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Glass Boat Trip From Sharm El Sheikh Port

Admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:46:59 +0000

Private Tours representative will pick up from your Cruise Ship in Sharm El Sheikh Port Marina by air-conditioned vehicle, drive to the jetty, where our glass bottom boat will be waiting for you. Experience the unique underwater environment with glass bottom boat as even getting your feet wet. It is a great way for the whole family to discover the underwater life in the Red Sea. The boat is two levels. You enter the boat at sea level and go inside to take a seat on either side of the boat looking onto large glass windows at the bottom of the boat. It take about 10 minutes sailing to the viewing site where the glass bottom slows down and drifts over areas of coral allowing guests to view the underwater life. The view and the colors can be seen clearly and commentary of the fish and coral is provided in a surprising range of languages. The tour of the reef lasts 45 minutes to an hour after which the guests are invited on the top deck for a complementary soft drink, while they enjoy the sea breeze and a leisurely cruise back to the jetty while enjoying the view of the bay. Sail by the boat along the Gulf of Aqaba for around one hour, enjoy with watching the amazing fishes and the beautiful coral reefs of Sharm el Sheikh. At the end of the trip we will drive you back to your Cruise Ship in Sharm El Sheikh Port Marina.

Ras Mohammed Trip from Sharm El Sheikh Port Marina

Admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:26:05 +0000

Pick up from your hotel in Ship at Sharm El Sheikh Port Marina, drive to the jetty to board the boat. Start sailing to Ras Mohammed National Park around 09:00. Sail toward one of the most beautiful sites all over the world, the first and the only national park in Egypt where there are more than 130 sorts of coral reefs and more than 1000 sorts of fishes. The boat will stop three times and you will get a chance to snorkel or swim in the famous beaches of the national park. The boat will stop between 2-3 times in different spots to let you do a great snorkeling in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aqba & Gulf of Suez. Lunch meal with soft drinks and mineral water will be served onboard the boat. Start sailing back to the jetty, where you will be picked up by air-conditioned vehicle and driven back to your Ship in Sharm El Sheikh Port Marina

Trip to St. Catherine from Sharm El Sheikh Port

Admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:14:17 +0000

Private Tours representative will pick you up from your Ship in Sharm El Sheikh Marina 07:00 in the morning and drive to St. Catherine National Park. During the drive you will enjoy with Sinai desert landscape, different altitudes of the granite-mountains. We will drive through the old caravan road which was used by Nabatians in the ancient times, the views there are amazing.
St. Catherine monastery Tour
The monastery is situated 1571 m above sea level and dates back to Roman times 542 A.D. We will visit the church of St. Catherine which considered one of the most famous churches all over the world. There is a magnificent mosaic depicting the transfiguration of Jesus in the apse inside the church. It is the earliest and one the most beautiful mosaics of the Eastern Church and has remained in its entirety to our days. In artistic style it is similar to the Italian school of this period, especially the mosaics in the church of S. Vitalius, as well as in the Higia Sofia in Constantinople. The Library which is considered the second in importance only to the Vatican, in both number and the value of the manuscripts it contains 3000 items. The Charnel house is a repository of the bones of the monks who died at St. Catherine over the centuries. The dead are first buried in a small cemetery, disinterred and their bones deposited in the charnel house. The Burning Bush flourishes several yards farther from the chapel where it was transplanted in order to build the holy Alter upon its roots. It is the only bush of its kind growing in the entire Sinai Peninsula. Moses well, the Icon gallery of the monastery you will visit as well. Lunch meal will be served in a local restaurant in St. Catherine city. At the end of the tour we will drive back to Sharm el Sheikh, the desert landscape & forms of mountains on the way to Sharm el Sheikh Port are amazing and deserve to be seen. Drop off at your ship in Sharm El Sheikh Marina.

Trip to Wadi Rum from Aqaba Port, Jordan

Admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:13:16 +0000

Pick up service from your ship terminal in Aqaba port, where our REP will meet you with aboard reflecting your name, then from Aqaba port you will be transferred by air-conditioned vehicle with your private guide to the region known as Wadi Rum. It is actually a series of valleys about 2km wide stretching north to south for about 130km. The way will take only 1 hour. The local people in Wadi Rum are also incredibly friendly, their hospitality is part of their creed that no traveler is turned away. This is part of a desert code of survival. Once taken in, a guest will be offered the best of the available food and plenty of tea and coffee. By about the 4th century ВС, Wadi Rum was settled by the Nabataeans who built temples and wrote inscriptions on the rocks – many of which can still be seen. By jeep 4×4 enjoy your Wadi Rum tour by visiting Wadi Um Eshreen, Sand Dunes has a small section of beautiful red sand up the slope of Jebel Umm Ulaydiyya. Next step in Wadi Rum will be Al Khazali, it is a narrow canyon with petroglyphs etched into the cave walls depicting humans and antelopes dating back to the Thamudic times, can be explored on foot for about 150m until you reach some rocks, Abu Aineh which has a spring, one of the impressive rock formations in Wadi Rum was named “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” for its shape. Also you will see Barrah Siq is long (about 5km) canyon and it is worth to be explored. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant in Wadi Rum, then you will be transferred back to Aqaba to your ship terminal in Aqaba port.( End of Wadi rum tour from Aqaba port)

