Tour overview
Enjoy the timeless experience that is a Nile cruise as you sail from Aswan to Luxor on an indulgent ship as you discover ancient Egypt’s highlights. Discover unique treasures from the Egyptian bazaars.
Step back in time and learn all about the ancient world.
Highlights
- Explore the iconic pyramids and Sphinx in Giza
- Discover treasures at the Egyptian Museum
- Shop at the historic Khan el-Khalili bazaar
- Visit the majestic Temple of Philae in Aswan
- Cruise the Nile and see the Temple of Karnak
Brief Itinerary
Day | Highlights | Overnight |
Day 1 | Pick up from Cairo airport to your hotel | Cairo |
Day 2 | Giza Pyramids & Sphinx – Egyptian Museum- Travel To Aswan City | On the train |
Day 3 | Check In On The Cruise Ship At Aswan City-Visit Aswan Highlights | On board |
Day 4 | Visit Abo Simple Temple (Optional ) – Sail To Kom Ombo City | On board |
Day 5 | Visit Edfu Temple – Sail To Luxor – Visit East Bank Luxor | On board |
Day 6 | Visit west bank Luxor (Hot Air Balloon – Optional) | On the train |
Day 7 | Fly to Home |
Day 1: Pick up from Cairo airport to your hotel
Arrive at Cairo airport where you will be met by our representative who will assist you through the formalities.Our representative will meet you at Cairo airport and then you will be transferred to the hotel. Your Rep. will greet you at the hotel and assist you with a seamless check-in.
overnight Apartment Hotel in Cairo
(You can upgrade your stay in Cairo to a 5 Star hotel, including lunch, dinner, through the Book Now page)
Day 2: Giza Pyramids & Sphinx - Egyptian Museum- Travel To Aswan City (B)
After breakfast you will starting your first tour with your guide to visit the most important landmarks of Cairo city, you will start with visit the pyramids and the Sphinx then your guide will take you to special restaurant to get your Lunch (included ) after that he will take you to visit the Egyptian museum then to shopping on Khan elkhalel (soqe & bazaar), finally back to your hotelTo check out and then to the train station and starting travel to Aswan city
[Flight upgrade from Cairo to Aswan and 1 Night hotel accomadation is avaible upon request]
[You can also upgrade the train to a sleeping train, through the Book Now page [ Cairo -Aswan / Luxor - Cairo round trip]
The pyramids of Giza
The great pyramids are the sole landmarks left of the Seven Wonders of the planet .You'll discover them in Giza plateau workers town, the great pyramids, some sphinxes and antiquated burial grounds. The pyramids are the internment locales of a child, father,and grandfather
The Great pyramid of Khufu
This is the most significant one among every one of them and it's likewise been very much ensured throughout the years. it had been worked between 2560BC to 2540 BC. when you enter this pyramid, you'll get the chance to search out huge amounts of passages inside it. Besides The pyramid might be an exhibition hall, where's destroyed old vessel was found during a pit close by.
The Pyramid Of Khafre
This is littler than the past one and it had been worked to cover Pharaoh Khafre Who administered inside the fourth administration between 2558 BC and 2532 BC. The pyramid seems taller than others since it remains on a higher ground level.
The Pyramid Of Menkaure
This pyramid was inbuilt 2510 BC to cover Pharaoh Menkaure. it's the most diminutive of every one of them .It's produced using an exceptional external taken packaging in contrast with the contrary two pyramids. To obtain entrance into the pyramids you'll have to follow the standards of the very certainty that the pyramids are on a rotational premise.
The Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian museum of ancient pieces has more than 120 thousand antiquities in plain view and goes back 7 thousand years prior. inside the third museum, you'll discover Tutankhamun Sarcophagus, his cast ,and interesting illustrious mummy exhibits.The Egyptian historical center which is found inside the midtown side of Tahrir square are frequently compared to the exquisite Louver in Paris. On its ground floor , are a lot of books in sequential request and on the second-floor artifacts are orchestrated steady with classification or burial chamber. You'll additionally get the opportunity to find out old coins, papyrus and statuettes of each ruler.
