Egypt Nile Cruise 8 Days 7 Nights Tour Package

After breakfast at your hotel, step back in time to the days of ancient Egypt on a private tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, the Grand Egyptian Museum, and Khan el Khalili Bazaar.

With your private Egyptologist guide leading the way on this private tour, he will introduce each of the three pyramids: Cheops, Khafre, and Menkaure. You will continue across the plateau for a photo opportunity and take a closer look at the Sphinx.

Next, your Cairo tour continues as part of 8 day Egypt tour package and Nile Cruise, to the Grand Egyptian Museum. Home to over 250,000 artifacts, this world-class institution attracts millions of visitors annually. The highlight for many is the priceless collection of King Tutankhamun, whose six gold-gilded coffins dominate the main hall. Your guide will introduce you to the most significant pieces before you have free time to explore at your leisure.

You will then continue to Khan el Khalili Bazaar, where you will enjoy free time to stroll through the maze of streets and try your luck bargaining with the shop owners for a souvenir of your trip to Egypt or have a cup of tea at the famous coffee shop El Fishawy.

After the conclusion of your Egypt tour package, you will be back at your hotel for drop-off.

Optional activities:

• You will have free time to enter the burial chambers of the pyramids
• Camel ride

Overnight: in Cairo hotel | Meals: Breakfast.

After breakfast, you will check out from the Cairo hotel and then be transferred to Cairo Airport to catch your flight to Luxor. When You arrive, our representative will be waiting to meet, assist and take you to check in on board your Nile River cruise package for the next four nights.

After checking in, you will be accompanied by your private guide to visit Karnak Temple, which is the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name, I pet-it, means the most sacred of places. The temple, or, more correctly, the complex of temples, was built over more than 2,000 years by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, you will find the great Hypostyle Hall, which is an incredible forest of giant pillars.

After that, you will visit the Luxor temple built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for rituals and festivals and is dedicated to the god Amen as part of your Nile Cruise tour in Egypt.

Overnight: onboard luxury Nile cruise | Meals: Lunch & Dinner.

• After breakfast on board the Nile cruise, you will then proceed to the West Bank of the River Nile to visit the two colossal statues (Colossi of Memnon). 
• Then, you will visit the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs were discovered. 
• Continue the Nile Cruise tour package to visit the Hatshepsut temple at El Deir El Bahary. This impressive temple is dedicated to Queen Hatshepsut.
• You will then go back to the cruise ship for lunch, following afternoon tea. You will have free time at your leisure.

Optional activities:

• Visit the tomb of King Tutankhamun
• Night Sound and Light Show at the Temple of Karnak

Overnight: onboard luxury Nile cruise | Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

After breakfast on board the Nile cruise you will visit the Ptolemaic Temple dedicated to the god Horus at Edfu. Then you will sail to Kom Ombo to explore the Temple of Sobek, dedicated to the crocodile-headed god of fertility and creation. During the day you will enjoy lunch on board while continuing your journey to Aswan as part of the 8 Days Egypt Nile Cruise Tour Package.

Overnight: onboard luxury Nile cruise | Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

• After breakfast, enjoy a day of sightseeing in Aswan. There you will be met and assisted by your Egyptologist guide who will take you on an exciting tour of the world-famous High Dam, an engineering miracle built in the 1960s.
• Thereafter you will visit the Unfinished Obelisk and the beautiful Temple of Philae, devoted to the goddesses Isis and Hathor. After your sightseeing tour you will sail around Elephantine Island on a local felucca boat (a traditional Egyptian sailboat), all included in this Nile River Cruise package, offering a seamless blend of history, culture, and luxury along the Nile.

Overnight: onboard luxury Nile cruise | Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

• After breakfast, you will disembark from your Egypt Nile Cruise Package in Luxor and Aswan. You can then go on an air-conditioned vehicle to visit the impressive Temples of Ramses II in Abu Simbel (optional, for an additional cost).
• The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Nubian Monuments, which runs from Abu Simbel downriver to Philae (near Aswan).
• The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari, to commemorate his alleged victory at the Battle of Kadesh, and to intimidate his Nubian neighbors. However, the complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 on an artificial hill made from a domed structure high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.
• Following your visit to Abu Simbel, you will return to Aswan Airport to return to Cairo and finish your Nile River Cruise tour. Once you arrive in Cairo, you will be met and assisted at the airport and taken to your hotel for check-in.

Overnight: in Cairo hotel | Meals: Breakfast.

After breakfast at your hotel you will check out and we will transfer you to Cairo International Airport for your departure back home. This concludes your unforgettable journey with our Cairo and Nile Cruise 8 Days 7 Nights Tour Package.

Meals: Breakfast.