Day Tours Destinations

1-Cairo:

The capital and largest city of Egypt, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people.

The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has since become a longstanding centre of political and cultural life, and is titled “the city of a thousand minarets” for its preponderance of Islamic architecture.

Pharaonic

• Grand Egyptian Museum: An archaeological museum about 2 Km from the Giza pyramid complex, it hosts over 100,000 artifacts from ancient Egyptian civilization, including the complete Tutankhamun collection, and many pieces will be on display for the first time. With 81,000 m2 of floor space, it will be the world’s largest archeological museum. It is being built as part of a new master plan for the Giza Plateau, known as “Giza 2030”. The GEM will also host permanent exhibition galleries, temporary exhibitions, special exhibitions, children museum, and virtual and large format screens with a total floor area of 32,000 m2.
• Egyptian Museum: The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world, over 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display. Located in Tahrir Square in a building built in 1901, it is the largest museum in Africa. Among its masterpieces was Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s treasure and its iconic gold burial mask, widely considered one of the best-known works of art in the world and a prominent symbol of ancient Egypt.
• National Museum of Egyptian Civilization “NMEC”: A large museum located in Old Cairo, a district of Cairo, Egypt. Partially opened in 2017, the museum was officially inaugurated on 3 April 2021, with the moving of 22 mummies, including 18 kings and four queens, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, in an event termed the Pharaohs’ Golden Parade.[1] The museum displays a collection of 50,000 artifacts, presenting the Egyptian civilization from prehistoric times to the Modern era.
• Pyramids of Giza & Sphinx: The site is at the edge of the Western Desert, approximately 9 km west of the Nile River in the city of Giza, and about 13 km southwest of the city centre of Cairo. It’s the home of the Great Pyramid ’Khufu”, and pyramid of Khafre, and the pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx. All were built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC. The site also includes several temples, cemeteries, and the remains of a workers’ village. The Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Khafre are the largest pyramids built in ancient Egypt, and they have historically been common as emblems of Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination. They were popularized in Hellenistic times, when the Great Pyramid was listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is by far the oldest of the Ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence.
• Sakkara: an Egyptian village in county of Badrashin in the Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, containing numerous pyramids, including the Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes referred to as the Step Pyramid, and a number of mastaba tombs. Saqqara contains the oldest complete stone building complex known in history, the Pyramid of Djoser, built during the Third Dynasty. Another sixteen Egyptian kings built pyramids at Saqqara, which are now in various states of preservation. High officials added private funeral monuments to this necropolis during the entire Pharaonic period. It remained an important complex for non-royal burials and cult ceremonies for more than 3000 years, well into Ptolemaic and Roman times.
• Memphis: It was the capital of ancient Egypt (Kemet or Kumat) during both the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom and remained an important city throughout ancient Egyptian history. Its ruins are located in the vicinity of the present-day village of Mit Rahina, in county of Badrashin in the Giza Governorate. Along with the pyramid fields that stretch on a desert plateau for more than 30 km on its west, open to the public as an open-air museum. It occupied a strategic position at the mouth of the Nile Delta, and was home to bustling activity. Memphis was believed to be under the protection of the god Ptah, the patron of craftsmen. Its great temple, Hut-ka-Ptah (meaning “Enclosure of the ka of Ptah”), was one of the most prominent structures in the city. Today, the ruins of the former capital offer fragmented evidence of its past. Many of its remains have become significant tourist destinations.

Coptic:

• Old Cairo Churches: Part of Old Cairo which encompasses the Babylon Fortress, the Coptic Museum, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George and many other Coptic churches and historical sites. It is believed in Christian tradition that the Holy Family visited this area and stayed at the site of Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga). Coptic Cairo was a stronghold for Christianity in Egypt both before and during the Islamic era, as most of its churches were built after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century.

