Explore Cairo and Sail the Nile from Aswan to Luxor in 7 Days

Visit Grand Egyptian Museum

• Enjoy a cozy pick-up service at the airport with all the airport procedures facilitated. 
• Take your air-conditioned seat in the latest vehicle, going ahead to the Grand Egyptian Museum, the home of more than 100,000 artifacts, with the accompaniment of your Egyptologist.

Grand Egyptian Museum Visit

• Meet at the entrance the colossi of Ramses II. 
• Wander amid 11 halls that include artifacts, statues, treasures from daily life, and the afterlife beliefs, besides royal items, including the statues of the kings and queens, from prehistory to the new kingdom, crossing through the Old and Middle Kingdom.

Lunchtime 

• At a high-class restaurant, savor an Egyptian lunch meal; we take care if you are a vegetarian or not, providing you with the meal that meets your desire. 
• Have your seat in the air-conditioned vehicle, going ahead to the high-quality hotel in Cairo for check-in. 

Dinner on a Nile Cruise 

• Your tour guide meets you at the hotel lobby for a 2-hour dinner on a Nile cruise.
• Relish a high-quality meal with the romantic atmosphere of the Nile. 
• Return back to the hotel for a relaxing night.

Visit Giza Pyramids, Saqqara Complex, and Memphis

• Savor your tasty breakfast at the hotel, and meet your Egyptologist at the hotel lobby.
• Visit the first limestone structure built in humanity, the Step Pyramid of Djoser. Have your seat in the air-conditioned vehicle. 

Saqara Pyramid Complex

• Embark on the Saqqara complex and visit the Unas Pyramid, which includes the first pyramid text in history, up to a third of the Pyramid Texts. 
• Move to the Idot tomb, which includes drawings representing the daily life of ancient Egypt.
• Visit the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the first limestone structure in humanity. 
• You can explore the pyramid from inside and arrive at the southern tomb in the pyramid, meeting the Pharaonic sarcophagus and the basement where the statue of King Djoser was found with two holes in front of the eyes; listen from your Egyptologist to the mysteries about these holes. 
• Return back to the vehicle with your Egyptologist, going ahead to Memphis. 

Memphis

• Welcome to the first capital of ancient Egypt, Memphis. 
• Explore the Alabaster Sphinx, which is well preserved; uncover the secrets behind these statues, and go into the heart of ancient Egypt. 

Giza Pyramids Plateau 

• Leave the vehicle, going ahead to the booking office and scanning the ticket, arriving at the Pyramid of Cheops; you are in front of the majesty of history.
  
  • In 30 minutes, your Egyptologist tells you the secrets around building this pyramid and the economic, social, religious, and political implications behind building the pyramid.
  • Take outstanding photos and climb it up in case you want that. Also, there is an opportunity to visit the pyramid from inside for extra fees. 
  • Meet the Pyramids of the Queens beside the great pyramid; they are dedicated to the Mother of Khufu, his wife, and his daughter. If it is not the Friday, you can enter the Pyramid of the Mother from inside. 
  • The Purification Temple is located beside the Pyramids of the Queen; it is where the solemn funeral of the kings was launched after purifying them with the 7 holy oils. 
  • Meet the pits of the Royal Boats and uncover—was it right—the Nile was running here?!
  • Explore the real look of the pyramids in ancient Egypt eras in front of the Pyramid of Khafre!
  • Arrive at the Menkaure Pyramid to uncover the full story that relates the Giza Pyramids with the Osirion group.
  • Explore all about the mysteries of the king's mummification process from where it was running in the Valley Temple. 
  • Embark to the Great Statue of Sphinx, uncovering all the mysteries around this pharaonic guard and the Dream Stele of King Thutmose IV beneath it; that led to King Thutmose IV assuming the rule!
  • Take exclusive photos with Sphinx. 

  Lunchtime

  • In the 9 Pyramids Lounge Restaurant, with the dazzling view of the Giza Pyramids, experience one of the delicious Egyptian plates.

  
  Return back to the hotel for a relaxing time for the rest of the day.

Visit The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Salah El-Din Citadel, and Al-Moez Street and Khan El-Khalili

• Have your breakfast in the hotel and get ready for the day tour with your Egyptologist, going to Old Cairo.
  

  The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization

  • Wander amid more than 50,000 artifacts.
  • Meet the great kings and queens of ancient Egypt, exploring 22 royal mummies, divided into 18 kings and 4 queens, including Hatshepsut and Seqenenre, Ahmose, Ramesses II, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Thutmose III.

  Salah El-Din Citadel Visit 

  • By the air-conditioned vehicle, arrive at the highest spot in Cairo; it is the Salah El-Din Citadel. 
  • It was the royal throne seat for 600 years. 
  • Visit the Mohamed Ali Mosque and meet the French clock at the open court; let your Egyptologist narrate the story of this clock.
  • Outstanding photos are waiting for you at the Panorama of Saladin Citadel, where you can see the whole of Cairo, including the Giza Pyramids. 

  Taste one of the most delicious local Egyptian dishes at Studio Masri Restaurant in the serene Al-Azhar Park.

