Best of Egypt

Day 1 - Cairo

Your tour manager will meet and assist you at Cairo International Airport and will then escort you to your hotel in Cairo in an air-conditioned deluxe vehicle. After check in at the hotel, your tour manager will take you through the tour itinerary to confirm details and pick-up times.

Overnight in Cairo.

Day 2 - Cairo

After breakfast, your personal guide will take you to the Giza Plateau to visit one of the seven wonders of the ancient world: the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren and Mykerinus; along with the famous Sphinx and Valley Temple.  There is the option of a visit to the Solar Boat in front of the Cheops Pyramid (payable locally). After lunch proceed to the Sakkara Complex to see the first pyramid ever built – the Djoser Pyramid. 

Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 3 - Cairo to Aswan

After breakfast, check out, meet your private guide and together, visit the Egyptian Museum.  Lunch in a local restaurant.  Continue driving to Islamic Cairo to explore Khan El Khalili, Cairo’s old bazaar. Later, you will be transferred to the Giza Railway Station to board the sleeper train to Aswan. Dinner and breakfast will be served on board.

Overnight inside your compartment on the train. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 4 - Aswan

You will be met at Aswan station, then transferred to your hotel, start your tour visiting the world-famous High Dam, the Philae temple, which is devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor, and the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt, the Unfinished Obelisk. Overnight in Aswan. Meals: Breakfast.

Day 5 - Nile Cruise

Breakfast at your hotel in Aswan. Enjoy a tour to one of Egypt's top tourist attractions: the Abu Simbel Temples, which were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, approximately in the 13th century BC - as a lasting monument to himself and his Queen Nefertari. Transfer to embark on your Nile River Cruise before Lunch. Time for leisure. Dinner on board. Overnight aboard your cruise in Aswan. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.  

Day 6 - Nile Cruise

Tuck into a delicious breakfast on board while sailing to Kom Ombo. Visit Kom Ombo Temple, a temple shared by two gods, Sobek and Haeroris.  Sail to Edfu while enjoying lunch on board. In the afternoon, visit the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt, the Horus Temple in Edfu. 

Afternoon tea during sailing to Esna and Dinner on board.

Overnight aboard your cruise in Esna. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 7 - Nile Cruise

Sail to Luxor, have breakfast on board and then visit the West Bank. Enjoy an excursion to the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. Then, continue to the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, built by the architects of the New Kingdom Pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 15th century BC, at El-Deir El-Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon. 

Lunch on board. Relax over afternoon tea during sailing. Dinner on board.

Overnight aboard your cruise in Luxor. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 8 - Luxor - Hurghada

Breakfast on board. Disembark from your Nile cruise after breakfast. Then, transfer to visit Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple. In the afternoon, continue to Hurghada at the Red Sea.  (Driving time from Luxor to Hurghada is about 3.5 hours.)

Overnight in Hurghada. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

Day 9 - Hurghada

Time for leisure in Hurghada.

Optional tours to experience the exquisite diving and snorkeling among the Red Sea coral reefs and see some amazing rare fish. Or choose one of the many other activities such as windsurfing, sailing and deep-sea fishing.

Overnight in Hurghada. Meals: Breakfast.

Day 10 - Hurghada

Time for leisure in Hurghada.

Optional tours to experience the exquisite diving and snorkeling among the Red Sea coral reefs and see some amazing rare fish. Or choose one of the many other activities such as windsurfing, sailing and deep-sea fishing.

Overnight in Hurghada. Meals: Breakfast.

Day 11 - Hurghada - Cairo

Breakfast at your hotel in Hurghada with free time at leisure and then transfer to the  Hurghada airport to fly back to Cairo. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast.  

Day 12 - Depart Cairo

After breakfast in the hotel in Cairo, there is free time before the transfer to Cairo International Airport for your departure.

Meals: Breakfast.