NOVEMBER 2025 TRIP 14 DAYS/ 13 NIGHTS IN EGYPT

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Day 1 - Saturday, November 1st

Departure from USA

Day 2 - Sunday, November 2nd, Arrival to Cairo, Egypt. 

Arrive at Cairo airport. Meet and assist, then transfer to hotel. 

Dinner & overnight at hotel
 

Day 3 - Monday, November 3rd, Cairo, Full Day Tour Giza Pyramids 

Breakfast 

Transfer to visit Saqqara, the Step Pyramid of King Zoser, the Mastaba Tomb of Teti, Tomb of Ptahotep, and the Serapeum. (Only opened sites).

Lunch at Local Restaurant

In the afternoon visits to the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramid complexes known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex.

Dinner & overnight at hotel.

Day 4 - Tuesday, November 4th, Cairo - Old Cairo 

Whole area is a world-famous destination for Pilgrims and Cave Church 

Breakfast 

Transfer to Visit Cairo’s religious landmarks. A private tour of the city’s Coptic most important locations visited by the Holy Family, where there are several churches and a convent: Abu Serga, the Synagogue Ben Ezra, Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the Hanging Church,

Then Visit Cairo’s Coptic Museumhouses, one of the world’s biggest collections of Egyptian Christian art. The displays trace the history of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church—one of Christianity’s oldest denominations, and how it was shaped by pharaonic, Roman, and other influences from the second century,

Lunch

Proceed to Moqatem for a chance to visit the magnificent Saint Simon Church (Cave Church), which is dedicated to the renowned shoemaker. While you admire the church's design and art-works, the professional Egyptologist will enlighten you about how Saint Simon played a vital role in moving the Mokattam Mountain. Apart from the architectural masterpieces, the heavenly vibes are sure to uplift you. 

Dinner & overnight at hotel.

Day 5 - Wednesday, November 5th, The Holy Family at Wadi Al Natrun:

Breakfast

The Holy Family crossed the western branch of the river Nile (Rosetta branch) to the west of the Delta and they moved after that to the south to Wadi AI-Natrun. According to tradition, the Virgin Mary and her son the child Jesus Christ blessed the four directions of the valley the desert of Shehiet. Nowadays there are about four monasteries dating back to the 4th C. teeming with monks at Wadi Al Natrun.

1. The Monastery of St. Bishoy. It belongs to the oldest monastic settlements in Wadi Al Natrun. It has suffered from the numerous Berber raids. It's the monastery where Pope Shenouda the third (117) is buried.

2. The Monastery of St. Macarius, 92 kilometers from Cairo on the western side of the desert road to Alexandria. It was founded in 360 A.D. by St. Macarius the Egyptian, who was the spiritual father to more than four thousand monks of different nationalities: Egyptians, Greeks, Ethiopians, Armenians, Nubians, Asians, Palestinians, Italians, and Spaniards. There were among them men of letters and philosophers, and members of the aristocracy of the time, along with simple illiterate peasants. From the 4th C up to the present day, the monastery has been continuously inhabited by monks.

Lunch during the visits.

Dinner & overnight at hotel.

Day 6 - Thursday, November 6th, Cairo - National Museum of Egyptian Civilization NEMC & EI-Maadi District

Breakfast

Visit the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. The NEMC is large museum in the ancient city of Fustat, now part of Cairo, Egypt. The museum partially opened in February 2017 and will display a collection of 50,000 artifacts, presenting Egyptian civilization from prehistoric times to the present day. 

Lunch at Local Restaurant 

Proceed to El-Maadi District: 

The Holy Family left Old Cairo towards the south, where they reached El Maadi district the plural of meaadeia (ferry). Here lays a beautiful church built after the name of St Mary. One of the incidents which happened at that church was that on Friday the third of Paramhat - the twelfth of March 1976, those who attended the Holy Mass, on their going out of the church and while they were still at the outside courtyard by the Nile shore, they saw a big open book on the surface of the water going up and down. Taken out of the water (from an ancient staircase), it was found to be a copy of the Holy Bible, and it was opened to the book of Isaiah, chapter 19, on the verse of "Blessed be Egypt My People" Isaiah 19:25. This Holy Bible is exhibited in a glass closet opened on the same page it was found in a small museum inside the church. This incident happened when some scholars asked pope Shenouda for scientific evidence to the visit of the holy family to this place.

Dinner & overnight at hotel.

