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Day 1: Arrival - hotel check in -dinner - short briefing...
Day 2: breakfast
10.00 am arrival at the dive center - reception and equipments, preparation10.30 am
briefing with slide show presentation about the dives
11.00 am boarding
11.30 am first dive site ( greek wreck, 15 meters depth, 35 min.)
Wonderful scattered amphora's which has been carried by the wreck, 100s. Of them all over rock which could be the wreck itself changes with time into rocks
an anchor from napoleon fleet dropped by accident on the wreck site, and an arrow from napoleon time fall on this great mixture.
01.00 pm second dive site (temple part of pharos island, 8 meters 45min.)
Temple part of pharos island, is thousand of archeological pieces, including sphinxes, columns, press win, flour containers, hieroglyphics scripts.
2.30 pm back to dive center. Lunch - back to your hotel -dinner .
Day 3 : Breakfast - doing excursions of citadel of qaite bey: built by mamlouk sultan abdul nasser qaite bey in 1477 ad, it's located in the pharos light house (one of the past seven world wonders). It was built to protect the city from the crusaders attacks during this period of time...
Bibliotheca of alexandria: a huge modern library & research center constructed on the site of the former library of alexandria (has been destroyed 400 ad). It carries a historical collection of rare books...
Graeco-roman museum: a history museum with a vast collection mostly dated back to the 3rd century bc till the 3rd century ad, spanning the ptolemaic & roman periods...
Lunch at fine on shore restaurant - back to your hotel - dinner...
Day 4 :Breakast -
10.00 am arrival to the dive center, equipment preparation
11.00 am boarding
11.30 am first dive site ( light house part of pharos island, 8 meters depth, 45 min dive )1000s of archeological pieces, including huge parts of ancient light house of alexandria (was one of the seven wonders of the world), sphinxes, obilisque and base of obilisque, columns and more .
01.00 pm second dive site (lovers island or antirodos island) 45 min. At 5 meters depth was the summer palace of mark anthony, you will see lime stones of the palace, columns, amphora's of royal food and drinks, a second world war airplane fall down on the palace a magic mixture made by accident between the far and the near past.
2.30 pm. Back to the dive center, lunch in the dive center- back to your hotel - dinner
Day 5 : breakfast - excursions of roman catacomb: a stunning set of catacombs with a fascinating mix of roman & egyptian iconography.
Pompey's pillar : an ancient monument , a 25 meter high granite column was constructed in honor of the emperor diocletian in 297 ad ...
Alexandria national museum : it has more then 1800 archaeological pieces exhibited chronologically ; the basement is devoted to prehistoric & pharonic times ; first floor to the graeco-roman period ; second floor to the coptic & islamic periods that high lights artifacts raised during recent underwater excavations ..
Roman theatre: it built in the 2nd century ad; this roman amphitheatre has 13 semicircular tiers made of white & gray marble seats for up to 800 spectators, galleries & sections of mosaic-flooring. In the ptolemaic times this area was the park of pan, a pleasure garden surrounded by roman villas & baths...
Lunch at a fine restaurant - back to your hotel - dinner...
Day 6: Breakfast - diving the historical napolion wrecks. 2 dives. Lunch at the dive center - back to your hotel - dinner...
Day 7: Breakfast - excursions of royal jewelry museum: a rare collection of jewelry goes back to mohamed ali pasha family ...
Museum of fine arts: a collection of portraits from old & modern egyptian artists
Lunch - back to your hotel -dinner ...
Day 8 : breakfast - diving the world war 2 wrecks... 2 dives -lunch at dive center - back to your hotel - dinner ...
Day 9 : breakfast - free till 12 noon check out time ...
includes :
the trip is all inclusive for 1385$ per person in a single room / 1150$ for a double accubancey ..
accomodation / half board on a 3 stars hotel right on the beach road ..
alex international airport pick up & return , and all transportaions needed for the alex tour program ..
4 days diving package ( all permissions & tickets for the underwater museum / lunch / tanks/ wieghts / dive guides ) ..
airconditioned transportations , tickets, lunch & english speaking guide for all the excursions listed above .
this is a limited time offer for the period of june till 15th of decamber 2009 ...
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