Itinerary

1. Day 1: Welcome to Egypt

   • Meet us at Cairo International Airport and transfer to the hotel in a private luxury air-conditioned car.
   • At the hotel, the tour manager will assist you with a smooth check-in, and then I will review the vacation package itinerary with you to re-confirm pickup times for each tour and activity.

   Overnight in Cairo.

2. Day 2: Cairo Day Tour (Giza Pyramids – Memphis - Saqqara)

   • Start your day with a delightful breakfast at your hotel in Cairo/Giza.
   • Visit the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren, and Mykerinus, and marvel at the iconic Sphinx.
   • Explore the six-layered Step Pyramid of King Zoser, an architectural marvel.
   • Discover the ancient Mastaba Tomb of Kagemni.
   • Visit Teti's Pyramid Complex, an impressive structure of the Sixth Dynasty.
   • Explore the Memphis Open Air Museum, Egypt’s first capital during the Old Kingdom.
   • Giza Pyramids Complex and The Great Pyramid: Learn about the vast Giza Pyramids Complex and the Great Pyramid of King Khufu.
   •  Admire the Sphinx and visit the Valley Temple, used for mummification and purification.
   • Enjoy a local restaurant meal, savouring regional flavours.

   Head back to your hotel for an overnight stay in Cairo.

   Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

3. Day 3: Egyptian Museum – Coptic Cairo – Saladin Citadel – Khan Elkhalili

   • Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel. Your private guide will take you on a full-day tour in Cairo.
   • You will visit the following attractions:
     • The Egyptian Museum, where you can see a rare collection of artifacts that date back to 5000 years and Over 250,000 genuine monuments are presented; Egyptian Museum also contains the most important artifacts that reflect the splendour of ancient Egyptian civilization.
     • Salah El Din Citadel In Cairo: Salah Al-Deen (known as Saladin to European historians) overthrew the Fatimid dynasty in 1171 AD, establishing the new Sunni Ayyubid Caliphate. Given the threat of invasion by European crusader armies, Saladin decided to improve the city's fortifications. In 1176 AD, he began the construction of a wall that would encircle Al-Qahira (today Islamic) and Fustat (Old Cairo). Saladin’s Citadel served as the seat of government in Egypt for 700 years until Khedive Ismail moved into Abdin Palace in newly constructed Downtown Cairo in the 1870s.
     • Mohamed Ali Mosque: The Mosque of Muhammad Ali is located inside the Citadel of Salah al‑Din al‑Ayyubi (Saladin) in Cairo. It was built by Muhammad Ali Pasha (1220–1264 AH/1805–1848 AD), the founder of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty (1220–1372 AH/1805–1953 AD), on the site of Mamluk palaces. He demolished these to make room for his new building, also known as the "Alabaster Mosque", of its marble panelling on its interior and exterior walls. The mosque’s twin minarets are the highest in all of Egypt, each reaching a height of 84 meters. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant.
     • Then, your tour will be continued to the area of Islamic Cairo, where you can explore Khan El Khalili Bazaar, the old market.
   • Then, you go to Coptic Cairo.
   • Coptic Cairo is a unique area. Old Cairo contains a concentration of Christian churches and other sites dating from the centuries between the decline of the Pharaonic religion and the arrival of Islam when Egypt had a Christian majority. Coptic Cairo is primarily built around the fort of Babylon upon the remains of its walls.
   • At the Coptic Cairo, we will visit the following places:
     • Saint Mercurius Church: Saint Mercurius Church in Coptic Cairo is a Coptic Orthodox church situated just to the north of the Babylon Fortress in Old Cairo among a group of important churches, and within the area known as the Abu Sayfayn Cloister is to be found three churches and a convent.
     • Hanging Church: The Hanging Church is named after its location above a gatehouse of the Babylon Fortress, the Roman fortress in Coptic Cairo (Old Cairo); its nave is suspended over a passage.
     • Church Of The Holy Virgin (Babylon El-Darag): It was occupied from the 11th to the 15th centuries by several Coptic patriarchs, seven of whom were buried in the church. Pope Zacharias was one of them. Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria used to pray in the church before assuming the papacy. According to tradition, the church was one of the resting places of the Holy Family during their sojourn in Egypt, as well as the location from which Peter sent his epistle (1 Peter 5:13). The relics of saints Demiana and Simon the Tanner are contained in the church as well.
     • Saints Sergius And Bacchus Church: It is traditionally believed to have been built where the Holy Family, Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus Christ, rested at the end of their journey into Egypt. They may have lived here while Joseph worked at the fortress. The church is of significant historical importance; in fact, it is where many patriarchs of the Coptic Church were elected.
     • Church Of St. George (Cairo): A Greek Orthodox Church within the Babylon Fortress in Coptic Cairo. It is part of the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of St George under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa.
     • Khan El-Khalili: Located in the heart of Islamic Cairo, near the medieval walled city of the Saladin Citadel, the Khan el-Khalili market was built on the old burial site of the Fatimid Caliphs, who founded Cairo in the 10th century. Trading in the souk dates from the 14th century, but its elaborately carved monumental gates and grid-like alleyways were constructed in the 16th century under Egypt's last powerful Mamluk ruler.

