Cairo And Luxor Tours

Welcome to Cairo, Egypt. You’ll be met on arrival at Cairo International Airport, assisted through the formalities and transferred to your hotel. At hotel, you will be assisted with a smooth check-in and confirm pick-up times for each tour. The rest of the day is free.

If you arrive early you may like to take an evening dinner cruise on the Nile, or enjoy a spectacular sound and light show at the pyramids of Giza (both available to book locally on arrival).

Meals: Welcome Drink

After breakfast at your hotel, your Egyptologist tour guide will meet and escort you to visit the Giza pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus. Enjoy fantastic introduction to each of the three Pyramids, and then explore these structures that have stood tall for over 4500 years. Whilst here, you can go inside the great pyramid (extra ticket on spot).

Then, you will drive to the panoramic view area to shoot some pyramids great photos or opt for Camel ride at the pyramids area (additional charge) and then move on to visit the Valley temple of king Chephren and the great Sphinx.

Afterwards, your adventure tour continues to the Egyptian Museum of antiquities, home to one of the world’s largest collections of ancient artefacts. Wander the masses of gleaming artefacts recovered from the tomb of the boy King Tutankhamun are an impressive sight – from jewellery to the famous golden death mask and his gilded sarcophagi, this pharaoh was certainly prepared for the afterlife. You will also have time to visit the Museum’s royal Mummies hall for a close encounter with some of the country’s most important queens and pharaohs (extra ticket on spot).

Continue to Coptic Cairo, a part of old Cairo which include the Babylon fortress, the Hanging church, Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga) and Ben Ezra Synagogue. Then drive to Islamic Cairo and marvel at Cairo’s largest market of Khan el Khalili Bazaar. After finished, transfer back to your hotel, Head back to your hotel for a swim before an optional dinner out or Pyramids show

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Early in the Morning, you will be picked up and transferred to Cairo airport for your flight from Cairo to Luxor. Where, you will be met, assisted and drive to visit Karnak temple, one of the world’s most celebrated temple complexes. Karnak Temple is perhaps the most impressive of the entire ancient Pharaohs’ monumental works. Karnak is a house of the gods was built over a period of some 2000 years. Your guided tour of this vast temple of impressive Avenue of Sphinxes, pylons, hall of columns, obelisks and chapels will reveal its finest sections.

Continue to Luxor Temple which was once joined to the Karnak Temple by a three kilometer long Avenue of Sphinx, a portion of which marks the entrance to the temple of Luxor. Dominated by statues of the great warrior pharaoh Ramses II, the inner walls and columns are decorated with intricate hieroglyphics which your guide will help you decipher. Find out how Alexander the Great wrote himself into Luxor Temple’s history, and see one of the original pair of obelisk, the second of which now stands on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Enjoy Lunch at high-quality Local restaurant and then transfer to your hotel in Luxor. The rest of the day will be free to relax, shop in the bazaar (open until quite late).

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at your hotel, then start to visit the Valley of the Kings, the largest burial ground in ancient Egypt. Here are over 162 tombs of pharaohs, Nobles and Queens are richly decorated with reliefs and paintings. With your tour guide, explore this sprawling and spectacular place, where the pharaohs of the New Kingdom (16th to 11th century BC) were secretly interred for all eternity, and where discoveries are still being made. You will visit 3 of the best-preserved tombs. Your Egyptologist tour guide will explain the history and legends of these remarkable people, their funerary rites, and the significance of the many paintings and hieroglyphics, still well-preserved in the deepest tombs. Whilst here, you will have the chance to visit the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun (Extra ticket on spot)

Continue to the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut – a stunning colonnaded building set against high cliffs that create a spectacular natural amphitheatre. The legendary Hatshepsut had this mortuary temple built to signify her importance and honor her ancestors.

Returning to Luxor there will be time for a brief photo stop at the Colossi of Memnon, which mark the site of the funerary temple of Amenhotep III. These two giant statues standing tall and proud on the West Bank are all that remain of the ancient complex.

Enjoy Lunch at high quality local restaurant. And then, transfer to Luxor airport for your flight from Luxor to Cairo. Where you will be met, assisted and transferred to your hotel in Cairo & free time to relax

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast, your time is free today for some last minute sightseeing or shopping until we transfer you to the Cairo airport for your departure flight. We recommend an afternoon or evening flight so that you can take a tour to visit the incredible Saqqara, Memphis and Dahshur and more of the city this morning. Extra nights in Cairo are also available if you would like to extend your stay.

Meals: Breakfast