TAste of egypt

Day 1 — Cairo: Arrival (No meals)

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

Day 2 — Cairo: Pyramids and Pharaonic Treasures (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. 

Continue 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 — Nile Cruise: Flight and Island Temple (B/L/D) 

Have your breakfast at the hotel. You will be transferred to Cairo Airport for your flight to Aswan. 

Upon arrival in Aswan, our representative will transfer you to your Nile cruise. 

Take a short motorboat ride to the Temple of Philae on the island of Agilka.  The temple was dedicated to Isis, sister/wife of Osiris and patroness of the Ptolemaic rule. 

Return to your cruise and sail to Kom Ombo.

Day 4 — Nile Cruise: Dual Gods and Falcon God (B/L/D) 

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. 

Sail to Edfu, 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 Nile Cruise and sail to Luxor.

Day 5 — Nile Cruise: Thebes' West Bank Wonders (B/L/D)

Have breakfast onboard, 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 tons statues of Amenhotep III.  Return to your Nile cruise. 

In the evening, take a Horse carriage ride around the Cornish of Luxor, then pass by the Sphinx Road, the local market, and have the opportunity for photos in front of the Lighten Luxor Temple from outside. 

Back to the cruise for dinner and overnight on board.

Day 6 — Cairo: Temple of Temples & Return (B)

Have breakfast on board, disembark from the Nile Cruise, and 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. 

Transfer to the airport for your flight back to Cairo. Upon arrival at Cairo airport, you will meet our representative and be transferred to your hotel.

Day 7 — Departure (B)

You will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight.