1st day
Drive from Cairo to Alexandria
230-km,
Start your full day tour to Alexandria (Full day Greco-Roman
Museum, the Roman Theater & the Catacombs of Kom
El-Shoqafa with Lunch):
Greco-Roman Museum (Filled by collection, which covers the
period from the 3rd Century BC to the 7th century AD. Like
Mummies, Hellenistic statues, bust of Roman Emperors, Tanagra
figurines & early Christian antiquities). Followed by
a visit to The Roman Theater (A theater with marble seats
up to 800 spectators, Galleries,
Section of mosaic flooring & a pleasure garden surrounded
by Roman Villas & baths). Followed by lunch. Then a visit
to The Catacomb of Kom El-Shoqafa (Tombs on three levels,
also contains the Tri-cilium where relatives used to sit on
stone benches to feast the dead, a center with relieves of
bearded serpents, Inside are 2nd Century AD statues of Sobec
& Anubis wearing Roman Armor). Then visit The Montazah
Garden and Alexandria Library. Check in our hotel, Dinner
Overnight in Alexandria.
2nd day
After breakfast, we leave Alexandria behind, we
arrive to Alamein 60-km. There
we visit the WWII Museum and the war memorial. (Lunch en route)
Moving on, we pass by Marsa Matruh. Upon reaching Siwa
300-km, we tour the old Siwan village of Shali,
Dinner
Overnight Camping.
3rd day
After breakfast we visit
Cleopatra's Spring, Mountain of the Dead, Alexander
the Great Temple (Temple of the Oracle), (lunch in restaurant)
and take a donkey- drawn cart for a tour around the city
before heading off road 17-km
to the Great Sand Sea, where we rest at the hot spring of
Bir Wahid, We bathe, have dinner and relax while looking
at the stars, Overnight in camping.
4th day
After breakfast we head off road on a 450-km journey to Bahariya Oasis. We pass by
Bahrein, Nawemisa and Sitra Oases. Lunch en route,
we pass through magnificent sand dunes of the Great Sand Sea.
Upon reaching Bahariya oasis, we check in our hotel,
after dinner we go off road to bathe in the hot spring under
the stars,
Overnight Camping.
5th day
After breakfast, we tour the city; visit the temple of
Alexander the great, the tombs of the nobles, the golden
mummies and the English mountain. Lunch en route, on reaching
the White Desert 160-km
on/off road, we start exploring the formations, the wind carved
sculptors that resemble both human and animal faces. We explore
the formations that resemble the surface of a different planet.
Dinner
Overnight Camping in Farafra.
6th day
After breakfast we go on/off road to the black desert
and the dune area. We start our climb of a 50meter dune. On
route to Bahariya we visit the crystal mountain and the area
of the wonders with the desert roses and the arch. After lunch
we head towards Cairo 370-km.
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