11 Days Cairo, Nile Cruise & Red Sea

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Places on this trip: Hurghada

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. 1
   Day 1 · CairoArrival in Cairo

   Arrival. The airport meeting is at arrivals, where you are assisted, and a driver takes you to your hotel in a private air-conditioned vehicle. You check in.

   Rest of the day. Your guide confirms the pick-up time for day 2. No meals are included today. Your luggage travels with you in the vehicle.

   • ReceptionMeet and assist at the airport
   • Pick-upPrivate transfer to your hotel
   • MealsNone included

   Overnight in Cairo
2. 2
   Day 2 · CairoGiza and the museum

   Morning. After breakfast, your private Egyptologist guide and driver take you to the Giza plateau, which opens the day, with Khufu's pyramid, built roughly 2580 to 2560 BC. Entrance fees are included.

   Afternoon. From there the Grand Egyptian Museum is only 2 km away, and your guide leads the visit. Lunch is not included, so the guide helps you choose a place. Saqqara and Memphis are left out of this plan to keep the pace gentle. You can add them as an extra day on request.

   Evening. Dinner is not included, and your guide is glad to suggest places to eat near the hotel. You sleep at your hotel in Cairo. Tomorrow you fly to Hurghada, so your guide confirms the airport pick-up time.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsBreakfast

   Overnight in Cairo
3. 3
   Day 3 · HurghadaFly to Hurghada

   Morning. After breakfast and check-out, your driver takes you to the airport for the domestic flight to Hurghada, which is a short one.

   Afternoon. A car meets you and drives to the resort hotel, along a coast that stretches close to 40 km. You check in, and the afternoon is for the beach. Lunch is not included. Your luggage travels with you in the vehicle. Bottled water is provided in the vehicle.

   Evening. Dinner is not included, so ask at the hotel for places to eat. You sleep at your hotel in Hurghada.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsBreakfast

   Overnight in Hurghada
4. 4
   Day 4 · HurghadaBeach day on the Red Sea

   All day. The water off Hurghada is clear and calm for most of the year, and the Giftun islands lie offshore. Today we suggest a boat trip towards them with time to snorkel. It is an optional tour, so it is booked and paid on the spot and is not included. Your driver takes you to the boat and back. Breakfast is at the hotel; lunch and dinner are not included.

   Evening. Dinner is not included, so ask at the hotel for places to eat. You sleep at your hotel in Hurghada.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsBreakfast

   Overnight in Hurghada
5. 5
   Day 5 · HurghadaSecond beach day

   All day. This day is for a snorkel or dive trip, a desert outing or the pool. Optional tours are not included. Nothing in the plan depends on today, so you can sleep late after breakfast at the hotel. Lunch is not included. Be rested for the early drive on day 6. Optional tours are booked and paid locally.

   Evening. Dinner is not included, so ask at the hotel for places to eat. You sleep at your hotel in Hurghada. Tomorrow's drive to Luxor starts early, so pack your bags tonight.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsBreakfast

   Overnight in Hurghada
6. 6
   Day 6 · LuxorBy road to Luxor, Karnak, board the ship

   Morning. After breakfast and check-out, you leave early by road with your driver in the private air-conditioned vehicle. The road to Luxor takes 4 to 5 hours, and you travel in daylight only. Lunch is not included.

   Afternoon. Karnak is the afternoon visit, with your guide and entrance fees included. Then you check in to the ship, which is moored in Luxor, and your luggage goes with you.

   Evening. Dinner is served on board, and you sleep in your cabin on the ship. Tomorrow starts with the west bank.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsBreakfast, Dinner

   Overnight on the ship
7. 7
   Day 7 · LuxorWest bank and Luxor Temple

   Morning. After breakfast on board, today starts with the Valley of the Kings, where burials ran from about 1539 to 1075 BC. The standard entrance fees are included; the extra-ticket tombs (Tutankhamun, Seti I and Ramses VI) are paid separately. Hatshepsut's temple follows. Your guide helps you choose which open tombs to enter.

   Afternoon. After lunch on board you visit Luxor Temple in the late afternoon, with your guide, before the ship sails.

   Evening. Dinner is served on board as part of the full board, and you sleep in your cabin on the ship. Your guide confirms tomorrow's visit to Edfu.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsNone included

   Overnight on the ship
8. 8
   Day 8 · EdfuEdfu

   Morning. After breakfast on board, you go ashore at Edfu with your guide. The Horus temple was under sand and silt up to 12 m deep until the 1860s. Today it stands nearly intact. Your guide reads the walls with you, and entrance fees are included.

   Afternoon. You return to the ship for lunch, and the ship sails on.

   Evening. Dinner is served on board as part of the full board, and you sleep in your cabin on the ship. Your guide confirms tomorrow's visit to Kom Ombo.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsNone included

   Overnight on the ship
9. 9
   Day 9 · Kom OmboKom Ombo

   Morning. After breakfast on board, you go ashore with your guide at Kom Ombo, which sits 50 km north of Aswan and is a double temple. Entrance fees are included. Your guide explains that it serves two gods, Sobek and Harwer, with a passage and sanctuary for each.

   Afternoon. After lunch on board, the ship continues to Aswan for the night.

   Evening. Dinner is served on board as part of the full board, and you sleep in your cabin on the ship. Your guide confirms tomorrow's disembarkation: cabins are vacated by 8:00.

   • GuideYour private guide
   • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
   • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
   • MealsNone included

   Overnight on the ship
10. 10
    Day 10 · AswanPhilae and the High Dam

    Morning. After breakfast on board, cabins must be vacated by 8:00. Your luggage goes to the hotel in the private vehicle, and you go by boat with your guide to Philae, rebuilt on Agilkia Island. Entrance fees are included.

    Afternoon. The High Dam is the next stop, and the afternoon ends with a short felucca ride by Elephantine Island. Lunch is not included, and your guide helps you choose places to eat. You check in at your hotel in Aswan.

    Evening. Dinner is not included, and your guide is glad to suggest places to eat near the hotel. You sleep at your hotel in Aswan. Tomorrow you fly to Cairo, and your guide confirms the airport pick-up time.

    • GuideYour private guide
    • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
    • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
    • MealsBreakfast

    Overnight in Aswan
11. 11
    Day 11 · CairoFly to Cairo, departure

    Departure. After breakfast and check-out, your driver takes you to Aswan airport for the flight to Cairo, which is a short domestic one. We choose the departure to suit your international flight and confirm it when we book. A guide helps you at the Cairo terminal. Lunch and dinner are not included. Your guide confirms the pick-up time the evening before. Your luggage stays with you in the private vehicle at each transfer.

    • Drop-offPrivate transfer to the airport or station
    • GuideYour private guide
    • TransportPrivate air-conditioned vehicle
    • Entrance feesIncluded for the sites of the day
    • MealsBreakfast

    Departure

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