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Egypt on a Yacht

The 11-Day Tour : Cairo and a cruise on a Deluxe Dahabia
( Deluxe Felucca)

 

Here's the best of Egypt : a good look at Cairo and a one week Yacht Felucca cruise along the Nile and even include the Abu Simbel Ramses temples in Nubia , locally escorted. Tour Starts Weekly in Cairo . The cruise boarding is in either Luxor or Aswan. These Deluxe Feluccas or Dahabiyas are Air Conditioned. Compare with the 10 Day Yasmina and Haya Dahabiya Version.
Combine with Morocco. Add An extra night?
Add a beach resort stay at Sharm El Sheikh . Compare with the 13-day version

 

Honeymoon cruise, cruise on boardthe Royal Cleopatra , sailing boat royal cleopatra

Deluxe air-conditioned Dahabiya Yachts on the The Nile River . Available for Private Charter .
Each Deluxe Dahabbiya Felucca is 38 meters in length and 6 meters in width. S
ample of the Deluxe Felucca / Dahabia : El Bey (His Lordship) *  El Hanem (The Lady) Zahra (Flower) * Nesma (Breeze).
Or book the cruise only , without Cairo .
Compare with the special Category Dahabia : Dongola and Zarafa used by Egypt former Royals and nobility

 

 

 

 

 

DAY 1 - CAIRO Thursday - Weekly in Cairo , year round
Our representative greets you at the airport and whisks you to your hotel. Visa fee is included and will be issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport for : American, EU , Canadian , Singaporean & Japanese citizens. You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo. Welcome fruit basket & Egyptian pastry awaits you in your room with our compliments.

Hotels : City Stars Inter.continental . Nile Hilton , Cairo Conrad or Grand Hyatt or similar

Visa will be issued upon arrival.
As you exit the gate, you will pass through a door or two , down some stairs , then walk for 2-5 minutes , until you pass the duty free shops, at the end of a wide corridor , you will see the security officers. There you will be met by a local representative, who will be holding a sign with the name you prefer to use for the sign . Our local representative will then take your passport to obtain a stamp from the cashier / bank window and escort you to speak with the passport officer. He will escort you through another last check on your passport as you exit the passport control, into customs area, he will assist you in collecting your luggage and clearing customs . After exiting the terminal, our local representative will escort you (private vehicle) to the hotel


 

 

DAY 2 - CAIRO - Friday (BL)
On your first full day in Egypt we show you the Egyptian Museum including the " Mummies Room" , the Sphinx , the Pyramids of Giza, complimentary short Camel ride is included, to allow you a photo with the Pyramids in the background, time is limited , so please do not go for what the camel driver tries to convince you , i.e. go for a long ride around the Pyramids .
Lunch is included at a local restaurant: Naguib Mahfouz restaurant or similar .
On to the Citadel of Saladin, and Mohammed Ali Mosque, made of alabaster.

A complimentary Dinner is included at a local home:
Meet the locals
,
you may wish to bring token gifts to exchange with the host family ( T shirt , small souvenirs of your home town )


This evening we'll venture where few ordinary visitors ever tread . . . right into the homes of some of the people of Cairo l! You'll be invited to a family dinner, and while you enjoy wholesome home-cooked specialties, you'll learn about and appreciate the outlook, aspirations, and way of life of your hosts. Be assured, as curious as you may be about your new friends, they're sure to have questions about your own background. Once the ice is broken, you'll enjoy a lively evening, and find that you have more in common than you ever suspected. Of course, you may enjoy a quiet evening with your travel companions, by letting us know your preferences.
For a more balanced and relaxed stay in Cairo , please extand one more day : Please click here

 

 

 



Day 3 - Saturday
- Cairo to Luxor and board your deluxe air conditioned Felucca
Very early morning breakfast and transfer to Cairo Airport. Flight is included in our rate, in economy class , tax included . Morning arrival at Luxor . We'll meet you at the airport , and escort you to your deluxe air conditioned Nile cruise felucca or dahabbiya , Board Luxor ( or Aswan ) .

Embarkation in Luxor for a relaxing week sailing the Nile on a luxuriously appointed Dahabbiya.

After lunch, excursion to the West Bank for visits to the burial places of the Pharaohs - the Valley of the Kings - where Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922. Continue to the adjacent Valley of the Queens, the temple of Medinet Habu and the Colossi of Memnon.

