Egypt and The Nile Luxury Tour

Your tasty breakfast will be offered in the hotel's main restaurant before you meet your special tour guide, who will lead you on your first Cairo tour to the pyramids of Giza, which were built 4500 years ago.

Start your sightseeing at the Great Pyramid of Cheops, which took more than 20 years to build, then move on to the pyramids of the kings Chephren and Mycerinus, which are related to the same dynasty. You will then see the famous Sphinx, the man-headed lion who guarded the Necropolis for 450 decades. Now we'll head to the plateau to get a full view of the pyramids and capture amazing photographs while enjoying a camel ride in the Pyramids of Giza (an optional activity) before being taken to the Valley Temple of King Chephren, which was dedicated to the Pharaoh's mummification process and is made of granite from Aswan and tiled with beautiful white alabaster. Your tour guide and private driver will then take you to enjoy a visit to the Egyptian Museum, which includes the largest and most precious collection of Egyptian artifacts in the world, especially the royal treasure that was found intact, the collection of the Golden Pharaoh Tutankhamen, whose tomb in the Valley of the Kings was found in 1922 by the famous English archaeologist Howard Carter.

Afterward, the tour continues to Coptic Cairo to visit the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon, the Hanging Church, which was built suspended from its ancient towers in an excellent position, and the church of St. Sergius, which is also renowned for its beauty. Sergius, which is also known as the Church of the Cave or the Church of the Holy Family, is built over the crypt where the Holy Family waited for almost 3 months by the well from which they obtained their water reserves. Your tour of Coptic Cairo extends until we visit the Ben Ezra Synagogue, believed to be the site of the castle where Moses' box was pulled from the Nile by the pharaoh's daughter.

After lunch, you will be taken to the area of Islamic Cairo to see the walls and gates of the medieval city founded by the Fatimid leader Badr Al Gamali and the old, narrow streets of colorful stores dating back to the 10th century. You'll go all the way to have mint tea in Al-Fishawy (one of the oldest coffee shops in Khan El Khalili Bazaar) during your travels to Islamic Cairo.

Meals: breakfast, lunch

Check out of your hotel in the early morning after breakfast, you will then be transferred to Cairo airport for your flight to Luxor where you will be met and assisted as usual on any of our Egypt day tours or Egypt tour packages by our representatives, you will then be transferred aboard your 5-star Egypt Nile cruise on the Steinberger MS Minerva. After your first lunch aboard the ship, begin a tour of the eastern shore of Luxor to visit the Karnak Temple, the largest man-made religious center in the world, besides once being the central location from which a vast empire like Egypt was ruled. Also visit the magnificent Luxor Temple, which will be beautifully illuminated at night, to see the grandeur at its peak and think about how prosperous the ancient Egyptians were 3800 years ago to dare to build such huge structures just to worship their Ancient Egyptian gods.

After completing your tour of the eastern shore of Luxor, you will be transferred back to the ship and then dinner will be served.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy a delightful buffet breakfast aboard your Nile cruise ship and your Egyptologist guide will take you on a tour of Luxor's west bank to visit two colossal statues of Amenhotep III, which are recognized as the Colossi of Memnon, and then you'll be amazed by the necropolis of the Valley of the Kings, where more than 62 New Kingdom pharaohs were buried, including such famous names as Tutankhamun and the great Ramses the Second. The tombs are carved into the mountain, extravagantly decorated with breathtaking paintings, and filled with riches that the pharaohs planned to enjoy in the future after their resurrection. Your Luxor day tours will continue with a visit to the Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as El Deir El Bahari, she was the first female ruler in Egyptian history.

After a pleasant lunch, you will sail to Edfu where dinner and entertainment on board await.

Overnight on board the Nile cruise.

Optional Luxor hot air balloon tour

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After another oriental breakfast in the main restaurant of the Nile Cruise, visit the well-preserved temple from the Ptolemaic era, which was personalized to the god Horus, the falcon-headed temple of Edfu. Sail to Kom Ombo to visit the captivating Temple of Kom Ombo dedicated to the crocodile, God Sobek. Have lunch on board the ship and sail to Aswan before dinner, spend the night on board your luxury cruise on the Nile.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

You will take your breakfast on the Nile cruise, then your guide will take you to the famous High Dam an engineering marvel and the most important project in modern Egypt, the fantastic temple of Philae dedicated to goddess Isis and beautifully located on an island we can reach the temple by a pleasant motorboat ride, then you will drive to the largest known obelisk in the granite quarries in Aswan, the Unfinished Obelisk, Back to the cruise, Enjoy your dinner on board and overnight on board.

Optional Abu Simbel Tour

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, disembark the Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile cruise ship, then proceed to Aswan airport for your return flight to Cairo. Upon arrival at Cairo Airport, you will be met and greeted by our representatives, then transferred to your hotel where you can spend the rest of the day at your leisure.

Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast

Buffet breakfast at the hotel with free time at leisure Enjoy one of the daily tours of Cairo, then you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your final departure.

Meals: Breakfast