• Arrival Cairo airport

Overnight at the hotel in Cairo. 

• Morning tour - Mohammed Ali Citadel.

• Afternoon tour - Pyramids of Giza, meditation in Sacred Room of Great Pyramid for World Peace, the Sphinx.

• Evening visit to the Perfume Palace to experience exotic perfumes of ancient Egypt.

Overnight at the hotel in Cairo. 

• Talk on the ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, museum tour.

• In the afternoon, visit the papyrus factory to learn how to make Papyrus Paper the ancient way.

Overnight at the hotel in Cairo. 

• 3 hours drive to Alexandria in our air-conditioned bus. 

• Stop at Alamein to visit the WWII Tombs.

• Visit the Roman Rotunda Tombs & Catacombs from the 2nd Century AD  

• Lastly, visit the 2nd Century Roman Theatre.

Overnight at the hotel in Alexandria. 

• Wake up early for an 8-hour drive to the Siwa Oasis - a yellow sandy desert.

• We will enjoy a sunset, on top of Shaly Mountain - a 12th Century Mud Brick City.

• Meditation upon Shaly Mountain. (Siwa is a great place for buying hand-woven rugs at cheap prices.)

Overnight at the Siwa Oasis.  

• Today visit the Mountain of the Dead - an ancient burial place filled with Roman Tombs & Caves carved in Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

• Also, visit the 'Soul Temple of Alexander the Great' dated 332BC.

• Stop by the Cleopatra Springs (known as the Springs of Knowledge & Beauty).

• 4WD through the desert dunes for the afternoon. (You can swim at Cleopatra Springs or the hot & cold springs in the desert.)

Overnight at the hotel in Siwa. 

• Long drive back to Cairo in our air-conditioned bus.

Check into the hotel and have a hot shower!

• Fly to Aswan. Settle into a hotel.

• Take an orientation walk through the market area.

• In the afternoon, enjoy a small tour on the Nile by motorboat

• Head to Elephantine Island 

• Have a delicious dinner with a Nubian family in their cultural setting.

Overnight at the hotel in Aswan.

• Early morning drive through the Sahara Desert to Abu Simbel to visit the Temple of Ramses II.

• In the afternoon we visit the Temple of Philae by motorboat. This temple is dedicated to Isis and tells the story of Osiris and Isis's love.

• Both the Temple of Ramses II & the Temple of Philae were underwater and have been moved & rebuilt by UNESCO during the 1960s.

Return to the hotel.

• Relaxing day sailing on our private Felucca down the Nile River to Luxor, with overnight felucca sleeping.

• All meals cooked for you.

• Meditation on the Nile.

Return to the hotel. 

• After breakfast on the Nile, dock and drive into Luxor. 

• After booking in the hotel, re-group and off to the famous Karnak Temple.

• The afternoon will be spent listening to stories of the vast array of Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. 

• A quick look round the Karnak Markets and then back into Luxor.

• In the evening, visit the Luxor Bazaar - always colourful & exciting!!!

Return to the hotel. 

• West Bank Tour to Colossi of Memnon. Valley of the Kings, a brief stop 'n look-see at Howard Carter's Home - founder of King Tutankhamen's Tomb.

• (Optional Tours on this day are: Hot air ballooning over Valley of the Kings at sunrise, King Tut's Tomb where his Mummy lies, Queen Hatshepsut's Temple).

• After Valley of the Kings, visit the Alabaster Factory.

Return to the hotel. 

• Free day in Luxor.

• Today is your day to shop, lunch or maybe take a horse and carriage ride through Luxor.

Overnight train back to Cairo.

• Visit Coptic Cairo. This extremely old area dates back to the times before Christ.

• In fact, this is where Mary & Joseph came when running away from King Herod to save Baby Jesus from being killed. The alleyways are over 2,000 years old.

Return to the hotel. 

• Departure day - back to Australia.

Arrival Melbourne.