Egypt
and Jordan a La Indiana Jones
A
Grand 14 -day tour in Egypt and Jordan, Including Petra
and a Cruise the Nile onboard a deluxe Air Conditioned Dahabiya
Indiana
Jones himself couldn't squeeze more adventure into this journey: Cairo
and the Pyramids, and a dream cruise on the Nile on board a
Dahabiya , the fabled temples and tombs of Luxor and Thebes, diving
in the Red Sea, the mountains of Sinai, and a trek to the mysterious
ruins of Petra in Jordan . Departures are weekly year round.
Egypt and Jordan, A La Indiana Jones tour Itinerary - The Dahabiya Version
Many
visitors come to Egypt to fulfill their dream of sailing the Nile
on board a private boat. These dahabbiya allow you to experience the
Nile 's romance in an intimate, privileged setting. These dahabiyas
take you back in time to a gentler, more gracious era.
DAY
1- CAIRO - Wednesday
Our Egypt-based staff greets you in bustling Cairo airport and escorts
you to your hotel . Visa
for Egypt may be issued upon arrival for a limited number of nationalities
such as American, Canadian, Australian, NZ, EU , South Korean , Mexican,
Singaporean and Japanese citizens. Please pay in cash upon arrival (
$ 15 USD for US citizens - subject to change and varies based on the
country ) Passports must be valid for at least 6 month upon arrival).
Guests need to pay in cash upon arrival , no photos required .
After exiting the terminal, our local representative will escort you
to the hotel
.
DAY
2 - CAIRO- Thursday (BL)
Your exploration of the ancient world begins today! First stop is the
Egyptian Museum, with its treasures of the ancient pharaohs:
mummies, King Tut's treasure room , statuary, precious stones and metals.
We'll also stop at the Citadel of Saladin and the Alabaster Mosque.
Lunch is included at Hadaik El-Azhar or Naguib Mahfouz. The afternoon
is devoted to the Khan El-Khalili Bazaar district. Dinner is included
at La Bodega restaurant .
DAY
3 - GIZA - Friday (BL)
After breakfast we drive to the edge of Cairo and into the Sahara :
tour Giza and the mysteries of the Pyramids , Cheops Royal Barge
Museum and Sphinx. Lunch is included at the Mena House . Afternoon tour
of Memphis , Sakkara and Imhotep Museum , this includes Zoser Step Pyramid,
and the Nobles Mastabas . Dinner is included at Abu El-Sid restaurant
.
DAY
4 - Board your Nile Cruise - Saturday (BLD)
Early breakfast at your hotel, before we head for the airport to board
your flight to Aswan and
your deluxe Dahabiya Nile cruise . Boarding Luxor or Aswan
Embarkation in Luxor for a relaxing week sailing the Nile on a luxuriously
appointed Dahabbiya.
After
lunch, excursion to the West Bank for visits to the burial places of
the Pharaohs - the Valley of the Kings - where Howard Carter discovered
the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922. Continue to the adjacent Valley of
the Queens, the temple of Medinet Habu and the Colossi of Memnon. Overnight
moored on the Nile banks of Luxor.
Day
5 - On board your deluxe Dahabiya - Sunday - (BLD)
You will visit the magnificent temple complex of Amon-Ra at Karnak,
with its vast hypostyle hall of 137 columns, followed by the imposing
28 th Dynasty Luxor Temple. Overnight moored in Luxor. In the evening
your guide will call on you for a private horse-drawn carriage ride
throughout Luxor and the water front.
Day
6 - On board your deluxe Dahabiya - Monday - (BLD)
Today will be a leisurely day. After breakfast, commence sailing to
Esna where your dahabiyya will moor overnight.
Day
7 - On board your deluxe Dahabiya - Tuesday - (BLD)
This morning you will sail to Edfu to visit the wonderfully preserved
Temple of Edfu. Overnight
moored beside a Nile island.
Day
8 - On board your deluxe Dahabiya - Wednesday- (BLD)
Today you will sail to Kom Ombo visit see the Ptolemaic temple dedicated
to the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon-headed Horus, god of the morning
sun. Overnight moored beside a Nile island.
Day
9 - On board your deluxe Dahabiya - Thursday - (BLD)
A leisurely day sailing to Aswan where the dahabiyya moors overnight.
In the evening, our local rep. will call on you for the private
transfer to the sound and light show at Philae Temple, please bring
a jacket and a flash light for your convenience .
Day
10 - On board your deluxe Dahabiya - Friday - (BLD)
Today you will visit the Aswan High Dam (completed in 1971); the Old
Dam (completed in 1902) and the ' unfinished obelisk', lying in situ
since the days of the pharaohs. You will also visit the Philae Temple,
dedicated to the goddess Isis, a structure rescued from the rising waters
of Lake Nasser at the time of the High Dam's construction.
DAY
11 - Cairo - Amman - Saturday (B)
Now that you've seen the best of the Egypt of the Pharaohs, our guides
escort you
to the airport. You'll fly over to Cairo , where we connect on ward
and fly over the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea , and land in Amman
, where , our Jordan-based representative waits to greet you and
help with your visa , and off to your your hotel in Amman . Complimentary
Jordanian visa fee (valid only for American , EU , Singaporean, Mexican
& Japanese citizens. Passports must be valid for at least 6 month
upon arrival).
