DAY 1: ARRIVAL – CAIRO

Arrival at Cairo airport, assistance and transfer to the scheduled hotel and overnight in Cairo.

DAY 2: PYRAMIDS

Breakfast at the hotel and departure to visit the Giza plateau, where you will be near the pyramids, the only wonder of the 7 ancient ones still standing; the great pyramid of king “Cheops” from the 27th century BC. Continue to see the other pyramids of “Queferen” and “Mikerinus”. Finish the visit next to the famous enigmatic sphinx that represents the king “Queferen” himself in his form with a human head and the body of a lion. Then we continue to learn about the technique of the ancient Egyptians doing various things using the papyrus plant. Proceed to Cairo airport for departure to Aswan. Arrival and transfer to your hotel. Overnight in Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast and lunch.

Optional Tour: continue to visit the Egyptian museum of antiquities with historical and very valuable treasures especially that of the young king, the golden king “Tutankamun”

Optional tour: Depart for the Sound & Light show in the Giza pyramids area with dinner at a local restaurant

Day 3: ASUAN – ABU SIMBEL – KOM OMBO – GEBEL EL SILSILA

Breakfast and departure for a tour of the famous temple of the goddess Isis on the island of Philae on the Nile. Proceed to the Nile ship to check in and have lunch. After lunch on board or on the island, continue sailing towards Kom Ombo, arriving and leaving to visit the temple that was dedicated to the worship of the god Sobek the crocodile and his brother the god Haroris. Then, sail towards Gebel el-Silsila. First night on board.

Meals: Full board.

Optional visit: Early departure for the tour of Abu Simbel to see the gigantic temples of the great Egyptian hero Ramses II and his wife Queen Neferetari.

Day 4: EDFU – EL FAWAZA

After breakfast, we will sail to Edfu, viewing from Dahabiya the rock-cut chapels of Horemheb, Seti I, Ramses II and Merenptah and the sandstone quarries at Gebel el-Silsila. The cruise continues to Edfu, where you will see the largest temple in Egypt; the temple of the god Hours the falcon in a horse-drawn carriage. Return to the boat, have lunch and sail to Luxor. Travel to a small island where the boat will dock for the night. You will have dinner on board the Dahabiya or around a campfire on the peaceful banks of the Nile. Second night on board.

Day 5: EL KAB – ESNA

Sail to El Kab, the ancient city of Nekheb, one of the oldest and most significant archaeological sites on the Nile. Visit the remains of its temples and some of the tombs carved into the cliffs. Return to the boat and sail to Esna. Third and last night on board.

Day 6: LUXOR

Disembark in Esna, after breakfast on board and transfer to Luxor to visit the temples of Karnak; the largest ancient construction since the 19th century BC and the temple of Luxor. Check in at our hotel and overnight in Luxor.

Meals: Breakfast

Day 7: LUXOR – CAIRO

Breakfast and departure to visit the famous Valley of the Kings where there are 62 tombs of the kings with painted walls. Afterwards, you will go to the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which is unique and has 3 terraces in the middle of the mountain. Then, you will finish the tour with a stop at the 2 gigantic statues of Memno that stand in front of the facade of the temple of King Amenhotep III. Breakfast and at the scheduled time departure to Luxor airport return to Cairo. Arrival, assistance, and transfer to hotel. Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast.

OPTIONAL TOUR: Early Departure to enjoy a magnificent hot-air balloon flight over the ruins of the temples and tombs of ancient centuries on the western bank.

DAY 08: FREE DAY – CAIRO – MOSQUE – COPTIC NEIGHBORHOOD – KHAN EL KHALILI MARKET (OPTIONAL)

Breakfast and free day in Cairo and overnight at the Hotel.

Meals: Breakfast.

Optional Tour: Departure to visit the fortress of Sultan Saladin and the marble mosque of MOHAMED ALI. We continue towards the Coptic neighborhood to visit the important church of SAN SERGIO, where the holy family took refuge and we end the tour in the old bazaar of KHAN EL KHALILI, Back to the hotel.

Optional tour: Go out to enjoy Dinner at a floating restaurant on the Nile with a belly dance and dervish dance show.

DAY 09: ALEXANDRIA (optional)

Breakfast and Free time in leisure

Meals: Breakfast.

Optional Tour: Drive the road for almost 3 hours to the city of Alexandria, to enjoy and get to know this wonderful city of Alexander the Great. Visit the ancient Roman catacombs, with their 3 underground floors, then to the “Qaitbey” fortress, the same place where it was the famous Ancient Lantern of Alexandria, continue to the Library of Alexandria, the largest in the world in the shape of a solar disk. Return to Cairo, accommodation at the hotel.

DAY 10: CAIRO – DEPARTURE

Breakfast and departure according to the scheduled time to Cairo airport to take the international flight home.