Egypt history tour
| country: | Egypt |
| location: | Luxor |
| departures: | 2008: 1 Nov |
| price: | From £1200 (11 days) excluding flights |
the amazing things you'll be doing
A unique trip to historically and archeologically rich sites of Egypt led by Key Egyptologist /Anthropologist Dr. Rawia Ismail ; the Guest Lecturer will be Professor Barry Kemp, the Director of the Amarna Project and the Chairman of the Amarna Trust who has directed excavations and survey work there since 1977.
Travellers will visit sites as Lahun Pyramids & Kahun workmen’s village near Fayum, the Tombs of Beni Hassan Sites of Tell El-Amarna, the rock cut Tombs of Hemmamiya & Qau El-Kebir & Meir Temples of Dendera & Abydos.
Travellers will visit sites as Lahun Pyramids & Kahun workmen’s village near Fayum, the Tombs of Beni Hassan Sites of Tell El-Amarna, the rock cut Tombs of Hemmamiya & Qau El-Kebir & Meir Temples of Dendera & Abydos.
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Outbound flight from home country. Overnight Cairo. |
| Day 2: | Visit Medieval Cairo, and the remains of the Islamic Fatimide era as Bab El- Fetouh, Bab El Nasr, Bab Zuweila & El- Darb EL Ahmar. Overnight Cairo. |
| Day 3: | Drive to Minya via Fayum. Visit the Lahun pyramids and the Kahun workmen’s village in Fayum. Overnight Minya. |
| Day 4: | Visit the East bank sites of Minya, Tehneh El-Gabel, Zawiyet Sultan, Istabl Antar & Beni Hasan. Overnight Minya. |
| Day 5: | Full day tour in the ancient capital of Amarna, The city contains remains of palaces (where Akhenaton lived with his wife Nefertiti) and the houses of the nobility. Overnight Minya. |
| Day 6: | Full day tour in Amarna. Overnight Minya. |
| Day 7: | Visit the tombs of Tuna El-Gabel & ancient city of El Ashmunein. Then drive to Asyut and visit Meir tombs. Overnight Asyut. |
| Day 8: | Visit the rock cut tombs of Hemmamiya and Qau El-Kebir south of Asyut. Then drive to Sohag. Overnight Sohag. |
| Day 9: | Visit Akhmim, Atribes and the Red &White Monasteries. Overnight Sohag. |
| Day 10: | Drive to Luxor and visit on the way the temples of Abydos and Dendera. Overnight Luxor. |
| Day 11: | End of Tour. Travellers can fly back home or extend their stay in Luxor, Aswan, Red Sea, Sinai or Cairo. |
how this holiday makes a difference
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Professor Barry Kemp has been working in Amarna Middle Egypt for the 20 years, through which a lot of excavation and restoration work of these precious unique sites that date as early as 1400 BC date back to. This tour is planned to support and raise funds for the work of the Amarna Trust, which promotes archaeological excavation, conservation and research on the Amarna Period.
The tour will visit some of Egypt’s forgotten sites, off the beaten track of regular tourists mainly the city of El Minya, which is known as the 'Bride of Upper Egypt' for linking Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, and lies about 153 miles -240 KMS south of Cairo. Even though El Minya lies typically in between several areas of mass tourist attraction yet it is rarely included in most of the program tours which has negatively influenced the locals in the tourism sector. The log and the pictures of the trip will be used to encourage travellers to visit this forgotten part of Egypt. |
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