Classic Egypt and Sinai, Bedouin Style: Photos And Testimonials Diary of 2007

Arrive Cairo, Movenpick Pyramids - welcome Day: relax around the pool and welcome to Egypt,  the group, and be introduced to Vicki, Amr, our programme, our style and learn the basic yoga and meditation techniques which will be offered during the tour.

Egyptian Museum - the home of some of the most famous monuments in the world, including those wonders of the boy King Tut Ankh Amun.

Pyramids of Giza; Sakkara pyramid which is maybe the oldest man-made stone building in the world.  We will have a look at local handicrafts at a Carpet school.
Back to the hotel to relax before early evening collection to Old Cairo, to attend the performance of the Whirling Dervishes also known as Sufis. Visit the Al Ghouri Wikala (a hostel used by the merchants arriving in caravans) which offered accommodation, stables, storage space and a place to trade. The building is beautiful and the dancing is magnificent. Sufis aspire, through meditation, recitation, dance and music to attain union with God. This is a glimpse at an otherwise underground phenomenon. The musicians create a hypnotic pulse whilst performing with instruments unknown to the West and little known nowadays even in Egypt. Evening meal will be at the amazing Azhar Park, the most beautiful park in Egypt, with a wonderful view of all of Islamic Cairo.

Alexandria for a day among the Greek ruins and that wonderful Mediterranean city, overnight at the Palestine Hotel in the Almontazah Palace Gard
Back to Cairo to visit the other Egypt, the cradle of religions, as we visit the first synagogue, church and mosque in Egypt and Africa with a lunch stop at one of the most famous old restaurants of Cairo (Elhaty).  We ended our day with a walk in the back streets of the most famous Souk in the world (Khan Elkhalili) before we head to the train station for our over-night sleeper train to Aswan.

Philae Temple.

Fly to Abu Simbel to tour around the temple.  We spend the night at a wonderful retreat in Abu Simbel and in the evening we attend the sound and light show Abu Simbel                                            

Watch the sun rise at Abu Simbel temple

  then fly back to Aswan,  visit the Aswan perfumery essential oils shop where Ali will tell us about how the ancient Egyptians refined the oil and worked them on the chakra system. 

Check into our cruise boat (Radamis II)  for lunch, and in the afternoon we take a Felucca ride around the islands and the botanical garden.

Early in the evening we will wander around the back streets of the market area in Aswan.

 Sail to Kom Ombo in the early morning to visit the temple of Kom Ombo and then
continue to visit the temple of Edfu. 

On this night we enjoy a wonderful Egyptian buffet during the Egyptian night on board, with a lot of fun at the bar.

Early morning sail to Luxor, we visit Karnak temple and the Papyrus Institute.  We make
an early evening visit to Luxor Temple then enjoy a belly dancing show with the whirling Dervish in the bar of the boat.