After breakfast you will starting your first tour with your guide to visit the most important landmarks of Cairo city, you will start with visit the pyramids and the Sphinx then your guide will take you to special restaurant to get your Lunch (included ) after that he will take you to visit the Egyptian museum then to shopping on Khan elkhalel (soqe & bazaar), finally back to your hotelTo check out and then to the train station and starting travel to Aswan city
[Flight upgrade from Cairo to Aswan and 1 Night hotel accomadation is avaible upon request]
[You can also upgrade the train to a sleeping train, through the Book Now page [ Cairo -Aswan / Luxor - Cairo round trip]
The pyramids of Giza
The great pyramids are the sole landmarks left of the Seven Wonders of the planet .You'll discover them in Giza plateau workers town, the great pyramids, some sphinxes and antiquated burial grounds. The pyramids are the internment locales of a child, father,and grandfather
The Great pyramid of Khufu
This is the most significant one among every one of them and it's likewise been very much ensured throughout the years. it had been worked between 2560BC to 2540 BC. when you enter this pyramid, you'll get the chance to search out huge amounts of passages inside it. Besides The pyramid might be an exhibition hall, where's destroyed old vessel was found during a pit close by.
The Pyramid Of Khafre
This is littler than the past one and it had been worked to cover Pharaoh Khafre Who administered inside the fourth administration between 2558 BC and 2532 BC. The pyramid seems taller than others since it remains on a higher ground level.
The Pyramid Of Menkaure
This pyramid was inbuilt 2510 BC to cover Pharaoh Menkaure. it's the most diminutive of every one of them .It's produced using an exceptional external taken packaging in contrast with the contrary two pyramids. To obtain entrance into the pyramids you'll have to follow the standards of the very certainty that the pyramids are on a rotational premise.
The Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian museum of ancient pieces has more than 120 thousand antiquities in plain view and goes back 7 thousand years prior. inside the third museum, you'll discover Tutankhamun Sarcophagus, his cast ,and interesting illustrious mummy exhibits.The Egyptian historical center which is found inside the midtown side of Tahrir square are frequently compared to the exquisite Louver in Paris. On its ground floor , are a lot of books in sequential request and on the second-floor artifacts are orchestrated steady with classification or burial chamber. You'll additionally get the opportunity to find out old coins, papyrus and statuettes of each ruler.
Khan elKhalili bazaar Cairo
This is the most significant Egyptian market in Cairo. It likewise has medieval style shopping centers. Close the market,you'll get the opportunity to find out the Al Hussein and Al Azhar mosques. it had been before a center for slave exchanging. It is produced using rear entryways with stores confronting each other . you'll additionally discover shoemakers, metal forgers tailors,and stores that sell gifts, food, drinks etc.You'll likewise discover aroma and antique shops here
[ After finish the visits Travel to Aswan ]
Day 3: Check In On The Cruise Ship At Aswan City-Visit Aswan Highlights (B/L/D)
Our Representative will be waiting for you at the airport or train station morning at Aswan city to transfer you to the floating hotel where you are Accommodation. After checking in and taking a rest, you will meet your tour guide at your hotel to tell you all the information on the itinerary and then the trip program begins with a visit to the landmarks of Aswan this tour finish and go back to your ship on the lunch time, afternoon optional tour [Nubian village]
Temple of Philae
The Philae sanctuary is also alluded to as the hallowed Temple of Isis situated in Aswan. It turned into a way preferred and far discussed clarification for concentrate for Victorian painters on account of it perfectly cut out evenness, it's one among Egypt's most revered belonging. It sits on the Agilika islands today on account of the very truth that it looked close to obliteration by the Lake Nasser however was spared by UNESCOs ideal intervention.The sanctuary despite everything holds the conventional religion of Isis yet on the island, you'll additionally find the Kiosk of Trajan, the Temple Of Hathor and different structures from the Byzantine and Roman times. A few vacationers will wind up here after they're finished going round Abu Simbel yet in the event that you might want a straight outing you'll simply take a visit by transport from Aswan.
Unfinished Obelisk
once you think about a town where the most straight forward rocks where mined in old Egypt, at that point there is no other spot than in Aswan. These rocks were mined and used in making pillars, sculptures, pyramids and to decorate sanctuaries. Despite the fact that we aren't excessively certain about the whole procedure used in making rock pillars in past , the monstrous incomplete monolith which is arranged at the northernmost a piece of the quarries gives us a little insight.If this incomplete work had been done it may are the heaviest etched work by the Egyptians from a touch of stone.it at present gauges thousand 100 and sixty-eight tons. You'll get the opportunity to guide down strides into the quarry where the disappointed stone carver had surrendered it on account of a blemish that couldn't be adjusted. you may see pictographs. to inclination to the quarries, which are situated inverse the Fatimid graveyard you'd have to take a 1.5 km venture faraway from the town.
Aswan High Dam
The is a cumulus dam whose length is 3830 meters at the summit, of which 520 meters are between the Nile River, and the width of the Nile and its width at the summit is 40 meters. Intercepting the diversion channel from which the turbines flow through six tunnels for water control gates in addition to barriers for weeds.
