Egypt small group holiday, added comfort
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Description of Egypt small group holiday, added comfort
Discover the ancient treasures of Egypt in style with this thrilling small group tour. You’ll be whisked from the iconic landmarks of Cairo to Aswan, followed by a three-night small ship cruise along the mighty River Nile, and culminating in a day spent exploring the Valley of the Kings. If you want to see Egypt but you only have limited time, this fast-paced tour will ensure you see and experience as much as possible while also benefitting local people, and animals.
Begin in Cairo, where you’ll tour the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx in the enthralling company of a professional Egyptologist guide, there to help you understand the significance of these legendary sights, and how they were built. You’ll then continue to one of the largest museums in the world, the Grand Egyptian Museum, where some of the greatest treasures of the ancient world are on display, including the contents of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Leaving the capital behind, take the short flight south to Aswan. Here you’ll visit the Temple of Isis on Philae Island, and learn the remarkable story of how the temple was saved from the rising waters of the Nile by being entirely relocated. Afterwards, the most special meal of your trip, as you dine with a local Nubian family in their home, tour their village, and have a chance to learn a little about their culture and daily lives.
The following day, your group will board a stylish and comfortable riverboat for a small ship cruise along the Nile. Settle in on the sundeck to watch the scenery on the riverbank, always a highlight of any Nile cruise. While you relax and get over the exertions of the past few days, you’ll also enjoy a couple of popular excursions including a tour of the intriguing Kom Ombo temple, where mummified crocodiles have been found, and a jaunt aboard a traditional felucca sailing boat.
Arriving in Luxor you’ll disembark and move to a hotel. The penultimate full day of your tour will be spent here roaming one of the world’s greatest archaeological sites: the Valley of the Kings. Entry to three tombs is included, and your tour leader will be happy to add historical context to your explorations as you make your way around.
Flying back to Cairo on day eight, before your group bids farewell and goes their separate ways, a chance to see modern Egypt. You’ll take a guided tour of the colourful Khan al-Khalili Bazaar, a maze of alleyways divided into sections selling silks, perfumes, spices, and a wealth of other souvenir potential.
We mentioned at the start that this Egypt holiday helps animals. Working animals such as horses, camels, and donkeys are, sadly, poorly treated at many tourist sites around the world, including some in Egypt. Your tour operator makes a donation for every trip to a foundation that cares for sick and injured animals, while empowering local communities to better care for them.
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Planet
We recommend low carbon transport and make the journey as stimulating and sustainable as the stay.Where possible we choose to travel by land rather than air. By minimizing the use of flights on our trips, we are making journeys more stimulating and more sustainable for travellers. This trip through Egypt primarily travels by boat and private vehicle. We ensure our vehicles are well maintained and fuel-efficient. We use vehicles that are an appropriate size to suit the group size. For example, we wouldn’t use a 16-seater van if we only had five people travelling with us. We plan our routes of travel so that we spend as little time as possible travelling and turn the engine off when travellers are visiting a site and not in the vehicle.
Our trips often include the highlights of a country or region, but we understand that over tourism has a great impact on these popular locations and their local communities. To minimise our effect on the world’s most admired sites we design our itineraries to visit at quieter times of the day and ensure part of the entry costs are allocated to conservation and preservation of the site. This trip includes guided visits of many Ancient Egyptian sites and entry to the Grand Egyptian Museum. A portion of the admission prices for these inclusions goes towards preserving these sites and exhibits for future generations, further research into the region’s history, and continuing explorations of archaeological sites in Egypt.
People
Our trips maximize the opportunity for travellers to engage meaningfully with local culture and communities. Many experiences on our trips also support traditional cultural practices – whether artisanal, culinary or otherwise. In turn, this helps to sustain and preserve these traditional practices so that future generations may continue to learn, enjoy and benefit from them. This trip includes two meals with local families in Aswan and Cairo, providing opportunities for sharing recipes and stories, while directly supporting two local families. The restaurant we use for the welcome dinner and the café visited at the end of the trip are both locally owned venues that are popular with the people of Cairo. While they welcome tourists, these venues pride themselves on serving traditionalAll aspects of this trip (on the ground) are operated by Egyptians. This includes our leaders, vehicle drivers, local site guides, and accommodation staff. Our local Egyptian office employs 11 full time employees and 29 trip leaders. Of these trip leaders eight are women. In addition to local training and development opportunities, four members of our Egyptian office team have joined global management and business training courses in Melbourne, London and Colombo.
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