Educational Visits to Egypt

Highlights Tour (for Educational Visits)

6 to 8 days

The Highlights Tour offers all the Classic sites in Cairo and Luxor as well as the opportunity to take part in some other exciting and unusual excursions. We would recommend this programme for first-time visitors to Egypt or for Student groups. We can arrange excellent accommodation at a price to suit your budget.

This programme offers either an extended stay in Luxor or there is also an opportunity for the more adventurous groups to visit the Red Sea area and take part in a variety of watersports and desert quad-biking - as well as (for adult groups) partying the night away in one of the many nightspots.

Cairo, the capital of Egypt, has been described as the city with a thousand minarets. This city - the crossroads of the ancient world - is where old and modern meet in a seething populace that makes Cairo the original city that never sleeps.

From Cairo you will be able to visit the Pyramids of Giza - The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramids of Khafra and Menkaura, the Giza Necropolis and the Majestic Sphinx with its unwavering gaze towards the sunrises of the last four and a half thousand years.

The Egyptian Museum at Cairo is a must, even if you only see Tutankhamen's treasure. Then see history brought to life at the Pharaonic Village, where actors perform scenes from everyday life in setting provided by reproductions of ancient monuments, buildings and tombs.

The Pyramid Complex of Djoser is just a short journey away at Sakkara and you can see some of the earliest buildings ever constructed from stone, including the Stepped Pyramid designed by the famous architect - Imhotep.

 

Thebes - The City of a Hundred Gates - was the ancient capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom. Today the city carries the name of Luxor and here you can see on the East Bank, inscribed into the walls of Karnak and Luxor Temples, how the Pharaohs lived their lives in service to the gods. Then visit the West Bank and the Valley of the Kings to see how their tombs were prepared to ensure their immortality in the afterlife.

You should also visit the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and the gigantic Colossi of Memnon. Whilst on the West Bank you can visit the Tombs of the Nobles, the Valley of the Queens, Medinet Habu Temple of Ramesis III, and choose from a whole host of other tombs, temples and sites of antiquities to satisfy your quest for adventure and history.

Luxor life passes by at a far more sedate pace than Cairo and after your visits you can relax as you watch life go by, virtually unchanged since Pharaonic times. No visit to Luxor would be complete, however, without a hot-air balloon ride at dawn over the Great Theban Necropolis.

 

For the holiday adventurer who is looking for something different, then the Red Sea Resorts can offer you every type of water sports imaginable. Or, if relaxing by the beach is your idea of a holiday then you can find no better. The Red Sea provides some of the best areas in the Northern Hemisphere to see marine life in its unspoilt environment. You can take part in Scuba Diving, Snorkelling or just enjoy the incredible beauty as you gaze in wonder from a glass bottomed boat.

For the young and the young at heart, you can party the night away in one of the many clubs and night spots that line the main thoroughfares or enjoy a quiet drink in a beach-front bar and watch the moon rise over the Red Sea.

If action is your thing then look no further than a five hour quad-bike safari that takes you into the Eastern Desert to enjoy a Bedouin barbeque and camel ride.

What used to be a simple fishing village Hurghada is now one of the top tourist areas in Egypt, Offering 20 km of beach stretching along the coast of the Red sea with its crystal clear water, multiple shipwrecks and unharmed reefs. If it takes place in or on the water you can do it here: windsurfing, sailing, deep-sea fishing, but, above all, snorkeling and diving. The unique underwater gardens are some of the finest in the world offering diving sites that will amaze even the most experienced divers.

 

With Great Prices From
Only £799

Including flights from UK airport of your choice, all meals, excursions, transport and transfers whilst in Egypt as well as exclusive services of Tour Guide and Egyptologist and admission to sites of antiquities and museums.

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Egypt Guided Tours, Egypt Holidays and Egypt Travel are specialist UK Tour Operators providing Egypt holidays and school travel and educational tours for schools, colleges and universities to Luxor Temple, Cairo Pyramids, Aswan High Dam, Luxor, Nile Cruises, Cairo, Red Sea and Abu Simbel

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