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Cairo & Cruise from Luxor to Aswan
8 Days / 7 Nights bord
If this is your first time to Egypt and you don’t want to miss a must-see. Then this is the trip you are looking for. This 8-day tour will take you around Egypt, and its most important sites. From lower Egypt while visiting Cairo, the Cairo Museum and the Giza Pyramids to upper Egypt with its essential temples & tombs from Luxor to Aswan, while enjoying a relaxing Nile Cruise with fascinating natural scenery.

Detailed itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival Cairo
Arrival at Cairo International airport. Meet and assist with formalities. Transfer to your hotel.
Accommodation and overnight at the hotel.
Day 2: Cairo - Luxor
After breakfast, visit the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx: Kheops, the biggest of all, Khephren and Mykerinos the smallest of the three, has its original cover till today. And the fascinating Sphinx with human head ( 57 m long) whose role was to guard the entry of the tombs against all offenders. Lunch in town. Departure to visit the famous National Museum founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette Pasha and transferred in 1902 to the actual building. Lunch in town. Then transfer to Cairo airport and flight to Luxor (1h flight).
Dinner and overnight in Luxor.
Day 3: Luxor (This Embarkation day Must be a Monday, Thursday or Saturday)
After breakfast, departure to visit the Valley of the Kings where 62 Pharaohs rest (visit 3 tombs). Then visit valley of the Queens where 75 Queens rest (visit 2 tombs). Transfer to your boat registration and embarkation Lunch on board. Later on visit the Luxor temple.
Dinner and first overnight on board.
Day 4: Luxor - Esna - Edfou
After breakfast, departure to visit the Karnak complex, the temple of Amon Ra whose fascination overcomes imagination. Lunch on board, sailing to Esna. Pass the Esna lock. Continue sailing to Edfu.
Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 5: Edfu – Kom Ombo - Aswan
Breakfast on board, Visit the Edfu temple dedicated to god Horus “god with falcon head”, where two magnificent statues in black granite guard its entry. It is certainly the best conserved temple in the country. Return on board and sailing to Kom Ombo. Lunch on board, cruise continues. Then departure to visit Kom Ombo. This temple of the Ptolemaic dynasty, is dedicated to both gods Haroeris and Sobek. After the visit, embarkation and continue sailing to Aswan.
Dinner on board.
Day 6: Aswan
(Optional excursion) Early in the morning, to the Abu Simbel temples by private minibus. Visit the temple built by Ramses II.
Then visit the second temple, called Hathour, dedicated to his wife Queen Nefertari, Return on board.
Breakfast on board, free day at leisure on board Lunch on board.
Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 7: Aswan - Cairo
Breakfast on board, departure to visit the Philae temple dedicated to Isis. Then visit the Aswan High-Dam, whose construction was appointed to Soviet engineers in 1960 and which is the main source of electricity for the country. And visit the unfinished obelik. Transfert to Aswan airport, flight to Cairo (1h30min flight).
Diner and overnignt in hotel near Cairo airport.
Day 8: Cairo - Your destination
After breakfast, transfer to Cairo International Airport. Flight back to your destination.