Description
Day 1: Arrive Cairo
Day 2: Cairo (Pyramids & Egyptian Museum and Citadel)
Day 3: Over day to Alexandria –
Day 4: Cairo - Aswan
Day 5: KomOmbo – Edfu – Esna
Day 6: Luxor
Day 7: Disembarkation Nile cruise and Red Sea -Hurghada
Day 8: Hurghada
Day 9: Hurghada
Day 10: Hurghada – Cairo – End of Nile cruise and Red Sea (Hurghada) program.
Includes
- 3-night hotel accommodation in Cairo at 5* hotel including breakfast
- 3 nights 5* Nile cruise Aswan / Luxor, all meals included.
- 3 nights hotel accommodation in Hurghada at 5* hotel including breakfast and dinner.
- Arrival airport transfer to hotel in Cairo
- Transfer from Cruise in Luxor to Hurghada
- All sightseeing in Cairo and Cruise as per our itinerary
- Transportation during sightseeing as per itinerary
- Entrance fees
- English speaking guide
- Taxes and service charges
Excludes
- International and domestic flight tickets
- Entry visa upon arrival
- Tips & personal items
Tour highlights
- Pyramids of Giza & sphinx
- Egyptian museum
- Alexandria full day tour
- Aswan classic tour
- Cruise with visits from Aswan to Luxor
- Luxor Classic tour
- Relax at Huraghada
Tour Timeline
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1Day 1 : : Arrival and check-in Cairo hotel
Our representative will be waiting for you at the airport and will help you through airport formalities then escort you to outside the airport where our touristic vehicle will be waiting for you and transfer you to your hotel, check-in, our rep will confirm with you all timing and details of your next part of the tour, overnight at hotel.
Meals: none -
2Day 2 : : Cairo Day tour
Begin the day with one of the real highlights of any visit to Egypt, a visit to the three pyramids of Giza. While once located in a remote desert, they now touch the suburbs of modern Cairo. No matter how many photos or documentaries you have seen, your first glimpse of these marvels of the ancient world will take your breath away. As a qualified Egyptologist, your tour guide can expertly explain the facts and myths behind these three mammoth works of art. You will also visit the mysterious Sphinx with its lion’s body and man’s face.
Time permitting there might be the chance to see inside one of the two smaller pyramids, take a ride around the pyramids on camelback (NB. Extra entrance fees apply to all of these sites/activities) tour guide will help you to get the entrance tickets
There will be time to grab a quick lunch before our afternoon visit to the Egyptian Museum. With over 10,000 pieces from every period of Egyptian history, including the treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun, the display can be a bit daunting. Your Tour guide will direct you to the most important and magnificent items. There is also plenty of free time for you to explore on your own,
Overnight at hotel
Meals: breakfast -
3Day 3 : : Alexandria Day tour
After Breakfast, Today We explore all the incredible sites this ancient city has to offer. Founded by Alexander the Great around 331BC, Egypt's only Mediterranean city is characterized by a distinctly European atmosphere and refreshing sea breezes.
sites are Fort Qaitbay Situated at the entrance of the eastern harbor on the eastern point of Pharos Island, it was erected on the exact site of the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In the fourteenth century, there was a very destructive earthquake and the whole building was destroyed and the fortification you see today was built in its place.
was considered one of the most important defensive strongholds along the Mediterranean Sea coast. It formulated an important part of the fortification system of Alexandria in the fifteenth century AD.
The next visit is to Pompey's Pillar. The name is wrong, as it has nothing to do with Pompey, having been erected in 293 for Emperor Diocletian, possibly in memory of the rebellion of Domitius Domitianus.
Ancient Egypt Trip will head to the Catacomb of Komel-Shokafa. These tombs were tunneled into the bedrock in the age of the Antonine Emperors (second century AD) for a single wealthy family still practicing the ancient religion. They represent the last existing major construction of the old Egyptian religion.
