Overview:

From Jordan's Crusader forts, to the world's oldest pyramid, this tour is a virtual time machine, catapulting you on through history with each and every visit.

Countries Visited

Jordan
Jordan

An expert Insight professional multilingual Egyptologist/Tour Director, will smooth your way throughout your journey. They are your ‘travelling concierges’, expert guides, consummate organisers and friends in a foreign land.

Enjoy the unique comfort of Insight's luxury air-conditioned 40 seat coach with extended leg room and on-board restroom. It's business class comfort.

Personal radio headsets, gives you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights without missing any of your local expert’s fascinating insights and commentaries (Available on groups for 8 or more).

Baggage handling everywhere, with seamless and prompt delivery to your door at every hotel. Hotel and restaurant tips included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. Plus we include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.

Insight Flourishes - from time to time, your Tour Director will enchant you with local tidbits, each representing authentic food or beverages unique to the destination.

Included airport transfers at scheduled times on arrival and departure days.

Deluxe hotel in Cairo.

4 night Nile cruise on MS Medea or MS Sapphire or MS La Boheme (or similar).

Scheduled air travel Amman/Cairo, Cairo/Luxor, Aswan/Cairo.

Services of Insight's Representative in Egypt.

Berlin: Drive down the Unter den Linden. See the Brandenburg Gate, State Opera House, remnants of the Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Platz and Reichstag Building. Enjoy time to attend the Christmas Markets.
Leipzig: Spend time as you wish at the Christmas Markets.
Dresden: Learn about the traditional German Christmas Pyramids and enjoy free time at the Christmas Markets. See the Frauenkirche, Procession of the Dukes mosaic mural, Cathedral, Opera House and Zwinger Palace.
Nuremberg: See the city walls and Old Town. Spend time as you wish at the Christmas Markets.
Munich: See the Victory Arch, Town Hall and Glockenspiel in the Marienplatz. Enjoy time at leisure at the Christmas Markets.
Cruising: Join the fun at an Egyptian dinner and galabeya party.
Included Quality Dining: 1 Welcome Drink (WR), 12 Buffet Breakfasts (BB), 1 Signature Evening (SE), 4 lunches (L), 1 High Tea (AT), 3 dinners (D) plus bottled water, tea or coffee while cruising and 3 three-course table d'hôte Dinners, or Buffets, plus tea or coffees (D).
Jerash: Step back 2,000 years in time at this marvellous ancient city, the finest surviving example of a Greco-Roman city in the world.
Petra: Visit the ‘rose red' city and journey through the winding dark passageway between rock walls 300 and 600 ft high to the ancient hidden city.
Mount Nebo: Look down upon Moses's Promised Land. The view is amazing and the ruins are a site to behold!
Mabada: View the mosaic that is believed to be the earliest surviving map of the Holy Land.
Cairo: The full-faced funeral mask, gold coffin, gilded throne, precious jewellery; gaze upon the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egypt - Tutankhamun's treasure!
Giza: Meet the enigmatic Sphinx and venture deep inside one of the Pyramids, to the chambers where the pharaohs went to meet their Gods in the afterlife.
Giza: If only these walls could talk! Oh, but they do at the audio visual Sound & Light Show at the great Pyramids.
Karnak: Stand amid a vast forest of columns in the largest temple complex known to man.
West Bank: Embark on an excursion to visit the Temple Hatshepsut and royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Luxor: Visit a working bakery and witness the local artisans creating delicious bread.
Philae Island: Board a motorboat to the temple complex.
Aswan: Like Winston Churchill and Agatha Christie before you, enjoy the sunset and high tea in colonial English-style at Aswan's famous Old Cataract hotel.
Aswan: On a traditional Nile felucca, meet a sailor and learn the art of sailing this ancient Nile craft.
Amman: Marriott. Rooms are spacious with internet access and the new bed from Marriott – luxurious down comforters and fluffier feather pillows.
Petra: Marriott. Amenities include an outdoor pool and Turkish Bath. Guest rooms offer the new ‘Marriott bed’ wireless internet access, individual AC, hair-dryer and iron.
Cairo Marriott: The luxurious Cairo Marriott is conveniently located on Gezira Island in downtown Cairo. The central section was once the Gezirah Palace built for the Khedive Isma'il Pasha in 1869.
Cruising: Cruise the Nile in style aboard your traditional Nile cruiser with its spacious cabins, bars, shops, lounge, restaurant and swimming pool.