Islamic

• Citadel of Saladin: A medieval Islamic-era fortification in Cairo, built by Salah ad-Din (Saladin) and further developed by subsequent Egyptian rulers. It was the seat of government in Egypt and the residence of its rulers for nearly 700 years from the 13th century until the construction of Abdeen Palace in the 19th century. Its location on a promontory of the Mokattam hills near the center of Cairo commands a strategic position overlooking the city and dominating its skyline. When it was constructed it was among the most impressive and ambitious military fortification projects of its time.[1] It is now a preserved historic site, including mosques and museums. In addition to the initial Ayyubid-era construction begun by Saladin in 1176, the Citadel underwent major development during the Mamluk Sultanate that followed, culminating with the construction projects of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad in the 14th century. In the first half of the 19th century Muhammad Ali Pasha demolished many of the older buildings and built new palaces and monuments all across the site, giving it much of its present form. In the 20th century it was used as a military garrison by the British occupation and then by the Egyptian Army until being opened to the public in 1983.
• Mohamed Ali Mosque: Located inside the Citadel of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin) in Cairo. It was built by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1265 AH\ 1848 AD on the site of Mamluk palaces. This mosque is known as the “Alabaster Mosque”, in reference to its marble paneling on its interior and exterior walls. The mosque’s twin minarets are the highest in all of Egypt, each reaching a height of 84 meters. The mosque was built on the Turkish style that consists of an open court and prayer hall. The prayer hall is a square space that surmounted with a large central dome which surrounded by four semi-domes and four shallow domes in the corners. There are two minbars (pulpits) inside the mosque. The original of the two is made of wood decorated in green. The other was a later addition made of marble. ​The outer open court contains a copper clock tower, which was gifted to Muhammad Ali Pasha by Louis Philippe of France in 1262 AH/1845 AD. Muhammad Ali Pasha reciprocated the gesture with an obelisk of Ramesses II’s (c.1279–1213 BC) that stood in front of Luxor Temple. Today, it stands in the Place de la Concorde Square, Paris.
• The Mosque and Madrasa of Sultan Hassan: One of the largest and architecturally exquisite mosques in all of Egypt. It was commissioned by the Mamluk sultan Hasan ibn al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun sometime between 757 AH/1356 AD and 764 AH/1362 AD, and is located at the end of Muhammad Ali Street, opposite its nineteenth century neighbor al-Rifa’i mosque in Salah al-Din Square. The mosque consists of an open courtyard with fountain in its centre. The courtyard is surrounded by four iwans (a rectangular space that is open on one side). Doorways at the four corners of the courtyard allow access into four madrasas, educational institutions, where the four Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence were taught. Each consists of a court and iwan, in addition to the rooms of the students and annexed service units. The mosque has two minarets built in the Mamluk style.
• Al-Rifa’i Mosque: Located on Salah al-Din Square and it was built in the nineteenth century to Equivalent its fourteenth-century neighbor, the mosque of al-Sultan Ḥassan. The mosque gets its name from the tomb of Ali who was known as “Abu Sheibak”, he was the grandson of imam Ahmad al-Rifa’i. When the mosque was completed, it was imputed directly to Ahmad al-Rifa’i who founded the Rifa’i Sufi order. Although he was never buried here, the mosque witness a joyous annual Sufi celebrations commemorating his birth. The original structure was a Fatimid mosque, which was then transformed into a shrine for Ali Abu Sheibak. Finally, Hoshiyar Hanim, the mother of Khedive Ismail, commissioned the current design of the mosque and put in charge of the construction the architect Hussein Pasha Fahmi. Part of the plan was to have a mausoleum for the family of Muhammad Ali as part of the extension, which was made by imported building materials from Europe, such as Italian marble. The construction has stopped for years until it was completed in the region of Khedive Abbas Helmi II in 1330Ah\ 1912 AD.​
• Khan Elkhalili: A famous bazaar in the historic center of Cairo, established as a center of trade in the Mamluk era and named for one of its several historic caravanserais, the bazaar district has since become one of Cairo’s main attractions for tourists and Egyptians alike. It is also home to many Egyptian artisans and workshops involved in the production of traditional crafts and souvenirs.

2- Alexandria:

The second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile River delta. Founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great, Alexandria grew rapidly and became a major Center of Hellenic civilization, eventually replacing Memphis, in present-day Greater Cairo, as Egypt’s capital. Called the “Bride of the Mediterranean” and “Pearl of the Mediterranean Coast” internationally,  Alexandria is a popular tourist destination and an important industrial center due to its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez.

The city extends about 40 km along the northern coast of Egypt and is the largest city on the Mediterranean, the second-largest in Egypt after Cairo.

Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; its Great Library, the largest in the ancient world; and the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages.

The city was a major center of early Christianity and was the center of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, which was one of the major centers of Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire. In the modern world, the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria both lay claim to this ancient heritage.

