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| 01 | Cairo | On Arrival transfer from Airport to hotel. Overnight at Hotel Express by Holiday Inn. Cairo: "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror"; is the capital of Egypt, and the largest city in Africa, and the Arab World, as well as one of the most densely populated cities in the world.[1][2] Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a center of the region's political and cultural life. Even before Cairo was established in the tenth century, the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids in adjacent Giza. |
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| 02 | Cairo | After breakfast at the hotel, you will be taken for a full day sight seeing tour covering Pyramids, Sphinx and Egyptian Museum. The Sphinx was carved over 4,500 years ago. It was for the Pharaoh Khafre. It had his head, the body of a lion. The Sphinx was carved out of a huge big stone. It is guarding Khafre's pyramid. The Sphinx was covered by sand, which preserved it all these years. Its body is extremely soft rock and its head is very strong rock but some people used the head for gunshot practice. No one knows for sure what it was decorated with in the days of the Ancient Egyptians but it must have been very beautiful then. The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities contains many important pieces of ancient Egyptian history. It houses the world’s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, and many treasures of King Tutankhamen. The Egyptian government established the museum, built in 1835 near the Ezbekeyah Garden. The museum soon moved to Boulaq in 1858 because the original building was getting to be too small to hold all of the artifacts. In 1855, shortly after the artifacts were moved, Duke Maximilian of Austria was given all of the artifacts. He hired a French architect to design and construct a new museum for the antiquities. The new building was to be constructed on the bank of the Nile River in Boulaq. In 1878, after the museum was completed for some time, it suffered some irreversible damage; a flood of the Nile River caused the antiquities to be relocated to another museum, in Giza. The artifacts remained there until 1902 when they were moved, for the last time to the current museum in Tahrir Square. Overnight at Hotel. |
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| 03 | Cairo | After a buffet breakfast, we drive you to a half-day sight seeing with visit to the Bazaar. Spices, dried fruits, nuts and seeds are among the many treasures to be found at this bazaar also known as the Spice Market. Overnight at hotel. |
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| 04 | Cairo - Athens | On arrival transfer to hotel with dinner. Athens: the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy,[10][11] largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the rest of the then known European continent. Overnight at hotel |
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| 05 | Athens | After breakfast, we take you for a half-day sight seeing of Athens This tour gives you an opportunity to observe the striking contrasts that make Athens such a fascinating city. Our expert guides take you to see the centre of the city including Constitution Square (Syntagma), the Parliament, the Memorial to the Unknown Soldier and the National Library. On your way to the Acropolis you will see the Panathenaic Stadium (where the first Olympic Games of the modern era were held in 1896), the Temple of Olympian Zeus and Hadrian's Arch. At the Acropolis we visit the architectural masterpieces of the Golden Age of Athens: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike,the Erechtheion and, finally, the monument that 'puts order in the mind', the Parthenon. Overnight at hotel. |
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| 06 | Athens | After breakfast, later we take you to a Full day Island tour.
Enjoy a cruise to the Saronic Islands of Aegina, Poros and Hydra. This cruise visits three of the most important islands in the Saronic Gulf; first the island of Aegina, the biggest island of Saronikos, inhabited since the second millennium BC with two major archeological sights, the Church of Saint Nektarios who is the last Saint recognised by the Greek Orthodox Church, a marvellous fish market, a unique floating fruit market and an economy based on the famous pistachio nuts. There is an optional tour to the temple of Aphaia available. Then it's on to Poros, the smallest of the three islands, full of pine trees and lemon trees, located very close to the Peloponnese. Lunch is served on board, usually when the ship is sailing between Poros and Hydra. Hydra is one of the favourite islands of the international jet-set with its unique architecture and its narrow streets with small shops where you may find jewellery and articles of folklore art. Overnight at hotel. |
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| 07 | Athens - Trivandrum | After breakfast, later transfer to the airport for your flight back to India. |
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