Meet Yourself in Egypt April 2024 with Fiona Horne

Fiona Horne

with

Pink Lotus Tours presents:

Meet yourself

Egypt

A truly bespoke experience

as completely unique as you

APRIL

4th-18th

2024

Why this experience?

You will feel rebirthed, rejuvenated, inspired and restored when you experience Egypt with world traveller, modern day Goddess, best-selling author and inspirational

rennaissance woman,

Fiona Horne

WOMEN ONLY

Limited to

12 places

15 Days

of nourishing

and liberating

adventure

COMPLETELY ORIGINAL

HAND CURATED,

SAFE EXPERIENCE

Luxury hotel

all inclusive

accomodation

True sailing the nile

in a prIvate luxury

dahabaya

PRIVATE ACCESS TO

SPHINX, GREAT PYRAMID, TEMPLE OF PHILAE

red sea baptism

with dolphins and

ROYAL BEDOUIN TENT

PRIVATE, RESPECTFUL CEREMONY IN SACRED DIVINE FEMININE SITES

OPPORTUNITY TO CLEANSE AND RESTORE WITH

YOGA AND MEDITATION

I travelled to Egypt for the first time in May 2023 for a month and my soul was so profoundly touched I immediately made plans to return for another six week immersion in September I felt a powerful calling to offer a very unique experience that reflected the fascination and spiritual revelations that occured for me I received guidance from the ancient goddess Sekhmet to create a safe space for women to have a self determined experience to meet themselves in this extraordinary land To have an opportunity to offer devotion to the ancient goddess as she reveals herself to them Then a sequence of serendipitous events led me to partner with a premier female owned travel company Pink Lotus Tours and work with owner Leisa McInnes to bring women into Egypt facilitating a soul nourishing fortifying liberating and safe adventure of a lifetime or many lifetimes This is not a cookie cutter trip this is a truly curated and bespoke experience with hand chosen activities reflecting an immersion with the Feminine Divine You will not find another like it There is ceremony and ritual downtime to absorb your lessons clean food and clear guidance

There are visitations to the great temple complexes of Dendera Karnak Saquarra the Valley of the Queens and more Private visits to the Sphinx the inner chambers of the Great Pyramid and the Temple of Philae with respectful and deeply meaningful ceremony offered A true sailing experience on the Nile in a private luxury dahabaya with meditation yoga book study on Egyptian Ancient Goddesses and a Blue Lotus Rite of Passage ceremony Special guest inspirational speakers will provide concepts and frameworks to integrate the spiritual and cultural lessons into your everyday life To prepare you for the rest of your life after Egypt in the last four days there is a baptism in the Red Sea with dolphins an ethical camel ride lessons of self sufficiency whilst sharing a meal with Bedouin women in the Eastern Desert and finally an astronomy lesson to guide your way home by the stars

Completely Unique

Special Gifts for Guests

Personal Journal featuring information on sites and ceremonies
Essential Oil Blend
Oracle reading with Fiona

Time to Process and Relax

Space to be and breathe

Cultivate Awe and Wonder

Learn extraordinary things about the world and yourself

Let us take care of you

Flight Bookings

Interior flights included - not included is your international airfare, you are required to book that yourself but we can give advice to help you.

Tours & Activities

All entrances to temples, sacred sites with noted private access included. Ceremonies, yoga and meditation included.

*Hot air ballooning is an optional extra with additional cost.

Airport Transfers and Visa

You will be met at the airport immediately on landing by a member of Pink Lotus Tours who will escort you through customs and organise your visa.

Expert Egyptologist Guide

Our Egyptologist will accompany us everywhere and information is given before reaching a sacred site to nurture peaceful, personal immersion on arrival. They will also answer any questions you have on site and after.

Our Luxury Hotels

Cairo: Marriot Mena House, set at the foot of the

Great Pyramid

Luxurious 5 star fully appointed historic hotel at the foot of the Great Pyramid, with all comforts and amenities, including luxury Egyptian cotton bedding, free wifi, three restaurants, resort swimming pool and within walking distance of the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

Full spa with incredible massages and other treatments offered.

