Sonesta Dahabiya Amirat

Day 1: Embarkation

Meet and assist at Aswan City (airport / train station / hotel). Transfer by our modern, comfortable & private aire conditioned deluxe vehicle to your Dahabiya. Embarkation. Lunch on board. Enjoy an unique experience & a super luxury trip on board of the Nile River. Dinner & overnight on board in Aswan.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Day 2: Aswan High Dam / Philae Temple

Breakfast on board. Transfer to enjoy visiting the Aswan High Dam, Egypt's modern example of construction on a monumental scale. The controversial Aswan High Dam contains 18 times the amount of material used in the Great Pyramid of Khufu and created Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake.

Your next stop is the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae which was famous during the Greco-Roman period. There you can see, in front of the first pylon, two granite lions. On the walls of the temple of Philae were inscribed the latest hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions. Lunch on board. Sail to Kom Ombo. Dinner & overnight on board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 3: Kom Ombo Temple

Breakfast on board. Transfer to visit the double temple of the Hellenistic period on the eastern bank, the Temple of Kom Ombo. This unique construction is an architectonic conflation of two temples in one building. Lunch on board. Dinner & overnight on board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 4: Edfu Temple

Breakfast on board. Sail to Edfu. Enjoy a visit to the Temple of the falcon god Horus at Edfu which is the best preserved example among the Greco-Roman temples of Egypt. It is also the repository of the most detailed legacy on matters of cult and temple function. Lunch on board. Dinner & overnight on board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 5: Free day at leisure on board

Breakfast on board. Free day on board. Lunch on board. Sail to Esna. Dinner & overnight on board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6: Luxor Temple / Karnak Temples

Breakfast on board. Sail to Luxor. Transfer to visit the Luxor Temple, most important monument, and most sacred of sites. It was conceived as a remote southern annex to the temple of Karnak, at a distance of about 3 kilometres from it. Hence, it faces the Karnak Temple, and was connected to it by a long processional avenue, flanked by rows of sphinxes on either side. Many of those sphinxes have been unearthed and guard the entrance to the temple, but more still lie buried beneath the buildings of modern Luxor.

Enjoy a wonderful tour to Karnak Temple. Three temples of Ancient Egypt claimed supremacy over all the others: the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, the Temple of Re-Atum at Heliopolis and the Temple of Amon-Re at Karnak. However, only one has been spared the ravages of time to amaze the visitor even today, 4,000 years after its initial stage of building – the Temple of Karnak. The Temple of Amon-Re was the melting pot of religion and politics. Its monumental courts and halls witnessed the most critical events of Egyptian history. Lunch on board. Dinner & overnight on board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7: Valley of the Kings / Valley of the Queens / Medinet Habu / Colossi of Memnon

Breakfast on board. Magnificent visit to the Valley of the Kings, the most famous concentration of royal tombs in Ancient Egypt. Disappointed by the failure of the pyramids to protect their royal owners from robbery and desecration, the kings of the New Kingdom decided to adopt a more secure mode of burial. Instead of the pyramid, they opted for deep, rock-cut galleries and halls.

Your next stop is the Valley of the Queens (Biban el-Harim) which was the formal site of burial for royal wives and children of the New Kingdom. It is situated a few Kilometers south of the Kings'Valley, due west of the temple of Medinet Habu. Known in antiquity as "The Place of Beauty" or "The Place of Perfection", the site is composed of several interconnected wadis, honeycombed by around 70 rock-cut tombs.

The third stop is Medinet Habu. Ramesses III, the last warrior king of the 20th Dynasty (New Kingdom), chose the site of Medinet Habu for his funerary temple. An earlier small temple on the premises, dating from the time of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, had by then acquired considerable local fame. It's particularly famous for its unusual gate building which imitates the fortified gate of a Canaanite city.

The final stop is the Colossi of Memnon. The first monument one encounters on a visit to the west bank of Luxor is the site of the funerary temple of Amenhotep III (18th Dynasty). The temple itself has all but completely disappeared, but the colossal twin statues of the king, which once stood proudly in front of the entrance to the temple, are still there to greet the visitor. Lunch on board. Dinner & overnight on board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 8: Disembarkation

Breakfast on board. Disembarkation. Transfer by our modern, comfortable & private aire conditioned deluxe vehicle to (airport / train station / hotel in Luxor). End of our services.

Meals: Breakfast

Day 1: Embarkation - Luxor Temple / Karnak Temples

Meet and assist at Luxor City (Luxor airport / Luxor train station / pick up at hotel). Transfer to your Dahabiya by our modern, comfortable & private aire conditioned deluxe vehicle. Embarkation. Lunch on board. Transfer to visit the Luxor Temple, most important monument, and most sacred of sites. It was conceived as a remote southern annex to the temple of Karnak, at a distance of about 3 kilometres from it. Hence, it faces the Karnak Temple, and was connected to it by a long processional avenue, flanked by rows of sphinxes on either side. Many of those sphinxes have been unearthed and guard the entrance to the temple, but more still lie buried beneath the buildings of modern Luxor.