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Dear traveler, I am pleased to
announce that Egyptian
Express
offers shore excursion service to your cruise
passengers making port calls in Egypt. In addition to our FIT and Group arrangements - which have become, I must say, famous and which we will continue to offer, - we also provide deluxe seat-in-a-coach service to our clients - but in small, intimate groups.
Here are the facts: 1)
Our service is available to your cruise clients docking
at the following Egyptian ports: Alexandria,
Port Said, Port Suez, and Sharm El-Sheikh. 2) Your clients booked on this service will be met as they disembark by our staff of three - an experienced Tour Host to handle all operational details, a superb Egyptologist-Guide, and a superior, smartly uniformed chauffeur. 3) Transportation will be by extremely deluxe minicoaches, each full air-conditioned and equipped with cooler stocked with complimentary mineral water, soft drinks, and fruit juices; cellular telephone; and wheel chair for any passenger who may have difficulty in walking. 4) Although minicoaches are fitted with 14 seats, we seat only 8 passengers in a coach, - thus ensuring maximum legroom for your clients - AND extra room for hand baggage, camera, and outer garments! 5) The fact that our excursion membership is limited to 8 persons means that your clients will NOT be rushed through their tour stops with 40 or more other passengers or be troubled with getting in and out of a bus with scores of other travelers. Being in a group of maximum 8 people also ensures that each client will receive the maximum personalized attention from our guide, tour host, and chauffeur. 6) The small size of our groups also enables us to create more imaginative tour programs, with more in-depth visits to monuments and museums. And, importantly, your clients will have extra time to chat with their guides - and to ask questions. 7) An extremely important feature of our shore excursion is that they are NOT "Shopping trips". Our firm policy is that your clients are introduced to the sights - and sites - in an exciting, fun, but responsible manner. Then, if there is time, only one shopping stop will be made, at one carefully chosen venue, not three or four! 8) As most of you already know, Egyptian Express assigns the most informed experienced Egyptologist-Guides. (And traveling in a small group, your clients will get to know them!) 9) Our Tour Hosts, all highly experienced, are adept at handling every kind of tour detail from the moment our clients disembark until they return to their cruise ship. 10) Our chauffeurs have been carefully selected not only for their expert driving, but also for their excellent manners and sense of hospitality. 11) Shore excursions involving an overnight hotel stay will feature only the most deluxe properties, just as our FIT and group programs do. 12) Luncheon and dinner restaurants featured in these programs will be of the same high standard as those used in our FIT and group arrangements. 13) All these deluxe, small-group shore excursions are offered at rates NO HIGHER THAN THOSE FOR LARGE-GROUP EXCURSIONS conducted in a large bus carrying 40 or more passengers! 14) Most of your clients will be happy to learn that smoking is not permitted on our tour coaches. 15) Each member of these new Egyptian Express shore excursions will be given complimentarily a handsome souvenir program of the excursion, describing the sights seen and visited! 16) Rates of each of these shore excursions depend on choice of hotels and travel dates. IMPORTANT!
Bookings
for the Egyptian Express Shore Excursion Service please
should be made in advance by fax or email. After
you have received our faxed or emailed confirmation, payment to us please should be
made by airmailing us your company checks. For those clients who prefer to make their payments by credit card please be advised that we accept Visa, Master Card, and American Express. |
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Program ( A )
Day One:
In the early
morning your luxury cruise ship docks in Alexandria Harbor.
As you
disembark the ship our Tour Host, who will handle all operational
details, will meet you. Leave Alexandria by deluxe minicoach,
driving southeast to Cairo through the fascinating Western Desert
of Egypt. On the way you will pass first through
haunting desert, then spreading green fields and orchards made
possible by water brought north from the famous High Dam at Aswan
- and burgeoning industrial parks developed through the electrical
power generated at the Power Plant of the Aswan High Dam.
Your Private
Egyptologist-Guides will give you during your journey an
introduction to Egypt both ancient and modern.
Arrive to
Giza - on the opposite bank of the Nile from Cairo, to the
pyramid plateau itself, where by coach and by foot you will tour
all the highlights of these astounding monuments, - viewing all
three major structures - the Pyramids of Pharaohs Cheops,
Chephren, and Mycerinus, - the Subsidiary Pyramids of
queens and princesses of each pharaoh, - the ruins of the Mortuary
Temples and giant Causeways of their pyramid complexes,
the amazing Valley Temple of Chephren, and the Great Sphinx
hewn from the limestone plateau.
During the
morning, a drive will be made to the high desert plateau
beyond the monuments for a magnificent panoramic view of all
the Pyramids spread out below! And you will enjoy a fun camel
ride through the sands surrounding these remarkable
structures!
Following the
tour, an included lunch will be served at the famous and
beautiful Sofitel Le Sphinx Hotel in Giza.
