Cairo
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Up on Arriving to Cairo International Airport our Tour Manager meets you and provide assistance through Entry Visa Formalities, and then transfer in private Vehicle to your already booked Hotel.
Check-in at your hotel and setting up in your reserved room.
Time of tomorrow pick up for you tour will be arranged with the tour Manager.
Overnight at your Hotel in Cairo
Duration: 10 hours
Tour Pyramids of Giza and Saqqara
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Mit Rahina Museum
Our Guide will pick you up from the Hotel and start a full-day tour with the visit of the archaeological site of Memphis (Ancient Capital of Egypt) it was the very first capital of Egypt during the pharaonic era.
What remained of that archaic city is shown at the museum located on the left side of the site, most prominent object is the colossal statue of Ramsess II laid on the meddle of the ground floor
Duration: 60 minutes
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Saqqara (Sakkara) Pyramids
Second stop will be at the Necropolis of Saqqara, the greatest cemetery in Egypt, attract the tourists since hundreds of years with its focal object which is the Step Pyramid of King Djoser considered the first systematic building in the history, We will visit also a private tomb of one of the Nobile Cast of the Ancient Kingdom.
Duration: 2 hours
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Pyramids of Giza
Next visit will be the most famous monument in the world, the Great three Pyramids of Cheops, Kephren and Mikerinus on the plateau of Giza, Admire the Sphinx statue from the back-end of the Valley temple of Kephren, Optional visit to the Museum of Solar Boat is available coordinating timing with your tour guide.
Duration: 2 hours
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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities considered As a summary of your historical tour in Egypt, will see relics and findings belong to all different epochs of Egyptian History, Objects unearthed from all archaeological site of Egypt; Luxor, Aswan, Nubia and Alexandria, But the most amazing section of that museum is that of Treasures of golden king Tutankhamun on the second floor,
Duration: 1.5 hours
Luxor Temples
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Luxor
After Breakfast our tour manager will accompany you to Cairo Airport and assist you getting regular flight from Cairo to Luxor where our tour guide will be waiting
Duration: 50 minutes
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Al Karnak
From the Luxor Airport you will depart to with your private tour guide to Karnak Complex of Temples, to visit that great open Museum dedicated to the temples, chapels, obelisks, statues and pylons of different historical times and bearing the names of many famous pharaohs including but not limited to Ahmos, Tutmothes, Amenophis, Ramsess, Seti and Hatshepsut, Will have a stop at the Great Hypostile Hall of Seti I and Ramsess II, admire th Obelisks of Amenophis II and Queen Hatshepsut, pass beside the Sacred Lake of Amon and many other attraction you will see with your guide
Duration: 1.5 hours
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Luxor Temple
Leave the Karnak Complex to Luxor temple across the Sphinx avenue, long 2.5 KM, on both sides of the road Ram headed statue in the form of a Lino with the head of a Ram to honor the main god of the new kingdom: Amon Raa.
After the visit your guide will continue with you to the Nile Cruise ship where you will stay for the next four nights.
Check-in and accommodate at your cebine.
Arriving to Luxor temple you will face the first pylon (Great Gate of the Egyptian Temple) with four statues of the great Ramsess II and one of two Obelisks still standing in front of the temple's entrance, see the hypostyle hall of Amenphis III and the Sanctuary of the same in the deepest part of the temple.
Duration: 60 minutes
Valley of the Kings and then Sailing on the Nile
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Colossi of Memnon
After getting your breakfast you tour guide will take to the Necropolis of Thebes, first monument you will meet arriving there will be the two colossal statues of Amenophis III known as Memnon in the Greek literature. These two statues high 18 m are all what remain from the Great Funerary temple of King Amenhotep III, New Kingdom - 1570 to 1070 BCE
Duration: 20 minutes
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Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari
Second stop will be at the Funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, That particular temple was constructed by the Queen's lover engineer SEN-MUT, the project was composed of two sections the first cut inside the rocks of the mountains whilst the second section was constructed on three stories, Queen Hatshepsut left all news about her deeds figured on the walls of that temple.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the kings in Thebes of Luxor contains 63 tombs so far discovered, you will visit three tombs with your guide to see the afterlife world according to the believes of ancient Egyptians. every inch of the Pharaoh's tomb must to be covered with scenes inspired from the book of the Afterlife to instruct the king during his journey through that dark world to help him rising with Ra (SUN God) in the celestial world of deities where he belongs.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Visit of Edfu and Kom Ombo Temples
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Temple of Horus
The Nile Cruise Ship will leave Luxor after visiting the Valley of the kings, Edfu City is located at a distance of 100 KM you will reach it at evening and the visit will be at the morning, This temple is pretty distant from the Nile River so that you will have the opportunity to enjoy a horse Cart riding from th ship to the temple and back, the temple of Horus is the most perfect one in Egypt from the time of Ptolemies 223 - 30 BCE. It gives you a complete idea about how the temples of ancient Egypt were huge and magnificent.
Return on board and continue in navigation southward to reach Kom Ombo.
Duration: 1.5 hours
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Temple of Kom Ombo
We will reach Kom Ombo temple late Afternoon, This temple is divided between two gods the right half is dedicated to the cult of Haroeris Human body with the head of a falcon, whilst the left side is dedicated to Sobek; man's body with the head of a Crocodile.
Inside the temple you should see three interesting scenes; the Surgical Instruments, the Calendar and the Figure of Cleopatra VII, in addition to the Nilometer and the Mummified Sacred Crocodiles.
Duration: 60 minutes
Aswan
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Temple of Philae
Island of Philae is known as the last fort of Paganism in Egypt, till the 4th. century the cult of Goddess Isis continued at her temple constructed on that remote Island. The temple was threatened to be sunk under the rising waters behind the Aswan Dam, After a great collaboration between Egypt and UNESCO the temple was dismantled, transferred and reconstructed on the current Agilikia Island distances some 300 hundred meters from the original Philae Island, more than three temple remains you will see and visit on the island before leaving it by a motor boat heading to the High Dam of Aswan.
Duration: 1.5 hours
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Aswan High Dam
High Dam of Aswan was build after the willing of Nasser Ex President of Egypt (1954 - 1970) it was projected by European Engineering House but after the triple aggression Nasser decided to entrust all the project to the Russian, Once it was the largest Dam in Africa and supposed to guarantee continuing irrigation to the Egyptian Agriculture plus the Electric Energy necessary for the Egyptian Industry.
Duration: 45 minutes
Abu Simbel - Flight to Cairo
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Abu Simbel Temple Complex
Today is your Disembarkation from the Nile Cruise and departure back to Cairo. But you can't be in Egypt with out visiting Abu Simbel. At early morning a private tour guide with A/C Vehicle will drive from Aswan to Abu Simbel (280 KM) after 3 hours will reach the Great Temple of Ramses II in Abu Simbel the temple it self was cut inside the mountain rocks on the Nubian Lands where Ramsess II extended his domain. Second temple was in Name of Nefertari; beloved wife of Ramsess II and dedicated to the Fame goddess Hathore symbol of Love and Music.
From Abu Simbel you will return to Aswan Airport to get your flight back to Cairo. In Cairo our tour manager will assist you in getting your international connection flight back home or extending your stay for one more night in Cairo.
Duration: 6 hours