• Bibliotheca of Alexandria: A major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina contains books in classical Arabic, English, and French.
• The Alexandria National Museum: It was inaugurated the 31 December 2003, a renovated Italian style palace, the building used to be home to the United States consulate. It contains around 1,800 artifacts that narrate the story of Alexandria and its Greek and Roman days, also contains some of the Pharaonic statues.
• Roman Amphitheatre: Located in the central region of Alexandria city at Kom el-Dikka. Basically Amphitheatre means double theatre and were grand and impressive in structure. Usually built in semi-circular shape, Amphitheatre was an open-air theatre with no curtains on the stage. The Roman Theatre of Egypt is modest in size and most of the part of the structure is in ruined condition but still it is an excellent ancient structure of Roman period of Egypt.
• Catacombs of Kom Elshoqafa: Considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages, the necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funerary cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. Due to the time period, many of the features of the catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa merge Roman, Greek and Egyptian cultural points, some statues are Egyptian in style, yet bear Roman clothes and hair style whilst other features share a similar style. A circular staircase, which was often used to transport deceased bodies down the middle of it, leads down into the tombs that were tunneled into the bedrock during the age of the Antonine emperors (2nd century CE). The facility was then used as a burial chamber from the 2nd century to the 4th century, before being rediscovered in 1900 when a donkey accidentally fell into the access shaft.
• Pompey’s Pillar: A Roman triumphal column, the only ancient monument that is still standing in its original location in Alexandria, a massive 25metre-high pink granite pillar that measures 9 meters around its girth. it was actually set up in honour of the Roman emperor Diocletian between 298–302 AD. The giant Corinthian column originally supported a colossal porphyry statue of the emperor in armour, stands at the eastern side of the temenos of the Serapeum of Alexandria, which is now in ruins.
• Citadel of Qaitbay: A 15th-century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, in Alexandria. It was built from 1477 to 1479 AD (882–884 AH) by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaitbay.  The Citadel is situated on the eastern side of the northern tip of Pharos Island at the mouth of the Eastern Harbour.

3-Fayoum:

Located 100 km southwest of Cairo in Middle Egypt, at a height of 22 meters above sea level on the banks of the Bahr Youssef canal which penetrates the Fayoum depression of its southeastern part and is divided into eight distributary canals which provide the Fayoum with water necessary for cultivation and drinking. The total population of the city of Fayoum is 900,000 approx. The entrance to the city starts at the Obelisk square where a 4000 years old obelisk stands, downtown area is the commercial center of the Governorate where you can find several large bazaars, ancient Mamluk and Ottoman mosques.

• El Lahun Pyramid: A town and pyramid complex founded by Senusret II. The Pyramid of Senusret II  located near the modern town, and is often called the Pyramid of Lahun. The site was occupied during the Middle Kingdom into the late Thirteenth Dynasty, and then again in the New Kingdom. It was known as Ptolemais Hormos.
• Meidum Pyramid: Located around 72 km south of modern Cairo, an archaeological site contains a large pyramid and several mudbrick mastabas. The pyramid was Egypt’s first straight-sided one, but it partially collapsed in ancient times.
• Hawara Pyramid: An archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis, at the entrance to the depression of the Fayoum oasis. It is the site of a pyramid built by Pharaoh Amenemhat III of the 12th dynasty in the 19th century B.C.

4-Luxor:

A city in Upper Egypt around 700 km from Cairo, with a population of 300,000 approx. with an area of 417 km2. It has frequently been characterized as the ”world’s greatest open-air museum”, as the ruins of the Egyptian temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor stand within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the River Nile, lie the monuments, temples and tombs of the West Bank Theban Necropolis, which includes the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens. Thousands of tourists from all around the world arrive annually to visit Luxor’s monuments, contributing greatly to the economy of the modern city. Yusuf Abu al-Haggag is the prominent Muslim historical figure of Luxor.

