Sonesta Sun Goddess

CATEGORY

5 Star Deluxe

YEAR BUILT :

1993 – Renovated in 2002

CLASSIFICATION :

Certificate of Excellence from American Bureau of Shipping (A.B.S.)

Classified as A1 River Service

FEATURES :

5 Decks 62 suites (20 m2 - 22 m2)

58 Junior suites, 2 Senator suites

1 Presidential suite, and 1 Royal suite with private lounge.

ONBOARD ENTERTAINMENT :

• Welcome drink (non-alcoholic)
• Belly dancer show
• “Gallabiya” party
• Nubian folklore show
• Nightly entertainment

ACCOMMODATION :

• All outside cabins with panoramic windows
• Individually controlled A/C
• Private bathroom with full size bathtub & hair dryer
• Private sitting area in each suite
• Safe deposit box
• Direct dial telephone
• Color TV with video channels
• 3 channel music system
• Mini bar
• Room service (available until midnight).

FACILITIES :

• One sitting restaurant (international cuisine)
• Lounge and discotheque
• Piano and sundeck bars
• Sundeck with barbecue
• Laundry Service
• Fitness equipment on sundeck
• Swimming pool and Jacuzzi
• Billiards and table tennis
• Massage room
• Gift shop bazaar
• Beauty shop
• Laundry service
• Medical service
• Private docking facilities
• Fully equipped conference room (15 persons).
• Captain’s cocktail party (smart casual attire)

Detailed Itinerary

Monday

Our representative will meet you  and accompany you to the point of embarkation.

Embarkation before Lunch

11:00 Lunch

14:00 Visit Karnak & Luxor Temple

The Karnak temple complex, universally known only as Karnak, describes a vast conglomeration of ruined temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings. It is located near Luxor in Egypt. This was ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places"), the main place of worship of the Theban Triad with Amun as its head, in the monumental city of Thebes. The complex retrieves its current name from the nearby and partly surrounding modern village of el-Karnak, some 2.5km north of Luxor.

Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the River Nile in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes) and was founded in 1400 BC. Known in the Egyptian language as ipet resyt, or "the southern harem", the temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, and Chons and was built during the New Kingdom, the focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-isut) to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in a celebration of fertility – whence its name.

17:00 Afternoon Tea

20:00 Dinner

22:00 Belly Dance Show

Overnight in Luxor

Tuesday

05:30 Wake up Call

05:30 Breakfast

06:30 West Bank Visit (Valley of Kings & Queens, Hatshepsut)

Located in Luxor, Valley of the Kings is famous for the discovery of 65 Kings, Queens and Nobles tombs. The latest tomb discoverd only 2 years ago. You can explore many of these tombs, including King Tutankhamen's. The decoration and colour inside these tombs are incredible, and you'll find some tombs up to 200 meters long from the entrance to the burial chamber. You will then head to the impressive 18th dynasty Mortuary Temple for Queen Hatshepsut which is located over the hill from the Valley of the Kings.

11:30 Sail to Esna

The Egyptian city of Esna is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, in the modern Qena Governorate.

12:30 Lunch

17:00 Afternoon Tea

20:00 Captain's Welcome Cocktail Party

20:30 Dinner

22:00 Disco

Overnight in Esna

Wednesday

04:00 Sail to Edfu

08:00 Wake-up Call

08:00 Breakfast

09:00 Visit Edfu Temple by Horse Carriages

11:00 Sail to Kom Ombo

The town is known for the major Ptolemaic temple, built between 237 BCE and 57 BCE, into the reign of Cleopatra VII. Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved. Built from sandstone blocks, the huge Ptolemaic temple was constructed over the site of a smaller New Kingdom temple, oriented east to west, facing towards the river. The later structure faces north to south and leaves the ruined remains of the older temple pylon to be seen on the east side of the first court.

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Kom Ombo visits

Kom Ombo is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with the city north of Naqada that was also called Nubt/Ombos). It became a Greek settlement during the Greco-Roman Period. The town's location on the Nile 50 km north of Aswan (Syene) gave it some control over trade routes from Nubia to the Nile Valley, but its main rise to prominence came with the erection of the temple in the 2nd century BC.

17:00 Afternoon Tea

20:00 Dinner

21:30 Galabya Party

Overnight in Kom Ombo

Thursday

04:30 Sail to Aswan

It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.

Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was six years earlier. As of 18 January 2009[update], the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13, 2006. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses.

08:00 Breakfast

09:30 Visit the High Dam, the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae

12:00 Lunch

15:30 Sail on the Nile by Felucca, a traditional wooden sailing boat, around Kitchener's Island

Kitchener's Island is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt.

17:00 Afternoon Tea

19:30 Dinner

21:30 Nubian Folkloric Show

Overnight in Aswan

Friday

Wake-up Call

07:00 Breakfast

08:00 Disembarkation

• Itineraries may be changed without a prior notice due to navigational circumstances, may be in sequences but not in visits