Deluxe egypt

Day 1 — Cairo (No meals) 

Arrival at Cairo airport. Meet and assist by our representative, and you will be transferred to your hotel overnight.

Day 2 — Cairo (B/L) 

Have your breakfast at the hotel. Your private Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up to start your day tour. 

Drive to Sakkara to see the Step Pyramid, built by the exalted architect Imhotep for the 3rd Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser. You will visit one of the mastabas in Sakkara that dates to more than 4,500 years ago and see the amazing carvings and colors, which give an idea about life in ancient Egypt. 

You will end your time in Sakkara in a carpet school, where you will be involved in an experience with locals who are being trained in the amazing handcraft of weaving, following in the footsteps of their ancestors, who started it thousands of years ago. 

Have lunch at a restaurant. 

Continue to Giza to visit one of the Ancient Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Pyramids. See the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus, the Valley Temple, and the Sphinx. On your way, you will visit a papyrus institute where you will be taken on a journey through the craft using step-by-step demonstrations and extensive displays of papyrus artworks to view and have the chance to buy souvenirs. You can choose among hundreds of designs, including printing your name in hieroglyphics with scenes from ancient Egypt (the artworks are certified for using genuine papyrus). 

Return to your hotel overnight.

Day 3 — Luxor (B/L) 

Have your breakfast at the hotel. Your private Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up to start your day tour. 

Visit the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is filled with artifacts from thousands of years of Egyptian history, including the mummies of powerful pharaohs and treasures from the Tomb of Tutankhamun. 

Have lunch at a restaurant. 

Later, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight from Cairo to Luxor. Upon arrival, you will be met by our representative and transferred to your hotel overnight.

Day 4 — Nile Cruise (B/L/D) 

After breakfast, our representative will transfer you to your Nile cruise.

 Have lunch on board. 

After lunch, you will visit Karnak Temple, called by some “the Temple of Temples.”  It is the largest place of worship ever built. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars covering an area larger than the whole of Notre Dame Cathedral. 

Return to your cruise. In the evening, a Horse carriage ride around the Cornish of Luxor, then passing by the Sphinx Road, the local market, and having the opportunity for photos in front of the Lighten Luxor Temple from outside. 

Back to the cruise for dinner and overnight on board.

Day 5 — Nile Cruise (B/L/D) 

After breakfast, cross to the West Bank of the Nile and visit the wondrous Valley of the Kings, a vast city of the dead where the magnificent tombs of 62 pharaohs have been discovered.  The tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated, and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs. 

Visit several of the tombs.  Next, visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.  This beautiful monument to the reign of the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs surrounding it.  

On the way back to your Nile cruise, stop at the famed Colossi of Memnon, two 66ft, 1-thousand-ton statues of Amenhotep III.  Return to your cruise for lunch. Sail to Edfu. Have dinner on board.  Overnight at Edfu.

Day 6 — Nile Cruise (B/L/D) 

After breakfast on board, set out by horse-drawn carriage to visit the Temple of Horus, the most perfectly preserved of all the Nile Temples.  Horus, also known as Haroeris, was the falcon-headed solar war god.  

Return to your cruise vessel by carriage and sail to Kom Ombo. 

Have lunch on board. 

Visit the Temple of Sobek, the crocodile-headed god of fertility and creator of the world.  The temple stands at a bend in the Nile where, in ancient times, sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the riverbank. Have dinner and overnight on board. 

Sail to Aswan overnight.  

Day 7 — Nile Cruise (B/L/D) 

After breakfast on board, take a short motorboat ride to the Temple of Philae on the island of Anguilla.  The temple was dedicated to Isis, sister/wife of Osiris and patroness of the Ptolemaic rule. 

Lunch on your cruise.  

Dinner and overnight on board of your cruise in Aswan.

Day 8 — Cairo (B/D) 

After breakfast, you will disembark from the cruise and transfer to Aswan Airport for your flight to Cairo.

 (Optional: You can fly to Abu Simbel and visit the temples built over a 25-year span, one of Egypt's most prodigious feats of engineering. The entire complex of temples was moved to its present location 90 feet above its old site to protect it from the rising water of the Nile when the Aswan Dam was built in the early sixties. Fly back to Aswan and connect to your flight to Cairo.)

Upon arrival at Cairo Airport, you will meet our representative and be transferred to your hotel overnight. 

Tonight, you will enjoy your farewell dinner in Authentic Egyptian Cuisine.

Day 9 — Departure (No meals) 

You will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight