Don't miss a chance to Win

Don't miss a chance to

Win

Hello everyone..

It is our pleasure to announce the starting of the first competition by Tut Travels.. 

In which you can upload any personal photos for you in Egypt on our Facebook page while we republish it for voting.. The first 3 wining photos will get our 3 prizes

competition starts 28 Dec 2011 and ends 07 Jan 2012 and you can upload photos along this period
you can tag your friends in your photos in order to vote for you

* Prizes:

1 – the first winner: win 12% discount coupon which is valid for any organized tours by Tut Travels, you can pick your tour via our official website: www.TutTravels.com and also it is valid for any customized tour by Tut Travels + free camel ride at Giza area for 2 persons

2 – The second winner: win 07% discount coupon which is valid for any organized tours by Tut Travels, you can pick your tour via our official website: www.TutTravels.com and also it is valid for any customized tour by Tut Travels + free feluacca tour at Nile River at for 2 persons

3 - The third winner: win 05% discount coupon which is valid for any organized tours by Tut Travels, you can pick your tour via our official website: www.TutTravels.com and also it is valid for any customized tour by Tut Travels + an adventure inside the pyramid at Giza for 2 persons

* Terms and Conditions:

1 – Prizes are not valid for the "Tut Travels hot deals"

2 - Prizes are not valid for the sightseeing tours

3 – We will not accept any photos after the ending day

* FAQ

> What is the validity time of the coupon?!
- It is valid for lifetime and valid to be used for only one time

> What if I am planning to visit Egypt once again?!
- Simply you can gift the coupon to a friend who is intend to visit Egypt and it will be accepted for sure, inherit it to children or keep it for yourself and use it anytime

> How can I receive my coupon?!
- It is electronic coupon which will be sent to your email and you print it

For any further details.. Kindly contact our Facebook page here:

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Or send us via our email: info@tuttravels.com

                             Good luck everyone J)

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Book your Hotel in Egypt

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Offer 10% discount on Friday 16 Dec

Tut travels new offers


Next Friday 16 Dec was announced as " Egyptian product day"


                                 On this occasion

Tut travels Now offering a 10% discount on their Egypt travel packages and Tours.


If you book your tour on the next friday 16 Dec you will enjoy with this offer.

Notes:
* This offer is valid for all packages within Tut Travels website
**This offer is not valid for hot deals and Christmas packages


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Egypt Christmas offer

Enjoy your tour and Explore Egypt


Egypt in a week during Christmas 

Day 1:
Arrival to Cairo airport then transferred by a private A/C car to your hotel . 
Overnight in Cairo. 


Day 2:
Breakfast. Start your full day visiting the Egyptian Museum which contains Over 250,000 items, as you will  stroll through the halls highlighting each historical period of this ancient land, Marvel at the glittering treasures of King Tutankhamen which including gold, and jewelry items , as it was enclosed in his tomb for over 3,500 years before it was discovered in the 1920.  Then drive to Giza Plateau to Visit the Great Pyramids – Cheops, Chephren & Mykerions. Cheops is the most colossal ever built. Next you`ll also see the inscrutable and mysterious Sphinx,– 
a huge funeral complex guarded by the legendary lion body with the face of king Chephren. At the end of the day , Transfers to the train station for your overnight Sleeper train to Awan. Dinner on the train. Overnight Sleeper train to Aswan. 




Day 3:
Breakfast on the train. Arrival Aswan , meet & assist by our representatives and
transfer to the Cruise. Boarding before lunch, Visit the High Dam and the
Philae temple which was relocated by Unisco because of the High Dam . Lunch on board Sail to Kom Ombo. Afternoon Tea. Visit the
temple shared by the two gods Sobek and Haroeris. Sail to Edfu. Dinner on board. 
Overnight in Edfu 


Day 4:
Breakfast on board. Visit The Temple of Horus in Edfu the most completely preserved Ptolemaic temple in Egypt , Cross the lock. Sail to Luxor. Afternoon Tea. Dinner on board & Galabya party.
Overnight in Luxor. 
  
Day 5: 
Breakfast on board. Cross to the West Bank to visit the Valley of theKings, the Temple of Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon.
start visiting the Necropolis of Thebes, on the Eastern bank. Crossing the Nile, visiting the Valley of Kings where you will visit the tombs of various kings,
On the return journey you will stop at the Colossi
of Memnon which are two gigantic sitting statues representing
Amenopis III facing the Nile then visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Lunch on board. Afternoon free at leisure. Afternoon Tea.
Overnight in Luxor 


Day 6:
Breakfast on board. Disembarkation. Our representative will transfer you from the cruise to Luxor airport, departure by flight to Cairo. Arrive to Cairo. 
Overnight in Cairo


Day 7:
Breakfast at the hotel Tut travels representative will transfer you to the airport and assist you at the airport through final departure formalities. 


