11 Days Luxury Egypt Grand Tour

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. 1
   Day 1 · CairoArrival in Cairo

   Arrival. You are met after immigration by the airport assistance and your Egyptologist guide, and driven to your hotel in a private air-conditioned vehicle. Your guide helps you check in. Bottled water is included.

   Evening. There is nothing to do on this first evening except eat when you want. No meals are included, and your guide can point you to a place near the hotel. Tomorrow starts at Giza after breakfast.

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

   Overnight in Cairo
2. 2
   Day 2 · CairoGiza and the Grand Egyptian Museum

   Morning. After breakfast at the hotel, your guide and the private vehicle take you to Giza, with entrance fees included. The morning covers the Great Pyramid, Khafre's pyramid and the Sphinx on the plateau's east side.

   Afternoon. Lunch is not included, and your guide helps you choose a place. In the afternoon the Grand Egyptian Museum is a short drive away, about a mile north of the pyramids. Your guide takes you up the Grand Staircase first and keeps the Tutankhamun galleries for last. The vehicle returns you to the hotel in the evening.

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

   Overnight in Cairo
3. 3
   Day 3 · CairoSaqqara and Historic Cairo

   Morning. Breakfast at the hotel, then the drive to Saqqara, about 30 km south of Cairo. The Step Pyramid is the first stop, and your guide explains how it stands at the centre of the visit. Entrance fees are included.

   Afternoon. Lunch is not included, so your guide helps you pick a place. Then you drive back for the Citadel and the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Historic Cairo. The day ends with a quiet hour at the Hanging Church, and the vehicle takes you to the hotel. Tomorrow you fly, so pack tonight and leave your luggage ready.

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

   Overnight in Cairo
4. 4
   Day 4 · LuxorFly to Luxor

   Morning. After breakfast you check out, and the vehicle takes you and your luggage to Cairo airport. The nonstop flight south lasts about 1 hour. In Luxor your guide meets you and drives you to your hotel, where you check in.

   Afternoon. Lunch at the hotel is not included, and your guide can help you choose where to eat. You then go to Karnak and walk the Great Hypostyle Hall, which covers about 5,000 square metres. Only the Precinct of Amun-Re is open to visitors, so the walk is not long. The entrance fee is included.

   Evening. The evening is free. Dinner is not included.

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

   Overnight in Luxor
5. 5
   Day 5 · LuxorDendera

   Morning. After breakfast you drive to the temple of Hathor at Dendera, about 2.5 km south-east of Dendera town. We confirm the drive time when we book. Twelve chambers in the crypt carry reliefs, and your guide takes you through them. The zodiac relief on the ceiling is a copy, because the original was taken to the Louvre in 1820.

   Afternoon. Lunch is not included, and your guide helps you choose a place. The afternoon is for the hotel pool or the town. The private vehicle brings you back to Luxor from Dendera, and the evening is free.

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

   Overnight in Luxor
6. 6
   Day 6 · LuxorWest Bank and boarding

   Morning. Breakfast at the hotel, then you check out and your luggage goes into the private vehicle. The Valley of the Kings opens the day, and your guide leads you into three tombs chosen on the day. The extra-ticket tombs (Tutankhamun, Seti I and Ramses VI) are not included. Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari comes next.

   Afternoon. You board the ship in the afternoon, where your cabin is waiting. Lunch is not included today, so your guide helps you choose where to eat before you board. The ship sails on fixed weekly days, so the boarding day follows its schedule.

   Evening. Dinner is on board, and the ship sails in the evening.

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

   Overnight on the Nile cruise
7. 7
   Day 7 · EdfuEdfu

   Morning. Breakfast on board. The Temple of Horus at Edfu is the largest temple dedicated to that god. The Ptolemies built it over about 180 years, and your guide reads the dedication scenes with you, wall by wall. Entrance fees are included.

   Afternoon. Lunch is on board, and the ship carries on along the river. The afternoon is for the sun deck, and the ship sails on fixed weekly days, so there is no rush.

   Evening. Dinner is on board.

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

   Overnight on the Nile cruise
8. 8
   Day 8 · Kom OmboKom Ombo

   Morning. Breakfast on board. You visit Kom Ombo's double temple in the morning, with entrance fees included, and your guide takes you through both halves. Then you watch the river from the sun deck as the ship reaches Aswan.

   Afternoon. Lunch is on board. After lunch your guide gives a talk on the Nile and the High Dam, so that Aswan makes sense when you reach it tomorrow.

   Evening. Dinner is on board.

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

   Overnight on the Nile cruise
9. 9
   Day 9 · AswanAswan by land and river

   Morning. Breakfast on board, then you see the Unfinished Obelisk, pink granite still in its quarry, and Philae on Agilkia Island. The private vehicle takes you between the sites, and entrance fees are included. Your guide explains what the obelisk tells us about how stone was cut.

   Afternoon. Lunch is on board. Late in the afternoon a felucca takes you on the river around Elephantine Island. Feluccas at Aswan are quiet compared with motorboats.

   Evening. Dinner is on board. Cabins are vacated at 8:00 tomorrow, so pack tonight.

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

   Overnight on the Nile cruise
10. 10
    Day 10 · AswanElephantine and the Nubian Museum

    Morning. You step off the ship after breakfast, and your luggage goes into the private vehicle and on to your hotel in Aswan, where you check in. The Nubian Museum, opened in 1997, shows finds from the UNESCO rescue campaign. Your guide walks you through it, with the entrance fee included.

    Afternoon. The mausoleum of Aga Khan III, who is buried there, is the other stop. Lunch is not included, and your guide helps you choose a place. The rest of the day is left open, and dinner is not included.

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

    Overnight in Aswan
11. 11
    Day 11 · AswanDeparture

    Departure. Breakfast at the hotel, then you check out and your luggage goes into the private vehicle. Your car leaves for Aswan airport, and the flight to Cairo is a short domestic one. Your guide checks your onward connection by phone. The timing is set by your flight, and your guide confirms the pick-up time the evening before.

    • Drop-offPrivate transfer to the airport or station
    • MealsBreakfast

    Departure

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