  Al-Moez Street and Khan El-Khalili

  • Cross through one of the Old Cairo Gates, called the El-Ftouh Gate.
  • Arrive at the oldest minaret found in Egypt in the Al-Hakim Mosque. 
  • Uncover El Sabiel and visit the integrated Qalawun group that includes Bayramistan and Sultan Inal Bath! It is an opportunity to go into the heart of the vibrant details of the Fatimid and Mamluk eras. 
  • A free leisure to go shopping from the great history in Khan El Khalili Bazzar.
    Cozyly, arrive at your hotel in Cairo.

Visit Aswan High Dam and Philae Temple

Early departure from the hotel after the check-in, going to the Cairo Airport for a domestic flight to Aswan

Your Egyptologist accompanies you in the air-conditioned vehicle, driven, going ahead to the Aswan High Dam. 

Aswan High Dam; 

It is a visit to one of the miracles of the twentieth century, the dam, and the largest artificial lake in the world, Lake Nasser.

Philae Temple; 

• Explore the mysteries around Isis in this temple that is considered the jewel of ancient Egypt’s temples. 
• Meet the majestic monuments here, arriving at the last hieroglyphic text found in Egypt dating back to 394 BC and the last demotic text also dating back to 452 BC.
• Explore Trajan's booth, which was the only place in ancient Egypt that had a wooden roof, and its columns have the best-ever capitals; it was the entrance of the temple. 
• Meet the temple Mamisi, which includes 7 columns with capitals of goddess Hathor's face; each capital represents Hathor with a different reaction; these reactions are beliefs related to the newborn; explore these beliefs that the Egyptians still keep today!

Arrive at the Nile Cruise for check-in and spend relaxing time with a tasty dinner while relishing the view of the Nile. 

Visit Ramses II Temple & Nefertari Temple

Relish your breakfast meal on the cruise deck, and with the accompaniment of your Egyptologist, arrive at Abu Simbel Temples (optional tour).

Abu Simbel Day Tour 

• Meet those giant statues of Ramses that represent this great king in various ages from youth to infirmity.
• Meet Ramses II when he was enthroned as a god among the giant statues and vibrant exclusive inscriptions inside the temple after you cross between the feet of the  four colossi on the facade.
• You are in the heart of one of the pharaonic architectural marvels.
  
  • Leave the majesty of Ramses II's temple after knowing the secrets of the phenomenon of sun perpendicularity. Ramses II had taken a promise from the sun; how?
  • Go ahead to Nefertari Temple. 
  • Both temples were carved in the heart of a mountain; see, for the first time, the Queen statue takes the same measurements as the King’s statue. Explore why.

  
  Return back to the cruise for lunch and a relaxing sailing to Kom Ombo.

  Kom Ombo Temple Visit 

  • It is the first place where you see the freedom of belief of the ancient Egyptians embodied in front of you; as the worship of the god Sobek beside the worship of the god Horus, therefore, it is a double temple.

   

  • Delve into the heart of the details of ancient Egypt and get closer.

  
  Return back to the Nile Cruise for a sailing to Edfu

Visit Edfu Temple

Savor a tasty breakfast meal with the fresh atmosphere of the Nile.

• With the accompanying Egyptologist, experience a horse carriage, going ahead to Edfu Temple.
• Visit this most well-preserved temple with vibrant inscriptions and statues.
• Wander amid the second largest temple after Karnak Temple, where you feel as if you are in a time gap and the ancient Egyptians are alive.

A sailing time while experiencing the crossing through Isna Lock, arriving at Luxor.

Your day includes having appetizing, top-class lunch and dinner meals.

Visit the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, the Colossi of Memnon, and Karnak Temple

Enjoy your breakfast on the cruise deck. It is a unique day trip that takes you to Thebes, which was the capital of ancient Egypt.

Explore the Valley of the Kings 

• Arrive at the west bank of Luxor and ride the electric car after scanning your ticket.
• Your Egyptologist tells you all the mysteries of this site since the arrival of Inini, the engineer of Thutmose I, the first king who carved a tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• Also, your Egyptologist takes you to the best tombs ever on the site with vibrant inscriptions, where the treasures and valuable royal items were located besides the kings’ mummies were found.

Embark to Hatshepsut Temple 

• Meet this pharaonic architectural miracle, with an outstanding facade carved in the mountain into three terraces.
• Meet this lady that ruled ancient Egypt for the first time, Hatshepsut Temple.
• Uncover each detail of this era, including the right of Hatshepsut to assume the throne. Uncover the full reality.

Meet the Colossi of Memnon 

• Arrive at those two second-largest figures in ancient Egypt, with 16 meters as height and 600 tons as a weight, representing Amenhotep III.
• How did they escape from the massive earthquake that happened in Egypt in 27 BC to meet you today, and what about the mysteries of the sounds that come from them! 
• Get to know all about those statues.

Arrive at the largest temple in ancient Egypt, Karnak Temple;

• Wander amid 10 edifices and more than 100 names of kings and queens.
• Meet the unfinished edifice, the Taharqa Column, the largest hypostyle hall in the universe that was built in 66 years, the largest obelisk in history (Hatshepsut Obelisk), the Holy of the Holies, the Holy Lake, and the largest scarab found in Egypt.
• Visit the unique temple of Ptah and the small church of Sekhmet, which includes more than 1,000 statues.

Your day includes savoring one of the best local Egyptian foods in a lunch meal.

A cozy flight tour back to Cairo.

Arrive at the hotel for check-in, and relish a comfy night.

Check out from the hotel and enjoy a professional arriving service to the airport for departure to home.