Welcome to Cairo, Egypt! Upon your arrival at Cairo International Airport, your will meet your representative inside the customs area holding a sign board with your name on it. After being assisted with immigration formalities, you will be transferred to your hotel. Check in and the rest of the day is free to settle and relax after your long journey.
NB: If your flight arrives earlier in the day, perhaps you might choose to take an evening dinner cruise on the Nile or sound and light show at the pyramids (both available to book locally on arrival).
Meals: Welcome Drink

After breakfast at your hotel, your Egyptologist tour guide will pick you up to enjoy the off the beaten path to Dahshur. Where you will see the Bent Pyramid was the first attempt at building a smooth sided pyramid, while the nearby Red Pyramid represents the world’s first truly smooth sided, and a free standing pyramid. The Red Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid were built from 2613 to 2589 BC. Nearly identical in size, these two pyramids mark an important stage in Ancient Egypt’s pyramid-building history. The Red Pyramid is the older of the two and the only one that visitors can actually enter.

Move on to visit Sakkara, contains numerous pyramids, including the world-famous Step pyramid of Djoser, the oldest complete stone building complex known in history. It was built during the 3rd Dynasty (around 2678 BC) for King Djoser.

Lunch will be served at a local restaurant, then you will visit the world-renowned Giza Plateau to visit the only remaining wonder from the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – the Great Pyramid of Khufu (called Cheops by the Ancient Greeks). Also on the plateau are the pyramids of Khafre (Chephren) and the smallest Pyramid Menkaure (Mykerinos). The plateau is as famous for the mysterious structure ‘the Sphinx’ as it is for the Pyramids, where you will visit the Valley Temple. After finished, you will be transferred back to your Hotel

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Check out after breakfast and then start to enjoy Cairo city sightseeing tour to visit the Egyptian Museum, home to the world’s greatest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts. Wander the treasure-filled halls of gleaming artefacts and of course Tutankhamen’s treasures from jewellery to the famous golden death mask and his gilded sarcophagi are an impressive sight to behold, after a fantastic guided tour enjoy a free time to explore at leisure

Proceed to visit the Citadel of Saladin, one of the world’s greatest monuments to medieval warfare with large imposing gateways, towers and high defending walls. Discover the prominent Mohamed Ali Mosque, was built between 1830 and 1848 by the architect Yousef Bushnak.

Continue to Coptic Cairo to visit the famed Hanging Church, a place of Orthodox worship and one of the oldest churches in Egypt. Next, walk to Abu Serga, known formally as Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church. This place has great significance as it is believed to be the spot where the Holy Family spent time during their journey in Egypt. Walk on to Ben Ezra synagogue, which is the reputed location of Moses’ discovery as a baby.

Continue to the famous Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, a major souk in the Islamic district of Cairo, enjoy free time at leisure and then transfer to Giza train station for your overnight sleeper train to Luxor (9/11 Hours), Dinner will be served onboard the Sleeper Train.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy your breakfast with a sunrise view from the train before arriving at Luxor, where you will be met by Nile Holiday Representative who will transfer you to visit Karnak Temple, which is the world’s largest ancient religious site ever built in Egypt. Walk along the avenue of the Sphinxes and marvel at the Hypostyle hall with its 134 massive sandstone columns is one of Egypt’s infamous landmarks. After a fantastic guided tour there will be free time to explore at leisure

Proceed to visit Luxor temple, which was once joined to the Karnak Temple by a three-kilometer long Avenue of Sphinx. You will enter the temple through the great pylon where two enormous statues of King Ramses II still stand, along with a pink granite obelisk (its mate stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France). The temple was built by king Amenhotep III and Ramses II, and it was constructed over hundreds of years, beginning around 1400 BC. Luxor Temple is at its most stunning at sunset, when it is illuminated with the golden glow of the setting sun. After finished, you will be transferred to your hotel in Luxor. Check in and free afternoon to relax.

