Essence of Egypt – 9 Nights/ 10 Days (Every Saturday)
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Explore Tours
(2 Nights Cairo - 4 Nights Nile Cruise - 1 Night Aswan- 2 nights Cairo)
Tour Plan
Welcome to Egypt. Once you arrive, you’ll be met & assisted by our Airport Representative. Then Transfer the hotel in Cairo to stay for 3 nights. Enjoy your day at leisure, and in the evening, meet up with the Tour guide. Have a welcome briefing at the hotel.
Overnight: Cairo
Meals: None
Enjoy a tour to the magnificent Pyramids of Giza. Get closer to the Great Pyramid of King Cheops, only remaining wonder of the World’s ancient wonders, see the Pyramids of the Son, King Chephren, and the Grand Son King Mykerenos. Enjoy the exceptional engineering, take the best photos at the Panoramic View of the 3 Pyramids combined, and end the tour with the highlight of the day, the glorious Sphinx statue. Then you’ll grab lunch at a local cultural restaurant. In the afternoon, We take you for the long-awaited, 1-billion-Dollar museum, with its spectacular construction, that offers a variety of wonderful Ancient Egyptian artifacts in some wonderful displays. It is the latest museum in Egypt with its soft-opening provides a cannot-be-missed visit.
Overnight: Cairo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Today We Check out of the hotel and head to Cairo airport to catch a morning flight to Luxor. (1 hour flight). Upon arrival in Luxor, we visit Karnak temples, which is the World’s largest Religious Complex, with 13 temples at one place. Continue your visit to its Twin, Luxor temple, where religious celebrations ran between the 2 of them. Then We embark the Nile Cruise to stay for 4 nights.
Overnight: Nile Cruise
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Morning visit to The Kings’ Valley where you get to visit 3 tombs for ancient Egyptian Kings who lived over 3800 years ago. It is where We found tomb of the Golden King Tutankhamun as well. Proceed to visit Queen Hatshepsut's temple unique rock cut temple, & take a photo of The colossus of Memnon on your way back to the Nile Cruise, and first experience of Sailing to Edfu via Esna lock.
Overnight: Nile Cruise
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Today there will be a morning visit to Edfu temple of God Horus (The most preserved temple in the history of mankind), using a local shuttle bus, then get back to the Nile Cruise and enjoy Sailing to Kom-Ombo so you can have the visit to Kom-Ombo temple in the afternoon/ evening (10 minutes walking from the Cruise). The Temple that dates back to the Greek and Roman era in Egypt, with the unique scenes of the Feasts Calendar & the Surgical instruments. The Cruise then sails to Aswan, Heaven of Egypt in land of the south.
Overnight: Nile Cruise
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Enjoy Aswan tour to the High Dam, project of the 20th century in Egypt and its protector from floods and famines, then wonder around the Pearl of Egypt, Philae temple, dedicated to Goddess Isis. In the afternoon, Enjoy a 1 hour Felucca (Traditional Sail Boat) in the Nile of Aswan.
Overnight: Nile Cruise
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Enjoy the day at leisure OR go for an over day trip to the 8th wonder of the ancient world, Abu Simbel temples by road. It’s an early start to enjoy driving through the western desert of Egypt (nearly 3 hours and 30 minutes), to go for the Jewel in the desert, the 2 temples of Abu Simbel, built for Ramsis II and his wife the beautiful queen Nefertari. Upon returning back to Aswan, check in at the Movenpick hotel in Aswan for 1 night.
In the evening, We take you for a unique experience, where a genuine Nubian man takes you for a tour with a motor boat down the Nile, to take you to his home Island called 'Elephantine Island'. He will take you for a tour on the Island, then his house, where you meet up with his family. Dinner will be ready for you to share with the beautiful family.
Optional: Abu Simbel Temples by Road.
Overnight: Aswan
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Today you fly back to Cairo using a morning flight. Upon arrival in Cairo, we visit enjoy a tour to the Egyptian Museum in Downtown Cairo; this historical building that was built to house thousands of Egyptian monuments from across the centuries. Enjoy lunch, then We Transfer you to your hotel where you stay for 2 nights.
Overnight: Cairo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Enjoy an early breakfast, then hit the road by 6 a.m. to go visit Fayoum. (App. 2 hours’ drive) using our bus. Upon arrival, we change to the 4x4 vehicles, so that we can start our tour Visit the old Roman site of (Wedn el Faras) and (the Watermelons valley) then driving to (whales' valley) and its museum. The 40 million years old fossils are showing the different types of Whales that lived in the White Desert when it was covered by the Ocean. Then We continue driving to visit (El Medawara hill) and the Water falls of Rayan valley. Then we drive to (Tunis village) to enjoy lunch, then visit the ceramic workshop of the Swiss potter Evelyne Porret and take a stroll in the village to enjoy the atmosphere & the graffiti on the walls of the houses. Head back to Cairo.
Optional: Over Day to Fayoum Oasis.
Overnight: Cairo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Transfer to Cairo airport for your Departure flight.
Meals: Breakfast
Included Items
Accommodation: (2 Options)
Option1: (Golden Package) Price: Starting from 2890 USD Per Person in a standard double room :-- Two night first stay at the Steigenberger Tahrir hotel in Cairo (Or Similar).
- Four night on board of the Nile Cruise M/S Nile Premium (Or Similar).
- One night at the Mövenpick hotel in Aswan (Or Similar).
- Two night second stay at the Steigenberger Tahrir hotel in Cairo (Or Similar).
- Two night first stay at the Cairo Marriott hotel (Or Similar).
- Four night on board of the Nile Cruise M/S May Fair (Or Similar).
- One night at the Mövenpick hotel in Aswan (Or Similar).
- Two night second stay at the Cairo Marriott hotel (Or Similar).
Meals: (Included in both tour packages)
- 22 Meals (10 Breakfast, 7 Lunch, & 5 Dinner).
Flights: (Included in both tour packages)
- Domestic Flights from Cairo to Luxor, and from Aswan to Cairo.
Transfers & transportation: (Included in both tour packages)
- Meet & Assist Service at the Airports.
- Round trip escorted transfers from airports to hotels and back.
- All transportation during tours.
- All of the above are done privately using modern air-conditioned vehicles, led by professional drivers.
- The motor boat ride to Philae temple and back.
- The Traditional sail boat in Aswan.
Sightseeing Tours: (Included in both tour packages)
- Entry fees to the above-mentioned sites.
- All tours are privately escorted by a professional English-Speaking tour guide.
Excluded Items
- International flights.
- Entry Visa to Egypt.
- Any extra fees needed during tours (Such as the extra ticket to get inside the Great Pyramid, or to visit an extra tomb at Kings' Valley).
- Any meals or beverages not mentioned in the itinerary.
- Tipping or gratuity.
- Any fees not mentioned in the included items.
The Price of this tour is per person In a standard double room​
