for her, as well as a sanctuary of the God, Amon Ra.
Visit the alabaster factory then transfer back to hotel. Lunch, afternoon at leisure. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 13 – Sunday 13  November 2011
Breakfast at hotel.  Transfer to and visit the Karnak temple complex, universally known only as Karnak, describes a vast conglomeration of ruined temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings. It is located near Luxor in Egypt. This was ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places"), the main place of worship of the Theban Triad with Amun as its head, in the monumental city of Thebes. The complex retrieves its current name from the nearby and partly surrounding modern village of el-Karnak, some 2.5km north of Luxor.
Lunch, afternoon at leisure. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 14 – Monday 14 November 2011
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Luxor Airport. Fly on MS 360 (Depart 12:15) to Cairo (Arrive 13:25) Lunch. Visit  the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms.
The museum's Royal Mummy Room, containing 27 royal mummies from pharaonic times, was closed down on the orders of President Anwar Sadat in 1981. It was reopened, with a slightly curtailed display of New Kingdom kings and queens, in 1985. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 15 – Tuesday 15 November 2011
Transfer at 05:00 to the Great Sphinx for an exclusive visit. We have private access to the Sphinx which is not given to other tourists. Experience the sun rising whilst standing between the "paws" of the Great Sphinx. Transfer back to the hotel for Breakfast.
At 15:00 when we will transfer to the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau. Our group will have sole access to the Great Pyramid from 16:00 to 18:00 with no other tourists. Exclusive private time is spent in both the Queen's Chamber and the King's Chamber. Transfer back to the hotel for Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Day 16 – Wednesday 16  November 2011
Breakfast at the hotel, Transfer to begin a day tour to visit Dahshur, site of the two Old Kingdom Pyramids ( Bent & Red Pyramids ), built by King Snefru. Continue to the Djoser or Step Pyramid. The Pyramid of Djoser, or step pyramid (kbhw-ntrw in Egyptian), was built for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser by his vizier Imhotep. It was constructed during the 27th century BC at the Saqqara necropolis to the northwest of the city of Memphis, and is the central feature of a vast mortuary complex in an enormous courtyard surrounded by ceremonial structures and decoration.
This first Egyptian pyramid consisted of six mastabas (of decreasing size) built atop one another in what were clearly revisions and developments of the original plan. The pyramid originally stood 62 meters tall, and having a base of 109m x 125m and was clad in polished white limestone.[1] The step pyramid (or proto-pyramid) is considered to be the earliest large-scale stone construction
Late lunch then visit Carpet School and transfer back to the hotel. Dinner and Overnight stay at the hotel.

Day 17 - Thursday 17 November 2011
Breakfast at the hotel, transfer to visit the Citadel of Saladin. Few structures associated with Saladin survive within modern cities. Saladin first fortified the Citadel of Cairo (1175 - 1183), which had been a domed pleasure pavilion with a fine view in more peaceful times. Visit The Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha or Alabaster Mosque is a mosque situated in the Citadel of Cairo in Egypt and commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1830 and 1848.

Situated on the summit of the citadel, this Ottoman mosque, the largest to be built in the first half of the 19th century, is, with its animated silhouette and twin minarets, the most visible mosque in Cairo. The mosque was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali's oldest son, who died in 1816.
Transfer to visit Khan El-Kalily market then transfer back to hotel. Time at leisure. Dinner at hotel, check out and transfer to Cairo Airport for flight to Johannesburg. Flight MS839 (Departs at 23:45).

Day 18 – Friday 18 November 2011
Arrive Johannesburg at 08:45

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Itinerary "B" - (11 Days) Aswan, Nile Cruise, Luxor, Cairo.

Sunday  06 November 2011
Depart Johannesburg on Egypt Air flight MS 840 Depart 21:45

Day 01 – Monday  07 November 2011
Arrive Cairo International airport, flight MS840 at 05:40, be met, assisted and transferred to fly on MS411 (Depart 08:00) to Aswan (Arrive 09:25) Check-in to Nile cruise ship. Lunch, dinner and overnight on board. Join group on Itinerary "A"

Day 02 to Day 11 as per Itinerary "A" starting from day 08 (Tuesday 08 November)

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 Hotels & Nile Cruise Ship.

Sofitel Taba : http://www.sofitel.com/gb/hotel-3011-sofitel-taba-heights/index.shtml

Le Méridien Dahab : http://www.lemeridiendahab.com/

Nile Cruise  Ship – M/S Royal la Terrasse : http://www.pharaohotels.com/English/NileCruiseDesc.aspx?ID=1

Nile Palace Luxor : http://www.steigenberger.com/en/Luxor/?source=FH

Le Méridien Giza Cairo : http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1807

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