Egypt Travels

This is still a work in progress! I'm using it now more for my own notes, and will repost once I know dates and places for sure. And once the boss ok's it, of course.

Dec 30-31: Rome

اﻟﻗاﻫرة
Jan 1-5: Cairo
Hotel Longchamps ($48) or Mayfair Hotel ($18).
Settle in / Museum & Giza / Islamic Cairo / Wadi Natrun /Dahshur & Saqqara

ﺃﺑو ﺴﻣﺒﻞ
Jan 6: Abu Simbel
Eskaleh
Temples of Rameses II and Nefertari

أﺴوان
Jan 7, 8: Aswan. Coptic Christmas
Keylany Hotel ($14).
Monastery of St Simeon, Tombs of Nobles, Midnight Mass / Aglikia (Philae) , Gezira Sehel

اﻷﻗﺻر
Jan 9-12: Luxor. Ras as-Sana / Islamic New Year
Nefertiti ($9) or Senmut B&B ($15)
Arrive via Edfu / Karnak / Thebes / Day Trip to Abydos

اﻟواﺪﯼ اﻟﺠﺪﻴﺪ
Jan 13-17: al Wadi al Jedid: The Great Desert Circuit
ﺍﻟﺧﺍﺮﺠﺔ وﺍﻟﺪﺍﺧﻠﺔ واﻟﻓراﻓرة
Kharga (via Dush?) / Dakhla (al Qasr Resthouse) / Farafra (al Badawiyya)

Jan 18: Return to Cairo.
Last evening in Egypt.

Jan 19: Fly to Rome,
2:45 pm

Jan 20: Fly Home,
11am; arrive midnight