East Bank:

• The Karnak Temple: One of the most important sites of all. Located on the east bank of Thebes (modern Luxor), it is the site of many temples and chapels, and it was in the Great Temple of Amun that the cult of the god Amun of Thebes was conducted. As such, it was extremely wealthy and its priesthood held great political power. The line of kings who reunified Egypt after the First Intermediate Period hailed from Thebes. It thus became one of the most important cities, a position that it would continue to hold throughout the majority of ancient Egyptian history. The importance of Amun rose in tandem with the city’s rise to prominence. Karnak was in reality a complex of temples, consisting of several zones: In addition to the largest, the Amun Precinct, there are the Precinct of Mut, his wife, to the south; the Precinct of Montu to the north; and, to the east, Akhenaten’s temple to Aten. In addition to the ancient Egyptians’ mastery of stone, which is evident everywhere in the scale of the monuments, the reliefs covering their walls, and the statues populating them, several highlights are worth mentioning. The enclosure walls of the Amun Precinct also include a full temple to Khonsu in the southwestern corner, next to which is the temple of Opet, a hippopotamus goddess of childbirth, mostly built in the Ptolemaic Period. The beautiful sacred lake, where priests purified themselves before carrying out temple rituals, can still be appreciated today. Many more, smaller, temples and chapels dot the landscape of Karnak, making it a veritable openair museum.
• Luxor Temple: Located around three kilometers to the south of Karnak Temple, to which it was once linked with a processional way bordered with sphinxes. The oldest evidence for this temple dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty (c.1550–1295 BC). It is unlike most other ancient Egyptian temples, not laid out on an east-west axis, but oriented towards Karnak. This is because Luxor Temple was the main venue for one the most important of ancient Egyptian religious celebrations, when the cult images of Amun, his wife Mut, and their son, the lunar god Khonsu, were taken from their temples in Karnak, and transported in a grand procession to Luxor Temple so they could visit the god that resides there, Amenemopet. This was the Opet Festival. Luxor Temple was not built by one single ruler. The oldest existing structure, a shrine, dates to the reign of Hatshepsut. The core of the temple was built by Amenhotep III. One of the inner rooms contains a series of scenes that are known as the Divine Birth. They tell the amazing story of how the king’s true father was none other than the god Amun-Ra himself, disguised as Thutmose IV. The core of the temple is preceded by a columned hall fronted by a courtyard with columns around its perimeter. Amenhotep III also built the Great Colonnade, which consists of two rows of seven colossal columns. Its decoration, most notably the scenes depicting the Opet Festival, were completed by Tutankhamun and Horemheb. Ramesses II made many additions to Luxor Temple. In front of the Great Colonnade, he built a peristyle courtyard and a massive pylon, a gate with two towers that formed the entrance into temples. In addition to many colossal statues, the pylon was also fronted by a pair of 25-meter-high obelisks made by this great king, but only one remains in place; the other has been at the Place de la Concorde in Paris since 1836.

West Bank:

• The Colossi of Memnon: Two gigantic statues of Amenophis III that presided over his funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The statues, built 3,400 years ago, show the pharaoh at ease, hands on his knees, gazing at the rising sun. His mother, Queen Mutemwiya, and his wife, Queen Tiy, are sculpted on the lower part of the statues, in the year 27 BC, an earthquake knocked down a large part of one of them. From then on, the other colossus began to ‘sing’ every morning at dawn. In the early 3rd century the Roman emperor Seventh Severus rebuilt the statue and its twin was silenced.
• Valley of the kings: The rulers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of Egypt’s prosperous New Kingdom (c.1550–1069 BC) were buried in a desolate dry river valley across the river from the ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor), hence its modern name of the Valley of the Kings. This moniker is not entirely accurate, however, since some members of the royal family aside from the king were buried here as well, as were a few non-royal, albeit very high-ranking, individuals. The Valley of the Kings is divided into the East and West Valleys. The eastern is by far the more iconic of the two, as the western valley contains only a handful of tombs. In all, the Valley of the Kings includes over sixty tombs and an additional twenty unfinished ones that are little more than pits. The site for this royal burial ground was selected carefully. Its location on specifically the west side of the Nile is significant as well. Because the sun god set (died) in the western horizon in order to be reborn, rejuvenated, in the eastern horizon, the west thus came to have funerary associations. Ancient Egyptian cemeteries were generally situated on the west bank of the Nile for this reason.
• Temple of Hatshepsut: The queen who became pharaoh, built a magnificent temple at Deir al-Bahari, on the west back of Luxor. It lies directly across the Nile from Karnak Temple, the main sanctuary of the god Amun. Hatshepsut’s temple “the Holy of Holies” was designed by the chief steward of Amun, Senenmut. The temple consists of three levels each of which has a colonnade at its far end. On the uppermost level, an open courtyard lies just beyond the portico. Mummiform statues of Hatshepsut as Osiris, the god of the dead, lean against its pillars. The temple’s walls are covered with beautiful painted reliefs depicting temple rituals, religious festivals, and even the transportation of obelisks from the quarry to their destination in Karnak Temple.
• Nobles Tombs: These tombs are some of the best least-visited attractions on the west bank. Nestled in the foothills opposite the Ramesseum are more than 400 tombs belonging to nobles from the 6th dynasty to the Graeco-Roman period. Where royal tombs were decorated with cryptic passages from the Book of the Dead to guide them through the afterlife, the nobles, intent on letting the good life continue after their death, decorated their tombs with wonderfully detailed scenes of their daily lives.
• Habu Temple: In ancient times, Madinat Habu was known as Djanet and according to ancient belief was the place where Amun first appeared. Both Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III built a temple dedicated to Amun here and Later Rameses III constructed his larger memorial temple on the site. First Pylon – the temple of Rameses III. During his time, Djanet became the administrative centre of Western Thebes. The entire temple complex was surrounded by a massive fortified enclosure wall, with an unusual gateway at the eastern entrance, known as the pavilion gate. This structure, a copy of a Syrian Migdol fortress is something you would not expect to see in Egypt. The exterior walls are carved with religious scenes and portrayals of Rameses III’s wars against the Libyans and the Sea Peoples. The king smiting his enemies is depicted on the first pylon, along with a list of the conquered lands. Some of the original paintwork is still intact on the well-preserved bas-reliefs that adorn the interior walls, adding to their wealth of intricate details.

