Luxury tour Cairo, Nile Cruise & Abu Simbel

Day 1: Arrival Cairo

Meet & assist at Cairo International Airport where you will meet your tour manager. Transfer from airport to hotel by our modern, comfortable & private aire conditioned deluxe 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.

Welcome drink

Day 2: Giza Pyramids - Egyptian Museum

 

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 good quality 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 treasures of Tutankhamon, most famous king of the Ancient Egypt. The museum includes a Mummies room with extra cost. Back to hotel. Overnight in Cairo

 

Free Sound & light Show at Giza Pyramids.

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 3: Luxor & Karnak Temples

 

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Cairo airport to fly to Luxor. Meet & assist at Luxor airport by our representative & transfer to the Nile cruise boat. Embarkation. Lunch 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

Day 4: Valley of the Kings - Hatshepsut Temple - 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.

 

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. Lunch on board. Sail to Edfu. Dinner & overnight on board.

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 5: Edfu & Kom Ombo Temples

 

Breakfast on board. 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. Sail to Kom Ombo.

 

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. Sail to Aswan. Dinner and overnight on board.

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6: High Dam - Unfinished Obelisk - Philae Temple - Felucca Ride

 

Breakfast on board. Travel 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 marvellous 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.

 

Lunch on board. An amazing felucca ride on the Nile in Aswan to see the Elephantine Island. Enjoy watching the fascinating view and the color mixing between the navy blue for the River Nile, green for land, yellow for desert and the light blue for the sky. Back to the cruise boat. Dinner and overnight on board.

 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7: Abu Simbel by flight

 

Breakfast on board. Disembarkation. Transfer to Aswan airport to fly to Abu Simbel. Meet & assist at Abu Simbel airport. Enjoy a tour to the magnificent two rock temples of Abu Simbel, mighty monuments of the "Builder Pharaoh" Ramesses II & amazing by virtue of its imposing size and the uniqueness of its design. The main purpose of the temples was to glorify the king in his divine aspect, as well as his principal queen Nefertari. Transfer to Abu Simbel airport to fly back to Aswan. Continue flying back to Cairo. Meet & assist at Cairo airport by our representative & transfer to hotel. Overnight in Cairo.

 

Meals: Breakfast

Day 8: Back to home

 

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

 

Meals: Breakfast

Inclusions

• Meet & assist service at Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel airports.
• Transfers airport / hotel / Nile River cruise & vice versa by modern & private aire conditioned deluxe vehicle.
• All transportation service during the tour by modern & comfortable aire conditioned deluxe vehicle. 
• 3 nights accommodation in Cairo at 5* hotel with breakfast included.
• 4 nights accommodation on board of 5* deluxe 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.
• Mineral water bottle during the excursion in Cairo.
• Almuerzo en un restaurante típico durante la excursión en El Cairo.
• Felucca Ride on the Nile River in Aswan.
• Abu Simbel visit by flight.
• Free cell phone during your stay in Egypt charged with (30 minutes Local calls or 4 minutes International Calls).
• All service charges & taxes.

Exclusions

• International flights.
• Entry visa to Egypt (15 USD$ per person at Cairo International Airport upon arrival for non restricted nationalities).
• Meals & drinks not mentioned, tipping, personal expenses, optional tours, laundry, or any extras not mentioned.
• Internal flights Cairo/Luxor, Aswan/Cairo & Aswan/Abu Simbel/Aswan.
• Entrance fees to see the Pyramids from inside, the mummies room in the Egyptian Museum, & the Tutankhamon Tomb in the Kings' Valley.

Notes

• Cruise Schedule may be changed in sequence but not in visits according to navigational circumstance.
• The regular sailing date of the cruise boat is Monday.
• The prices are 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.
• The prices are valid till 30 April 2013, except Christmas, New Year & Easter periods.
• Confirmation of the mentioned hotels depends on the availability, otherwise, the alternative will be other hotel with the same quoted tariff.
• Your gift is sound & light show at Giza Pyramids.

Prices, seasons & quoted hotels

 

Summer from May to September

Category	5*
Per person in double room	$ 1199

Winter from October to April

Category	5*
Per person in double room	$ 1499

Accommodation Plan:

Destination	5*
Cairo	Fairmont Nile City Cairo
Nile River Cruise boat	Sonesta St. George