Print this PageNairobi to Cairo Nile Expedition 6 Weeks
42 days from GBP £4,000 plus local payment US$1,300 (What’s this?)
HIGHLIGHTS
Kenya - Northern Frontier District. Ethiopia - Simien Mountains, Lalibela, Blue Nile Falls, Lake Tana, Gondar. Sudan - Omdurman, Meeting of the Blue & White Nile, Meroe Pyramids. Egypt - Abu Simbel, Valley of Kings & Queens, Karnak Temple, Red Sea Coast, Pyramids of Giza, Cairo.
This tour to Cairo are different from our other departures and other holidays you may have taken – we go through areas where no tourists go, the roads can be bad, food can be limited to what we have stocked on the truck, campsites are few and basic, visas can be hard to get and communication to the outside world limited or unavailable at times. On this tour to Cairo we guarantee; we’ll break down, that we will have to wait some where we don’t really want to be for visas spare parts or just for someone to open a closed road and we’ll have to dig the truck out of mud and sand. The trip might overrun so finish late; the route can change due to rains, closed roads visa issues, breakdowns and politics. It’s best not to book your return flights home until you finish the trip.
To join this African adventure from Nairobi to Cairo you need to be prepared to work as part of a team and to share with the others on the trip. Some of the things you’ll never forget are cooking over open fires after collecting the firewood, pitching a tent and getting it right even when it rains, going to sleep when its dark and waking at dawn and wanting to get out of your sleeping bag to start another day in which you have no idea of what will happen, washing in rivers, not washing and not caring that your dirty, living outside for months, seeing more than you have ever before, trying to learn Arabic or Swahili and having people understand what you say, finding out just how far places are away from where you started and how different places can be and how unaffected out of the way places are from the world we normally live in. Most people who do this tour to Cairo find it a lot of fun though of course hard at times.
Included
| Camping fees & equipment: tents, tables, chairs, cooking gear |
| Two meals per day, on average, prepared by the group, |
| Transport in expedition truck |
Excluded
| Flights, visas, transfers, personal insurance, drinks, meals out, tips |
| Optional excursions/side trips |
| Flights (in case of flyover) |
Side trips / Optional extras
| Egypt – Aswan - Aswan High Dam, Philae Temple entrance, guide & transport $40, Guided tour & Entrance to Abu Simbel $20, Tombs of the Nobles $5, Kitchener Island & Elephantine Island sail boat $5, Edfu Temple $10, Day Trip to Abu Simbel by air $170 | US$ 170 |
| Egypt – Cairo - 4 Star Nile Dinner Cruise $30, Cairo Tower $13, Pyramids at Giza pyramid entry $7-35, Giza Pyramids Sound & Light Show $35, Egyptian Museum $15, Mummy Room in Egyptian Museum $15, Solar Boat Museum at Giza Pyramids $10 | US$ 10 |
| Egypt – Luxor - Balloon Flight over the Nile & Luxor $90, Karnak Temple $14 Luxor Temple $11, Luxor Museum$17 Karnak Temple Sound & Light Show $15, Tomb of King Tutankhamen $15, Valley of the Kings & Workers Tour, entry & guide $35 | US$ 20 |
| Egypt - Alexandria on the Mediterranean day trip | US$ 100 |
| Ethiopia - Bahir Dar - Tissisat [Blue Nile] Falls $20, Lake Tana churches $20, boat trip $40, Gondar Monastery & Fasilidas Castles $25, Lalibela Rock Churches $55, Simien Mountain walk $70 a day, Addis Ababa: National Museum $5 | US$ 200 |
| Kenya - Nairobi day trip, pre or post trip. Baby elephants $65, Giraffes feeding $12 half day taxi $30. Yaya Centre Masai Market and shopping, Day's taxi $50 | US$ 30 |
| Visit Djibouti by train. While in Addis take the train Djibouti. A rail journey on the new train from the Ethiopian capital to the Djibouti and coast through the desert to the Red Sea | US$ 120 |
Departure Dates
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