5-Aswan:

A city in Southern Egypt, a busy market and tourist center located just north of the Aswan Dam on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.

Aswan is the ancient city of Swenett, later known as Syene, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenett is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name.

Inside Aswan:

• Philae Temple: An island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt. Originally, the temple complex was located on Philae Island, near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. These rapids and the surrounding area have been variously flooded since the initial construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902. With the construction of the modern dam in Aswan (1960 – 1970) a few kilometers upstream, this temple was going to face total flooding and was initially omitted from the Nubia Campaign project to rescue all temples in the area and avoid what had previously happened with the Aswan Low Dam and the Temple of Philae. The temple of Isis was one of the last ancient Egyptian temples to remain active, as it continued to function until the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527–565 AD), who ordered the foreclosure of all pagan temples. It is here that a priest of Isis named Esmet-Akhom carved the very last dated hieroglyphic inscription, which dates to the late 4th century AD (394 AD). The temple was converted into a Christian church and many inscriptions were deliberately destroyed.
• High Dam: is one of the world’s largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. When it was completed, it was the tallest earthen dam in the world, surpassing the Chatuge Dam in the United States. The dam, which created the Lake Nasser reservoir, was built 7 km upstream of the Aswan Low Dam, which had been completed in 1902 and was already at its maximum utilization. Construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the military regime that took power following the 1952 Egyptian revolution. With its ability to better control flooding, provide increased water storage for irrigation and generate hydroelectricity, the dam was seen as pivotal to Egypt’s planned industrialization. Like the earlier implementation, the High Dam has had a significant effect on the economy and culture of Egypt. The Aswan Dam was designed by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Malyshev of the Moscow-based Hydroproject Institute. Designed for both irrigation and power generation, the dam incorporates a number of relatively new features, including a very deep grout curtain below its base. Although the reservoir will eventually silt in, even the most conservative estimates indicate the dam will give at least 200 years of service.
• Mausoleum of Aga Khan: Built by the famous Muhammad Shah, known as the Aga Khan III. He was the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Shi’a community in India, and the Imam No. 48 in 1885, was one of the richest men in the world. Aga Khan was suffering from rheumatism and bone pain, and his friend advised him to travel to Aswan in the hope of recovering; Due to the popularity of medical tourism in Aswan for its healthy atmosphere and healing sands, he traveled to Aswan in 1954 with his wife and followers, and he buried his legs in the sand of Aswan daily, and after a week recovered completely from his illness, and decided to visit Aswan every winter, then built a villa and a cemetery to commemorate the memory of His recovery in this place is buried after his death. The mausoleum is built of pink granite, similar to the Fatimid tombs in Cairo, and is located near the Monastery of St. Simeon on the West Bank in Aswan, and the mausoleum is built on a hill that gives visitors a panoramic view of the area.
• Botanical Garden: Located on Kitchener’s Island, to the west of Elephantine Island. It’s one of two islands in the Nile immediately adjacent to the city-center of Aswan Egypt. Aswan Botanical Garden was used by the Nubians to settle in it; they called it Jet Narty. In the year of 1899, Lord Horatio Kitchener took the island to be a place where his campaign can rest and call it the lord’s house. Lord Kitchener was a commander of the Egyptian Army. With a deep passion for palm trees and plants, Kitchener transformed the entire Kitchener’s Island into a stunning botanic garden. The Egyptian government later reclaimed the island and it has been maintained as the Aswan Botanical Gardens. Covering 6.8 hectares, the Aswan Botanical Garden is home to thousands of birds and many exotic plants imported from many parts of the world like Far East India and Africa. The entirety of the island is landscaped with rare and exotic plants that were planted there by order of Lord Horatio Kitchener, who has gifted the island in gratitude for his service as consul general of Egypt Army under British control.
• El Nabatat Island or Kitchener’s Island: Presented to Lord Kitchener in the 1890s as a reward for leading the Egyptian army’s successful campaigns in Sudan. He made the island his home and filled it with exotic flowers and rare plants from as far as India and Malaysia. This delightful island is less than 1 km long and half km wide.
• Unfinished Obelisk: Discovered in the early twentieth century after it had been covered by sand for thousands of years. It remains as you see it today in one of the Aswan quarries, famous for its supply of hard and high-quality stone. Believed to have been commissioned by Hatshepsut (c. 1473–1458 BC) for the temple of Amun in Karnak, work was abandoned because of flaws in the stone and the presence of multiple fissures. Had it been finished, it would have weighed 1168 tonnes, and stood at a height of around 42 metres, taller than any other ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Outside Aswan:

