(10 days /09 nights)
Day 1: Arrival Cairo
Day 2: Giza Pyramids, Great Sphinx & Valley Temple - Egyptian Museum
Day 3: Fly to Aswan - High Dam - Unfinished Oblesik - Philae Temple - Embarkation
Day 4: Kom Ombo & Edfu Temples
Day 5: Karnak & Luxor Temples
Day 6: Disembarkation - Kings' Valley - Hatchepsut Temple - Colossi of Memnon - courtesy visit to Medinat Habu - Travel to Sharm El Sheikh from Luxor airport
Day 7: Sharm El Sheikh Beaches
Day 8: Sharm El Sheikh Beaches
Day 9: Fly back to Cairo
Day 10: Depart Egypt
(10 days /09 nights)
Meet & assist at Cairo International Airport where you will meet your tour manager. Transfer from airport to hotel by our modern, comfortable & private air conditioned vehicle. The tour manager will assist you at hotel & will confirm with you the pickup times for each tour before leaving. Overnight in Cairo.
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.
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 treasures of Tutankhamen, most famous king of the Ancient Egypt. The museum includes a Mummy Chamber with extra cost. Back to hotel. Overnight in Cairo
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan. Meet & assist at Aswan airport 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. Enjoy a visit 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. Sail to Luxor. Dinner and overnight on board.
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.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Breakfast on board. Then, transfer for an amazing tour to 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 in Luxor.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Breakfast on board. Disembarkation. 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.
Continue 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 airport to travel to Sharm El Shiekh. Overnight in Sharm El Sheikh.
Meals: Breakfast
Overnight in Sharm El Sheikh. Meals: Breakfast.
Overnight in Sharm El Sheikh Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast on hotel, transfer to Sharm El Sheikh airport to fly back to Cairo. Meet & assist at Cairo airport by our representative & transfer to hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo international airport to board your departure flight. End of our services
Meals: Breakfast
• Meet & assist service at Cairo, Aswan & Luxor and Sharm El Shiek airports.
• Transfers airport / hotel / Nile River cruise by private air conditioned vehicle.
• All transportation service during the tour by private air conditioned vehicle.
• 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 Egyptologist guide during the tours.(English speaking)
• Daily mineral water bottle during the excursions.
• Free cell phone during your stay in Egypt charged with (30 minutes Local calls or 4 minutes International Calls).
• All service charges & taxes.
• Airfare.
• Entry visa to Egypt.
• Meals & Beverage not mentioned, luggage portage, tipping, personal expenses, optional tours, laundry, or any extras not mentioned.
• Domestic flights Cairo/ Aswan, LuxorSharm El Shiekh /Cairo.
• 03 nights' accommodation in Cairo with breakfast included.
• 03 nights' accommodation in Hurghada with Breakfast included.
• Entrance fees to see the Pyramids from inside, the mummy Chamber in the Egyptian Museum, & the Tutankhamen Tomb in the Kings' Valley.
• Cruise Schedule may be changed in sequence but not in visits according to navigational circumstance.
• The regular sailing dates of 04 days/03 nights cruise boats are: Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
• The prices are not valid during the peak periods. (Christmas, New Year, Easter, Egyptian Vacation "mid Term").
