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All tours depart from New York on Tuesday and return to New York on Saturday of the following
week (if we arrange your international air travel to Egypt). Tours may be scheduled each week of the year except from January 1st through April 1st. This is a low priced, fully guided tour. A holiday surcharge applies for departures in December (Christmas Holiday) and Spring Break (usually in April).

This is a special tour of Egypt designed for those who would like to see Egypt by train, prefer not to
fly, or want a less expensive tour that still visits all the major sights. This fully guided tour is designed
primarily for the first time visitor to Egypt, who has limited time or whose schedule does not permit
participation in our Egyptian Odyssey tour. It is a 12 day, 11 night (including international travel
which is available for an added cost), trip which includes visits to the most important and famous
pharaonic monuments in Egypt (Abu Simbel is included at an additional cost, if desired). There are also brief visits to the most important Islamic, Coptic and Jewish sites in Cairo. A high standard of quality is maintained throughout, including stays in four-star and five-star hotels.

For a FREE color brochure, email us with your name and mailing address. If, in addition, you would like to reserve space on this trip, indicate the trip name (TRAIN) and the desired date, and we will send you information, plus save you a place for 10 days. Then if you
decide to participate, you will be sure of having a spot. Of course, you are under no obligation.

Day 1, Tuesday, New York/Cairo
If Museum Tours arranges your air, your plane will depart from New York on Egypt Air at 6:30 pm.
O/N - on board plane

Day 2, Wednesday, Cairo
Upon your arrival in Cairo you will be met at the airport by a Museum Tours representative and transferred to the Mena House Hotel, located

near the Pyramids.
B - in flight, L, D - on your own
O/N - Mena House

Day 3, Thursday, Cairo
Spend all day at the Giza Plateau where you will visit the Pyramids of Khufu, Khafra, & Menkaura, the Sphinx and Valley Temple of Khafra and the Solar Boat Museum. You will also visit the tombs of the Nobles, Qar and Idu.
B - Mena House, L, D - on your own, O/N - Mena House

Day 4, Friday, Cairo
The morning will be spent at the necropolis at Saqqara, including visits to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the Pyramid of Pepi and the tomb of Mereruka. In the afternoon visit the ancient capital of Memphis with its beautiful colossus of Rameses II. This evening you will board your train for an overnight ride to Luxor.
B - Mena House, L - Saqqara Palm Club, D - on your own, O/N - on board train

Day 5, Saturday, Luxor
This morning, disembark from the train and transfer to the

New Winter Palace Hotel. After dropping off your luggage

you will visit the grand Temple of Karnak, the largest temple

complex in the world. After lunch you will visit the Temple

of Luxor. The rest of the day is free.
B - on board train, L, D - On your own
O/N - New Winter Palace

Day 6. Sunday, Luxor
A drive across the Nile will bring you to the Valley of the

Kings where you will visit the Tomb of Tutankhamen and

three other royal tombs. Then on to the Valley of the

Queens and Deir el Bahri, where you will see the temple

of the female pharaoh, Hatshepsut. On the way back to your hotel you will stop for a photo of the Colossi of Memnon, great statues that once stood before the temple of Amenhotep III.
B - New Winter Palace, L, D - On your own, O/N - New Winter Palace

Day 7, Monday, Luxor
This morning you will cross the Nile once again to visit the workers' village at Deir el Medina and the

Tomb of Sennedjem. Your morning visits include the Ramesseum (mortuary temple of Rameses II)

and Medinet Habu (mortuary temple of Rameses III and the best preserved

New Kingdom temple) B - New Winter Palace, L, D - on your own,

O/N - New Winter Palace

Day 8, Tuesday, Luxor/Aswan
Today you will board your van and drive to Aswan. along the way you will stop to visit the Temple of

Horus at Edfu (the best preserved temple on the Nile) and the twin Temples of Horus and Sobek at

Kom Ombo. Upon your arrival in Aswan you will transfer to the five-star New Cataract Hotel.
B - New Winter Palace, L - box lunch enroute, D - on your own, O/N - New Cataract

Day 9, Wednesday, Aswan
Today you will visit the Temple of Isis at Philae (considered by many to be the most beautiful in Egypt) and the ancient granite quarry with the unfinished obelisk of Hatshepsut. After lunch a relaxing Felucca ride on the Nile will complete your day.
B - New Cataract, L, D - on your own, O/N - New Cataract

Day 10, Thursday, Aswan
Today you have a choice. You can opt for a free day in Aswan or join us for an optional side trip to visit

the great rock cut temples of Rameses II at Abu Simbel. In the afternoon you will begin your overnight

train ride to Cairo.
B - New Cataract, L, D - on your own
O/N - on board train

Day 11, Friday, Cairo
Upon your arrival in Cairo you will transfer to the four-star Novotel Heliopolis. After dropping off your

bags you will visit Old Cairo with its Christian and Jewish past, the Citadel of Saladin and the Alabaster

Mosque of Mohamed Ali. The entire afternoon will be spent in the Egyptian Museum where you will

see the Treasurers of Tutankhamen, the Royal Mummy room and much, much more. In the evening

stroll through the world famous Khan el Khalili Bazaar.
B - on board train, L, D - on your own, O/N - Novotel Heliopolis

Day 12, Saturday, Cairo/New York
This morning you will be taken to the Cairo airport for your flight home.
B - Novotel Heliopolis