An oasis in the bustling city of Cairo and next to the spectacular, new Egyptian Grand Museum.

Luxor: Sofitel Winter Palace, historic colonial charm

5 Star French luxury in an atmosphere steeped in history, romance and adventure - with the most modern conveniences, including free wifi, four restaurants, a Shisha Lounge and resort swimming pool. Luxury bedding, fine woods, elegant materials and harmonious decor overlooking the Nile with cool, spacious green gardens to stroll through and unwind whilst reflecting

on a long day of memorable adventures.

Our private Dahabaya

Choose your sailing experience...

Comfort and luxury your way

All 13 cabins feature very large panoramic windows

Air-Conditioned – Individual climate control

Mini-bar & digital Safe Box in all cabins

Luxury Bathroom with full amenities

Housekeeping

Cabin Style (this is what will detemine your final cost)

4 x Suite w/balcony 41 sqm

2 x Deluxe with terrace 21sqm

6 x Standard 21 sqm

All meals and soft drinks, coffee/tea included

All activities included (except hot air balloon)

WiFi included

2 bottles of water a day

Extra money only needed for personal items, shopping and any additional activities not listed with your experience, or optional

(like hot air ballooning.)

Upper Deck Sun Deck with lounges for relaxing Glass Aquarium room with air conditioning heating for mediation yoga or dining indoors Egyptian style seating areas Coffee Tea making Facilities Main Dining Area serves beautiful Buffet Breakfast Lunch Dinners Complimentary Wi Fi Middle Deck reception and seating area with Wi Fi Lower Deck a salon for a quiet place to relax indoors

And then there is the Red Sea and Eastern Desert ...

Marsa Shagra- an eco lodge on the shore of the Red Sea

The first eco lodge in the region, setting the benchmark for responsible tourism in Egypt. We will stay in luxury ocean side Royal Tents, with share luxury bathroom facilities*

Two baptism experiences with dolphins, to spend the most quality time possible with these sacred creatures.

Sumptious local and international banquet dining.

Bean Bags, lounges and resort umbrellas for relaxing on the beach.

Beach yoga shala.

Colorful and diverse resort reef with

snorkel equipment included.

*if you would like a private airconditioned chalet for additional expense this can be arranged in advance.

Wadi Sabarah - lodge and

botanical gardens

Wadi Sabarah was designed in harmony with nature — applying vernacular architecture & academic research to reduce environmental impact.

More than a lodge, Wadi Sabarah is a nature retreat & an ecological centre. 'Tamarisk', restaurant & bar takes you on a different gastronomical journey everyday with a serene backdrop of sea & desert.

The beachfront yoga shala hosts our meditation and yoga sessions.

Karen’s Living Room, is a library & art showcase, to give you historical & cultural context of the area with books, resources & artefacts collected over the years.

Dr. Irina’s botanical gardens surround the hotel and overlook the sea providing you with a walking tour right at the lodge. With a showcase of desert flora of trees, shrubs and medicinal plants collected from different areas and grown on lodge land, it is a first of its kind in Egypt.

Luxury rooms and a serene pool offer a beautiful environment to relax and reflect on your time in Egypt.

Special Guest :

Nouran Salah

Location: Cairo

Nouran is an Egyptian Muslim woman who is highly educated and well traveled with an extensive resume that includes public speaker, yoga and meditation teacher, art museum curator, non-profit founder, award-winning documentary subject, interior designer, retreat organizer, and “adventuresome warrior of freedom.”

Nouran Salah received her bachelor’s degree in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication from Egypt’s Modern Sciences and Arts University in 2011. She later received a post-graduate diploma in Interior Design in 2013. In 2019, Nouran received a post-graduate diploma in social entrepreneurship from the Swedish Institute.

Nouran was a project design coordinator for the Cairo Governorate from 2014 to 2018.

