16Jan
Egypt
Visit the most memorable archaeological sites in the world in a land whose origins and ancient civilizations date back more than 5,000 years. This is the land where Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus fled from King Herod with all of its pyramids, temples, monuments and museums.
Cairo
- The Great Pyramids of Giza
Nile Cruise
- See Upper Egypt and the ancient temples and burial places of the Pharaohs
Memphis & Sakkara
- The Sphinx and the Colossus of Ramses the Great
- “Stairway to the Sky,” the original pyramid
Luxor & Karnak
- The Temple of Luxor
- Donkey ride to Karnak to see the Avenue of the Sphinxes, the unfinished Propylon, the Hypostyle Hall, the Obelisks of Queen Hatchepsut and Tutmosis III, the Temple of Amon, the Granite Scarabeus of Amenophis II and the Sacred Lake
- Thebes and the Valley of the Kings
- Colossi of Memnon, the first ruins visible when arriving by ferry and the sole surviving remains of the funerary temple of Amenhotep III which, according to recent discoveries, was more vast than the complex of Karnak
- The Temple of Karnak, the most important place of worship in all Egypt during Theban power