Travel to enjoy visiting the most beautiful cities of Egypt, Cairo, Luxor and Alexandria. Cairo is the actual capital and biggest city of Egypt. Alexandria, the second capital of Egypt and one of the most beautiful cities overlooking the Mediterranean. Enjoy beautiful Nile Valley scenery as you cruise down the River Nile on a 4-day cruise from Aswan to Luxor.
09 days /08 nights
Day 1: Arrival Cairo.
Day 2: Giza Pyramids - Museum of Egypt - Transfer to Aswan by a sleeping train
Day 3: Embarkation - Aswan High Dam - Unfinished Obelisk - Temple of Filae - Free felucca ride.
Day 4: Kom Ombo and Edfu Temples.
Day 5: Temples of Karnak and Luxor.
Day 6: Disembarkation- Valley of the Kings - Deir El Bahari - Colossi of Memnon - Back to Cairo by sleeping train
Day 7: Free day at leisure.
Day 8: Alexandria full day tour (Qaitbai - Catacombs - Library - Pompey's Column).
Day 9: Depart Egypt
09 days /08 nights
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.
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer for a tour of the famous Pyramids of Giza: that of Cheops which is the oldest and the only one that still lasts of the Seven wonders of the world, in addition to being the largest of the pyramids, was ordered to be built by the pharaoh of the fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt Cheops, the architect of this work was Hemiunu, that of Kefren, brother of Cheops, which dates back to the 26th century BC. C and that of Micerino, Pharaoh of Dynasty IV, who was known in his time as "The Divine Pyramid"; the sphinx, a wonderful statue with the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion; and the Valley Temple. Lunch in a local restaurant.
Visit to the Egyptian Museum that contains many pharaonic monuments in addition to the magnificent collection of the young king Tutankhamun. The Museum also includes the chamber of mummies that has a separate entrance. Transfer to Giza train station to travel to Aswan on board of the seating train. Dinner and overnight on board the train.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Meet & assist at Aswan train station by our representative & transfer to the Nile cruise boat. Embarkation. Lunch on board. Then, transfer for an amazing tour to 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 marvelous 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. Back to the cruise boat. Dinner and overnight on board.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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
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
Breakfast on board. Disembarkation. Lunch 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.
Transfer to Luxor train station to back to Cairo by a sleeping train. Dinner and overnight
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Meet & assist at Giza train station. Transfer to hotel by our private air conditioned vehicle. Overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast at hotel. transfer to enjoy a tour to the second capital of Egypt, the beautiful Alexandria. Visit to the Fortress of Kaitbay, built in the fifteenth century by Sultan Kaitbay on the ancient Alexandrian style.
Continue visiting the impressive Catacombs of Kom el-Shuqafa, an enormous complex of underground burial chambers, was built by the Romans in the second century A.D.
Your next stop will be Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the new library of Alexandria, opened in October 2002. Its aim is to revive the legendary spirit of the ancient library built by the Greeks in around 300 BC and destroyed by an earthquake in 415 C.E, and to restore Alexandria to its former status as a center for learning and scholarship.
Visit to the pillar of Pompey, actually a pink granite column with an ornamental capital, which was erected in honor of Diocletian (302 AD). It marks the ancient site of the Serapeum, built by the Ptolemies.
Lunch will be serving during the tour at a local restaurant. Back to hotel in Cairo & overnight.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo international airport to fly back to home. End of our services.
Meals: Breakfast
- Transfer Cairo / Alexandria / Cairo by our private air conditioned vehicle.
- Meet & assist service at Cairo airport and train stations in Giza, Aswan and Luxor.
- Transfer airport / hotel / train station / cruise ship and vice versa by private air conditioned vehicle.
- All transportation service during the tour by our private air conditioned vehicle.
- 03 nights accommodation in Cairo with breakfast included.
- 02 nights accomodation on board a sleeping train (Cairo / Aswan and Luxor / Cairo) with half board (dinner and breakfast).
- 03 nightsaccomodation on board a 5 * Nile cruise with full board (lunch, dinner and breakfast).
- Entrance fees to the mentioned historical sites.
- Expert Egyptology guide during the tours.
- Lunch at a local restaurant during the excursion in Cairo & Alexandria .
- Daily mineral water bottle during the excursions. "Complementary"
- Free bundle for calls & internet access during your stay in Egypt. "Complementary"
- All service charges & taxes
- Airfare.
- Entry visa to Egypt
- Sleeping train Cairo/Aswan-Luxor/Cairo.
- 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 mummy Chamber in the Egyptian Museum, & the Tutankhamen Tomb in the Kings' Valley.
- Departure taxes from airports International departure about 25 USD$ per person
- Lunch or meals not mentioned.
- private tour.
- Cruise Schedule may be changed in sequence but not in visits according to navigational circumstance.
- The price is quoted in American Dollars per person in double room (minimum 2 persons), in case of Single room or Single Traveller, please contact us to advise you supplement.
- 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.
- Your gift is a free felucca ride in Aswan.
- For upgrading hotels or cruise, please let me know to send you the supplement.
- For hotels in less Category, please let me know to send you the reduction.
Summer from May to September
| Category | 4* | 5* |
| Per person in double room | $ 777 | $ 819 |
Winter from October to April
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Category |
4* | 5* |
| Per person in double room | $ 878 | $ 999 |
Accommodation Plan
| Destination | 4* | 5* |
| Cairo | Barceló Pyramids Hotel or similar |
Moevenpick Pyramids Hotel or similar |
| Nile Cruise | 4* | Sonesta St. George or similar |
