Day-1. DEPARTURE CITY – CAIRO: Overnight flight to Cairo.

Day-2. CAIRO: Arrive in Cairo in the afternoon.Transfer to your hotel. After a refreshment break, join your tour director for a dinner and short orientation session.

Day-3. CAIRO – PYRAMIDES – TRAIN TO LUXOR: After breakfast check out of the hotel and join your tour director on a bus tour. See the great pyramids of Cheops, Cheferen, and Mykerinus. Admire the Sphinks and visit the Valley temple. Continue by bus to the Egyptian Museum. The museum hosts Tut ankh amen treasures and the best artifacts of the ancient Egyptian world. Mummies of the greatest pharaohs are kept there as well. Transfer to the train station and board a sleeper train to Luxor. Dinner and breakfast are served on board.

Day-4. LUXOR – NILE CRUISE: Upon your arrival at the Luxor train station board a bus to be taken to the cruise ship. Have lunch on the ship and go for a tour of  Luxor Temple. Return to the ship for dinner and overnight.

Day-5. LUXOR – NILE CRUISE: After breakfast on the ship board a bus to visit the Royal Cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, the Valley of the Kings, continue to the mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom during the 15th century BC. Travel on to the Colossi of Memnon. After lunch, sail to Edfu, and enjoy a leisurely dinner on board.

Day-6. NILE CRUISE – EDFU – COM OMBO: After breakfast on board,  go for a visit to the Temple of Edfu, the best-preserved temple of the ancient world. The structure is dedicated to Horus, the falcon god. Then sail to Kom Ombo, and visit the temple. It is dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Horus, whose monuments decorate the temple. Go back to the ship and sail to Aswan.

Day-7. NILE CRUISE – ASWAN:  The day tour of sightseeing in Aswan by bus. Start with the High Dam and then visit the Unfinished Obelisk in the stone quarries of ancient Egypt, the largest obelisk yet discovered. Proceed to the beautiful Temple of Philae, devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor.

Day-8. TRAIN TO CAIRO: Disembark the cruise ship and transfer to the Aswan train station to catch the sleeper train back to Cairo. Dinner will be served aboard the train. Overnight in your private compartment.

Day-9. CAIRO: Arrive in Cairo board your bus and continue to Islamic Cairo. Explore Khan El Khalili, Cairo’s oldest and most alluring bazaar. Visit the Ben Ezra Synagogue, and Al-Azahar mosque. Check into your hotel and after a refreshment  brake go on to a dinner cruise in Cairo.

Day-10. DEPARTURE: Transfer to the airport for your return flight.

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

Round trip airfare

2 nights in centrally located hotels (rooms with private bathrooms)

2 nights on a sleeper train

4 nights on a cruise ship
8 breakfasts

7 lunches
6 dinners (3 courses)

1 dinner and show on a Nile cruise dinner boat

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