Experience Egypt and a Nile Cruise. Start in Cairo to visit the Giza Pyramids and the Egyptian Museum then fly to Aswan to embark your Nile cruise (Flight included). Enjoy visiting the world-famous High Dam and the Unfinished Obelisk, sailing in the Nile, visiting the West Bank, Valley of the Kings, the mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, and of course the Colossi of Memnon. You will enjoy sailing 4 or 5 days from Aswan to Luxor with sightseeing and accompany a private guide.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ Budget hotels: Grand Pyramids hotel, Oasis Pyramids hotel, Cataract Pyramids Resort or similar
✔ English-speaking guide (another language with supplement)
✔ Transfer any time by A/C vehicle 24/7 hours
✔ Domestic flight Cairo/Aswan or Luxor and Luxor/Cairo
✔ Guide will accompany all sailing days on Nile Cruise from Luxor to Aswan
✔ Superior hotels: Cairo Pyramids hotel, Le Passage Heliopolis, Mercure Pyramids (as availability)
✔ Lunch
✔ Dinner
✔ Breakfast
✔ Depends on sailing schedule, may upgrade to 4 nights cruise starting from Luxor without extra cost
✔ 4 nights in Cairo hotel on Bed & Breakfast
✔ 3 nights superior 5*+ Nile Cruise on full board
✖ Entrance fees approx 69 USD per person for all tours (will increase 30% from 01 NOV 2020)
✖ Water or drinks in hotels & Cruise ships
✖ Gratuities (recommended) Guide will advise you, keep small currency with you
✖ X-Mass & New Year 20% supplement 20 DEC to 7 Jan will charge on-spot before check in by Cairo guide
✖ WIFI free in Hotels - Not available in Ship (No WIFI in Ship)
Pickup Locations
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2. Le Passage Cairo Hotel & Casino
3. Cairo Pyramids Hotel
4. Cairo Intl Airport
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Additional Info: Our guide or airport representative will pick a customer from their hotel or airport.
Upon your arrival at Cairo International Airport, our representatives will meet and assist you all through the formal procedures at Cairo International Airport.
Same-day or next you will meet your Egyptologist guide who will explain your tour details, Show your activities, You can ask him about your dreams, of course, will get true.
Our philosophy you are not our customer you are our friend, Feel like you are at home between your family.
Itinerary
Arrival to Egypt Land of Pharaohs
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Cairo
Upon your arrival at Cairo International Airport, our representatives will meet and assist you all through the formal procedures at Cairo International Airport. Same-day or next you will meet your Egyptologist guide who will explain your tour details, Show your activities, You can ask him about your dreams, of course, will get true. Our philosophy you are not our customer you are our friend, Feel like you are at home between your family.
Duration: 2 hours
Tour day Pyramids and the Egyptian museum
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Pyramids of Giza
After breakfast, you will meet your private Egyptologist will escort your first-lifetime adventure while touring one of the Seven Wonders of the World and here are the major sites which you are going to visit during your tour
The Pyramids of Giza
Take some amazing photos through your guide will explain The last Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramids of Giza are one of the world's most recognizable landmarks.
Drive to the second destination of your tour then you can get optional lunch depends on your like if European or oriental lunch.
Take a little relaxation with drink some of our local drinks like Egyptian tea or highbacks and learn how Pharaohs were made their Papyrus and perfumes.
Duration: 3 hours
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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Drive to downtown El Tahrir square, few weeks will visit the Grand Museum near Pyramids
The Egyptian Museum
one of the world's great museum collections. It contains the golden glory of King Tutankhamen and the fascinating royal mummies exhibits,
After finishing your tour, we will transfer you back to your hotel in Cairo for overnight.
Duration: 3 hours
Fly to Aswan & Sightseeing
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Unfinished Obelisk
Meet & assist at Aswan Airport or railway station
Transfer to embark Nile Cruise before lunch.
Afterward, you will be sailing to visit:
The Unfinished Obelisk
built during the reign of Hatshepsut and is considered the largest known ancient obelisk.
End the first day of your 4 days Nile cruises by heading to visit:
Duration: 60 minutes
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Aswan High Dam
It was built during the reign of Gamal Abdel Nasser with the help of the Soviets. it is about 3000 meters long, the base width is 180 meters and its peak is about 40 meters.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Temple of Philae
Temple of Philae (Optional excursion)
The temple tells the story of the goddess Isis, the wife of Osiris, where the goddess symbolizes funeral rituals and the gift of life.
Duration: 3 hours
Abu Simbel temple (optional tour) & sailing to kom Ombo
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Abu Simbel Temple Complex
After breakfast, you have the choice to visit an optional tour to Abu Simbel Temple
Enjoy your trip to Abu Simbel, It is about 03 hours and a half, one way driving from Aswan to Abu Simbel. Arrive and explore the amazing of the two Temples of Abu Simbel, with their unique style, are considered to be the masterpieces of ancient Egypt. They reflect the glory and grandeur of the new Kingdom.
Now, it is your chance to visit the best, the largest, the most impressive temples of ancient Egypt.
Drive back to Aswan, then sail to visit:
Duration: 7 hours
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Temple of Kom Ombo
you will arrive at Kom Ombo, The temple has a dual dedication to Sobek, as well as Horus, and the plan of the temple reflects this dual purpose.
sailing to Edfu
Duration: 2 hours
Visit Edfu Temple & Sail to Luxor
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Temple of Horus
Arrival early to Edfu then visit Temple of Edfu
The temple is very complete, including a pylon that was built by Cleopatra’s father in the first century BC, the construction of the temple took about 180 years.