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Travel to Egypt

Travel to Egypt... Why and How?!

  

Of course all of us deserve a vacation in which he can go far away pressure of work and daily life routine and to have an opportunity to spend more time with family and friends and also to explore something new... Today we will talk about Egypt as your probable next destination and will discuss in brief why to spend your next vacations in Egypt and how to have funny Egypt tour with good memories to keep

Egypt "this country which lays in unique place in the middle of the world" is actually very unique place where you can find all what you need for a vacation!!

For example, if you are interested in costal vacation and to have fun on sea costs, you can find this in your Egypt tour, specially in Sharm Elshiekh and Hurghada resorts on Red sea, moreover you can enjoy snorkeling in this marvelous sea and discover the underwater world with unique kinds of fishes and coral reefs, also there you will have full opportunity to go out and dance on the loud music melodies moreover new special music of this unique area, many famous DJs and singers hold great concerts there around the year

Also if you are of this kind who is interested in visiting old places and to see what earlier civilizations left to us, for sure no better place to travel to than Egypt where you can discover the secrets of the pharaohs life and to see the great pyramid the eternal miracle of world's wonders and also to see the great temple of the Egyptian deities and gods, visit their temples, enjoy the decorations there, enter their tombs and see their mummified bodies and also the treasures the took with them and put in their tombs to take with them to the next world according to their beliefs, all this and more you can find in your Egypt tour

While if you need calm and relaxation atmosphere to you vacation in order to be able to come back again to your work and life after great recreation, just simply travel to Egypt and there you can explore the simple and pure life of desert where there is no more accelerated life, in desert you can enjoy the unique delicious grilled food, the unique melodies of desert music, the fresh air camping and more and more of this marvelous sides of life.. But be careful, you may fill in love with this life and decide not to go back again your old life; in this case you will need to retire!!

Some of us like to have new thing and to be involved in new adventure, Hello come to Egypt, it is the best for you!! Yes, come to Egypt and discover the Nile cruise life, discover the hot air balloon in the dawn, discover the sand skiing, climbing St Catharine mount in the midnight and reach it's to by the first dawn rays and so more adventure will be waiting for you

If you are of this kind of people who like to make shopping everywhere the go and like to get new holdings, welcome to khan el khalily and to Egypt bazaars, actually a tour there is marvelous and can not be missed, a tour in mid-aged bazaar and among large number of old buildings, every time I go there I can smell the history fragrance

Bazaars there offer all kinds of gold, silver and all Egyptian ornaments, while not so far, there is city stars mall where you can find the latest fashion models from the most famous brands

Also if you are interested in spiritually tours, I think you will like to visit the blessed places in Egypt where were visited by Christ and virgin Marry during their trip in Egypt, you will like to visit hanging church, St Makrious church, Maadi church, Wadi El Natroun monasteries and also to climb the St Catharine mount where God talks to Moses

All this comes moreover unique visits to Egyptian Museum, King Tut exhibition, Alexandria library "largest in the world", Sakkara and Memphis area, camel caravan and more and more and more ..

Briefly, if you think about a vacation, vacations in Egypt should be your next, and if you like to have new experience, Egypt tour is your choice … wish to welcome you in Egypt soon

Tut Travels Special offer

Hot Deal Package

King Tut package

Special offer for Egypt Package

Tut travels is offering

 a free tour in case of booking King Tut package

Chose your free Tour : 

* Camel ride for 15 minutes at pyramids area.

* Felucca (traditional boat) trip for 30 minutes throu the Nile .

* Special Dinner at 5 ****** Restaurant.

King Tut Package Itinerary : 


Day 1:

Arrival to Cairo airport, Tut travels representative will meet & assist you in the airport 
then you will be transferred by a private A/C car to your hotel , Upon arrival at the hotel he will do your check in and give you detailed information concerning your tomorrow's trip. 
Overnight in Cairo.


Day 2:

Breakfast. Start your full day visiting the Egyptian Museum of antiquitieswhich contains Over 250,000 genuine artifacts are presented, including an exhibit dedicated to the Tutankhamen collection of treasures, gold, and jewelry, as it was enclosed in his tomb for over 3,500 years before it was discovered in the 1920.  Then you will Visit the Great Pyramids – Cheops, Chephren & Mykerions. Cheops is the most colossal ever built. Next is a close-up look at Sphinx – a huge funeral complex guarded by the legendary lion body with the face of king Chephren. 
Transfers to the train station for your overnight Sleeper train to Aswan. Dinner on the train. 
Overnight Sleeper train to Aswan.