Overnight moored on the Nile banks of Luxor. Sample Deluxe Felucca / Dahabia : El Bey (His Lordship) .  El Hanem (The Lady)  ,  Zahra (Flower)   ,  and Nesma (Breeze) , Dongola, Zarafa

 

 

 

 

Day 4- Sunday - Luxor - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
You will visit the magnificent temple complex of Amon-Ra at Karnak, with its vast hypostyle hall of 137 columns, followed by the imposing 28 th Dynasty Luxor Temple ,o
vernight moored in Luxor.

 

 

 

Day 5- Monday - Luxor to Esna - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
Today will be a leisurely day. After breakfast, commence sailing to Esna where your Dahabbiya will moor

 

 

 

Day 6- Tuesday - Edfu - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
This morning you will sail to Edfu to visit the wonderfully preserved Temple of Edfu.
Overnight on board as we will look for an island in the middle of the Nile where we moor.

 

 

 

Day 7- Wednesday - Kom Ombo - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
Today you will sail to Kom Ombo visit see the Ptolemaic temple dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon-headed Horus, god of the morning sun.
Overnight moored beside a Nile island.

 

 

 

Day 8- Thursday - Aswan - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
A leisurely day sailing to Aswan where the dahabiyya moors overnight.

 

 

 

Day 9- Friday - Aswan - On board your Yacht Nile Cruise
Today you will visit the Aswan High Dam (completed in 1971); the Old Dam (completed in 1902) and the ' unfinished obelisk', lying in situ since the days of the pharaohs. You will also visit the Philae Temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis, a structure rescued from the rising waters of Lake Nasser at the time of the High Dam's construction.

 

 

 

Day 10- Saturday - Aswan - Abu Simbel - Fly back to Cairo
Breakfast aboard the dahabiyya and check-out.

We bid farewell to the crew, we switch transportation modes and head for Aswan Airport and your flight to Abu Simbel then back to Cairo and your hotel. Air fare is always included within Egypt, economy class , tax included . Hotels in Cairo : City Stars Inter.continental . Nile Hilton , Cairo Conrad or Grand Hyatt . Sonesta Hotel , J.W. Marriott or similar

 

Abu Simbel (Breakfast and lunch box )
Private guide in Abu Simbel. Private driver. Private air-conditioned vehicle
Breakfast aboard the dahabiyya and check-out.
Fly over Lake Nasser, watching the sky lighten and the sacred sun rise above the horizon. We reach the great temples where your " Private guide", Private driver and Private air-conditioned vehicle await you .
In the larger temple, colossal figures of Ramses are seated with the gods and attended by his queen and daughters. The smaller temple is dedicated to Queen Nefertari, who appears as Hathor, the goddess of love, joy and fertility, symbolized by the benevolent cow. We explore these fine temple , admiring their ancient aura and artistry, after which retire to a comfortable hotel for our lunch , and refreshments. Just as planeloads of visitors arrive to throng the temples we head for Abu Simbel Airport and fly back to Cairo
, air fare is always included with all taxes . In Cairo , we 'll assist with your transfer to your hotel

 


DAY 11 - CAIRO/ Departure - Sunday
(B)
Our representative escorts you to the airport for your homeward flight. Bon Voyage

 

 

Please click here for the Dahabias Photo Gallery . Sample Deck plan for some of the Dahabbiya's - All are available for private charter


 

 

 

 



Year Round ( Except Holiday season)

Rates are per person in USD $

Rate per person in double : $ 3795
Rate per person in single : $ 5690

 

 

Peak Season :   
Easter ( 2 weeks ) & Christmas and New Year ( 2weeks)
:


Rates are per person in USD $
Rate per person in double : $ 4135
Rate per person in single : $ 7020

Rate Includes:

 


  • Dahabiya Nile cruise shore excursions with all the guided sightseeing including all entrance fees, all as per itinerary .

  • Private Egyptologist and private car/driver for Cairo and Abu Simbel tours as listed including all entrance fees and lunch.

  • All meals on board the DELUXE Felucca / Yacht / Dahabiya Nile cruise : Pre set meals as listed including B = Breakfast, (or cB, Continental Breakfast), L = Lunch, D = Dinner

  • Tea/ coffle and afternoon tea while on board the Deluxe Nile Cruise

  • All airfares within Egypt in "Y" class including tax as listed .

  • Private air conditioned car /driver for all transfers within Egypt.

  • Deluxe hotel accommodation with tax & service charges.