Day Trip to Petra from Aqaba Port, Jordan

Admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:40:45 +0000

Our Petra trip will start with pick up service from your ship at Aqaba port, where you will be met by our REP with a board reflecting your name, then you will be transferred by air-conditioned vehicle to Petra city in mountains. Petra is the treasure of ancient world, hidden behind an almost impenetrable barrier of rugged mountains. Petra city was lost to Europeans until it was rediscovered in 1812 by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.Petra is considered the most famous and gorgeous site in Jordan located about 262 km south of Amman and 133 km north of Aqaba, which colored in different nuance of red, depended from time of day, which you will join with your private guide. There is one way for getting to Petra city across canyon Siq, which you will pass by riding the horse and by end of it in all magnificence appears Al Khazneh monument – other name Treasure. You will walk on the streets of this mystic Petra city with its buildings, tombs, baths, funerary halls, temples, arched gateways, and colonnaded streets, that were mostly carved from the kaleidoscopic sandstone by the technical and artistic genius of its inhabitants. In the way you will see Roman-style Theatre, Archeological Museum, with rich collection of finds in Petra, Nabataean museum set into the hillside of Al-Habees. You will have lunch at local restaurant in Petra, then drive back to Aqaba to have small city tour and free time to get souvenirs. After you will be transferred to your ship at Aqaba port.

Highlights of Egypt Tour Package

Admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:37:53 +0000

Day 1: Arrival Cairo, Egypt.
Arrival to Cairo and transfer to the hotel. Overnight in the hotel.
No Meal Included + 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 2: Alexandria Tour.
Breakfast and leave for a day tour to Alexandria by Car. Visit the Bibliotheca, Catacombs, Roman Amphitheatre and Montzah Gardens. Back to Cairo and Overnight stay in the hotel. Meal Included: Breakfast+ 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 3: Giza Tour – Sleeping Train to Aswan.
Full day tour visit the Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Day visit to Memphis and Sakkara, Papyrus Institute, Perfume Factory, Jewellery Shop, transfer to the train station, take the sleeper train to Aswan dinner in the train. Mean included: Breakfast & Dinner+ 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 4: Arrive Aswan – Nile Cruise Tour.
Arrival at Aswan) Then you will be transferred to embark your Nile River Cruise ship in Aswan, where we will enjoy the next 4 days/3 nights deluxe Nile cruise holiday between Aswan and Luxor. Afternoon time you will be accompanied by your Egyptologist guide for an exciting tour to the world famous High Dam that was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s. It contains 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops; continue to the granite quarries which supplied the ancient Egyptian pharaohs with most of the hard stone used in pyramids and temples.
The quarries still hold the famous Unfinished Obelisk and then you will be taking by motor-boat to island of Egilka visit the majestic Philae temple that was dedicated to the Goddesses Isis. With final optional evening excursion will offer the sound and light show at the Temple of Philae Return to your ship for dinner free time at leisure in Aswan and overnight stay aboard the cruise. Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner + 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 5: Nile Cruise – Kom Ombo – Edfu.
Before breakfast aboard your Nile cruise you may enjoy the amazing sunset view from your river cruise in Aswan with free time at leisure in Aswan and then sail to Kom Ombo to visit the temple the crocodile-headed God of fertility and creator of the world and then return to your cruise vessel to sail to Edfu where you will be transferred by horse drawn carriage to visit the famous Edfu temple also know as the temple of Horus & Haroeris, the falcon-headed solar war god is the largest and most perfectly preserved of all the Nile temples, back to the Nile cruise by the same way to sail to Luxor with lunch, afternoon tea and dinner aboard your cruise and overnight stay. Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner + 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 6: Nile Cruise – Luxor Tour.
Breakfast onboard the Nile cruise, and then you will be moved into the West Bank of the river Nile to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon), and then visit the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs discovered, those tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs, you will visit 3 tombs. Continue the tour to visit the Hatshipsut temple at El Deir ElBahary, this impressive temple dedicated to the Queen Hatshepsut the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it then back to the cruise for lunch, afternoon tea and dinner aboard your cruise and overnight stay Tonight, if you wish, enjoy an optional sound and light show at the Temple of Karnak. Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner + 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 7: Nile Cruise Luxor – Sleeping Train to Cairo.
Early Morning Hot air balloon trip in Luxor (included). Breakfast onboard the cruise, and then you will accompanied by our English Egyptologist expert guide to visit Karnak Temple, the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name Ipet-isut means “the most sacred of places.” The temple, or, more correctly, the complex of temples, was built over more than two thousand years by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars. Then you will be transferred to the majestic Luxor temple which built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for ritual and festivals and dedicated to the god Amun with free time for shopping in Luxor and then you will be transferred to Luxor airport to fly to Cairo with direct transfer to your hotel for free time at leisure with overnight stay. Meal included: Breakfast and Dinner+ 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 8: Cairo Tour.
Pick up from the train station in Cairo by our representative to Visit the Egyptian Museum, Old part of Cairo (Hanging Church and Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque and Ben Ezra synagogue)Transfer to Hotel in Cairo for Overnight stay. Sound and light show at the Pyramids (included). Meal included: Breakfast + 2 Mineral Water Bottles.

