Cairo & Luxury Dahabiya

After you arrive in Cairo by flight, our local representative will meet you at the airport and send you to the hotel we selected for you carefully. After helping you check in, the representative will leave the rest of the day for your own plan. You may take a break in the room to recover from the jet lag or go out to have a look of the city on your own. 

Accommodation: Steigenberger Pyramids Cairo (5 stars)

After one night’s good rest, our experienced local guide will offer you a full day sightseeing today. He or she will escort you to the Giza Pyramid Complex at first, where world’s three most popular pyramids- Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure stand. After appreciating them from outside, the guide will lead you to enter the Pyramid of Khufu to see what’s inside. Next, we are going to visit the Great Sphinx up close and Valley Temple, where the burial ceremonies of pharaohs were held in the past. 

After lunch, continue to visit the Egyptian Museum. The first floor of the museum shows the general artefacts, which are categorized by age. The museum's most valuable items are put on the second floor and displayed thematically. More than 1,700 treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb have long been on display, including the famous Tutankhamun golden mask. After the visit, the guide will accompany you to experience the local traditional felucca ride on the Nile River for an hour, during which you can watch the charming sunset. At the end of the day, the guide will send you back to the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Steigenberger Pyramids Cairo (5 stars)

After breakfast, the guide will transfer you to the Cairo International Airport and help you catch a flight to Luxor, the starting point of the coming-up Nile cruise. Boasting many temples and relics, Luxor has been reputed as a large-scale open-air museum; so before boarding the cruise ship, the cruise guide will lead you to visit some of the most famous ones. 

On arrival, the guide will firstly lead you to visit Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile River, where pharaohs and nobles in ancient Egypt are buried. By now, over 60 tombs have been discovered there and we will go inside three of them to have a look. Then proceed to the Temple of Hatshepsut. Hatshepsut is the only female pharaoh in Egypt's history and ruled Egypt for 22 years, opening up the golden age of ancient Egypt. The next stop will be the Temple of Ramesses III, a well-preserved temple at Medinet Habu. Finally, the guide will escort you to the Colossi of Memnon to see two giant stone statues before sending you to the hotel to have a good rest.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Steigenberger Nile Palace (5 stars)

In the morning, the guide will accompany you to visit the Temple of Karnak and the Luxor Temple. They are the most popular attractions in Luxor. Especially, the Temple of Karnax is the world’s largest temple supported by stone pillars. 

After that, the guide will finally transfer you to Esna 50 km south of Luxor, or around an hour’s drive away to embark the Nebyt Dahabiya Nile Cruise. Today, the cruise will sail to El Kab Village. Approaching El Kab Village, have a big dinner and stay overnight onboard.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Nebyt Dahabiya Nile Cruise (5 stars)

After breakfast, the guide will escort you to disembark to visit El Kab Temple. Then return to the cruise ship and sail to Edfu. After arriving, disembark again to visit the Temple of Horus. It is dedicated to Horus, the god of the sky, and is well preserved because it is located on a high plateau and not threatened by flood from the Nile. After return, the cruise will sail to El Fawaza Island while you having dinner. Tonight, have a good rest onboard.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Nebyt Dahabiya Nile Cruise (5 stars)

On the sixth day of this Egypt tour, the ship will sail to Gebel el-Silsila, where the guide will lead you to go ashore to visit the Temple of Gebel el Silsila. Then return to the cruise and sail to Beshir Island, where we will provide you a delicious barbecue and leave you some time to have fun there. After, go back to the cruise to stay overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Nebyt Dahabiya Nile Cruise (5 stars)

Enjoy breakfast onboard and the cruise will send you to Kom Ombo to visit the Temple of Kom Ombo. The temple is unique that it honors both Haroeris, the god of eagle and Sobek, the god of crocodile, so it is also known as "Double God Temple". This temple was built in the Ptolemaic dynasty and the frescoes of Horus and Sobek can be seen everywhere on the walls. 

Then return to the cruise and sail to Herdiab Island. Have lunch on the beach of the island and enjoy some free time. In the evening, return to the cruise and have dinner onboard while sailing to Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Nebyt Dahabiya Nile Cruise (5 stars)

In the early morning, the cruise guide will escort you to Abu Simbel by car. It will take about 3 hours on the way. On arrival, visit the Abu Simbel Temple which was carved directly out of the grotto. After the visit, go back to the cruise for dinner and overnight stay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Nebyt Dahabiya Nile Cruise (5 stars)

Today we are going to visit the renowned High Dam of Aswan and Unfinished Obelisk in remains of a quarry. The High Dam is the biggest architecture across the Nile. About the obelisk, visitors are allowed to climb over a ladder to reach its top. Then, move on to the Temple of Philae by ferry since it is located on Agikia Island. It is one of the three best-preserved Ptolemaic-style temples in the world and it was built for the goddess ISIS. Finally, go back to Aswan and you will be transferred to the airport to catch a flight back to Cairo. Upon arrival in Cairo, our local representative will transfer you to the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Steigenberger Pyramids Cairo (5 stars)

According to the schedule of your departure flight, our driver will send you to Cairo International Airport. It is our pleasure to serve you in Egypt and hope you have had a good time with us.

Meals: Breakfast