10 Day Cairo Nile Cruise and Alexandria by Flight

The time for the Nile cruise and Cairo tour has finally arrived. Touch down in Cairo where one of our tour managers will be waiting for you at the Airport, along with a driver. Once you pass through immigration, you’ll be met greeted, and then escorted to your hotel where you will be staying during your time in this enchanting city.

On arrival at the hotel, you will be assisted with check-in, and you and your tour manager will go over your itinerary, and pick-up times for your tours will be set. Enjoy a free “Welcome to Egypt” drink on us, and enjoy the remainder of your day any way you want.

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Breakfast at the hotel. Then you will be met by our English Egyptologist tour guide to start your first-day tour by visiting the Pyramids of Giza “Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure”, the place the greatness has been embodied in three pyramids with a limestone statue of Sphinx guarding the whole area. Then proceed to one of our local restaurant to have your lunch.

After that, you will proceed to the city of Sakkara, the place you will be so excited by exploring The Step Pyramid of king Djoser. This pyramid has a very fantastic story when king Djoser asked his chief Architect Imhotep to create something different so that the king could be buried. As a result, the well-known Architect creates the Step pyramid, which surprised the king so much since it was considered to be a new achievement in this period.

Finally, we will drive towards Memphis, the place you can visit The Open Air Museum including the marvelous monuments of King Ramses II. After finishing your day tour, you will get back to your hotel in Cairo overnight.

Meals Included

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Lunch

Breakfast at your hotel. Then you will be met by our English Egyptologist tour guide to start your day tour by visiting The Egyptian Museum, which is considered to be one of the most important museums in the world, housing the Pharaonic monuments including those of the well-known king Tutankhamun. Also, you will have the chance to visit the Mummies’ Room which is a fantastic chance that you can’t imagine. You will have a good chance to see the great real pharaohs in their full body. Lunch at a local restaurant.

Then proceed to the Old Cairo area, the place you can visit the Citadel of Salah El-Din, which played a very important role in protecting Egypt, as it was considered the seat of power for more than 700 years.

Then we will accompany you to Khan El Khalili, which consider one of the most beautiful bazaars in the Middle East. You will then return to your Cairo hotel for an overnight stay.

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Breakfast at the hotel. Check out. Our representative will meet you at the hotel to transfer you to Cairo airport to take your flight to Aswan.

Upon arrival at Aswan airport, you will join your Egyptologist tour guide to discover the great city of Aswan, including The High Dam, which has been erected by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1960 AD to protect Egypt from the Nile flood.

After that, you will enjoy sailing on the Nile River by motor boat till reach Agilika Island, the place you will visit the Temple of Philae, which was erected during the Greco-Roman period and was dedicated to goddess Isis (mother of god Horus).

Finally, you will be escorted to visit one of the marvelous sightseeing in Aswan, The Unfinished Obelisk, which was made out of red granite and was dedicated to the god Amun Ra. After finishing your day tour, you will transfer to your Nile cruise for check-in and overnight.

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Breakfast will be served on board your ship. After that you will join your Egyptologist tour guide to visit one of the most fantastic temples in Egypt, the Temple of Kom Ombo, the place the two gods Sobek & Haroeris were worshipped for a while.

Get back to your ship and enjoy your lunch on the sun deck, watching the unique landscape of the great river Nile.

Afternoon, enjoy chariot riding to the Temple of Horus in Edfu, which is considered to be one of the most well-preserved temples in Egypt. After finishing your tour, you will be transferred back to your ship.

Enjoy relaxing on board your ship. Dinner will be served on board. At night Egyptian Folkloric Show party will be operated by staff on board.

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Breakfast on the Nile cruise. After that, you will start your magical tour in Thebes, the sacred land by exploring the wet bank of Luxor including the Valley of the Kings, which considers the royal cemetery of the Theban kings and rulers of ancient Egypt, and the place where our Pharaohs were buried.

After that, you will proceed to visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari. This temple is considered one of the most wonderful examples of Architecture in ancient Egypt because it was totally carved inside the mountain.

At the end of the tour, you will visit Colossi of Memnon, which is belonging to king Amenhotep III.

After that, you will return to your ship to have your lunch. Afternoon, free at leisure. Dinner and overnight on the cruise.

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Check out after breakfast (at 08:00 AM). After that, you will enjoy your tour discovering the East Bank of Luxor, including the most fantastic Karnak Temples Complex, which is considered to be the biggest complex construction in the world covering an area of a hundred.

Finish your beautiful tour in the Temple of Luxor, built by one of the kings of the 12th dynasty & completed by the well know king Ramses II.

After finishing your day tour, you will be transferred by private A-C van to Luxor airport to fly back to Cairo. Upon arrival at Cairo airport, you will transfer to your hotel & overnight in Cairo.

Meals Included

Breakfast

Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo. After that, you will be met with our Egyptologist tour guide who will accompany you on such a gorgeous tour to Alexandria.

You will start your Alexandria city tour by exploring one of the main sources of knowledge in the ancient world, “The Alexandria Library”. The site of which is the original site of the old Pharaoh.

Later on, you will be transferred to have your lunch meal at a local restaurant.

After lunch, you will proceed to visit The Roman Amphitheatre, which is considered to be one of the most famous monuments belonging to the Greco-Roman period.

Continue your Alexandria city tour by visiting Pompey’s pillar, which was erected in 292 AD. In the end, you’ll be transferred to visit Sultan Qaitbay Citadel (from the outside) which is considered to be one of the most famous sights in Alexandria.

After finishing your day tour, we will drive back to Cairo. Arrive in Cairo and proceed to your hotel there overnight.

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This tour is very important as you will explore the greatness of the history of Egypt. You will explore Islamic history and the other Coptic one.

You will visit Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque; It is the oldest intact, functioning Islamic monument in Cairo. It also survives as a rare example of the era and architecture of the classical period of Islam, i.e. the ninth and tenth centuries, for it was dominant in the Islamic world.

Then proceed to the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, which is considered stylistically the most compact and unified of all Cairo monuments. The building was constructed for Sultan Hassan bin Mohammad bin Qala’oun in 1256 AD as a mosque and religious school for all sects.

Then you will visit El Refa’i Mosque, which is separated from the mosque of Sultan Hassan by a pedestrian street. Take your lunch at one of our local restaurants.

​After that, you will start your Coptic Tour, you will start with the Hanging Church, (The Church of the Virgin Mary), built into the walls of the Water Gate of the Roman fortress. It is possibly the oldest Christian church in Egypt, dating to around the 4th Century.

Then you will visit the Church of St. Sergius, (Abu Serga), which legend has it is built atop one of the sites where the Holy Family rested on their flight from Herod.

Continuing on this path brings one first to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is Egypt’s oldest and dates to the 9th Century.

After finishing this fantastic and memorable tour, you will get back to your hotel. Reset and refresh & overnight in Cairo.

Meals Included

Breakfast

Lunch

Check out after breakfast. Our representative will pick you up. Transfer to Cairo international airport for final departure.

Meals Included

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