Day 9: Cairo – Home.
Free time at your hotel in Cairo, Opportunity for last minute shopping and souvenirs. Transfer to Cairo airport to fly back home.

Ancient Alexandria Day Tour From Alexandria Hotels

Admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:11:07 +0000

Pick you up from your hotel by your professional English Egyptologist tour guide will accompany you to start your tour in Alexandria by visiting the Pompey’s pillar which is column raised in 300 A.D. in honor of Emperor Diocletian, who saved the city of Alexandria from a frightful famine. On the western side of the column is engraved, “To the just Emperor, the god of Alexandria, the invincible Diocletian.” Nevertheless it was called Pompey’s Pillar by the French under certain mistaken impression regarding Pompey’s head. then transfer to visit catacomb kom el shoqafa this necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funeral cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences, and then transfer to visit the Roman theater ,The Roman theater is located in the modern area of Kom El-Dikaa, and dating back to the 2nd century A.D, At the end of the tour you will be visiting the newly-opened Library of Alexandria, if you are interested in the end of your tour you will back to your hotel in Alexandria.

Islamic and Coptic Cairo Day trip from Alexandria Port

Admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:29:23 +0000

Islamic and Coptic Cairo Day trip from Alexandria Port, Private Tours representative will pick you up from your ship at the Port of Alexandria, at the cruise exit door. You will then enjoy a shore excursion and day trip from Alexandria to Cairo, with a trip time of approximately 2 ½ hours via a private, air-conditioned vehicle. You’ll enjoy numerous sights during your trip, but the highlight will be the Islamic and Coptic Christian sites in Cairo. Your first stop will be the Salah El Din Citadel, which includes the Alabaster Mosque of Mohammed Ali. You will also visit the Al Gowhara Palace, erected by the Mamelukes. Ibn Tulun Mosque and the Museum of Gair Anderson are also on the itinerary. You’ll enjoy a break for lunch at an authentic local restaurant, before heading on to Old Cairo, where you will see the ancient Roman fortress, the famed Hanging Church (Al Mo’allaka Church) and Abu Serga Church. Your tour will conclude with a trip to the Coptic Museum, before returning to Alexandria port to board your ship.

El Alamein World War II history Tour from Alexandria

Admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:01:59 +0000

El Alamein Day Tour from Alexandria, you will be picked up by Private Tours representative from your hotel in Alexandria. From this point, you will enjoy a day tour to El Alamein, which lies approximately 110 km from Alexandria.Here, you will enjoy the WWII cemetery, as well as numerous historical sites that speak of the ferocity of the Battle of El Alamein. The Military Museum is your first actual stop, where you will see weapons, military garb and even tanks of the day. Also of interest are the descriptions of the actions taken by Rommel, Montgomery and others during the battle. Lunch meal will be served at local restaurant before continuing to the WWII cemetery, located on the western edge of town, with stunning views of the sea. Greek, Italian, German and Commonwealth soldiers all lie at rest here. After paying your respects, you will return to Alexandria back to your hotel.

Overnight Tour to Cairo and Alexandria from Alexandria port

Admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:46:21 +0000

Day 1: Alexandria Port – Pyramids & Egyptian Museum
You will be picked up from your ship in Alexandria by private Tours representative, who will meet you at the Port of Alexandria, by the cruise exit door. You will board an air-conditioned private vehicle to travel to Cairo, a trip of about 2 ½ hours. You will enjoy a visit to the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus, before heading out to the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple, both of which date back to the ancient time of Chephren. Lunch at local restaurant , then continue your tour to the Egyptian Museum, where you will enjoy more than 5,000 years of history and culture, displayed in more than 250,000 unique artifacts. One of the highlights here are the treasures of Tutankhamen, recovered in the 1920s after more than 3,500 years buried in the desert. Optional dinner cruise on the Nile for 2 hours. You will stay the night in Cairo.

Day 2: Alexandria Tour – Port
Early morning breakfast at your hotel in Cairo and then travel back to Alexandria via a modern, air-conditioned vehicle. Once in Alexandria, you will visit the Roman Catacombs, which consist of three level cut in the rock . You will also visit Qaitbay Citadel, built in the 15th century, as well as modern Alexandria Library. Before rejoining your cruise ship, you will enjoy lunch in the city.Transfer to the port of Alexandria to board your cruise ship