| What highlights expects: 1 night in Cairo 7 nights on a Nile cruise 1st day of travel: arrival Arrival in Cairo and reception by your tour guide. Day 2: Cairo – Pyramids of Giza – Sphinx – Egyptian Museum to watch video In the morning, transfer to the Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. After you have witnessed this impressive architecture, a visit to the Egyptian Museum is on the program, where numerous, very well-preserved mummies and other relics from the time of the Pharaohs can be visited. Then you will fly from Cairo to Luxor. Embarkation and overnight on the Nile ship. 3rd day of travel: Thebes West – Valley of the Kings – Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut – Colossal of Memnons – Karnak Temple – Luxor Temple to watch video A bus takes you from the Nile to the Valley of the Kings to Thebes West, where numerous pharaohs have embarked on their journey to eternity, including Tutankhamun. Some graves can be visited on this occasion. You can also take a look at the so-called “Guardians of Thebes West”, the Memnons Colossi. Following the Valley of the Kings, you can see the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (Deir el-Bahari), which was laid out in terraces. Luxor and Karnak with their world-famous temples are the first stops on the Nile cruise. The Karnak Temple is all about Amun Re, which seems to be omnipresent around the impressive portico and the oversized pharaoh statues. Before returning to the ship, pay a visit to the Luxor Temple, which was built in honor of Amun, Mut and Chons. Lunch, dinner and overnight on the Nile ship. Day 4: Edfu – Kom Ombo On the way to Kom Ombo, the next stage of the Nile cruise is Edfu after breakfast. Another temple awaits you in Edfu, which is dedicated to the falcon-headed god Horus and is still very well preserved despite its 2,000 years. In the evening you visit the double temple of the gods Sobek and Haroeris in Kom Ombo. Continuation to Aswan. Dinner and overnight on the Nile ship. Day 5: Aswan – dam – unfinished obelisk – Isis Temple of Philae (optional) After Kom Ombo, the Nile cruise in Aswan reaches its next high point. During the shore excursion you visit the Aswan Dam, built in the 1960s, which is still considered an architectural masterpiece and tames the floods of the Nile. Afterwards the unfinished obelisk awaits you in the rose granite quarry. There is the option of an optional excursion to the Isis Temple of Philae, which you can easily book in the booking form. Day 6: Abu Simbel (optional) – Botanical Garden – Lord Kitchener Island – An optional trip to Abu Simbel that no one should miss is leading you to the southernmost point of the entire trip today. The temple of Ramses II and Nefertari still stands out from an already impressive landscape on the Nile. Then you go on a sailing trip with a typical felucca and pay a visit to the Lord Kitchener Island with the botanical garden. The ship leaves in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight on the Nile ship. Day 7: Return trip to Luxor On the way back, enjoy the trip along the Nile. Before lunch and dinner there is still enough time to relax on the sun deck of your Nile ship and let the banks of the Nile pass by. Day 8: Arrival in Luxor – Karnak Temple – Luxor Temple (optional) Today you arrive in Luxor with the Nile ship. On the ship, the sundeck lures, where you can spend a few relaxing hours against the unique backdrop of the Nile before the last night arrives on board the ship. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and overnight on the Nile ship. Day 9: Luxor – return flight or bathing extension After arrival in Luxor and a last breakfast on board, disembarkation and transfer to the airport or to the bathing extension to the Red Sea in a bathing hotel take place if a bathing extension is booked in a hotel in Hurghada, Sharm el Sheikh or another city on the Red Sea has been. Enjoy a few more days in Egypt during a beach holiday on the Red Sea before returning home feeling relaxed. Please contact us if you would like to extend the tour by a beach holiday. We (about us) will be happy to advise you. |