Cairo / Nile Cruise Luxor-Aswan (10 Days)

After breakfast, meet your Language speaking Tour guide who will escort you on an unforgettable tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza one of the Seven World Wonders. They are among the world’s greatest tourist attractions and never lose their ability to inspire and overwhelm visitors. Your Tour guide will enthral you with the information about the tales told of the fascinating figure of the Sphinx.

Ask your Tour guide if you wish to enter the pyramids and see inside.

• Inside Khofo Pyramid
• Inside Khafraa Pyramid
• Inside Mankwraa Pyramid
  

Lunch during the tour in a local restaurant.

Drive along a picturesque rural area to Memphis, the capital of the Old Kingdom, to view the colossal reclining statue of Ramses II and the Alabaster Sphinx. Proceed to the necropolis of Sakkara to view the step pyramid of Zoser; the first freestanding stone structure in the world. You can ask to enter to see  inside Zoser Pyramid and Amhoteb Museum which contains Onas & TTi Pyramids and others. Also you can see The Serapeum and 3 tombs of Ancient Egyptian nobles showing the beauty and excellence of Ancient Egyptian art on their walls and giving an insight in the daily life of Ancient Egypt.

After breakfast, meet your Language speaking Tour guide  will escort you on a visit to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), located near the Giza Pyramids, is the largest archaeological museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization. It houses an unparalleled collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the complete treasures of King Tutankhamun—displayed together for the first time in history. The GEM offers a cutting-edge museum experience, blending ancient heritage with modern technology to showcase over 50,000 artifacts from Egypt’s storied past

Lunch during the tour in a local restaurant.

Tour the Citadel, the medieval fortress of Salah El Din and location of the beautiful alabaster mosque of Mohamed Ali.

Roam through the ancient twisting passages of the famous 13^th century Khan El Khalili Bazaar, filled with small shops and factories for all manner of crafts and goods.

Return to hotel and overnight.

After breakfast, you will be met by our local English speaking representative in the hotel lobby and transferred to Cairo International Airport for your short flight to Luxor.

Transfer to a Nile Cruiser for a 4 nights cruise from the ancient city of Thebes to the land of Nubia “Aswan”, on full board basis.

Enjoy a delicious buffet lunch while moored on the river bank of Luxor.

The onboard Language speaking Tour guide will escort you on a tour of the awesome Temple of Karnak, with its huge hypostyle hall covering 50,000 square feet and has 134 enormous columns, richly carved, with some thrusting skyward to 23 meters.

Commence to Luxor Temple, built during the reign of Amenhotp III and was expanded by Ramses II who also erected two obelisks.

Return on board in time to freshen up before enjoying a delicious dinner.

Overnight moored in Luxor.

Enjoy breakfast onboard before crossing the Nile to the West Bank, location of the ancient necropolis of Thebes to explore the Valley of the Kings, temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari and Colossi of Memnon; a vast City of the Dead where magnificent tombs were carved into the desert rocks, decorated richly, and filled with treasures for the after life by generations of Pharaohs. You will visit 3 magnifying tombs. You can also visit Tut Ankh Amoun’s Tomb and see his mummy (ask your Guide about it)

Return back onboard in time for sailing up the river towards Esna.

You will enjoy lunch while sailing.

Enjoy a beautiful scenery of the beautiful Egyptian countryside from the sun deck of the cruiser. In the evening the cruise will be crossing Esna Lock.

Dinner and overnight onboard.

Early morning sailing to the city of Edfu.

Breakfast onboard, before being transport by horse drawn carriages to the temple of Horus at Edfu that is the best-preserved ancient temple in Egypt and the second largest after the Temple of Karnak. The temple was built during the Ptolemaic period on the site of the great battle between Horus and Seth. Horus was the falcon headed god.

Return onboard for a delicious BBQ lunch while sailing to Kom Ombo.

Visit Temple of Sobek in Kom Ombo.

Dinner onboard while sailing to Aswan.

Overnight onboard the cruise.

Breakfast onboard the cruise.

At the granite quarries visit the Unfinished Obelisk, which was abandoned by ancient stone cutters, the Old Dam, the High Dam and the relocated Temple of Philae dedicated to the goddess Isis and her son Horus. Due to the flooding caused by the construction of the High Dam, Philae Temple was removed from its indigenous island at Philae and reassembled about 550 meters away on the Island of Agilika; it has retained some of its romantic beauty.  Unlike other temples, this temple’s elements follow a curb symbolizing the meanders of life itself. The Pavilion of Nectanabo and the Kiosk of Trajan display fine sculptures and bas-reliefs and were probably custodians of the sacred boat that ferried the goddess Isis.

Lunch on board the cruise.

Enjoy a felucca ride to the Botanical Gardens and Nubian Village

Dinner and overnight on board the cruise.

Breakfast onboard the cruise.

Transfer to Abu Simbel by private air-conditioned car to visit its relocated temples built by Ramses II, 1200 B.C.

The two temples face east to receive the rays of the rising sun. It is said that twice a year, the sun shines on the face of the King:  once on his birthday and once on his coronation day. It is still a mystery to archaeologists how the ancient Egyptians could have designed and built such miraculous structures.

Transfer to Aswan Airport for a short flight to Cairo International Airport. Upon arrival you will be met and assisted to a Cairo hotel.

Free Day of Leisure.

After breakfast, meet your Language speaking Tour guide who will escort you to visit The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, a large museum located in Old Cairo, officially inaugurated on  April 2021, with the moving of 22 mummies, including 18 kings and four queens, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo.

Lunch during the tour in local restaurant.

Back to hotel and  overnight.

Today you will say goodbye to the beautiful land of Kemet with many magnificent memories.