• Edfu Temple: One of the most striking and complete of ancient Egyptian temples and is dedicated to the worship of the god Horus. Situated on the western bank of the Nile, its construction began during the reign of Ptolemy III (246–221 BC) in 237 BC, but was completed in the reign of Ptolemy XII 180 years later. The temple remained buried under layers of settlement debris for millennia, which is why its architectural and decorative elements have survived so well. In 1860 the French archaeologist Auguste Mariette uncovered and restored parts of the temple. The temple is fronted by two massive pylons that bear scenes of Ptolemy XII conquering his enemies and worshiping deities. Two large granite statues of the falcon-god Horus stand before the pylons. Once through the pylons you enter into a large Peristyle court lined with columns decorated with floral capitals.
• Komombo Temple: The site gets its name from Arabic kum ‘mound’, a term found in the names of many archaeological sites, and ‘Ombo’, which ultimately derives from ancient Egyptian Nubt, interpreted as meaning ‘the golden (city).’ The city’s temple is dedicated to two deities: the crocodile god Sobek, and the falcon god Har wer (Horus the Elder). Although an earlier temple once stood here already during the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1069 BC), the present structure was built during the Graeco-Roman Period (332 BC–395 AD), with the earliest attested royal name in it being Ptolemy VI Philometor’s (180–145 BC). Most of the decoration was completed by Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos (80–51 BC). The temple has a unique design. Because it is dedicated to two gods, it has two parallel axial passages running through its columned halls, terminating in two sanctuaries, one for each. The southern axis (on the right) is Sobek’s, and the northern (on the left) Harwer’s. Sobek was a god of fertility associated with water, the inundation, and vegetation, worshipped here alongside his wife the goddess of love and motherhood Hathor and their son the moon god Khonsu. The god of kingship Horus is the son of Osiris and Isis and, as Harwer, he is in adulthood, victorious over Seth, the murderer of his father. He was worshipped here alongside his wife “Ta senet nefret” ‘The Perfect Companion’ and their son “Pa neb tawy” ‘The Lord of the Two Lands’.

