Cairo and Nile Cruise Trip Package

Day 1: Arrival Cairo

Meet & assist at Cairo International Airport where you will meet your tour manager. Transfer from airport to hotel by our private air conditioned vehicle. The tour manager will assist you at hotel & will confirm with you the pick up times for each tour before leaving. Overnight in Cairo.

Day 2: Giza Pyramids, Sphinx & Valley Temple - Egyptian Museum (B, L)

Breakfast at hotel. Pick up by our representative & transfer to enjoy a tour to Giza Pyramids. Khufu's pyramid is the northernmost and largest of the three. In classical antiquity it was considered as one of the seven wonders of the world, and is the only one to have survived. Khephren's monument can be easily identified by the casing stones that still cling to its pointed top. The much smaller pyramid of Mycerinus had not been completed by the time of the king's death. Its intended granite revetment was only partially applied. The Great Sphinx is part of the funerary complex of Khephren. Its impressive leonine body with the royal head is sculpted in an outcrop of the native limestone. Part of the face, including the nose, has been deliberately damaged. The false beard has fallen off and is currently kept at the British Museum.

 

Lunch at local restaurant.

 

Wonderful tour to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities near Tahrir Square in Cairo, which has the richest and most important collection of objects from Ancient Egypt in the world. The collection is constantly growing since the museum is the primary recipient of any finds made on the soil of Egypt. There you can contemplate the precious golden mask of Tutankhamon, most famous king of the Ancient Egypt. Transfer back to hotel. Overnight in Cairo

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 3: Fly to Aswan - High Dam - Unfinished Oblesik - Philae Temple - Embarkation (B, L, D)

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan. Meet and assist at Aswan airport. Transfer to your Nile cruise boat via private air-conditioned van. Embarkation. Lunch on board. Enjoy visiting the High Dam of Aswan, 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.

 

Transfer to visit the Unfinished Obelisk which still lies in its granite bed in the quarry, left behind because of a severe flaw in the stone.

 

Enjoy a tour to 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. Dinner and overnight on board.

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 4: Kom Ombo & Edfu Temples (B, L, D)

Breakfast on board. Tour to 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. 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. Sail to Luxor. Dinner and overnight on board.

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 5: Karnak & Luxor Temples. (B, L, D)

Breakfast 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.

 

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. Dinner and overnight on board.

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6: Disembarkation - Kings' Valley - Hatchepsut Temple - Colossi of Memnon - Fly back to Cairo (B)

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.

 

Enjoy a visit to Deir el-Bahari, Steep cliffs in the shape of a horseshoe form a natural background to two monumental buildings standing side by side, each belonging to a different period. The earlier one, on the left, was built by King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (11th Dynasty), as a combined tomb and funerary monument. More than 500 years later, the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (18th Dynasty), whose tomb is situated in the Valley of the Kings, used the same site for the construction of her funerary temple.

 

Pay a tour to 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.Disembarkation. Transfer to Luxor airport by our modern and private air conditioned deluxe van to fly back to Cairo. Meet and assist at Cairo airport and transfer to hotel. Overnight in Cairo.

 

Meals: Breakfast

Day 7: Optional Day Tour to Saladin Citadel, Old Cairo & Khan El Khalili (B)

Breakfast at hotel, Free day to enjoy this culturally rich seaside metropolis, at once both ancient and modern. Overnight in Cairo.

 

or Optional Day Tour to Saladin Citadel, Old Cairo & Khan El Khalili

 Transfer to visit Saladin Citadel, located on the spur of the Muqattam hills. It was the seat of government and home of almost all rulers of Egypt. Enjoy visiting the Mohamed Ali Mosque which was erected within the walls of Saladin's Citadel. The alabaster Mohammed Ali Mosque built in 1824 is one of Cairo's landmarks. Lunch at a local restaurant.

 

Continue to Old Cairo which has the remains of old Babylon's fortress walls partially surrounding the Coptic Quarter with its fascinating churches, the convent of St. George and the Ben Izra Synagogue.

 

Then, tour to the Cairo's most famous bazaar, Khan El Khalili, located in the old area of Al-Qahira. Back to hotel. Overnight.

 

Meals: Breakfast

Day 8: Depart Egypt. (B)

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo international airport to fly back to home. End of our services.

 

Meals: Breakfast

Included services:

• Meet & assist service at Cairo, Luxor & Aswan airports.
• Transfers airport / hotel / Nile River cruise & vice versa by our private aire conditioned vehicle.
• All transportation service during the tour by private aire conditioned vehicle.
• 04 nights accommodation in Cairo with breakfast included.
• 03 nights accommodation on board of the Nile River Cruise boat on full board basis (Lunch, dinner & breakfast included).
• Entrance fees to the mentioned historical sites.
• Expert Egyptology guide during the tours. (English speaking)
• Lunch in local restaurant in Cairo during the excursion.
• All service charges & taxes.

Complimentary:
Daily mineral water bottle during the excursions.
Free bundle for calls & internet access.

Excluded services:

• Airfare.
• Entry visa to Egypt
• Domestic flights Cairo/Aswan - Luxor/Cairo. with pleasure we can issue it for you
• Meals & Beverage not mentioned, luggage portage, tipping, personal expenses, optional tours, laundry, or any extras not mentioned.
• Entrance fees to see the Pyramids from inside & the Tutankhamen Tomb in the Kings' Valley.
• Optional Day Tour: Saladin Citadel, Old Cairo & Khan El Khalili.

Notes:

• Cruise Schedule may be changed in sequence but not in visits according to navigational circumstance.
• Confirmation of the mentioned hotels depends on the availability, otherwise, the alternative will be other hotel with the same quoted tariff.
• The regular sailing dates of 04 days/03 nights cruise boats from Aswan are: Monday, Wednesday & Friday.

Prices & quoted hotels

 

 

Category	4* + 5*	5*
Per person in double room	$	$

Accommodation Plan

Destination	4* + 5*	5*
Cairo	Barcelo Cairo Pyramids Hotel or similar	Le Meridien Pyramids Hotel or similar
Nile Cruise boat	Solaris II or similar	Solaris II or similar