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Sonesta Dahabeya Aswan-Luxor - 07 nights/08 days

Saturday

-  Embarkation in Aswan for a relaxing week sailing the Nile on a luxuriously appointed  dahabeya.

-  Overnight, the ship moors on the Nile banks of Aswan

 

Sunday

- Today you will visit the Aswan High Dam (completed in 1971); the Old Dam (completed in 1902).     

- 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.     

- Sail on the way to KOM OMBO ( noon time )     

- Overnight nearby KOM OMBO.

- Sail to Kom Ombo to 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.

 

Tuesday

- This morning you will sail to Edfu to visit the wonderfully preserved Temple of Edfu.

-  Overnight moored beside an island.

 

Wednesday

- Today will be a leisurely day.     

- After breakfast, commence sailing to Esna and passing the lock, then dahabeya will moor beside a Nile island.

 

Thursday

-    This morning you will sail to Luxor and visit the magnificent temple complex of Amon-Ra at Karnak with its vast hypostyle hall of 137 columns, followed by the imposing 28th Dynasty Luxor Temple

-    Overnight moored in Luxor.         

 

Friday

- Excursion to the West Bank to visit the great 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, Medinet Habu Temple and the Colossi of  Memnon.

 

Saturday

- Breakfast aboard the dahabeya followed by disembarkation.