Day 1: Arrive Luxor, Luxor East Bank sightseeing
Nile Holiday tour manager will pick you up from your Luxor (Hotel, Airport, Train station) and then transfer to embark your Dahabiya Cruise. The crew will welcome you on board and have your bags taken to your cabins.
After Lunch on board, your Egyptologist tour guide will pick you up to visit Luxor East bank sights. Start at Karnak temple, the largest religious temple ever built in Egypt. Enjoy walking along the avenue of Sphinxes as your tour guide explains how the massive facade was constructed. Proceed walking through the Great Pylons, the great hypostyle hall with 134 columns, the obelisks, and the sacred lake. And then enjoy free time to explore at leisure
Head out to Luxor temple, which was once joined to the Temple of Karnak by a three-kilometer long Avenue of Sphinx. You will enter the temple through the great pylon where two enormous statues of Ramses II still stand, along with a pink granite obelisk (its mate stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France). After a fantastic guided tour to Luxor temple enjoy free time at leisure
After finished, you will be transferred to back to your Nile Dahabiya Cruise, Dinner & overnight in Luxor.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Day 2: Luxor West Bank sightseeing, Sailing to Esna
Breakfast on Board and then pick up to enjoy your today tour to the West bank of the Nile. Start the most famous Valley of the Kings, the sight where the rock cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt (1550 – 1080 BC). The majority of the royal tombs was decorated with religious texts, images and provided with equipment that would enable a comfortable existence in the afterlife. You will visit 3 tombs of the most famous pharaohs Like Ramses III, IV tombs, Tomb of Merenptah, Tomb of Thutmose III, or Queen Tawosret. Whilst here, you will have the time to visit inside the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun “Extra ticket on spot”.
Continue to the mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, one of the incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt. There are three layered terraces, are connected by long ramps which were once surrounded by gardens with foreign plants including frankincense and myrrh trees. After a fantastic tour, you will enjoy free time to explore at leisure.
End your tour with a brief photo stop at the colossi of Memnon, which marks the ruins of a funerary temple of Amenhotep III.
After finished, return to your Nile Dahabiya cruise boat before Lunch and begin our voyage along the Nile, travelling upstream from Luxor to Aswan. Tea time on board and overnight at Esna.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Esna, Edfu Temple, Al Ramady Island
Enjoy breakfast at leisure on board while sailing towards Edfu passing through the Esna Locks. It is common to have to queue to proceed through the lock, however this is a great opportunity to check out the process from deck with a cool drink in hand and listen to the shouts of the many captains as they navigate their way through the various small boats of merchants selling their wares. Settle back into the comforts of your Nile cruise ship and make the most of the incredible views across one of the world’s greatest rivers
Set sail towards Edfu, you will enjoy horse and carriage ride to visit Edfu Temple, one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. The temple was built in the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 237 and 57 BC. The inscriptions on its walls provide important information on language, myth and religion during the Hellenistic period in Egypt.
We will then set sail for a small Island “Al Ramady” where the Dahabiya will moor for the night. Enjoy your dinner on the sundeck, overnight on board.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: Al Ramady, Kom Ombo Temple
Enjoying breakfast on board while sailing to Kom ombo. Listen to the sounds of the water buffalo as they wade in the shallow water besides the banks of the Nile, the Donkeys as they go about their day to day business and the various bird life of the river. Visit Kom-ombo Temple where you explore the exceptional beautiful temple of Haroeris (Horus the Elder) and Sobek (Crocodile God). The temple was built with two symmetric entrances, halls, and sanctuaries; it is the only double temple all over Egypt. Return to the Nile Dahabiya and sail to Hor Diab Island and have the experience of swimming in the purest and cleanest water of the Nile River. Enjoy dinner on the Dahabiya sundeck & overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: Aswan Sightseeing, Departure Transfer
Disembarkation after breakfast on board, today you will visit the unfinished obelisk, the largest known ancient Egyptian obelisk offers unusual insights into ancient Egyptian stone working techniques.
Proceed with a motorboat ride to Philae Temple Island, comprises a large number of small Temples dates back to Pharaonic, Greek and Roman times. But the largest and the best preserved on the Island is the temple of the Goddess Isis.
Continue to visit Aswan high dam, a rock-fill dam built across the Nile in Aswan between 1960- 1970. It creates Lake Nasser, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. After finished, you will be transferred to your next destination in Aswan (Airport, Hotel, train station) for final departure.
Meals: Breakfast
Note: – Itinerary may change in sequence but not in visits, due to navigation circumstances, Program will always be respected.
