Posted on October 4, 2010.
Cruise on the River Nile Deluxe Sunray MS Sunray boat cruise on the Nile has been designed to the highest standards, providing services and facilities of a 5 star luxury. Cabins overlooking the Nile through the windows. Sunray is one of the most luxurious and largest ships on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan.
Cruise Itinerary:
Aswan / Luxor Every Friday
3 nights / 4 days
Day 1: Holidays Nile Cruise - Aswan
Holiday cruise on the Nile will begin with the transfer of point of arrival or at your hotel in Aswan on board the MS Sunray river cruise on the Nile to 12 hours. Lunch will be served on board Nile cruise, followed by a tour in Aswan to visit High Dam built in 1970. With the dam created a reservoir of water, called Lake Nasser. The dam is 114 meters high and 3.6 km long, is the unfinished obelisk at its original location in a granite quarry in Aswan. It is 42m long and was most probably abandoned when some cracks appeared in the rock during construction. If this obelisk been completed, it would have been the heaviest obelisk ever cut in ancient Egypt, weighing nearly 1100 tons! Also you visit the Temple of Isis at Philae is one of the largest temples in Egypt and it occupies about one quarter of the island. It is the main temple on the island, with its huge scenes, complete, and beautiful towers. Then you will be transferred to cruise the night.
Day 2: Cruise Holidays Nile - Kom Ombo / Edfu
You will have breakfast on the cruise. Then you can watch at Abu Simbel temple, optional tour. At 10 am to sail Kom Ombo to visit Kom Ombo temple constructed during the Greco-Roman period. The temple is unique because it is actually a double temple, dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and Horus the falcon-headed god. The development combines two temples in which each side has its own gateways and chapels. Then you can sail to Edfu, lunch will be served during sailing. Edfu Temple is the best preserved and the second after Karnak. It was dedicated to the falcon-headed god Horus. The temple, you see was built during the reigns of six Ptolemies - began in 237 BC and ended in 57 BC. Edfu was supposed to have been the site of the great battle between Horus and Seth. Then you return to the Nile cruise, and dinner while sailing to Esna enjoy Galabeya board game. Overnight will go to Esna.
Day 3: Nile Cruise Holidays - East and West Bank Luxor
Breakfast will be served during sailing to Luxor. By the finish, you will be transferred to visit the West Bank of the River Nile. You leave Colossi of Memnon, two colossal statue of Amenhotep III, then visit the Valley of Kings where tombs were hidden in the desert rock, richly decorated with treasure beyond the pharaohs, you will visit 3 of them. Following the visit to Hatshepsut temple rises from the desert rock with a series of terraces, dedicated to Queen Hatshepsut as pharaoh famous woman. Then you return on board the cruise with breakfast, then you can visit the east bank of the Nile. You will see the Karnak temple dedicated to the god Amun, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu, each pharaoh left to remember him there and let u get through centuries. Continue your visit to the Temple of Luxor built by Amenhotep III for size and number of pillars. It was connected by 3 paved driveway kilimetres sp.
