Private Tour: 8 Days 7 Nights Pyramids and Nile Cruise by Air from Cairo

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Arrival in Cairo
1 stop
1
Cairo
Your representative will meet & greet you at Cairo International Airport. Transfer by air-conditioned car to your hotel. Upon arrival at the hotel, he will do your check-in and give you detailed information concerning your excursion of tomorrow.
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Giza Pyramids / Egyptian Museum Tours
4 stops
2
Pyramids of Giza
After breakfast, enjoy a unique excursion to the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus & to the oldest known monumental sculpture and the largest monolith statue in the world, the Great Sphinx. Visit also the Valley Temple, which was attributed to king Chefren and had been used for the mummification process.
4 hours • Admission ticket included
3
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Then pay a visit to the Egyptian Museum where you can see the collection of Tutankhamen among other splendid pharaonic artifacts.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
4
The Hanging Church
Continue to Coptic Cairo to visit the Hanging Church and Ben Ezra Synagogue.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
5
Khan Al-Khalili
Shopping in the lively Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Back to hotel, night in Cairo.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 3
Cruise from Luxor
3 stops
6
Luxor
Check out from hotel in the morning then transfer to Cairo Airport for a flight to Luxor where you will be met and assisted, then taken by an air-conditioned car to board your 5 star Egypt Nile cruise.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
7
Temple of Karnak
After lunch on board, visit the impressive Karnak Temples.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
8
Luxor Temple
and visit the Luxor Temple: The enormous Luxor Temple was one of the great constructions of the New Kingdom (dating from the 14th century BC) dedicated to the god Amun. It was known as the “Southern Sanctuary” and was the site of ceremonies aimed at encouraging the life-giving Nile floods. Dinner and night on board.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 4
Sailing to Edfu
3 stops
9
Valley of the Kings
After breakfast, an excursion to the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, the Valley of the Kings: Considered among the most significant archaeological destinations on earth, the Valley of the Kings was the burial place for many of Egypt’s New Kingdom pharaohs—the most famous of which is the tomb of Tutankhamun, aka King Tut. The remaining tombs are divided into three sections; those of Ramses VI and Ay rank among the most beautiful, thanks to their intricate detail.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
10
Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari
then to the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom in the 15th century BC: This impressive mortuary temple, built by Queen Hatshepsut, seems to blend in with the limestone cliffs from which it was cut. The meticulously restored complex happens to sit on one of the hottest places on the planet, so most visitors come in the cooler morning hours.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
11
Colossi of Memnon
Visit the Colossi of Memnon: Standing nearly 60 feet (18 meters) above the desert plain, the two faceless statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III are often the first monuments you’ll see when visiting Luxor’s West Bank. Each of the two Colossi was cut from a single block of stone. After lunch, sailing to Edfu. Dinner on board.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 5
Edfu/ Kom Ombo temples
1 stop
12
Aswan
Edfu/Kom Ombo temples: After breakfast, visit the well-preserved Ptolemaic Temple dedicated to Horus at Edfu. Sail to Kom Ombo to see the unique Temple of Sobek, dedicated to Sobek the crocodile god, and Horus the falcon-headed god. Lunch on board. Continue sailing to Aswan. Dinner on board.
5 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 6
Aswan Sightseeing tours
1 stop
13
Aswan
After breakfast, enjoy a day’s sightseeing in Aswan. Start with the High Dam and the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt, the Unfinished Obelisk, then on to the beautiful Temple of Philae, which is devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor. Sail and move around Elephantine Island by a local felucca boat. Dinner on board. Night in Aswan.
8 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 7
Back to Cairo
1 stop
14
Cairo
After breakfast, transfer to Aswan Airport for your return to Cairo where you will be met and assisted at the airport then taken to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 8
Departure
1 stop
15
Cairo
Breakfast and transfer to Cairo International Airport for departure.
3 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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