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Sonesta Dahabeya Luxor-Aswan - 07 nights/08 days

Saturday

-  Embarkation in Luxor for a relaxing week sailing the Nile on a luxuriously appointed dahabiyya.

- After lunch, excursion to 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 on the Nile banks of Luxor.

Sunday

- You will visit 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 MedinetHabu and the Colossi of Memnon.

- Sail on the way to ESNA. (noon time)     

- Overnight near by ESNA.

 

Monday

- Today will be a leisurely day. After breakfast, commence sailing     

- 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 a Nile island.         

 

Wednesday

- Today you will sail on the way to KomOmbo.     

- Overnight moored beside a Nile island.         

 

Thursday

-  Visit KOM OMBO to see the Ptolemaic temple dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon-headed Horus, god of the morning sun.     

- A leisurely sailing to Aswan and moored nearby Aswan Bridge.

 

Friday

- 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.

        

Saturday

-  Breakfast aboard the dahabeya followed by disembarkation.