06- Cairo – Nile Cruise – Cairo

5 / 5

Destination

Aswan, Egypt, Luxor

Duration

8

Trip Description

Accommodation:

Two nights Cairo

Four nights Nile Cruise

One night Cairo

Tours:

-Grand Egyptian Museum, Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.

-Luxor East bank: Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple.

-Luxor West bank: Valley of Kings, Colossi of Memnon and Hatshepsut Temple.

-Edfu Temple and Kom Ombo Temple.

-Philae Temple, High Dam.

-Felucca ride.

-Abu Simbel Excursion ”Optional”.

Included & Excluded

Includes:

-Meet & greet and assistance upon arrival & departure.

-All Airports transfers indicated in our program in a private deluxe van A/C with our Airport representative.

-All tours indicated in our itinerary are provided by a private deluxe van A/C with Private guide.

-Entry fees to sites included in our itinerary.

-Private guide in Cairo.

-Cruise guide while cruising sharing other members with same language.

-Three nights in Cairo including daily Breakfast.

-Four nights on board Nile Cruise including Full board basis starting with Lunch, ending with Breakfast.

-All taxes & service charges.

 

Excludes:

-Egypt entry visa stamp (25$ per person) to be obtained upon arrival to Cairo International Airport by the assistance of our Airport Representative.

-International air tickets

-Domestic air tickets (Cairo – Luxor / Aswan – Cairo)

-Cost of optional tours: Abu Simbel Excursion by flight or by private van or bus

-Meals not mentioned as included in the itinerary

-Excess baggage charges.

-Spa, soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages on board Nile cruise.

-Items of personal nature such as Room service; laundry; phone calls, bottled water & beverages with meals etc.

-Tipping and Gratuities.

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Itinerary

Arrival Cairo

Meet & greet at Cairo International Airport by our Representative before passport control for Visa assistance.
Transfer to hotel & check-in.
Dinner on your own
Overnight in Cairo
Meals included: no meals

Cairo: Grand Egyptian Museum / Pyramids of Giza & Sphinx:

Breakfast at the hotel
Meet your guide at the hotel lobby to start your visit The Grand Egyptian Museum:
an archaeological museum in Giza, about 2 km from the Giza pyramid complex, it hosts over 100,000 artifacts from ancient Egyptian civilization, including the complete Tutankhamun collection, and many pieces will be on display for the first time, it will be the world's largest archeological museum.
Free time for your lunch “on your own”
After lunch visit Pyramids of Giza & Sphinx: The Giza pyramid complex is home to the Great Pyramid Khufu, the pyramid of Khafre, and the pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx. All were built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
Dinner on your own
Overnight in Cairo
Meals included: Breakfast
Dinner on your own
Overnight in Cairo
Meals included: Breakfast

Cairo-Luxor: Visit Luxor & Karnak Temples:

Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to Cairo Airport for your internal flight to Luxor including our Representative assistance for departure procedures from Cairo as well as arrival procedures in Luxor.
Transfer from Luxor Airport to Nile Cruise
12h00 noon Check-in on board Nile Cruise starting with Lunch
Meet your guide at the lobby to start your visit by Luxor Temple: a large complex of ancient Egyptian temples located on the east bank of the Nile River in what is now the city of Luxor. Founded in 1400 BC, the Luxor Temple was built to worship Amun-Ra, his wife Mut, and their son Khonsu, the gods also known as the Theban Triad.
Continue to Karnak Temple: is a group of temples, buildings and columns, where expansion and construction operations continued from the Pharaonic era, specifically the kings of the Middle Kingdom, until the Roman era in Luxor on the eastern bank.
Dinner on board
Overnight in Luxor
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Luxor: Valley of Kings / Hatchepsut Temple/ Colossi of Memnon:

Breakfast on board
Meet your guide at the lobby to start your visit by the Valley of Kings: known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles under the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
Continue our visit by the Colossi of Memnon: two colossal statues, erected around 1350 BC, that are all that remain of a temple built to commemorate the pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty. They are located in the mortuary city of Thebes, west of the Nile River from the present-day city of Luxor.
Ending by Temple of Queen Hatchepsut: a temple of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the best surviving of the temples built about 3,500 years ago at Deir el-Bahari. It was built by Queen Hatshepsut on the west bank of the Nile opposite Thebes.
Sail to Edfu
Lunch & Dinner on board
Overnight in Edfu
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Edfu – Komombo:

Breakfast on board
Meet your guide at the lobby for visit Edfu Temple: the second largest temple in ancient Egypt, after the Temple of Karnak, located in the city of Edfu in Upper Egypt on the west bank of the Nile River, which was known during the Hellenistic period in colloquial Greek as the Temple of Horus and in Latin as the Temple of Horus. The temple represents one of the last attempts by the Ptolemies to build temples in the style of their predecessors in form and grandeur.
Sail to Komombo
Lunch on board
Visit Komombo Temple: located in the city of Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate, southern Egypt. The temple was built during the reign of Ptolemy VI to worship the gods Sobek and Horus.
Sail to Aswan
Dinner on board
Overnight in Aswan
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Aswan: Philae Temple, High Dam & Felucca ride:

Breakfast on board
Meet your guide at the lobby and start your visit by the High Dam: a dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt, built during the reign of Gamal Abdel Nasser and contributed to by the Soviet Union. Owned and operated by the Aswan High Dam and Reservoir Authority, the dam has greatly helped control the flow of water and mitigate the effects of Nile flooding. It is used to generate electricity in Egypt.

Continue to Philae Temple: a temple complex located on an island in the Aswan Low Dam reservoir, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser.
Originally, the temple complex was located on Philae Island, near the First Cataract of the Nile River. These slopes and the surrounding area have been subject to flooding variously since the initial construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902.
Lunch on board
Pm Sail on the Nile by a Typical Egyptian “Felucca” around Kitchener’s Island: a small oval-shaped island in the Nile, less than a kilometer long and its width is less than ½ a kilometer where located the Aswan Botanical Garden.
Passing by the Mausoleum of Aga khan: located at Aswan along the Nile of Egypt, since Egypt was formerly the centre of power of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shia dynasty. It is now also the resting place of Aga Khan
Dinner on board
Overnight in Aswan
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Abu Simbel Excursion”Optional” – Cairo:

Breakfast on board
Disembarkation after breakfast
Meet our Representative and departure by deluxe A/C Van or bus or by flight to visit Abu Simbel Temple”Optional”:
A historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel near the border with Sudan. It is located on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km southwest of Aswan (about 300 km by road). The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. Their huge external rock relief figures of Ramesses II have become iconic. His wife, Nefertari, and children can be seen in smaller figures by his feet. Sculptures inside the Great Temple commemorate Ramesses II's heroic leadership at the Battle of Kadesh. The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 to higher ground to avoid it being submerged by Lake Nasser, the Aswan Dam reservoir. As part of International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, an artificial hill was made from a domed structure to house the Abu Simbel Temples.

Transfer to Aswan Airport for your return flight to Cairo including our Representative assistance for departure procedures from Aswan as well as arrival procedures in Cairo.

Free time for your lunch ““on your own”

Arrival Cairo Airport - Transfer to your Hotel & check-in
Rest of day free at leisure
Overnight in Cairo
Meals included: Breakfast

Cairo: Final Departure:

Breakfast at the hotel or Breakfast Box (Depends on your flight time)
Check – out after breakfast
Transfer to Cairo International Airport including our Representative assistance for departure procedures.

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