The job that Nouran is most celebrated for is being the founder of Bel Bicycle and the Cairo Cycling Geckos. This carefree, nonconformist changemaker shocked the entire nation when she set off to cycle the unfriendly streets of Cairo to distribute free meals during Ramadan in an all-women caravan.

“I never imagined I could do all these things in one project; helping the poor, supporting refugee families, and empowering women by breaking unjustified social taboos, condensing so many messages in one endeavour,” she says. “I felt the country really needed this; I felt Egyptians would really do anything to help better our society.”

Setting off every day before breaking her fast, Nouran Salah took on the daunting streets of Cairo’s slums, cycling through traffic-laden bridges and roads engulfed in garbage, as she lead her all-female caravan to distribute meals for underprivileged people in Ramadan, honoring the festival's principles:

To Empathize with the Less Fortunate. ...
To Purify the Soul. ...
To Strengthen Family and Community Ties.

Nouran will inform and inspire us with stories from her life, experiences as a Muslim woman and the art of having a warrior mindset to create extraordinary good in your own life and the lives of others.

Special Guest :

Dr Irnia Springuel

Location: Wadi Sabarah

Dr. Irina is a professor in plant ecology, and known famously as an expert in desert botany. With over 50 years working in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, Dr Irina originally moved to Egypt from what was then The Soviet Union. She graduated from Leningrad University after gaining her BSc in Geobotany, then moved to Egypt to continue her postgraduate studies, completing an MSc and PhD in Ecology at Assiut University. Her Ph.D. research work on the First Cataract Islands near Aswan led to their declaration as protectorate in 1986, conserving these unique habitats.

Her incredibly successful career has made huge strives towards protecting desert ecosystems and the important botanic species that live there.

During her time working as a professor, Irina has forged a path for women to be able to travel and work in the desert area. Also encouraging, supporting, and nurturing the desires of women to enter the world of science, both of which had previously been prohibited. She also trained and educated many young botanists in Egypt’s deserts, spreading her knowledge, and continuing to increase awareness of the importance of desert life.

She has worked on numerous projects to preserve Egypt’s Natural heritage including the Wadi Allaqui Biosphere. You can find her published book “The Desert Garden” (ISBN 977-416,021-5) at our library and in book stores.

Prof. Irina will tell you that her biggest achievement is not her preservation efforts, books or the countless publications she wrote. It’s her investment in her students who today have spread across Egypt and the Middle East drawing attention and working to protect the fragile desert environment.

About 2000 plants of over 40 desert species are growing in the wadi bed. Dr Irina will guide us through Egypt’s wild flora where almost every plant has economic value supporting the life of the local nomads inhabiting the Egyptian deserts.

Most plants in this garden have been used in traditional medicine and its dry specimen is sold in herbal shops.

Join me for your trip of lifetimes

Your dayabaya cabin style will detemine your final costing.

Prices below inclusive for 15 days*. All luxury accomodation, meals, internal flights, ground transport, access to all locations, private visits to Sphinx, Great Pyramid and Temple of Philae, and all other inclusions as noted on itinerary.

(*not including international airfare.)

PRICING

4 x Suite w/balcony 41 sqm - 7200 twin share

Deluxe with terrace 21sqm - 6900 twin share

6 x Standard 21 sqm - 6600 twin share

Single Supplement: 1200 (add this if you want your own room)

Prices in USD - per person

Cost is all inclusive as below: *

Luxury hotel rooms at Mena House, Cairo and the Winter Palace, Luxor, and luxury Red Sea accomodation are included. Your cost will adjust based on which cabin you book for the Dahabaya, and whether you want a single supplement.

Meals, water at meals, plus two bottles a day and sodas, coffee, tea are included as per itinerary. All activities included.

Internal airfares and transfers included.

*except international airfare and

optional hot air balloon

Secure Payment

Credit card or bank transfer direct to Pink Lotus Tours

Deposit $1000 USD

Balance due: 1st February 2024

CLICK HERE

to make payment and secure your place.

