Egypt Holy Family Journey Coptic Sites and Nile Cruise Adventure

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Arrival in Cairo Meet your guide at Cairo Airport and transfer to your hotel. Settle in and enjoy a welcome dinner.
1 stop
1
Cairo International Airport
Arrival in Cairo Meet your guide at Cairo Airport and transfer to your hotel. Settle in and enjoy a welcome dinner.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 2
Pharaonic Cairo
2 stops
2
Pyramids of Giza
Giza Pyramids and Sphinx. Stand at the base of the last surviving wonder of the ancient world. The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure on Earth for nearly 4,000 years. Your guide explains how and why it was built, and you will have time for the photos everyone comes to Egypt for.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
3
Grand Egyptian Museum
Walk through the world’s largest archaeological museum dedicated to a single civilization. Tutankhamun’s treasures are a highlight, and your guide helps you focus on the pieces that matter most.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 3
The Holy Family in Cairo
3 stops
4
The Tree of Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary’s Tree, Matareya. Visit the sycamore that tradition links to the Holy Family’s rest during their flight into Egypt. Pilgrims from around the world come to sit in the quiet garden.
30 minutes • Admission ticket included
5
Abu Serga Church (St. Sergius). Descend into the crypt, which Coptic tradition holds as a place where the Holy Family sheltered. It is one of the oldest churches in Egypt and a powerful place to pray. The Hanging Church. Admire a church built above the passage of an ancient Roman fortress, with a carved wooden ceiling and centuries-old icons.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
6
Maadi Church (Virgin Mary Church). Stand on the Nile bank where, according to tradition, the Holy Family boarded a boat to travel south. It connects the story to the river you will cruise later in the trip.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 4
The Delta Holy Family Sightseeing
2 stops
7
Tel Basta and Belbeis. Follow the trail into the Nile Delta, where tradition places the well at Tel Basta and a rest at Belbeis. These stops are off the main tourist path, so you see them without crowds. Discover Tell Basta, where ancient Egyptian history meets a profound biblical wonder. Once a majestic city of temples, this sacred ground became a vital stop on the Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt. Tradition holds that as the infant Jesus entered, towering stone idols miraculously crumbled, and a fresh-water well sprang to life to quench the family's thirst. Today, you can stand by that very same miraculous well and walk among ruins where faith and history beautifully intertwined. It is a captivating crossroad of miracles you truly have to experience in person.
6 hours • Admission ticket included
8
Kafr el Shaikh Governorate
Sakha and Samanoud (time permitting). Visit churches tied to the Holy Family’s journey and to local saints, in a quiet and spiritual setting.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 5
Wadi Natrun Monasteries Desert monasteries
1 stop
9
Wadi El Natrun
Desert monasteries. Visit working Coptic monasteries founded in the early centuries of Christianity, where monks still live and pray. Few Egypt tours include them, so it feels like meeting living faith rather than visiting a museum.
5 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 6
Fly to Aswan Visit Aswan Sightseeing and Board the Cruise
2 stops
10
Temple of Philae
Fly from Cairo to Aswan. Philae Temple. Cross the water by boat to a temple of the goddess Isis, set on an island. The whole complex was moved stone by stone to save it from flooding, and it is one of the most scenic sites in Egypt.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
11
Unfinished Obelisk
The Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan is the largest known ancient obelisk in the world and offers a fascinating look into ancient Egyptian engineering. Ordered by Queen Hatshepsut during the New Kingdom, this massive monument was carved directly into the solid granite bedrock. If completed, it would have stood around 42 meters (137 feet) tall and weighed nearly 1,200 tons! However, a massive crack appeared in the stone during the carving process, forcing the ancient masons to abandon the project. While it was a failure for them, it became an invaluable treasure for us; it serves as a giant, open-air textbook showing exactly how ancient Egyptians quarried stone using wooden wedges, water, and diorite pounding balls. Today, it is a protected UNESCO World Heritage site and a must-visit open-air museum in Aswan.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 7
Abu Simbel and Sail Kom Ombo
2 stops
12
Abu Simbel Temple Complex
Abu Simbel. Early in the morning, visit Ramses II’s colossal temples carved into a cliff, along with the smaller temple dedicated to his wife Nefertari. The temples were cut into blocks and lifted to higher ground when Lake Nasser rose, and the four giant statues at the entrance are unforgettable in the morning light. Return and re-board the ship by about 2 p.m., then sail to Kom Ombo.
8 hours • Admission ticket included
13
Temple of Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo Temple. Explore a double temple on the river bank, with two sets of shrines side by side. Look for the crocodile mummies and the carvings of ancient medical tools.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 8
Visit To Edfu and Sail ToLuxor Temple
2 stops
14
Temple of Horus
Walk through one of Egypt’s best-preserved temples, dedicated to the falcon god Horus. Its towering gateway shows how ancient temples really looked. Sail through the Esna lock toward Luxor.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
15
Luxor Temple
Visit a temple in the middle of the city, beautifully lit in the evening, with an avenue of sphinxes that once led all the way to Karnak.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 9
Hot Air Balloon/ valley of the kings / Hatshepsut temple / colossi of memnon/ Karnak temple
5 stops
16
Float over the Nile, green farmland, and the temples of the West Bank as the sun rises. It is quiet, scenic, and a highlight for photos. The flight depends on weather.
45 minutes • Admission ticket included
17
Valley of the Kings
Enter royal tombs cut into the desert cliffs, with painted walls still bright after thousands of years.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
18
Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari
See the terraced temple of one of Egypt’s few female pharaohs, set dramatically against the cliffs.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
19
Colossi of Memnon
The only remind if Emainhotob tempel
20 minutes • Admission ticket included
20
Disembark and fly to Cairo. Transfer to a hotel near the airport.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 10
Departure
1 stop
21
Cairo International Airport
Breakfast, then transfer to Cairo Airport for your flight home. End of services.
2 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• If the hot air balloon get canceled for safety reason you will get refund 27 USD
• Minimum age for hot air balloon 6 years
• Prices are quoted in 49 USD ,per person per night trip and valid,except during Christmas,New Year,Easter holidays.
• If you book your tour will be during the total solar eclips "Eclipse of the Century" the prices going to be up we will contact you to tell you about the price before its start as the prices for the accomondation its not yet clear

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