The power plant produces 10 billion kilowatt hours per week.
overnight on board the nile cruise ship 5*****
Day 4: Visit Abo Simple Temple (Optional ) - Sail To Kom Ombo City (B/L/D)
Early morning on the day 4 optional trip to abo simple temples,
temples of the king ramsess II and hes wife the queen nefertarry, Two of the most beautiful and completed templs in egypt
afternoon the cruise ship starting sailing from aswan towards the next destination kom ombo City and the boat will stop to visit kom ompo temple & the mummified crocodile museum, after finishing the visits the cruise ship will continue sailing to Edfo city
Kom ombo temple:
Kom Ombo Temple is located in Kom Ombo in Aswan The temple was built during the reign of Ptolemy VI to worship the gods Sobek and Horus
overnight on board the nile cruise ship 5*****
Day 5: Visit Edfu Temple - Sail To Luxor - Visit East Bank Luxor (B/L/D)
Early morning the cruise ship arrival to Edfu city and the ship will stop at Edfo city after breakfast your guide will take you to visit Edfo temple by the horse carriage, and then the ship will sailing to Luxor city and arrive on the afternoon,Upon arrive your guide will take you to visit Karnak and Luxor temples
Edfu Temple
Edfu Temple or the Temple of Horus, is the second temples of ancient Egypt in size, after the Temple of Karnak, located in Edfu in Upper Egypt on the West Bank of the Nile River
The Nile Cruise continues the sailing towards Luxor and arrive in Luxor in the afternoon around 4 pm In the afternoon we tour of the East Bank of the Nile. Here you will experience the immense Karnak Temple
The Karnak Temple Complex consists of a number of temples, chapels, and other buildings in the form of a village, and is for that reason that the name Karnak was given to this complex as in Arabic Karnak means ‘fortified village
Luxor temple
On the East bank of the Nile River, in the south of Egypt, the World’s Largest Outdoor Museum, Luxor city, contains one of the most beautiful temple standing. The Luxor Temple is a mark of Ancient Egyptian civilization, strikingly graceful monument in the heart of modern Luxor
overnight on board the nile cruise ship 5*****
Day 6: Visit west bank Luxor (Hot Air Balloon - Optional) (B)
Early morning on optional sunrise Hot Air Balloon trip over the West bank of luxor and then you will continue your visits on the west bank, If you skip the balloon trip so you will starting your west bank trip after breakfast about 8:00 am (valley of the kings - hatshbsoot temple - colossi of mimmnon) after finsh your visits you will come back to your ship to check out and then to the train station to start travel to cairo city.
[Flight Upgrade From Luxor To Cairo and 1 Night Hotel Aaccomadation Is Avaible Upon Request At Cairo City]
[You can upgrade the train to a sleeping train, through the Book Now page (Luxor - Cairo round trip]
Valley of the Kings
At first glance, the Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, seems like no more than a sun-blasted gorge of generic red rock, but underneath all of its dust lay the tombs of 63 of the most important pharaohs in the history of Ancient Egypt. Used as a burial chamber for nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, the Valley of the Kings was used for royal burials for the Kings, their families, and their possessions. In 1979, it became a World Heritage Site, as well as the rest of the Theban Necropolis.
Temple of Hatshepsut
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (c.1478/72-1458 B.C.E.) dates from the New Kingdom. It nestles at the foot of the cliffs in a natural "bay" on the West Bank of Luxor. This area had long been sacred to the goddess Hathor and was the site of the earlier mortuary temple and tomb of King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (c.2008-1957 B.C.E.) of the Middle Kingdom (ramp visible on the far left). After the introduction of Christianity, Hatshepsut’s temple was used as a monastery, hence its modern name, Deir el-Bahri, Arabic for "Northern Monastery."
Colossi of Memnon
One of the biggest tourist attractions in Luxor, the Colossi of Memnon gained its popularity due to its majesticr appearance and for the mysterious sounds emitted by the northern colossus statue at every sunrise.
Travel To Cairo by Train
*Flight Upgrade From Luxor To Cairo and 1 Night Hotel Aaccomadation Is Avaible Upon Request At Cairo City
*You can upgrade the train to a sleeping train, through the Book Now page (Luxor - Cairo round trip )
Day 7: Fly to Home (B)
Arrive Cairo train station in the morning and that will be your last day in the trip (the train usually arrives at 7 am in the morning ) and be picked up from the train station to Cairo airport ( We can change the drop off point to be to your hotel in Cairo or any other drop off point you prefer
*Flight Upgrade From Luxor To Cairo and 1 Night Hotel Aaccomadation Is Avaible Upon Request At Cairo City
*You can upgrade the train to a sleeping train, through the Book Now page (Luxor - Cairo round trip )