Pink Lotus Tours

PO Box 7261 Southport Park, QLD 4215, Australia

Cairo Office: Level 5, 162G First Gate Hadayek El Ahram

leisa@pinklotustours.com

DETAILED ITINERARY- 15 Days

Day 1 Arrival - Thursday 4th April 2024

Mena House 3 nights Arrive and settle in Welcome dinner and orientation plus opening ceremony Early to bed for a sunrise private visit to the Sphinx

Day 2 - Friday 5th April 2024

SPHINX PRIVATE Sunrise ceremony Breakfast at hotel SAQQUARA complex Morning Featuring the Step Pyramid of Djoser and the Serapeum sacred to Ptah Pyramid of Unas to see the Pyramid Texts 283 Spells for the afterlife Dahshur Pyramid complex featuring the Bent and Red Pyramids sound ceremonies offered to experience the different tonal frequencies unique to each pyramid Lunch Egyptian restaurant Afternoon relax at hotel activities offered onsite by Fiona meditation debrief yoga spellcasting workshop based on the Pyramid Texts Dinner this is your time to decide to dine it will have been a long day with a late large lunch o n Mena House

Day 3 - Saturday 6th April 2024

Breakfast Mena House Morning Grand Egyptian Museum new complex next to Mena House Great Pyramid of Giza exterior walking tour Lunch with a magnificent view of the Pyramids 9 Pyramids Restaurant Afternoon relax at hotel 5 30 6 30pm Garden Pagoda Alternative Thought on Great Pyramid discussion and ceremony preparation GREAT PYRAMID PRIVATE Ceremony inside the main chamber and interior exploration 7pm 9pm 9pm Light grounding meal at local lounge restaurant o n Mena House

Day 4 - Sunday 7th April 2024

Check out of Mena House 9am Ahimsa Retreat restorative space on the banks of the Nile for all level flow yoga and picnic brunch with special guest Egyptian feminist and activist Nouran Salah to learn about life as an inspirational Muslim woman Late Afternoon Fly to Aswan Embark Dahabeya 5 nights all inclusive sunset dinner on the Nile and early to bed for early start tomorrow

Day 5 - Monday 8th April 2024

2 Dahabiya TEMPLE OF PHILAE PRIVATE SUNRISE Ceremony to worship the Goddess as she reveals Herself to participants Mid Morning relax Afternoon sail with visit to a local Nubian village to meet the women artisans and visit a traditional home

Day 6 - Tuesday 9th April 2024

3 Dahabiya Sail and local stop overs at various temples and sacred sites along the Nile accessible only by dahabaya avoiding the crowds and larger ships Yoga and meditation Kom Ombo Temple and Crocodile Museum late afternoon Evening Blue Lotus Rite of Passage ceremony

Day 7 - Wednesday 10th April 2024

4 Dahabiya Sail and local stopovers to swim in the Nile Yoga meditation Discussion and book study on The Great Goddesses of Egypt Barbara S Lesko copy for each guest provided Relaxing evening and early to bed for those ballooning its a very early start tomorrow

Day 8 - Thursday 11th April 2024

5 Dahabiya Arrive Luxor early morning Sunrise Hot Air Balloon optional Valley of the Kings including the Tomb of Tutankhamen Valley of the Queens featuring the Tomb of Queen Nefertari Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut Return to Dahabiya for brunch Afternoon relax and rest Evening Luxor Temple especially beautiful with lights at night

Day 9 - Friday 12th April 2024

Disembark Dahabeya morning luggage will be taken to next hotel Drive to Dendera Temple Complex which contains the Temple of Hathor and is the best preserved temple in all of Upper Egypt Afternoon check into Winter Palace 2 nights Own time to wander the safe streets shop at the markets and local artisans Early dinner at Winter Palace with introduction to Karnak Temple Complex More time after dinner to explore and shop

