from Cairo through the desert to Luxor:

1st day: In the early morning a microbus will come to take you from Cairo; It will take you around 5 hours until you arrive in the oasis Bahariya; after a welcome lunch and a rest we start to a local tour in and around Bahariya; english mountain, pyramid mountain, salt lake, gardens and dunes close to Bahariya you will visit; after dinner there will be the possibility to visit the tent and listen to the music of the famous bedouin musician Abdel Sadik (there will be a small entrance fee of LE 20 equal to around € 3); overnight in the hotel "Old Oasis" or "El Beshmo Lodge".

2nd day: After breakfast you can have a walk around in the gardens close to your hotel before we start to the desert; first stop: Black Desert; after that we continue to cristal mountain, from where we will start offroad to El Agabat; we continue to the White Desert, where we will make our camp; for dinner we will have chicken barbecue and after that you can take your time for watching the stars....

3rd day: After breakfast we continue discovering the New White Desert; after that we start to the Old White Desert and the oasis Farafra; there you will have the possibility to visit Badrs Museum; after a short local tour you could take a bath in a hot spring; back to the desert, where we overnight again under the stars....

4th day: After breakfast we start on the old caravan route to Dakhla;have a look to different faces of the desert: never-ending sand dunes or bizarre rocks; around the evening we would reach the place for our camp; after dinner you could try to count shooting stars....

5th day: After breakfast we continue our way to Dakhla; first stop: El Qasr, where we will visit the old city and a small, but nice museum about El Qasr; after that lunch and rest; in the afternoon we start to a tour of the oasis; discover how simple life could be...; after sunset we will have dinner in our hotel; freetime and overnight in a hotel.

6th day:For those who are interested in history we could go to the tempel of Deir El Haggar, which was built around Neros time; after that we continue to the main city of Dakhla, Mut; there you would have time to go for a walk by your own or go for shopping; after that we continue to Charga; in the northeast of Charga there is the tempel of Ibis waiting for your visit; furthermore we would visit the christian cemetery of El Bagawat; dinner and overnight in the dunes close to Charga.

7th day: After breakfast we will bring you to Qasr Charga with its narrow lanes; after that its time to say "good bye"; a microbus will bring you directly to Luxor, where you would arrive in the afternoon.


Information:

For more information concerning the different oases please have a look to our lexicon.