We return to Aswan to visit the fabulous new Nubian Museum with its wealth of history. All meals included. Departure by air early morning, return late morning. Afternoon transfer to the airport for the short flight back to Cairo for a free afternoon. Dinner on your own.
Today is a special day.
We head for magnificent Sakkara with King Zoser's Step Pyramid, the earliest of the major pyramids. We carefully explore the important Old Kingdom noble tombs with their vivid symbolic reliefs and visits to other Sakkara sites, including the Pyramid of Unas with its pristine hieroglyphic texts and Scrapeum, underground tomb of the sacred bulls. The chief themes of Egyptian sacred science were the creation of the world, and the role of humanity within creation. Egypt's incredibly complex mythology and its profusion of mysterious symbols can be seen as an ingenious method of expressing those twin, interlocked themes. At Sakkara we begin to see these themes in action.