Duration: 2 hours
2
Luxor Market
Sailing and enjoy lunch on board
Arrive Luxor, you may visit Luxor Temple this night as an optional excursion or you can enjoy walking tour.
Duration: 2 hours
West Bank Luxor sightseeing
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Valley of the Kings
After breakfast, check out from the cruise, Your tour guide will escort you to visit the west bank of Luxor starting by a visit:
Valley of The Kings
Multiple tombs were lay hidden in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the tombs of nearly 70 pharaohs. The most important tombs there, are the tomb of Ramses III, the Tomb of Tutankhamun and many more. Then move to the visit the unique:
Duration: 2 hours
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Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari
built-in the 18th Egyptian Dynasty, Hatshepsut was the only female pharaoh in the history of Ancient Egypt. She came to power during the New Kingdom after the death of her father, Tuthmose I, a place called “Der Albahari in Egypt“. Continue west bank by visiting the:
Duration: 60 minutes
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Colossi of Memnon
These two gigantic, 59-foots tall statues are the first sight that greets visitors who take the ferry across from the East Bank. Memnon was set up by architect Amenhotep Ben Habo, the statues decorated the facade of the funerary temple,
Duration: 20 minutes
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Luxor
you may visit Karnak Temple this day as an optional excursion
Your flight to Cairo will be at 15.30 or 18.20, if we don't have seats you will stay this night onboard ship or Luxor hotel, then fly the next day
Duration: 10 minutes
Fly to Cairo from Luxor
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Cairo
After breakfast, you will transfer to Luxor International Airport to catch your flight back to Cairo and upon your arrival, we will transfer you to your hotel in Cairo overnight.
Fly Home Say Bye to Pharaohs
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Cairo
After breakfast, you will transfer to Cairo International airport for your flight back home to finish your 8 Days Cairo and Nile Cruise tour.
Please ask for your free Shuttle bus from the hotel reception, It is only 5 min to the Airport from your hotel
Duration: 5 minutes
Additional info
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Egypt has a lot of activities, Guide will advise some extra optional excursions covering rest of Egypt tours, Our optional excursions are just recommendations to help our costumers to see the most remarkable sightseeing. Which doesn't mean that we enforce them to pay extra money.
• Hotels & Cruise ships not provide Water through their meals, Only tea or coffee
• TV shows not working in ship through sailing for weak signal also no WIFI in ship
• Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
• You MUST confirm and obtain any visa requirements prior to border crossing. All visa requirements are the sole responsibility of the traveller
• Hotels, Trains, Nile Cruises, Meals, Temples, Tombs or other public places of course no Private
• Private tour means Private guide & Vehicle Only for Viator costumers, 2-9 adult tour mean sharing two families same tours or transfers.
• Hotel second stay always be 5* for Budget & Superior near airport only 5 min
• depends your arrival day Ship may be 3 nights or 4 nights, depends with sailing cruise dates
• Offer include economy internal flight, we can’t control with internal flight time, flight reserved as availability
• The conditions and controls for the hotel stay in Corona are as follows: Health requirements - Providing a clinic and a doctor in the hotel, in coordination with the Ministry of Health - Ensure the quality of the personal protective equipment and sterilization materials used - Do not deal only with companies approved by the Ministry of Health and Population
• Hotel controls - Determine a maximum occupancy rate of the hotel of 25%, including Day-Use, until the end of May - Operating at a maximum of 50% of the hotel's capacity from the beginning of next June - Not to hold any parties or weddings inside the hotel - Prohibition of all types of night activity at the hotel - Clean the rooms on a daily basis using the tools of the infection prevention vehicle, and follow the instructions of the Ministry of Health - Clean and sterilize all tangible points every hour in public places, and public toilets, using disinfectants decided by the Ministry of Health - Allocating a hotel floor in each spa for quarantine cases, confirmed cases, and suspected cases of coronavirus - Continue to conduct a quick test for workers at the tourist portals in coordination with the Ministry of Health
• Guest controls - Install a sterilizer at the hotel entrance - The completion of the procedures for logging in to the guest electronically or with single-use pens - Sterilize the luggage of guests before arriving and leaving the hotel - Measuring the guests' temperatures when entering the facility each time - Providing hand sanitizer in the reception area and various facilities at all times - Cleansing all public areas regularly
• Controls for hotel restaurants - Ban the completely open buffet service and rely on pre-defined lists A ban on serving hookahs - Measurement of temperatures for restaurant goers - Leave no less than 2 meters between dining tables - Keep a distance of 1 meter between each person and another with the table - Maximum 6 chairs for the large table for families - Dependence on single-use cutlery as much as possible - Place sterilizers and sterilization wipes on each table - Putting out educational instructions around the restaurant
• Staff controls - Operating 50% of the workforce as a maximum - Carry out a quick examination of workers returning from vacation before receiving work - Workers in coastal cities get a vacation at least every 60 days - Commitment to measure their temperatures daily - There is housing for workers in the hotel, while providing isolation areas for the affected cases if they arise - Educating workers about all basic preventive measures against the emerging coronavirus