  • Visa fee , visa will be issued upon arrival at Cairo Airport for : American, Australian, NZ , Canadian, Singaporean & Japanese citizens. You are responsible for having your passport in order valid at least for 6 month beyond the date of your arrival in Cairo.

  • Accommodation in a private cabin : Double or single on board The Dahabia / Felucca / Yacht Nile Cruise with all meals and shore excursions ( there is no triple occupancy cabin on board )

  • A complimentary home hosted family dinner in Cairo.

Rate Does Not Includes:

 

 

 

 

 

Upgrade to the Four Seasons

Ultra Deluxe
Rates

Honeymoon at the  Four Seasons  in Cairo

the Cairo Four Seasons Hotel

 

 

Ultra Deluxe Rates are in USD $ Rates are PER Person

There is no triple occupancy cabins


Based on Four Seasons Hotel Nile View , Executive suite with Sofa Bed
or Mena House Palace Section, Pyramid view room ( subject to availability)
Flying Business Class within Egypt


 

 

Year Round , except during Easter - Christmas/New Year's :

Rates are per person in USD $

Rate per person in double : $ 5210
Rate per person in single : $ 6830

 

 

 

Peak Season :   
Easter ( 2 weeks ) & Christmas and New Year ( 2weeks)
:


Rates are per person in USD $
Rate per person in double : $ 6173
Rate per person in single : $ 7350

 

 

Many visitors come to Egypt to fulfill their dream of sailing the Nile on board a private boat.
These Four Dahabbiya allow you to experience the Nile 's romance in an intimate, privileged setting. These dahabiyas take you back in time to a gentler, more gracious era.

 

On the Nile in Royal Style Feluccas or Dahabiyas are the traditional sailing vessel of much of the Mediterranean world, and the traditional Nile felucca, or Dahabia, was the mainstay of travel in ancient Egypt.

With shallow drafts, sails, and oars, feluccas could navigate not only the great river, but the maze of canals threading through its banks, with or without wind, reaching every part of the kingdom.

Dahabbiyas / Feluccas long ago transcended their role as humble transports. They held the ancient empire together, carrying troops, decrees, and the very mystery of the pharaoh.

 

The Cabins:
Each boat has six delightfully appointed private cabins measuring 5.75 meters x 2.50 meters . The cabins (maximum occupancy two persons) have private bathrooms of 1.25 meters x 2.50 meters with a wc, wash basin, shower and hairdryer. Some cabins offer two single beds and others have a double. Each Dahabia comfortably accommodates twelve passengers sharing in doubles . Yet of course in a lot of cases we have smaller parties that prefer to charter the boat for four, five or six guests only .

The cabins are named them in keeping with the ship's theme. For example, on the Zahra ('flower') you will find the 'white lotus' cabin; on the Nesma ('breeze') you have 'the zephyr', each with tasteful, individualized embellishments.

 


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Come to Egypt and enjoy your private honeymoon or Anniversary cruise

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Telegraph
Peter Hughes
Saturday 13 May 2006

'Going with the flow'

...'The riad I found was not in the city but on the Nile. It's a dahabiya, a traditional, two-masted Nile sailing cruiser. Anywhere else it would be called a yacht. King Farouk had several. So if a riad is a small princely palace on land - now given over to holiday making - a dahabiya is a riad on the river...'

...'Mahogany panelled and with two faux-glass oil lamps swinging from the beams - a perfect touch for a sailing ship - the look was of a colonial club. Hercule Poirot could have popped up at any moment. There were button-back leather sofa and chairs, an antique bookcase and Scrabble, and tables where we ate when the weather was too chilly for the deck. The food was outstandingly good...'

...' While the big ships charged by as if permanently late, the El Bey moved at the same courtly pace as the Nile - slow enough to enable us to smell woodsmoke from the villages and watch the kingfishers hover. Under our isosceles sails we were as much a curiosity as the boys laying fishing nets and the women doing laundry, the donkey carts and buffalo. But it was the sight of some 40 huge cruise boats, moored in ranks, cheek by gunwale up to 10 deep, at the pretty little temple of Kom Ombo that made the greatest sense of dahabiya travel. The dahabiyas don't take you to sites different from the norm, but they do take you in irresistibly different style...'

...'The greatest compliment to the El Bey was that, for all the wonders of ancient Egypt, shown to us by our own guide, the part of the week my fellow passengers enjoyed most was the time on the river...'

 

 

 

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