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Day 01: Arrival to Cairo international Apt by Egypt air from Tbilisi;

Meeting and assistance of Vanilla Sky Representative. There will be easy visa ready to avoid standing in rows for visa. After immigrations & customs control, transfer by comfortable air conditioned vehicles (soft drinks will be served on the way) from Airport to Hotel. Arrival to The hotel Intercontinental Cairo.

Day 02: Full day Cairo tour by comfortable air conditioned cars. Visit to Pyramids, Sphinx & Sakkara pyramids. Lunch in an oriental Restaurant, Lights and Sound Sphinx Show, return back to the hotel.

Day 03: Breakfast, checkout from the hotel & transfer to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan , transfer to Nile Cruise.

Embarkation before lunch. Visit the High Dam, the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae.

Philae is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt. The complex was dismantled and relocated to a nearby island when the building of the Aswan Dam threatened to flood the site.

Lunch on Board

Sail to Kom Ombo. Visit Sobek Temple.

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.

Sail to Edfu. Overnight in Edfu.

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.

Day 04: Breakfast, visit Horus temple. Lunch. Sail to Esna.

The city of Esna is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, in the modern Qena Governorate. Sail to Luxor. Dinner and overnight in Luxor.

Day 05: Breakfast, 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 color 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. Overnight in Luxor.

Day 06: Breakfast.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.