   Return to your hotel for an overnight.

   Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

4. Day 4: Fly from Cairo to Luxor

   • Check out from your hotel in the morning.
   • Transfer to Cairo airport for domestic flight to Luxor.
   • Your tour manager will meet you at the Luxor airport and take you by air-conditioned car to your hotel for check-in.

   Meals: Breakfast

5. Day 5: Nile Cruise - Tours In Luxor

   • After breakfast, check out the hotel in the morning.
   • Transfer to start the Egypt Nile cruise in Luxor.
   • Enjoy lunch aboard your motor ship on the Nile.
   • Start your tours in Luxor with the East Bank of the Nile to visit:
     • Karnak Temple: Built over two millennia between the years of around 2200 and 360 BCE, Karnak is a massive Ancient Egyptian temple complex that was one of the country's most important places of worship under the rules of Hatshepsut, Seti I, Ramesses II and Ramesses III. Along with the dominating Temple of Amun-Ra, Karnak comprises smaller chapels and sanctuaries dedicated to other deities, as well as grand halls, docks, and a sacred lake.
     • Luxor Temple: It is located around three kilometres south of Karnak Temple, to which it was once linked with a processional way bordered with sphinxes. The oldest evidence for this temple dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty (c.1550–1295 BC).

   Enjoy sound and light performances at Karnak Temple (optional).

   Dinner and overnight on the cruise ship.

   Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

6. Day 6: Nile Cruise - Tours In Luxor

   • After breakfast, enjoy the magnificent Luxor trip to the royal tombs of the 62 Pharaohs, Valley of the Kings.
   • Visit the legendary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, built in 1500 BC.
   • After that, you visit Colossi of Memnon.
   • Lunch on board and sail to Edfu, then enjoy a leisurely dinner.

   Overnight aboard the Nile Cruise.

   Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

7. Day 7: Nile Cruise - The Temples Of Edfu And Kom Ombo

   • Enjoy your breakfast in the morning.
   • Lunch will be served on board before the visit to the most preserved temple in Egypt, the Temple of Horus in Edfu.
   • Then, visit the temple shared by two gods, Sobek And Horus Wr Temples in Kom Ombo.

   Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

8. Day 8: Nile Cruises - Aswan Tours

   • Enjoy your breakfast on the Nile River cruise.
   • Start your Aswan tours with the High Dam and the most significant ancient obelisk, "the unfinished obelisk".
   • Visit the beautiful Philae temple of the goddess Isis and Hathor.

   Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

9. Day 9: Abu Simbel Temples

   • Enjoy your breakfast on the Nile cruise, then Check out the Nile Cruise.
   • Optional trip to Abu Simbel Temples, about 3 and a half hours from Aswan to Abu Simbel, in a private air-conditioned car.
   • Upon your arrival at Abu Simbel, enjoy the impressive temples of Ramses II, which are dedicated to the four world gods: Ptah, Reharakhetty, Amun Rey, and Ramses II.

   Meals: Breakfast

10. Day 10: Aswan to Cairo for Departure

    • Enjoy your breakfast at your hotel before your transfer to Aswan Airport for your flight to Cairo.
    • Final departure from Cairo International Airport to your home.

    Meals: Breakfast