Date	Location	Rotary Host	Description
04/4 Sun Day	England	M/bus & Air	8:00 Congleton - 8.30 Audley – 9.00 M6J14 – Heathrow with our own mini coach, arrive Terminal 3 at  12.30 fly MS778 at 15.00 – Cairo – we will arrange visas - We will be met at the airport and helped through customs, a bus will then take us to President Hotel, Zamalek in Cairo.
05/4 Mon 07:45	Cairo (ref1)	C.Cosmopolitan [Rudolf Lukavsky & Nadia Hamdy]	Breakfast at  Marriott Hotel  joint with Worms RC, Germany who are helping with nursing project – the discussion may also include providing clean water to the outlying villages of Cairo 11:00 Graduation Ceremony - Kasr el Einy Medical School - may also be able to see some unusual manuscripts but the Royal Mummies have been moved elsewhere [We have been invited to fly out to village water supply project on Tuesday but we cannot fit this in] Jeanne to meet Ann Radwan, Executive Director of Fulbright Commission
05/4 Mon PM	Cairo	(none)	After lunch we will visit The Cairo Museum, which houses the treasures of Tutankhamun etc.
05/4 Mon 19:30	Cairo (ref2)	Kasr El-Nile [Shehab Elorabi]	regular meeting of Rotary Club of Kasr El-Nile NOW at World Trade Centre Fifth Floor (near Tahrir Square)  at 8:00 PM (this is third change)
06/4 Tue AM	Cairo(ref3)	Al Mansouria. [Wafaa Youssef & Aliaa El-Erian & Abdelaziz Eldessouky]	We start our day visiting the clean water programme and leper colony with the Al Mansouria RC Visit to Giza Province Officials at their Office. Visit to our Capacity Building Project at AbdelSamad Village  including 30 Minutes Power Point Presentation on Drinking Water Project
Noon	Cairo	Al Mansouria	lunch at Andrea Restaurant
PM	Cairo	(none)	unfortunately  Saqqara Country club and dancing horse show is NOT now available.
06/4 Tue 19:00	Cairo	Al Mansouria	In the evening we are invited to dinner with the group  at Capitol Club, Garden City with the added attraction of a short lecture by the famous Dr Zawi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of all Egypt.  (joint with Giza Metropolitan RC [ Sherif Wissa & Dr Moustafa K El-Ghamrawy])
07/4 Wed Day	Cairo		We will begin by visiting the first pyramid to be built, the step Pyramid at Saqqara, we will also look at the tombs which show everyday life, e.g. hedgehogs in baskets, fish in the Nile, boys taken to be beaten! Boats and where many more wonderful depictions can be seen. In the afternoon we visit one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the pyramids at Giza, where apart from the pyramids and the Sphinx we will visit the boat museum, where you can see a boat which is over 4 and a thousand years old!
07/4 Wed Eve	Cairo		In the evening we will go and see the Whirling Dervishes, this is a religious dance where the dancers "whirl" for several minutes and dance to the beat of the drum which in turn leads the band. It is an amazing sight set in the ancient Muslim School, which in itself is an outstanding building.
08/4 Thu Day	Cairo		visit sites of Cairo, including the Citadel, The Blue Mosque and The Coptic Church and museum, finally ending up at the Khan el Khalli, the famous bazaar where we will visit The Ancient Turkish Gatehouse which has been restored by The Rotary Club of Giza.
08/4 Thu eve	Cairo	(none)	Meal, Sound & Light at Giza Pyramids
09/4 Fri Day		M/bus	Cairo- Siwa :  We leave Cairo today travelling through the desert via El Bahriya where the golden mummies were found then on to Siwa. We stay at the lovely Towmer Hotel which is set in the oasis surrounded by the desert.
10/4 Sat AM	Siwa	Visit	First visit will be to the oracle where Alexander went to be told he was a god!
10/4 Sta PM		M/bus	In afternoon we travel to Mersa Martruh which is on the coast and has been a trading post for over 4,500 years.   We stay at the lovely Riviera Hotel (0020 4649 33045) where you can relax or take a trip to a archaeological site excavated by The University of Liverpool under the direction of Dr Stephen Snape.
11/4 Sun AM	Mersa Matrouh	Visit	Visit Mersa Matrouh, Ancient Trading Port, Museum
11/4 Sun noon		M/bus	We leave our hotel at mid morning to visit El Alamein, the World war II site and then on to Alexandria
Sun - Wed	Alexandria	Alexandria (1930) [Dr Ashraf Samir & Ahmed A Saada]	The Alexandria (1930) Club are willing for anybody (probably Jeanne, Jon&Hilary, perhaps Colin) who would like to stay with an Egyptian family while we are there. Gwyneth & Sylvia will stay in Regency Hotel (0020 971 294 1405).
12/4 Mon Day	Alexandria		A tour of Alexandria visiting The Graeco Roman Museum and catacombs plus other sites to be decided when we are there.   Alexandria has new library, catacombs, museum, Farouk Palace, Pharos lighthouse, Cleopatra possibly Rosetta country, excavations. To be planned to ensure no duplication.    Alexandria is famous for its fresh fish dishes, so if you are a fish lover this is the "plaice" for you!
13/4 Tue AM	Alexandria		A morning at leisure.
13/4 Tue 13:30	Alexandria (ref4)	A.San Stefano[Hamdy Elwany & Ossama Abdel-Moaty]	The Alexandria Stephano Rotary Club would like to take us sight seeing while we are in Alexandria.  Lunch at Pharous Club, boat ride, Montazah Royal Gardens, Tea Island, Palastine Hotel,
13/4 Tue 20:30	Alexandria	A.San Stefano	Rotary meeting at Hilton Green Plaza
13/4 Tue night	Alexandria		All stay Tuesday night in hotel (provisionally Hilton Green Plaza)
14/4 Wed 08:00	Alexandria (ref5)	A.Cosmopolitan [Collette Frege-Haggar & Mounir El-Gammal]	Optional breakfast with Cosmopolitan R C who speak English! at Trianon Le Salon (Ramleh Station)
14/4 Wed AM	Alexandria	(none)	Alexandria Museum Graeco-Romano
14/4 Wed 14:00	Alexandria (ref6)	Alexandria (1930) [Dr Ashraf Samir & Ahmed A Saada]	Lunch with Alexandria (1930) RC In the afternoon we leave Alexandria for Cairo passing through the Delta, which is the most fertile place on earth; here we will see cotton growing among lemon and orange trees interspersed with potatoes, beans and many other vegetables that are grown in England.
14/4 Wed PM		M/bus	Alexandria – Delta – Cairo When we arrive in Cairo we will make our way to the railway station where we will catch the Wagon lit to Luxor which includes a dinner sleeping in 2 berth cabins and breakfast the following morning.
14/4 Wed Night		Train	19:30 Wagon Lits (overnight train evening meal, bed, breakfast) – Luxor THIS IS SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE SECURITY RE-ARRANGEMENT
15/4 Thu Day	Luxor	(none)	We arrive in Luxor during the morning where we will be met by our bus taking us to The New Winter Palace Hotel, after a rest or enjoying the lovely grounds which surround the hotel we will visit The Luxor Museum by carriage and for those who are keen enough after dinner we will take you around the bazaar where you can find many bargains. You can either bargain yourself or leave it to us to get you a good bargain! While we are in Luxor during our free time we can visit other museums, the sound and light show plus shopping at the bazaar.
16/4 Fri Day	Luxor	(none)	Our bus will take us across the River Nile to visit the famous Valley of the Kings where you can visit the tomb of Tutankhamun plus 3 other pharaohs tombs. We will also visit the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu, we will even visit the pharaoh’s bathroom. Lunch will be taken overlooking the temple. To finish our visit we will visit The Ramesseum, which inspired Shelley’s poem, Osymandis
17/4 Sat Day	Luxor	(none)	In the morning we will visit a UNISEF school and the afternoon will be spent visiting the magnificent Temple of Karnak, where you will see the wondrous hypostyle hall where you will see 134 gigantic columns - possible final dinner at Gezira Hotel.
18/4 Sun 07:15	England	Air & M/bus	We leave Luxor on the 7.15am plane for Cairo where we catch the MS777 at 9.30am for Heathrow.   Our mini bus will pick us up from the terminal and we will arrive in Cheshire at around 6.30pm

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