6-Abu Simbel:

Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel, Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is located on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km southwest of Aswan

• Ramses II Temple It was cut into the living rock by King Ramesses II (the Great) of the Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1264 BC. The temple is most well-known for the four imposing seated colossal statues that dominate its façade. One of these collapsed because of an ancient earthquake, and its fragments can still be seen on the ground. Colossal standing statues of the king line the main hall, leading to the sanctuary where four deities are sat: Amun Ra, Ra Horakhty, Ptah, and a deified version of Ramesses II. The temple was built with such precision that on two days a year, the 22nd of February and 22nd of October, the sun’s rays enter the temple, cross the main hall, and illuminate the innermost statues.
• Nefertari Temple: Another rock-cut temple to the north, known as the Small Temple, is dedicated to the goddess Hathor and Ramesses II’s Great Royal Wife, Queen Nefertari. On the façade of the Small Temple, her colossi are the same size as those of her husband, a very rare example of such display. The two temples were moved from their original location in 1968 after the Aswan High Dam was built, as it threatened to submerge them. The relocation was completed thanks to an international effort led by UNESCO, and the temple was admitted into its list of World Heritage Sites in 1979.

7-Hurghada:

Stretching 40 km along the Red Coast, Hurghada is a beach town in Egypt, located 600 km from Cairo. It is known for its stunning coral reefs and turquoise waters. One of Egypt’s main tourist attractions, Hurghada, which once used to be a fishing village, is now known for its nightlife, holiday resorts, beaches and water sports activities.

Hurghada offers numerous adventure activities like cruising along the Red Sea to Giftun islands, quad biking in the Sahara desert, or a glass-bottom boat ride with amazing corals. Also known for its watersports, Hurghada has some of the best numerous diving and snorkeling sites around Abu Ramada Island, Giftun Island, and Fanadir. Tourists also like to visit the shipwrecks at El Mina and Rosalie Moller.

• ATV Desert Safari: Offer a thrilling way to explore the desert. You can ride quad bikes through the sand dunes, visit Bedouin villages, and experience the desert landscape. Some tours combine ATV riding with camel rides, jeep safaris, and Bedouin culture experiences
• Full day boat tour “Giftun”: Taking the boat and heading the magnificent Giftun Islands National Park. Snorkel on beautiful coral reefs, see dolphins if we have luck, and relax in clear water. Spend the day snorkeling with all of the equipment provided to make it a simple experience to enjoy views of the coral reefs, fish, and other sea life.
• Hurghada City Tour: Visiting the breathtaking Big Mosque, the Church of St. Mary, and the charming port area. The tour wraps up with leisure time to explore the vibrant souks and shop for souvenirs

8-Sharm Elsheikh

Sharm El Sheikh is an Egyptian resort town nestled in the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea. Known for its coral reefs, sheltered sandy beaches and turquoise waters, Sharm El Sheikh is one of the best diving spots in the world. It is also regarded as the city of peace.
Sharm El Sheikh is full of places like Ras Mohammed and Tiran Island, renowned for great scuba diving experiences. The serenity of vacationing in this town is beyond the city life. There are many historical sites like St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sharm Old Market and Al-Sahaba Mosque. Desert Safari and Camel Trekking in the magical Sinai desert is also popular here.

This place is ideal for people who like minimalistic vacations in the lap of nature. To experience the local culture, wander around the Old Town. This beach destination is now known for its mesmerizing landscapes of the beaches and the Sinai Peninsula, which is a desert mountain range nearby.

• Boat Tour Ras Mohamed”Catamaran Liberty”: You will travel by boat to the White Island, which is part of the national park around Ras Mohammed. The island is nicknamed the “Invisible Island” because it is exposed to the tides and cannot be seen at high tide. During the boat trip you have the opportunity to go snorkeling one or two times in the Ras Mohammed National Park. Marvel at the colorful underwater world with its diverse fish and corals. You will receive a delicious lunch on board, and soft drinks are also included. After you arrive at the port you will be taken back to your hotel in the air-conditioned transfer bus.
• ATV Safari Sharm: A popular excursion that offers a thrilling adventure through the desert landscape. These safaris typically involve riding quad bikes, also known as ATVs, through the Sinai desert, often with stops for photo opportunities and cultural experiences like enjoying Bedouin tea.
• Sharm city tour: Discover the City of Sharm El Sheikh from a new perspective, starting by the Old Market (Old Sharm or Old Souq) which is one of the most attracting spots with its new impressive mosque “Alsahaba Mosque” which had been built within the Old Market to decorate the area and makes a very nice atmosphere. Ending our tour with a stop for two hours at “Frasha Café”, a lounge down a mountain that feels like an Arabian fairytalewhere you can enjoy drinks, snacks & shisha and it’s for Adults only, mixed groups or couples, No kids allowed.