After lunch,
you will drive through the bustling streets of Giza - seeing many
interesting sights of modern Egyptian life! - And across the River
Nile into downtown Cairo and the splendid Egyptian Museum
of Antiquities, where you will tour all the highlights of its
brilliant collection, including stunning statues from the
temples of the Giza Pyramids - and the golden Treasures
of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun!
"Time
permitting", during the day you also will visit a Papyrus
Institute, where you will be given a demonstration of the
recently rediscovered ancient technique of making paper from the
papyrus plant - and where gorgeous paintings on papyrus may be
seen. You will also visit a well-known Handicraft Emporium
where all the traditional hand-made arts and crafts of Egypt are
on display.
Check-in at Hotel
in Cairo, for one night!
Just before
sun-set, we board our feluccas, typical
Egyptian sailing boats for unforgettable magical Cocktails
and romantic sailing on the legendary river Nile.
Dinner
at our hotel.
Overnight Cairo.
Day Two:
This morning
it's a sumptuous Buffet Breakfast at our hotel.
Baggage
collection from outside room doors.
Drive to
Mokattam Hill on which stands the 12th century Citadel
constructed by Saladin to protect Cairo from the Mongol threat.
Within the fortress walls you will visit the magnificent Alabaster
Mosque built by Mohamed Ali.
Continue en route motoring through the amazing streets of the city, returning via the desert road to Port Said, - arriving at the ship's dock before Noon, in plenty of time before re-embarkation on your luxury cruise ship sailing from Egypt.
Bon
Voyage - And Come Again Soon On Another
Egyptian Express (Overnight) Shore Excursion!
Important Note:
Kindly be
advised that the above program also applies to those cruise line
ships arriving at Port Suez, and departing from Port Said.
Depending on actual times of cruise ship arrivals and departures, the sequence of this tour is subject to change.
Program ( B )
Day One:
In the early
morning your luxury cruise ship docks in Port Said Harbor.
As you
disembark the ship you will be met by our Tour Host, who will
handle all operational details. Leave Port Said by deluxe minicoach,
driving southwest to Cairo through the fascinating Eastern
Desert of Egypt. On the way you will pass first through haunting
desert, then spreading green fields and orchards made possible by
water brought north from the famous High Dam at Aswan - and
burgeoning industrial parks developed through the electrical power
generated at the Power Plant of the Aswan High Dam.
Your Private
Egyptologist-Guide will give you during your journey an
introduction to Egypt both ancient and modern.
As we arrive to
Cairo we will drive through the bustling streets of the city -
seeing many interesting sights of modern Egyptian life! -
into downtown Cairo and the splendid Egyptian Museum of
Antiquities, where you will tour all the highlights of its
brilliant collection, including stunning statues from the
temples of the Giza Pyramids - and the golden Treasures of the
boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun!
Lunch will be
provided at the lovely Nile Hilton Hotel next door to the museum,
beside the Nile!
Continue to
Giza, on the opposite bank of the Nile from Cairo, to the pyramid
plateau itself, where by coach and by foot you will tour all the
highlights of these astounding monuments, - viewing all three
major structures - the Pyramids of Pharaohs Cheops, Chephren, and
Mycerinus, - the Subsidiary Pyramids of queens and princesses of
each pharaoh, - the ruins of the Mortuary Temples and giant
Causeways of their pyramid complexes, the amazing Valley Temple of
Chephren, and the Great Sphinx hewn from the limestone plateau.
During the
afternoon, a drive will be made to the high desert plateau beyond
the monuments for a magnificent panoramic view of all the Pyramids
spread out below! And you will enjoy a fun camel ride through the
sands surrounding these remarkable structures!
Then it is time
to check-in at Hotel in Cairo/Giza for our one night's stay.
"Time
Permitting"' during the day you also will visit a Papyrus
Institute, where you will be given a demonstration of the recently
rediscovered ancient technique of making paper from the papyrus
plant - and where gorgeous paintings on papyrus may be seen. You
will also visit a well known Handicraft Emporium where all the
traditional hand-made arts and crafts of Egypt are on display.
Just
before sun-set, you will leave the hotel to attend the spectacular
new production of Sound & Light at Giza.
E
njoy dinner at our hotel this evening.Overnight Cairo.
Day Two:
This morning
it's a sumptuous Buffet Breakfast at our hotel.
Baggage
collection from outside room doors.
Continue en route motoring through the amazing streets of the city, and returning via the desert road to Alexandria, - arriving at the ship's dock before Noon, in plenty of time before re-embarkation on your luxury cruise ship sailing from Egypt.
Bon Voyage - And Come Again Soon On Another Egyptian Express (Overnight) Shore Excursion !
Important Note:
Kindly be
advised that the above program also applies to those cruise line
ships arriving at Port Suez, and departing from Alexandria.