Meals: Breakfast

Today after breakfast at your hotel, your local tour guide will pick you up to start your Luxor tour to the west bank of the River Nile where you will enjoy a photo stop by the colossi of Memnon, marks the remains of the funerary temple built by king Amenhotep III.

Move on to visit the remote and barren Valley of the Kings, one of the most famous archeological sites in the world, used as a burial place for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, where rock-cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful noble. The most known tombs are King Ramses IV, Merneptah, Ramses III, Siptah, Tuthmosis III, Amenhotep III, Tausert & Setnakht as well as the tombs of Tutankhamun, Ramses VI, and Seti I (extra tickets on spot).

Proceed to visit the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri, built by Hatshepsut, one of the most successful female pharaohs of ancient Egypt. The temple setting and construction were unique among the landmarks of ancient Egypt. The Temple was built in the valley basin of Deir el-Bahari, surrounded by steep cliffs.

Continue to visit the Valley of the Queens, where the wives, princes, princesses of Pharaohs were buried. You will visit three tombs like the tombs of Amun-her-khepeshef, Seth-her-khopsef, Khaemwaset and of a Ramesside Queen called Tyti. But the most notable are those of Queen Nefertari, the favourite Royal Consort of Pharaoh Ramses II (Extra special ticket on spot). After finished, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Luxor & free time to relax

Meals: Breakfast

Check out after breakfast and then your Nile Holiday tour guide will pick you up and transfer to visit Edfu Temple, consider to be the best preserved cult temple in Egypt. Dedicated to Horus the falcon headed god which according to the Egyptian myths, it was the place where the falcon-headed god Horus revenged the murder of his father Osiris by killing Seth. The present structure dates from the Ptolemaic period (332 – 30 B.C.)

Drive on to the temple of Kom Ombo standing on high grounds overlooking the Nile. Unlike most ancient Egyptian temples, is dedicated to two gods, the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Haroeris “Horus the Elder”. The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis. The existing temple was begun by Ptolemy VI Philometor (180–145 BC) and continued under later rulers, most notably Ptolemy XIII (47-44 BC), who built the inner and outer hypostyle halls.

At one time crocodiles basked on the River banks. A few of the some 300 mummified crocodiles found here are on display in the small on-site Crocodiles museum. After finished, you will be transferred to your hotel in Aswan. Check in and free time

Meals: Breakfast

Early in the morning, you will drive (almost 3 hours) to the most amazing temples of Abu Simbel, the site is dominated by the looming twin temples of Ramses II and his wife Queen Nefertari. It is one of the most recognizable ancient sites of Egypt, carved on the western cliff of the desert by Ramses II in the Xl century BC. See the iconic 20-metre high statues, dedicated to the god Amon Ra, and the Temple of Nefertari, dedicated to the goddess Hathor. The mighty Temples of Abu Simbel reclaimed from the floodwaters of the Aswan High Dam and totally reconstructed in the present location. After finished, you will be transferred back to Aswan.

In the afternoon, you will take a relaxing Felucca Ride on the Nile to enjoy the river breeze, a fantastic sailing experience around Elephantine Island. After finished, transfer back to your hotel & free time at leisure

Meals: Breakfast

Check out after breakfast, and then start to visit the unfinished obelisk, located in Aswan granite quarry. The unfinished obelisk gives an excellent idea about the mason work techniques in ancient Egypt.

Proceed to visit Philae Temple Island where there are complex of temples saved between 1972 –1980. There are temples dates to different periods from Pharaonic to Greco-Romans period. The temple complex was dismantled and moved to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project, protecting this and other complexes before the 1970 completion of the Aswan High Dam.

Continue to visit Aswan High Dam, a rock fill dam built across the Nile in Aswan between 1960-70 to control the Nile floods and produce electricity. Later on, you will be transferred to Aswan airport for your flight Aswan to Cairo. Upon arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel in Cairo & free time to relax

Meals: Breakfast

You’ll be served breakfast at your hotel, and then you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for final departure.

Meals: Breakfast.