10 Day Cairo, Nile Cruise and Alexandria by Flight

Day 01 : Arrive in Egypt

The time for 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 at 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 the 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.

Meals Included

• No Meals

Day 02 : Pyramids- Memphis & Sakkara

Breakfast at hotel. Then you will be met by our English Egyptologist tour guide to start your first day tour by visiting Pyramids of Giza "Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure", where 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, where you will be so excited by exploring The Step Pyramid of king Djoser. This pyramid has a very nice story, when king Djoser asked his chief Architect Imhotep to create something different, so that the king could be buried at. 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 you we will drive towards Memphis, where 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 for overnight.

Meals Included

• Breakfast
• Lunch

Day 03: Egyptian Museum – Citadel and Khan El Khalili

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 Tutankhamen. Also, you will have the chance to visit the Mummies’ Room which is a wonderful chance that you cannot imagine. You will have the good chance to see the great real pharaohs in their full body. Lunch at local restaurant.

Then proceed to Old Cairo area, where you can visit Citadel of Salah El-Din, which played as 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 as one of the stunning bazaars in the Middle East. You will then return to your Cairo hotel for an overnight stay.

Meals Included

• Breakfast
• Lunch

Day 04 : Fly to Aswan – Aswan Tours – Nile Cruise ON

Breakfast at 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 a motor boat till reach Agilika Island, where you will visit Temple of Philae, which was erected during the Gaeco-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 god Amun Ra. After finishing your day tour, you will transfer to your Nile cruise for check in and overnight.

Meals Included

• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner

Day 05 : Koum Ombo & Edfu Temples

Breakfast will be served on board your ship. After that you will join your Egyptologist tour guide to visit one of the most wonderful temples in Egypt, Temple of Kom Ombo, where 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 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.

Meals Included

• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner

Day 06 : Luxor West Bank – Luxor ON

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 Valley of the Kings, which considers as 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 Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari. This temple is considered as one of the most wonderful examples of the 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.

Meals Included

• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner

Day 07 : Luxor East Bank – Flight back to Cairo

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

Finish your lovely tour in 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 to Cairo airport, you will transfer to your hotel & overnight in Cairo.

Meals Included

• Breakfast

Day 08: Alexandria City Tour – Cairo ON

Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo. After that you will be met with our Egyptologist tour guide who will accompany you in such a stunning 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 local restaurant.

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

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

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

Meals Included

• Breakfast
• Lunch

Day 09: Islamic & Coptic Cairo Tour – Cairo ON

This tour is a very important as you will explore the greatness of the history of Egypt. You will explore the 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 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, it 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 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

Day 10:Cairo Int. Airport – Final Departure

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

Meals Included

• Breakfast