Sacred Sites and Sacred Science of Ancient Egypt
Intensive Study

Tours Led by John Anthony West

Ancient Egypt is like no other civilization. Join John Anthony West on a personally guided visit to the sacred places of Egypt. Discover in magnificent art and architecture the work of an advanced science of the spirit. Experience the great monuments and temples of this ancient land as they were meant to be seen and used by the Egyptians themselves.

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Egypt Trips for 2008:

		To be announced Departure out of JFK Departure from Cairo
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Magical Egypt Tour Itinerary

Regular Tour Price: $4,395* single person double occupancy *(includes airfare, hotel accommodations, domestic air travel, tips and services - unless specifically mentioned otherwise).* Discount for cash/check/wire transfer $135 (Subject to unannounced and unforeseeable fuel/tax surcharges by the airline)

Day 1: Depart USA for Cairo, Egypt

Evening departure from New York JFK. Check in at least 3 hours prior to departure time. Transit passengers connecting in New York JFK please check your luggage right through to Cairo at your home departure terminal. Prior to departure check up-to-the-moment security regulations.

 

Day 2: Arrival Cairo airport and tranfer to Mena House Oberoi

Arrive Cairo airport mid-afternoon. Tour representatives see us through customs and baggage claim. Introductory briefing en route. Dinner on your own.

 

Day 3: Great Sphinx and Giza Plateau, Lunch

Breakfast at our hotel. A long morning at the Great Sphinx and the three great pyramids of the Giza Plateau. We study the pyramids inside and out, and pay particular attention to the Sphinx. Detailed examination of various controversial theories surrounding these amazing structures. Optional visit to the Solar Boat Museum. Late lunch at a Giza restaurant. Optional after-lunch desert ride on Arab horses or camels around and beyond the pyramids and Sphinx. Shopping for the shoppers. Dinner on your own.

 

Day 4: Sakkara and Dahshur, Lunch

Breakfast at our hotel. Early morning departure for magnificent Sakkara with King Zoser's Step Pyramid, considered the first of the major pyramids. Careful exploration of important Old Kingdom noble tombs with their vivid symbolic reliefs and visits to other important Sakkara sites, including the Pyramid of Unas (if re-opened) or Teti with its pristine hieroglyphic texts and the Serapeum (if re-opened), 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.

En route to lunch we visit a local factory where children weave beautiful tapestry carpets. Outside lunch at a picturesque, typically Egyptian restaurant, and then a visit to the recently opened, spectacular pyramids of Dahshur. Dinner on your own. Try one of the excellent Giza or Cairo restaurants.

 

Day 5: Fly Cairo to Luxor

Early breakfast and flight to Luxor. Check into our five star hotel. We will have the afternoon at leisure to shop, explore the town of Luxor or pay an optional visit to the modern and elegant Luxor Museum.

In the early evening we go to the floodlit Luxor Temple, the 'Temple of Man,' where R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz developed his revolutionary 'Symbolist' interpretation of ancient Egypt over the course of fifteen years' work at the site. In Schwaller's Symbolist interpretation, science, art, religion and philosophy are fused into one vast, coherent doctrine. Luxor is the temple that best expresses that great fusion. Late dinner at our hotel.

 

Day 6: Denderah and Abydos

After breakfast we travel by bus to the great temple of Abydos, the best preserved temple of Egypt's New Kingdom, consecrated to Osiris, the god -or principle- of death and new life, of becoming and return. Also at Abydos, we visit the mysterious and potent Oseirion, probably a relic of that earlier civilization responsible for the Sphinx. On our return to Luxor we stop at Dendera, consecrated to Hathor, goddess of love, music, dance and sexuality, and Mistress of the Cycles of Time. Optional Sound and Light show at Karnak Temple this evening, perhaps the best of its kind anywhere.

 

Day 7: Karnak Temple


Very early visit and long morning exploration of the vast, overwhelming temple of Karnak. Once connected to Luxor Temple, two miles away, by a long avenue of Sphinxes (still partially extant) Karnak is dedicated to the Powers of Creation. Karnak is the theatre in which humanity (Luxor) plays out its destiny. Karnak is also one of the architectural wonders of the world.

Day 8: West Bank: Valley of the Kings, Medinet Habu, Nobles Tombs, Hatshepsut Temple, Lunch

 

Day 9: 7:30 am Morning train ride to Luxor/Aswan 3 hours.

Visit Philae Temple and the unfinished obelisk. We continue to Aswan, the gateway to Nubia. With its thronged and colorful Nubian bazaar, laid-back atmosphere, and lovely promenade along the Nile, Aswan is almost everybody's favorite city in Egypt. Overnight at Movenpick Aswan.

 

Day 10: Morning flight from Aswan to Cairo

In Cairo visit to Egyptian museum

 

Day 11: Optional Great Pyramid meditation

Khan El Khalili bazaar. Farewell dinner

 

Day 12: Breakfast followed by departure

• Note: The sequence of events listed in this itinerary is typical but not absolutely specific; the order may change from trip to trip depending upon local exigencies, unavoidable schedule changes, etc. But we visit all the sites listed, conditions permitting
  
  
• Note: Shorter or longer private tours with John Anthony West are possible by arrangement
  
  
• For those joining the group from outside the USA or utilizing air miles, see the LAND ONLY option described on the reservation form.
  

 

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