Egypt, plan of journey

          Time for spring vacation. After the winter, it must be warm. Good use of the time before the holiday season, to go to Egypt. You can admire the ancient monuments without annoying stand in queues and crowds of tourists. An additional advantage is the lack of the terrible heat this time of year. Is a good time to plan a route, write down a list of things to see and to pack suitcases.

             From Europe the best to fly to Cairo and stay there for a couple days. So to see the pyramids, museums and breathe a bit of a local climate of the great desert city. Then heads along the Nile, the cruise will be the best. This allows me to enjoy the raw nature and small riverside Egyptian village. Then a visit to the Luxor and a short stay in Hurghada. A longer stay plan only in Sharm el Sheik. After desert traveling waiting for my week relaxing by the Red sea and scuba diving among the coral.

This is the moment the general plan of the expedition. There are many details that I need to fix. Waiting for me three wonderful weeks, hmm maybe a little longer :)

1. Cairo - 4 days

Visiting Cairo's: Egyptian Museum, a collection of over 120 thousand. exhibits showing the great civilization of ancient Egypt. Next Saladin Citadel, Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali and the unique monastery carved into the rocks, Mukattanu in the death area.

Sakkara the first and oldest stepped pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser. Memphis, the capital of the empire of the Old Kingdom of Egypt with the colossus of Ramses II and the Alabaster Sphinx. 

Giza and the Pyramids of Cheops, Khafre and Menkaure, and the Sphinx of course.

2. Bani Suwajf - 1 days

3. Asjut - 1 days

4. Kina+Luxor - 3 days
Luxor, ancient Thebes, the "city of a hundred gates." Thebes were divided on the Nile by "city alive" and the "city of the dead". 
Sanctuary trinity of gods: Amun, Mut and Khonsu (Temple of Karnak). The tombs in the "Valley of Kings" and the sanctuary and the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon.
Madinat Habu, or mortuary temple on the West Bank of Luxor, built by Ramses III and Village Workers from the remnants of the building of the city and the tombs of construction supervisors

5. Asuan - 3 days

Walking Edfu, the temple complex dedicated to the god Horus - this is one of the best preserved and most beautiful temples of Egypt.

Kom Ombo, group of temple rising just above the banks of the Nile.

Great Aswan Low Dam, the island File - moved from the flooded areas on the picturesque island group temple dedicated to the goddess Isis.

5. Hurghada - 2 days
Scuba diving and relaxing

6. Sharm el Sheik - 7 days
Monastery of St. Catherine. Chapel St. Tryphon, courtyard of the Well of Moses and the Basilica of the Transfiguration, and the burning bush and the Chapel of skulls.
And more scuba diving and relaxing.

Summary: 21 (three weeks)