Itinerary: The 23-Day Egypt Farming Tour covers Cairo with its pyramids and Sphinx, the Nile Delta, Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea, El Alamein where Montgomery halted Rommel’s advance, Suez with its canal, St Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada coastal resorts on the Red Sea as well as a 4 night Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan featuring the temples of Karnak, Valley of Kings - the burial chambers of ancient Egypt’s greatest Pharaohs and many more ancient sites and of course Aswan’s High Dam an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960’s.
Highlights: As with all Australian Farmers Tours we’ll get off the tourist track visiting, sheep, beef, dairying and cropping properties. Apart from these valuable on-farm inspections technical visits also cover large experimental farms. The tour has been designed as a business trip, which may qualify as a tax-deductible expense. However, it is not all work and no play and the tour includes leisure and sightseeing to provide a well rounded itinerary. There is plenty of time to go shopping in Cairo’s Khan El Khalili bazaar and to visit the Egyptian Museum where you can see the treasures of Tutankhamen the famed boy king.
Tour Cost: The cost is fully inclusive of many meals and utilises the services of Singapore Airlines. Tour members have the option of stopping off on the way home in Dubai, for an Arabian experience, and or Singapore still a duty free paradise.
Tour Leader: Greg Cahill is currently an Agricultural Consultant in Bendigo having spent over 35 years with the Victorian Department of Agriculture and during this time was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study farm diversification in the United States and Great Britain. He is author of two books, “ Don’t Dream It - Do It. Making money from new farm ideas” and “160 New Farming Enterprises and Ideas.” Greg is currently working as a Rural Financial Counsellor helping northern Victorian farmers apply for drought and fire relief. He was also a journalist for the Weekly Times, writing case stories for their monthly Farm magazine. Greg led the highly acclaimed 2008 Australian Farmers China Tour and again will be accompanied by his wife Maree.
About Us: Australian Farmers Travel registered in Victoria and owned and operated by Andrew Curry, commenced in 1973 as a service to primary producers and shareholders of the then major rural co-operatives Victorian Producers’ (now Elders), Westralian Farmers (now AWB Landmark), Primaries (now Elders), Gippsland and Northern, Bennetts Farmers and Farmers & Graziers. Our tours offer the chance to see how farming is practised worldwide and also provide a sense of fellowship and a chance to meet other farm families from all over Australia. Friendships formed on an Australian Farmers Tour often last a lifetime.
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