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Sail the Nile from Cairo to Aswan See the Great Pyramids of Giza! Visit Luxor Admire the Valley of the Kings
Ciudades
Cairo
Hurghada
Incluye
Guides
Accommodation Cairo
Accommodation Aswan
Accommodation felucca
Accommodation Luxor
Accommodation Hurghada
Transportation
Airport transportation
Tours
Meals
Bus accommodation
No Incluye
Flights not included
Expenses not included
Entrance fees not include
Explore our day-by-day itinerary and discover everything that awaits you on this incredible adventure.
Arrive at Cairo International Airport (CAI) where you are met by our representative who will be holding a sign, and assists you through the formalities before passing through immigration. Transfer to your hotel to meet your guide for a briefing explaining the tour itinerary. Overnight stay at your hotel in Cairo.
Note: We suggest booking a flight that departs at least one day before the experience begins. Airport pickup is available throughout this whole day. Check in is usually after 3 pm, please confirm.
The tour representative has to inform the local authorities of every stop along the way beforehand, so the restaurants visited cannot be changed. You will not be able to eat at another place on your own. It is up to you whether you buy something from a souvenir shop or not. Timings in the itinerary are approximate and may change in destination.
Meals: Not inluded
Accommodation: Oasis Hotel (4 stars) or similar - Double or triple room.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.
After breakfast, start the day by visiting the inspiring Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx on the Giza plateau.
You have the opportunity to enter the main pyramid, Cheops, and discover its narrow interior in an unforgettable tour of approximately 20 minutes. (Entrance fee not included).
The pyramids of Mykerinos and Chephren can only be seen from the outside and together, with Cheops they form an iconic Egyptian landscape.
Continue to Sakkara and visit the Step Pyramid, the first pyramid to be completed in Egypt, as well as visit the ancient pharaonic tombs.
Note: Entrance to the pyramid is not recommended for claustrophobic people due to limited space.
Travel overnight on an A/C bus to Aswan.
Meals: breakfast Accommodation: overnight on A/C bus
Optional extra: upgrade to flight from Cairo to Aswan. Add this on 'extras'. The flight may be this night with accommodation included in Aswan, or it may be on day 3 in the morning with accommodation included in Cairo. Ask your guide for more information and details.
Arrive to Aswan and meet the tour representative who transfers you to your hotel. You start the day off with a tour of the romantic Philae Temple, perched atop a picturesque island, where its beautiful location is reached by small motor boats, making it a truly magnificent approach to the site.
Meals: Not included.
Accommodation: Basma Hotel (4 stars) or simlar - Double or triple room.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.
After breakfast, at 12 pm approximately, you step aboard your Nile felucca.
Get lunch before starting to sail across the Nile and watching the world go by as you cruise down the river observing rural life on the shores and taking in the changing landscape of the mighty Nile River.
In the evening the felucca stops sailing, so you can get dinner and enjoy a good night's sleep aboard.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Accommodation: Night in the faluca - Shared outdoor accommodations.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.
Optional extra: visit Abu Simbel, the stupendous Sun Temple of Ramses the Great, located at the southernmost tip of ancient Egyptโs borders. From 3 am to 1:30 pm.
In the morning, you disembark the felucca and then travel on an A/C bus to the city of Luxor, often described as the worldโs greatest open-air museum and home to some of the greatest monuments that have survived from ancient Thebes.
On the way you visit the temple of Kom Ombo, its perfectly symmetrical twin entrances overlook the spectacular riverside. In the afternoon you go on a tour of the East Bank of the Nile, here you admire the immense Karnak Temple, considered by some as Egyptโs most important Pharonic site; as well as you visit the magnificent Luxor Temple where visitors are greeted by the impressive Avenue of Sphinxes.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Lotus Hotel (3 stars) or similar - Double or triple room.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.
After having breakfast, you explore the West Bank of Luxor, starting the tour with the world famous Valley of the Kings, the richest archaeological site on earth; then on to the breathtaking Temple of Hatshepsut (Deir al-Bahri), built for the only woman to reign over Egypt as pharaoh.
Next, you visit the great Colossi of Memnon, the last remains of Amenophis IIIโs temple.
Finally you take the A/C bus to Hurghada, Red Sea.
Meals: Breakfast and dinner.
Accommodation: Caves Resort (4 stars) or similar - Double or triple room.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.
This day is free for you to enjoy or relax in the Red Sea, optionally you can do aquatic activities.
Note: In the "Extras" section you can find the options of snorkeling and diving, if you wish you can add one (1) of these activities to do this day.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Accommodation: Caves Resort (4 stars) or similar - Double or triple room.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.
Arrive to Cairo where you are transfered to your hotel after the 5 hr. ride to get to the city. You rest for a while and at the agreed time you meet your guide to start the tour.
Visit the City of Cairo beginning with the Egyptian Museum where you see the treasures of King Tutankhamunโs tomb. From there you head to the Coptic area of old Cairo to visit the hanging church, so named as it is suspended above two Roman gate towers.
Continue with the old Cairo Bazaar: Khan El Khalili, with its maze of intriguing alleyways that are home to numerous souvenir stalls and coffee shops.
Return to the hotel to rest after this great day.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Oasis Hotel (4 stars) or similar - Double or triple room.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.
Enjoy the last buffet breakfast of this incredible experience, do the check out, and are later driven to the International Cairo Airport taking all the great memories of your adventures with you on your flight back home.
Note: Remember to check out before 12 pm.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Not included.
Note: Itinerary times are approximate.