Day 7 - Friday, November 7th, Assuit (The Holy Family at The Monastery of Al- Muharraq & the Monastery of Saint Mary (Deir Drunka)

Breakfast. Transfer to Assuit,

Visit The monastery of Al – Muharraq near the mountains of Qusqam, where according to tradition, the Holy family stayed there for more than six months in an old abandoned house on the edge of the desert, where was consecrated the first church in Egypt, fulfilling Isaiah's prophesy, "on that day there will be a church in the center of the land of Egypt" (Isaiah 19:19)

Lunch during the visits.

Progressing upon the journey we reach our last visit, the monastery of Saint Mary (Deir Drunka). After they had lived six months in the place that was to become the monastery of Al- Muharraq, an angel brought the Holy family the message that Herod had died and that it was safe to return back to Israel. According to recent oral tradition, in order to go home, the Holy family had to journey some 50 km farther to present-day Assiut, the closest to the main Nile port. They found a cave to the southwest of the city where they lodged before finding a boat to take them north which became the monastery of the Holy virgin at Durunka.

Dinner & overnight at the hotel.

Day 8 - Saturday, November 8th, Assiut - Abydos - Denderah - Luxor

Breakfast

Start tour through the historic temple complex at Abydos, which was the center of the worship of Osiris, God of the dead. Although there were shrines dedicated to the parts of Osiristhroughout Egypt, the Abydos temple used to be the most important of them. So, the area of Abydos was used as a cemetery dating to predynastic times Christian (4000 BC-600 AD). The pharaohs of the first dynasty were buried in Abydos, including Narmer, the founder of the first dynasty. Nine or ten temples were built here in Abydos in the first Dynasty to the twenty-sixth dynasty. The array of temples including the great temple of Osiris, the temple of Seti I and the Temple of Ramses II, of which the temple of Seti I is the best preserved. Then we will visit the Temple of Dendera, which contains the Temple of Hathor which belongs to the best-preserved ancient temples throughout Egypt. The entire complex covers about 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a wall of mud brick. The present building dates back to the Ptolemaic dynasty and was completed by the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it rests on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back to the 4th dynasty [c. 2613-c. 2494 BC].

Lunch during the visits.

Proceed to Luxor. 

Dinner & overnight at the hotel.

Day 9 -  Sunday, November 9th, Luxor 

Breakfast at the hotel.

In the morning visit the Valley of the Kingson the west bank of the Nile; proceed to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, and on the way back, the last stop at the Colossi of Memnon, the two famous statues at the entrance of the temple of Amenhotep III. The west bank of Luxor is the area dedicated to funerary structures, because it sits on the West where the sun sets. It was considered the land of the dead and the entrance to the afterlife. Here the pharaohs of the New Kingdom were made to dig their graves in the rock and decorated it with beautiful paintings. Here Queen Hatshepsut built his mortuary temple, the Sublime of the Sublime, extremely bold architectural and disconcerting modernity and the Colossi of Memnon, lonely sentinels, witness the glory and splendor of the distant past. 

Lunch at local Restaurant 

In the afternoon, visit the Monumental Complex of Karnak and Luxor Temple. Luxor is the modern name of the ancient Uaset called Thebes by the Greeks, the beautiful capital during the New Kingdom and the seat of the two temples of Luxor and Karnak. The temple of Luxor, a jewel of Egypt, built by Amenhotep III and completed by Ramses II, surprised by the harmony of proportions and the elegance of its findings; Karnak temple is fascinating for its grandeur and complexity, many details of great interest, from the huge Hypostyle Hall, a forest of 136 columns towering over 20 meters, the elegant obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, the "Ballroom". At the end of the tour return to hotel. 

Dinner & overnight at hotel. 

Day 10 - Monday, November 11th, Luxor to Hurghada (4 nights in Hurghada)

Breakfast at hotel & check out 

In the morning possibility for excursion to ride the Hot Air Balloon Flight (Enjoy a 50-minute hot air balloon over the Valley of the Kings, the world’s most important archaeological site, lit up by the changing colors of the sunrise) 

Transfer from Luxor to Hurghada (Around 316 km) journey takes about three to five hours overland. 

After inundating yourself with Luxor's history, temples, and tombs, a change of pace is much needed. Hurghada is the ideal beachy hotspot to refresh your body and mind. It is part sea and part desert, so you get the best of both worlds). 

Dinner & overnight at hotel.

Day 11 - November 12th to November 14th, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Free at leisure At Hurghada (All-inclusive) 

Day 14 - Friday, November 15th, Hurghada/ Cairo

Breakfast.

Transfer from Hurghada to Cairo by private bus it will take from five to seven hours (around 466) km) 

Lunch on the road 

Dinner & overnight at hotel in Cairo.

Day 15 - Saturday, November 16th, Final Departure

Breakfast at the hotel & check out

Transfer to Cairo international airport & assistance for final departure