Pronto Tours

Cycle Program

Day 01: Meet & assist up on arrival at Luxor by our representative, Transfer to your hotel for evening at leisure, overnight in your hotel

Day 02: Cycle the West Bank 8hrs. 60 K.M cycle, Including visits Valley of Kings, which was the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, and is located on the west bank at Luxor. The only entrance to this place was a long narrow winding path. This was a secret place, where sentries were placed at the entrance of the Valley, as well as along the top of the hills, in the hopes of discouraging tomb robbers, who had in the past plundered all royal tombs, including the treasures of the Pyramids!
Then continue our visits to Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple who was one of the most interesting female figures and most capable Pharaohs of Egyptian history (1490-1468 BC), so our visit to her 3,500 year old mortal temple in the Valley of Kings (Thebes West) was in many respects a quite special experience. Overnight hotel (BD)

Day 03: Cycle Sphinx Alley, Visiting Luxor Temple, or the Temple of Luxor, is among the most beautiful Temples in Egypt. It was known in the New Kingdom period as Ipt-Rsyt, which means the southern shrine. This was to differentiate between this Temple and Karnak Temple, which was the northern house of Amon Ra. Continue cycling Old Pharonic road. Overnight on board boat (BLD)

Day 04: Depart early morning, Cycle the Luxor area (5 hours cycles) Evening set sail from Luxor to Esna which located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, was forming part of the modern Qena Governorate, now formally forming part of the new Luxor Governorate on 9/12/2009., Overnight on board (BLD)

Day 05: Cycle Edfu and visit Horus Temple then continue to Kom Ombo, 7hoursrs (110 km) overnight on board (BLD)

Day 06: Explore Kom Ombo, and visit Sobik temple (Sobik is the god of the Nile and the ancient Egyptian people represent him in the shape the Crocodile. Cycle to Aswan, Overnight on board (BLD)

Day 07: At leisure in Aswan, Optional to visit Abu Simbel temples which are amongst the most interesting Pharaonic Temples. Located close to the southern border with the Sudan, it is 280 km south of Aswan and consists of two, rock-cut Temples, which both date back to the reign of King Ramses II (1290-1223 BC). Unfortunately these unique Temples suffered from the raising water of Lake Nasser while the High Dam was being built. Other countries, with the help of UNESCO, assisted Egypt to help save them. The two Temples were cut in to many pieces, and they were reconstructed again on a site 65m highe than the original location, and 200m back inland, to escape the rising water level. This great rescue operation began in June 1964 and finished in September

Transfer for flight to Cairothen Transfer to Hotel Cairo - Explore City, Overnight in Hotel.

Day 08: Cycle through the great Pyramids the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 14 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC. Initially at 146.5 meters (480.6 ft), the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years, the longest period of time ever held for such a record. Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface; what is seen today is the underlying core structure. Some of the casing stones that once covered the structure can still be seen around the base. There have been varying scientific and alternative theories about the Great Pyramid's construction techniques. Most accepted construction hypotheses are based on the idea that it was built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place. Explore the Pyramids (2-3hrs)

Day 09: Day at leisure to explore Cairo

Day 10: Transfer to airport for final departure