Depending on actual times of cruise ship arrivals and departures, the sequence of this tour is subject to change.
Program (C)
In the early
morning, your luxury cruise ship docks in Suez Harbor.
As you
disembark the ship our Tour Host, who will handle all operational
details, will meet you.
Leave Suez
by deluxe minicoach, driving west to Cairo through the
fascinating Eastern Desert of Egypt. On the way you will pass
first through stark desert, then spreading green fields and
orchards made possible by water brought north from the famous High
Dam at Aswan - and burgeoning industrial parks developed through
the electrical power generated at the Power Plant of the Aswan
High Dam.
Your Tour
Host will give you during your journey an introduction to Egypt
both ancient and modern.
Arrive to
Cairo driving through the bustling streets of Heliopolis - seeing
many interesting sights of modern Egyptian life! -
Then drive
north - to the vast necropolis of Sakkara! Here a stroll will
be made among the first large buildings in hewn stone in all
history - their centerpiece the soaring Step Pyramid of the
Pharaoh Zoser, first of all the pyramids!
Continue to
Giza, on the opposite bank of the Nile from Cairo, to the pyramid
plateau itself, where by coach and by foot you will tour all the
highlights of these astounding monuments, - viewing all three
major structures - the Pyramids of Pharaohs Cheops, Chephren, and
Mycerinus, - the Subsidiary Pyramids of queens and princesses of
each pharaoh, - the ruins of the Mortuary Temples and giant
Causeways of their pyramid complexes, the amazing Valley Temple of
Chephren, and the Great Sphinx hewn from the limestone plateau.
During the
tour, a drive will be made to the high desert plateau beyond the
monuments for a magnificent panoramic view of all the Pyramids
spread out below.
At midday an
included lunch will be served at the lovely Sofitel Le Sphinx Hotel,
of Giza.
Then drive
into downtown Cairo and the splendid Egyptian Museum of
Antiquities, where you will tour all the highlights of its
brilliant collection, including stunning statues from the
temples of the Giza Pyramids - and the golden Treasures of the
boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun!
During the
day if there is time, you also will visit a Papyrus
Institute, where you will be given a demonstration of the recently
rediscovered ancient technique of making paper from the papyrus
plant - and where gorgeous paintings on papyrus may be seen. You
will also visit a well-known Handicraft Emporium where all the
traditional hand-made arts and crafts of Egypt are on display.
In the
afternoon drive northeast to Port Said to re-embark on your luxury
cruise ship.
Bon Voyage - And Come Again Soon On Another Egyptian Express (One Day) Shore Excursion!
Important Note:
Kindly be
advised that the above one-day program also applies to those
cruise line ships arriving at Port Said, and departing from Port
Suez or Alexandria.
Depending on actual times of cruise ship arrivals and departures, the sequence of this tour is subject to change.
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Sharm El-Sheikh - St. Catherine - Sharm El-Sheikh Program (D) Early
this morning we disembark and drive through haunting
mountain scenery to the famous Saint Catherine's Monastery,
set within massive granite walls at the very foot of Mount
Sinai. The
valley where we stop first rose to prominence in the fourth
century AD when Hermits from throughout the Byzantine empire
who sought refuge in the wilderness near Mount Sinai
inhabited it. Such was its reputation that in 337 the
Empress Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, ordered the
building of a sanctuary around the site of the Burning Bush.
When the increasing number of pilgrims visiting the site
were occasional attacked by nomadic tribes, the Emperor
Justinian in 537 built the fortified enclosure and Church of
the Virgin we will visit this morning. Entering the
Monastery precincts we visit the Basilica of Saint Catherine
to view its magnificent icons and other famous works of art,
and gaze up at the marvelous mosaic picturization of the
Transfiguration of Christ. We also visit the Charnel House
and garden of the Monastery. Saint Catherine is a Greek
Orthodox establishment whose monks have maintained excellent
relations throughout the centuries with peoples of all
nations and religions. After our
exciting visit of the Monastery we will enjoy a hearty lunch
at the nearby Saint Catherine Plaza Hotel. Before
leaving the plain at the foot of Mount Sinai we will view
the Hill of Aaron where the children of Israel fashioned the
Golden Calf while Moses, above on Mount Sinai, received from
God the Ten Commandments. We motor along the coast to the lovely and now famous Red Sea resort paradise of Sharm El-Sheikh, arriving by 5:00 PM to re-embark our luxury cruise ship. Bon Voyage - And Come Again Soon On Another Egyptian Expres (One Day) Shore Excursion ! Important Note: Kindly
be advised that the above one day program also applies to
those cruise line ships arriving at Nuweiba, and departing
from Nuweiba or Sharm El-Sheikh. Depending on actual times of cruise ship arrivals and departures, the sequence of this tour is subject to change. |
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