Day 3:

Breakfast on the train. Arrival, meet & assist by our 
representative. Transfer to the hotel. Start your Tour of 
High Dam-Temple of Philae Island Sail to the island of Agilkia. 
Visit the temple that was removed from their original island of Philae which lies submerged most of the year by the waters of Lake Nasser. The main Temple of Isis and its monuments were built between the 26th-dynasty and the Roman period. Return to the mainland and drive to Aswan for a view of the high Dam which was completed in 1964. From here you can gaze across Lake Nasser.


 Overnight in Aswan.

Day 4:

Breakfast, transfer to Luxor by setting Train, Arrive Luxor & meet and assist by our local representatives, transfer to your hotel. Start your day tour visit the West Bank - Valley of the Kings, Colossal of Memnon and Hatshepsut Temple. Excursion to the Necropolis of Thebes, on the Eastern bank. Crossing the Nile, 
drive to the Valley of Kings; visit the tombs of various Dynasties, The Temple of Deir El Bahari. On the return journey stop at the Colossi of Memnon which are two gigantic sitting statues representing Amenophis III facing the Nile. and visit the Templeof Queen Hatshepsut. 


Over night in Luxor. 


Day 5:

Breakfast, Free day 
Transfer to the train station for your overnight sleeper train to Cairo. Dinner on the train. 


Over night in Sleeper Train


Day 6:

Breakfast on the train. Arrival to Cairo, meet & assist by
our local representatives meet our guide then you will visit Coptic & Islamic Cairo , visitingmosque of Ibn Tulun , Mosque of Amr Ibn Ass , The Church of Abu-Sergah and St. Barbara, TheHanging Church, and we will also visit
The Old Jewish Synagogue Ben Ezra Synagogue.


Day 7:

Breakfast at the hotel Tut travels representative will transfer you to the airport and assist you at the airport through final departure formalities.

 

Program Includes:


2 Night hotel accommodation in Cairo on bed and breakfast basis. 
1 Night hotel accomodation in Luxor on bed and breakfast basis 
1 Night hotel accomodation in Aswan on bed and breakfast basis 
2 Nights in sleeping train on half board basis 
2 day tour in Cairo
1 day tour in Aswan 
1 day tour in Luxorvisiting West Bank. 
All transfers 
All your tours and excursions are with A/C bus 
The service of meet and assist at all your destinations. 
Multilingual expert Egyptologist guide. 
All your visits include entrance fees. 
Our prices include all taxes and services. 

Program Excludes : 

• International Airfare.
• Egypt entry visa, 
• Drinks and any personal expenses. 
• Tipping Kitty.

Price per person in Dbl room
3 stars hotels	4 stars hotels	5 stars hotels
580 $ USD	680 $ USD	780 $ USD
20 % Extra Supplement for Christmas & Easter period

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Submerged monuments in Alexandria

Submerged monuments in Alexandria : 

There are many effects of the sunken city of Alexandria in the est side of Alexandria, and specifically about Castle Qaitbey.Where found the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was considered one of the seven wonders of the world . this area already been explored in search of sunken antiquities that have been recovered many of them .

Qaitbey Fort, at the Eastern Harbour, where Alexandria's Lighthouse once stood

Diving in Alexandria amidst the ruins of the ancient past, like this basalt head of a Pharaoh discovered in Abu Qir, is an exciting alternative to Red Sea scuba diving.

sphinx's head

An anchor dropped from Napoleon's fleet

remnants of Cleopatra's Palace

A 15m Italian fighter plane shot down during WWII amidst Graeco-Roman amphorae

ruins of the Lighthouse

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What do you Know about Alexandria ?!

Egypt Alexandria What do you Know about Alexandria ?!

Alexandria 

Alexandria, Egypt's second capital and largest city after its capital,Cairo. Is the largest port in the Egypt, this city was founded by Alexander the Great 333 BC. CE,and became a center of world culture. Rich and famous for its library of philosophy. The Ptolemies built a lighthouse Alexandria, which is considered among the seven wonders of the world, to the enormous height of 35 meters approximately. Thislighthouse has been in existence until destroyed by a massive earthquake in 1307 AD.

Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria in Egypt January 21 331 BC. M Greek city. And became the largest city in the Mediterranean basin. And the capital city of Alexandria on the sea over the coastal strip north west of the Nile Delta and the development of Greek planning engineer (Dinoqratis) Penneklev from Alexander to fall next to the ancient village of fishermen was called Rakota (Racodh). And the city has carried his name. And soon gained fame after quickly became a cultural center, politically, economically, and especially when it was the capital of the rule of the Ptolemies in Egypt and the building of the city days of Alexander the Great as an extension of the urban cities of Pharaonic existed at the time and has a reputation for religious, cultural and commercial. And was the beginning of construction Kdahih of the cities of Herakleion and Kanobs and Mntos. And Alexandria Alexander was characterized in the opening lines militarization of a city the soldiers, the Greeks and then turned into days of the Ptolemaic Greeks to the royal city parks and their columns white marble streets and the widening and was overlooking the sea and the south-east of the eastern port, which was called the port is great compared between him and Mbina Heraklion When Abu Qir to the mouth of a tributary of the Nile, which ceased to exist and now receded into the mouth of the Nile, 20 km from Abu Qir when Rashid. And the new city has acquired the fame of the ancient university and its complex scientific "Museion" and its library, which is the first research institute in history and a real lighthouse, which has become one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And researchers have found the effects of ancient Alexandria and Abu Qir under water on the submerged ruins of the old 2500 years of Pharaonic cities - Hellenic. Not know and so far only through the receipt as narrated by historians or travelers came myths and epics of ancient Greece. And the cities of Heraklion and Mentes near the ancient city of Alexandria and is currently at a depth of 8 meters Abu Qir Bay. And the commercial port of Heraklion overlooking the mouth of the Nile branch, which has been called the branch Kanobs. Mentes and the city was a city Mekdshhat religious worship was held by Isis and Serapis. Cities and sunk in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea at a depth as a result of earthquakes or flooding of the Nile. And this was the port of Heraklion Pharaonic temples of his fame and prosperity of the commercial because it was the most important commercial ports on the Ancient Mediterranean. Expeditions have discovered the three cities, heritage sites that have existed since the foot and is Heraklion and Kanobs and Menotas. Ordered them to houses and temples and statues and columns.

For the first time the French expedition to find evidence of these cities which were famous temples dating back to the gods Isis and Osiris, and Serapis, making the pilgrimage and holy shrines.Alexandria remained capital of Egypt during the eras of Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, even income. And moved them to the capital city of Fustat, founded by Amr Ibn El-Aas in AH 21 -641 meters.

History of Alexandria :

At the beginning of the fourth century BC, there was nothing but white sand and the sea and island wide and extended in front of the main coast called "Varoz", the ancient port .. And on the main beach a small village called "Raktos" surrounded by small villages further spread as well as between the sea and Lake Mareotis, he says archaeologists it might have been considered a strategic location for the expulsion of tribes that could attack from time to time from the western side of the Nile valley, or perhaps The "Raktos" just a small village based on fishing not only .. This is a description of the place of what is now known as the city of Alexandria, which was the undisputed center of the long centuries of thought in the ancient world .. So what is the event on the sand to the most famous city on the Mediterranean and specifically at what is now Greece's north, where was then just a different Hellenic cities and strong .. And in return for their strength there was Persia, which was occupies what is now known as Iraq and the Levant, Palestine and Egypt. And tried to fleets of the Persian invasion of the Greek islands, making the kingdoms feel the need to unite to confront the danger Persian demonstrated Philippe, King of Macedonia during the fourth century BC, he united the Greek city-and then he tried to cross Asia Minor (Turkey) to face the Persians, but he died to complete the march, his son Alexander in in 336 BC and is still in the twenty years old .. Vzhv to open Asia Minor and the Levant and Palestine that came to Egypt after the crushing defeats of the Persians .. And in Egypt (in 332 BC) was received by the Egyptians welcomed because of the cruelty of which they were treated under the Persian occupation .. and after that visited the city of Memphis (now south of Giza) was crowned king of Egypt, he visited the Temple of Amun, Siwa Oasis, where the priests conducted rituals adoption to become Alexander the son of Amun .. And on his way to Siwa, enjoy the land stretching between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Mareotis and the island stretching in front of the beach and ordered to build a city there to be a link between Egypt and Greece .. And after a few months, leaving Egypt Alexander heading towards the east to complement the rest of the track ..He opened, Persia (Iran) Alexander is to become the ruler of each of the Persian Empire, where to take the undisputed title of "Lord of Asia," but the ambitious young king did not stop, but marched with his army until he reached India and Central Asia .. While Alexander was in the Persian Gulf (Arab) disease, which surprised him did not last long pit where death after ten days, did not exceed the 33-year-old to be his body was taken to Egypt to be buried in Alexandria, which was not successful enough to see it again. www.tuttravels.com