TOUR PROGRAM

Tour to 

Egypt of Pharaohs with  Mr Hasan HAZIRLAR

knoda04ae    7days

A civilization of thousands of years, living the past at the points where the Prophet Moses, who kidnapped his people from the Pharaoh, retreated, talked to God, and the 10 commandments were entrusted to him; To Egypt, in order to observe the wonders of nature in the Sinai Peninsula, to experience the traces of the past in the lands important for all three religions, to see the cradle of civilizations;

Tour Program Itineraries:

DAY1-2: Istanbul - Sharm AlSheikh (D):

Our program starts late at night by meeting with our participants at Istanbul Airport. After our baggage and passport procedures, a little after midnight, we take our place at the boarding gate on the TK698 flight of Turkish Airlines at 01:10 for a pleasant trip, with the participation of those arriving from other points at the boarding gate.

After a flight of approximately two and a half hours, welcome to Sharm AlSeikh, the famous holiday destination of Egypt, at the far end of the Sinai peninsula.

After passport and baggage procedures, we go to our accommodation hotel, complete our check-in process and retreat to our rooms to rest.

We have a boat tour in the afternoon. We will be able to see the colorful creatures, corals and fish of the Red Sea, which is a natural aquarium, with the naked eye, during the two-hour shore excursion we will make with glass-bottomed boats. We will also have a break for snorkeling…

Dinner and overnight at our hotel in Sharm AlSheikh.

DAY3: Sharm AlSheikh (B,D):

Let's spend the day with rest to welcome the next tiring day strong. After having our breakfast, you can laze around by the pool of our hotel or participate in snorkeling activities in the coral reef. Half-day ATV Desert Safari can be organized for our guests who wish. In the afternoon, Nema Bay local shopping market can be visited.

Early dinner is at our hotel and we retreat to our rooms to rest in order to wake up early.

Our accommodation is at our hotel.

DAY4: Sharm AlSheikh - Mount Musa - St. Catherine Monastery - Sinai Desert - Suez Canal - Cairo (B,L,D):

-a tough and tiring day-

In the early hours of the day, we check out from the hotel at around 02:00 and take our breakfast lunch boxes and set out for Mount Musa. After about three hours of travel, we arrive at the foothills of Mount Musa in the middle of the Sinai Peninsula and leave our vehicle and start climbing with the camels of the Bedouin waiting there. Leaving the camels at a certain point of the road, we continue on foot and reach the summit, which is believed to be the place where the Prophet Moses spoke to God at twilight. We will have the opportunity to watch the incredible beautiful sunrise accompanied by legends that our guide will tell.

Our next stop is the UNESCO World Heritage St. Catherine Monastery .. After visiting the monastery, which is the first monastery of the Orthodox world and has been used for centuries and has been used for centuries, we set out again at noon. Destination to Cairo.

On our way back, we pass the natural rocky mountains or sand deserts of the Sinai Peninsula and take our lunch as a lunch box.

On the western side of the Sinai peninsula, we will sail northward. When we reach the famous Suez Canal, we will be closer to Cairo. We will pass from the Asian continent to the African continent, passing through the Suez tunnel.

In the evening, we arrive in Cairo and take a panoramic tour in one of the most important centers of Africa, the city of the east and west of the Nile River, and then we settle into our accommodation hotel and retreat to rest. Dinner is at our hotel.

DAY5: Cairo - Pyramids- (B,L,D):

After a late breakfast, we have a tour of the pyramids, we have a panoramic tour in one of the most important centers of Africa, the source of life in the city of the east and west of the Nile River, and then the winter capital of the pharaohs and the most important of upper Egypt. First we go to Sakkara to see the artifacts left over in the city, which is located in the center. After seeing the stepped pyramid, temple ruins and monumental tombs with hieroglyphic scriptures, we move to Memphis and see the second Ramses statue, which was unfinished, and after lunch we will have lunch in an authentic local restaurant, we go to the famous Giza pyramids. The Pyramids of Giza, one of the seven wonders of the world identified with Egypt, are located on the Giza plateau in the western part of the city, and were built far from the settlements in the middle of the desert in ancient times; Keops, Kefren and Mycerenos, and the magnificent Sphinx with a lion body and pharaoh head, which was built with the belief that these pyramids will protect these pyramids forever. -B.C. It will be admired the magnificence of the Pyramid of Keops, which was built in 2690 by 100,000 people, each weighing 2.5 tons and was built by placing 2,300,000 stones on top of each other, completed in 20 years.

Return to the hotel and rest, free time. Dinner and accomodation in our hotel.

DAY6: Cairo –Egypt National Museum- (B,L,D):

After the breakfast we will have at the hotel, we continue our Cairo tour from where we left off. After our panoramic city tour, the first stop will be the famous Egyptian National Museum, where more than 140,000 artifacts and mummies of the pharaohs are on display. We will be able to go back thousands of years in the museum, which was opened with a magnificent show on April 3, 2021.

After the museum tour, our stop after lunch is Citadel (Castle of Salahaddin Eyyubi) and Mehmet Ali Pasha Mosque with its magnificent workmanship built with the only Ottoman architecture in Egypt; After visiting the King Hasan Mosque, where the tomb of the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi and the tomb of the leader of the Rifai order is visited, we continued with the famous mystic Khan Al-Khalil Bazaar in Cairo, and continued with the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer (Nacip Mahfuz) Nagib Mahfouz. After drinking a mint tea at the "Fishawi Cafe", which has never been closed for years, we return to the accommodation hotel after a short shopping break.

Our dinner will be taken in restaurant ships floating on the Nile River. Returning to our hotel towards midnight after eating our meal accompanied by Arabic music and folkloric shows on the ship famous for its Pharaoh period motifs and ornaments… Accommodation is at our hotel in Cairo.

DAY7: Cairo - Istanbul (B):

Free time after breakfast until the meeting time for the return. We check out from the hotel at noon. We meet in the afternoon at the meeting time and go to our vehicle and head to the airport to return to Istanbul. After baggage and passport procedures at Cairo Airport, we take our place on the TK695 flight of Turkish Airlines at 21:25 to return to Istanbul and welcome to Istanbul after a two and a half hour flight.

We are leaving to meet again with the pleasure of leaving a busy schedule behind, the sweet tiredness and the excitement of being able to participate in the next KanulaTur tour.