And finally, is the new Alexandria Library. The Ancient Library of Alexandria was probably the largest and certainly the most famous of the libraries of the ancient world. It flourished during Greek rule and functioned as a major center of scholarship, at least until the time of the Roman conquest of Egypt, and probably for many centuries thereafter. The old library was destroyed in a fire around the first century BC. The magnificent new Library was opened in 2002 very near the site of the ancient,
Drive back to Cairo,
overnight at your hotel in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast -
4Day 4 : : Fly to Aswan and board on cruise boat
After Breakfast, transfer to Cairo airport for domestic flight continue Once you have arrived at Aswan airport our representative will assist you with your luggage and then transfer you, in our air-conditioned vehicle, to your cruise boat, check-in, lunch inboard, and Nile cruise program starts with a tour to Philae Temple which is moved to the island of Agilika after the waters of Lake Nasser flooded its original location and the unfinished Obelisk in Aswan. Embarkation on your cruise, your home for the next 3 nights.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner -
5Day 5 : : Optional tour to Abu Simbel / cruise to Edfu
This morning we have an optional tour for you including a very early start, which means you will be supplied with a breakfast box as you will be leaving the hotel before breakfasts are served. Your guide will meet you and escort you, in our air-conditioned vehicle, to the site of Abu Simbel. Situated approximately 285 kilometers south of Aswan, including crossing the Tropic of Cancer, these two world-famous temples are amazing. Built by Ramses II in honor of himself and his favorite wife, Nefertari, these rock-cut temples were moved, in 1968, to escape the encroaching waters of the newly formed Lake Nasser. Back to Aswan, Lunch on board and sailing to Kom Ombo Cruise trip starts with the visit of Kom Omb, Temple of Kom Ombo, which is very unusual as it is dedicated to two gods: Sobek and Haroeris (the Greek name for the Egyptian god 'Herwer', which translates into 'Great Horus' or 'Horus the Elder'). It is built symmetrically, with two entrances, two sanctuaries, and a clear division that separates the temple into one-half Sobek and one-half Haroeris. It is a Ptolemaic temple, built between the reigns of Ptolemy VI (Philometor) and Ptolemy XII (Neos Dionysos) with sandstone from the nearby Gebel El Silsila quarries. The forecourt and outer corridor were added during the Roman Period.
.Return to your cruise boat for dinner as the boat sail towards Edu. overnight in Edfu town
Meals, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner -
6Day 6 : : Cruise to Luxor
After Breakfast short horse carriages ride to visit the most preserved temple in Egypt which is the temple of Edfu back to the boat, lunch serves while sailing to Luxor, arrive Luxor, and afternoon visit to famous two temples: Karnak, Marvel at the immense columns in Karnak Temple’s Hypostyle Hall, as well as getting to see various obelisks, statues, more columns, and various artifacts that were primarily dedicated to the god Amun, his wife Mut, and their son Khonsu. Next, you will visit the smaller, in size but not in spectacle, Luxor Temple. Mainly added to by Ramses II it is now missing one of its obelisks, which can be seen in the Place de la Concorde in Paris: swapped for a clock (in the Mohammed Ali Mosque at Saladin’s Citadel) which has never worked. This temple also boasts many columns, statues, and various artifacts.
Once this tour is complete you will be driven back to your Cruise boat, though you may wish to take one of our optional extras.
Meals, Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner. -
7Day 7 : : Visit Luxor west bank and transfer to Hurghada
After Breakfast, check out and visit Luxor west bank the ancient Theban necropolis. Here you will get to visit the Valley of the Kings, where you can explore 3 tombs (the Tomb of Tutankhamen is an extra cost); the magnificent Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahri, and the Colossi of Memnon. Once the tour is completed
Drive 5 hours to Hurghada, once you arrive there, check-in hotel and overnight at the hotel
Meals, Breakfast, and dinner -
8Day 8 : : Relax
Enjoy a Free day for sunbathing or taking up some of the many water sports activities in Hurghada. We wish you a nice day
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9Day 9 : : Relax
Enjoy a Free day for sunbathing or taking up some of the many water sports activities in Hurghada. We wishes you a nice day.
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10Day 10 : : Final departure
After breakfast, tour ends with the transfer to Hurghada airport to Cairo to connect with your final flight to home.
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