Best of Egypt

Arrival Cairo Airport. Meet and Assist
Transfer to Hotel for overnight

Breakfast in the hotel.
Full day visit to Dahshour Pyramid (Built by Snefru, father of Cheops, Many scholars consider it more Glorious than the Great Pyramid)
Visit to Sakkara the Step Pyramid, built by the great architect Imhotep.
Lunch.
Visit the Giza plateau, the 3 Pyramids, the Valley Temple, and the Sphinx.
Visit a papyrus institute.
Return to the hotel for overnight.

Breakfast in the hotel.
Visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities 
The Citadel of Salah Din, the Mosque of Mohamed Ali.
Lunch.
Visit Old Cairo with the suspended Church, other historical churches, the Ben Ezra Synagogue, and more.
After a day of touring, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight from Cairo to Luxor. Upon arrival, you will be met our representative and transferred to your hotel for overnight.

Breakfast in the hotel and Check-out.
You will visit Karnak Temple, called by some “the Temple of Temples.”  Then visit the graceful Temple of Luxor built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II.
Will continue to your Nile cruise, check-in and lunch on board.
Free time to rest and enjoy your time on board.
Dinner and overnight on board.

Breakfast onboard, cross to the West Bank of the Nile.
Visit the Valley of the Kings.
Next will visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
On the way back to your Nile cruise, stop at the famous Colossi of Memnon.
Return to your cruise and set sail for Edfu.
The afternoon is at leisure.
Lunch and dinner on board.
Overnight on board.

Breakfast on board, set out by horse-drawn carriage to visit the Temple of Horus, the most perfectly preserved of all the Nile Temples.
Return to your cruise vessel by carriage and sail to KomOmbo.
Visit the Temple of Sobek.
Lunch, dinner and overnight on board.

Breakfast on board; take a tour of Aswan High Dam.
Continue by a short motor-boat ride to the Temple of Philae on the island of Agilka.
After lunch on your cruise, sail around Elephantine Island on a felucca.
Return to your Cruise for farewell dinner on board.
Overnight on board in Aswan.

After breakfast you will be transferred to Aswan airport for your flight to Abu Simbel. Visit the great temple of Ramses II and the Temple of Queen Nefertari. The entire complex of temples was moved to its present location 90 feet above its old site to protect it from the rising water of the Nile when the Aswan Dam was built in the early sixties.
Fly back to Aswan and connect to Cairo.

Upon arrival, you will be met by our representative and transferred to your hotel for check-in.
In the evening, enjoy a special farewell dinner.
Back to your hotel for overnight.

Early breakfast and transfer to the airport for your departure flight. Our representative will assist you during check-out and through passport control and customs in the airport.

The Nile cruise serves as a floating hotel and to transport you while enjoying sightseeing along the Nile.
Due to weather and traffic on the Nile; the Nile cruise may change your sightseeing sequence.