DAY
12 - MADABA,
KERAK
- PETRA - Sunday (BL)
Guide escorts the tour at all times from Amman . We drive south
along the King's Highway, an ancient caravan route, to Madaba to visit
the church containing the oldest known map of the Holy Land. Continuing
to Mount Nebo, we enjoy the panoramic view of the Promised Land the
way Moses saw it for the first time. Farther on, at Kerak, we tour the
ruins of its romantic Crusaders' castle of Renaud de Chatillon, one
of a line which stretched from Aqaba to Turkey. Lunch is included enroute
. Finally, we arrive in Petra, and settle in at our hotel, where comfortable
beds await you .
DAY
13 - PETRA- Monday (B)
We'll spend the entire day at Petra, the stunning desert city hewn by
the Nabateans
from solid cliffs of pink and violet sandstone. Petra was
known in the bible as Sela, and rediscovered only in
1812. You'll feel like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark as you
penetrate into the city through a narrow sandstone gorge, the Siq, and
wander among the Temple of the Winged Lion, tombs, Roman theater, and
the imposing Treasury.
DAY
14 - Departure From Amman - Tuesday (B)
Our local rep .escorts you to the airport of Amman for your flight
home.
RATES
per person in USD :
| |
First
Class Hotels
First Class Dahabiyas |
Deluxe
Hotels
Deluxe Dahabiyas |
| Triple |
US$
4079. |
US$
4491. |
| Double |
US$
4189. |
US$
4662. |
| Single |
US$
5496. |
US$
5945. |
Easter,
Christmas, New Year's : 15 % supplement will apply.
Prices
include:
- All
transfers in Egypt and Jordan, always on a private basis.
-
Air fare from Egypt to Jordan in economy class , tax included .
-
Air-conditioned hotel accommodations with tax and service charges
- Sightseeing
with professional local guides and entrance fees as indicated
- Meals
as indicated, with pre-set menu (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner)
- Jordanian
visa fee (valid only for American, Canadians, EU & Japanese citizens.
Passports must be valid for at least 6 month upon arrival).
- Jordanian
departure tax.
- Dahabiya
Nile Cruise with all meals and shore excursions
Not
included:
-
Personal
expenses and beverages .
- Tips.
- Additional
meals and services .
- Trip
interruption and cancellation insurance .
- Air
fare from/ to your home country .
-
Visa
for Egypt may be issued upon arrival for a limited number of nationalities
such as American, Canadian, Australian, NZ, EU , South Korean ,
Mexican, Singaporean and Japanese citizens. Please pay in cash upon
arrival ( $ 15 USD for US citizens - subject to change and varies
based on the country ) Passports must be valid for at least 6 month
upon arrival). Guests need to pay in cash upon arrival , no photos
required .
After exiting the terminal, our local representative will escort
you to the hotel
.
More
choices :
Come to Egypt and enjoy your private honeymoon or Anniversary
cruise
On
the Nile in Royal Style Feluccas or Dahabiyas are the traditional
sailing vessel of much of the Mediterranean world, and the traditional
Nile felucca, or Dahabia, was the mainstay of travel in ancient Egypt.
With
shallow drafts, sails, and oars, feluccas could navigate not only
the great river, but the maze of canals threading through its banks,
with or without wind, reaching every part of the kingdom.
Dahabbiyas
/ Feluccas long ago transcended their role as humble transports. They
held the ancient empire together, carrying troops, decrees, and the
very mystery of the pharaoh.
Daily
Telegraph
Peter Hughes
'Going
with the flow'
...'The
riad I found was not in the city but on the Nile. It's a dahabiya, a
traditional, two-masted Nile sailing cruiser. Anywhere else it would
be called a yacht. King Farouk had several. So if a riad is a small
princely palace on land - now given over to holidaymaking - a dahabiya
is a riad on the river...'
...'Mahogany
panelled and with two faux-glass oil lamps swinging from the beams -
a perfect touch for a sailing ship - the look was of a colonial club.
Hercule Poirot could have popped up at any moment. There were button-back
leather sofa and chairs, an antique bookcase and Scrabble, and tables
where we ate when the weather was too chilly for the deck. The food
was outstandingly good...'
...'
While the big ships charged by as if permanently late, the El Bey moved
at the same courtly pace as the Nile - slow enough to enable us to smell
woodsmoke from the villages and watch the kingfishers hover. Under our
isosceles sails we were as much a curiosity as the boys laying fishing
nets and the women doing laundry, the donkey carts and buffalo. But
it was the sight of some 40 huge cruise boats, moored in ranks, cheek
by gunwale up to 10 deep, at the pretty little temple of Kom Ombo that
made the greatest sense of dahabiya travel. The dahabiyas dont take
you to sites different from the norm, but they do take you in irresistibly
different style...'
...'The
greatest compliment to the El Bey was that, for all the wonders of ancient
Egypt, shown to us by our own guide, the part of the week my fellow
passengers enjoyed most was the time on the river...'
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