Day 10 - Saturday 13th April 2024

2 Winter Palace Sunrise Karnak temple including Chapel of Ptah with Sekhmet and Temple of Mut with crescent lake birthing house and forest of Sekhmets Brunch at hotel Afternoon relax and enjoy the stunning gardens and history of the Palace Dinner at rooftop restaurant overlooking the Avenue of the Sphinxes and Luxor Temple with discussion of experience so far and introduction to Red Sea with Fiona

Day 11 - Sunday 14th April 2024

Breakfast and then check out of Winter Palace 9am Drive across Eastern Desert to Red Sea snack basket provided Arrive Marsa Nakari all inclusive at 2pm 2 nights all inclusive Afternoon Red Sea swim and relaxing Yoga of the Breath class in the Beach Shala with Gosia

Day 12 - Monday 15th April 2024

2 Marsa Nakari Sunrise Red Sea Baptism at Dolphin House Afternoon swim relax explore Roman Ruins Sunset ethical camel ride and Bedouin dining and tea experience

Day 13 - Tuesday 16th April 2024

Morning Dolphin House for second experience or house reef guided snorkel Late check out 2pm Transfer to Wadi Sabarah all inclusive 2 nights Afternoon botanical experience and local medicinal herbs lesson with Dr Irina Springuel

Day 14 - Wednesday 17th April 2024

2 Wadi Sabarah Morning yoga and meditation with Fiona Explore Karen s Library and relax in the beautiful gardens and pool Afternoon Visit Bedouin women s art gallery opportunity to purchase Egyptian cotton handmade traditional dresses Early dinner and discussion of lessons learned and insights to share Night Desert astronomy lesson to learn to navigate by the stars

Day 15 - Thursday 18th April 2024

Morning Closing breakfast ceremony with Fiona Drive to Marsa Alam Airport Flight to Cairo 11 30am Connection to international flight or overnight at airport hotel will be an additional cost if required subject to departure flight schedule

It would be an honor and privilege to fulfil the calling I received by facilitating your 'meeting of self' in divine Egypt.

l offer that you will feel rebirthed, rejuvenated, and restored after experiencing Egypt with me, and embark on the rest of your life with passion and inspired vision, having worshipped the ancient divine feminine force on her sacred land, and awakened this divine feminine force in you, to burn brightly in your heart wherever you path leads.

Your Facilitator:

Fiona Horne

Back in the 90's, Fiona Horne launched a career in the entertainment industry as the lead singer of number one Aussie 90’s electro-rock band, Def FX, before continuing on to author many best-selling books on Modern Witchcraft. She is a popular radio and television personality, appearing on many programs around the world.

Fiona is also a commercial pilot, humanitarian aid worker, public speaker, world record holding skydiver, professional fire dancer, yoga instructor, freediver ... and experienced world traveller. Having lived and flown in the Caribbean for many years and travelled to many countries around the world she is a consumate and relaxed traveller.

At times Fiona has been a household name in Australia and featured on billboards across the USA for one of the original reality shows in 2006 that celebrated her life as a modern witch. Ultimately she stepped away from the limelight and retreated to the Caribbean to forge a new life as a humanitarian aid volunteer, animal rescuer, ultimately learning an entirely new skill at the age of 50, becoming a commercial pilot, working for a private charter company to become it's most requested captain, before the events of 2020 grounded airlines all over the world and saw Fiona return to her roots as a writer and entertainer.

At age 57, Fiona continues to motivate and inspire women from all walks of life with her fearless and free approach to living an unconventional life, not bound by societies' expectations, or parameters of what a woman should, could or would do at any age.

Always inspired – and led by the Divine Feminine, she is in service to you on your journey towards meeting yourself as the divine feminine force that you are.

Pink Lotus Tours are a privately owned and operated Tour Operator based in Egypt, with a head office also in Southport, Queensland, Australia.

Holding a Class A Tourism license, Cairo-based owner and director, Leisa McInnes, and her team of experts in the company's Cairo office offer the best and safest, most reliable and authentic experiences in Egypt.

They honour the culture and customs, whilst creating a clear path for the world to explore the ancient past and present of this remarkable country.

Pink Lotus Tours owner, Leisa McInnes

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