7 Days Luxury Cairo & Nile Cruise

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. 1
   Day 1 · CairoArrival in Cairo

   Arrival. Your Egyptologist guide meets you at Cairo airport and helps you through the arrival. A private air-conditioned vehicle takes you to your hotel, and your guide stays with you until check-in is done and tells you the pick-up time for tomorrow.

   Evening. Nothing is planned. No meals are included today, so dinner is your choice, and your guide can suggest a place close to the hotel. If you would like a short walk or an early dinner, just say so: your guide stays in touch for that.

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

   Overnight in Cairo
2. 2
   Day 2 · CairoPyramids of Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum

   Morning. After breakfast at the hotel, your guide and the private air-conditioned vehicle take you to the Giza plateau. The entrance fees are included. You see the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure and the Great Sphinx. Your guide explains why Khafre's pyramid looks taller than the Great Pyramid although it is slightly smaller.

   Afternoon. Lunch is not included today. Your guide helps you choose a place and leaves you a long break. The vehicle then takes you to the Grand Egyptian Museum, just over a mile north of the pyramids. Its two Tutankhamun galleries hold more than 5,300 objects from his tomb. The Grand Staircase has a view of the pyramids, and Khufu's restored ship is now kept at the museum. The vehicle returns you to the hotel afterwards.

   • 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 the Citadel

   Morning. Breakfast at the hotel, then your guide and driver take you about 30 km south to Saqqara. Entrance fees are included. The Step Pyramid of Djoser, designed by Imhotep, is the centre of the visit. Your guide then takes you into the decorated Old Kingdom tombs of Ti and Mereruka and reads the wall scenes with you: they show daily work in fine detail.

   Afternoon. Lunch is not included, so your guide helps you pick a place on the way back into the city. You then cross to Historic Cairo, a UNESCO World Heritage property, for the Citadel and the Mosque of Ibn Tulun. The pace is easy, with time to look out over the city from the Citadel. The private vehicle returns you to the hotel by late afternoon, and the evening is yours.

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

   Overnight in Cairo
4. 4
   Day 4 · AswanFlight to Aswan and boarding

   Morning. After breakfast you check out, and the private vehicle takes you and your luggage to Cairo airport for the domestic flight to Aswan. Your guide is there in Aswan to take you to your Deluxe or Ultra Deluxe ship. You board, settle into your cabin and have lunch on board.

   Afternoon. You visit the temple of Isis at Philae, with the entrance fee included. Your guide tells the story of the move: the temple was taken to Agilkia Island between 1977 and 1979 when the High Dam threatened to flood it.

   Evening. Dinner is on board. The ship sails on fixed weekly days, so tonight is the first of three nights afloat, and breakfast, lunch and dinner are all part of the stay from now on.

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

   Overnight on the Nile cruise
5. 5
   Day 5 · AswanAswan and Kom Ombo

   Morning. Breakfast on board, then the Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan. It is a pink granite shaft still lying in its quarry, and work on it is believed to have started under Hatshepsut. Your guide shows you the shaft where it lies. The ship then sails north.

   Afternoon. Lunch is served on board while the ship is on the river. Late in the afternoon you stop at Kom Ombo, about 50 km north of Aswan. The double temple is shared between Sobek and Haroeris, so everything inside comes in pairs, and your guide walks you through both halves. The Nilometer is next to it. Entrance fees are included.

   Evening. Dinner and the night are 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
6. 6
   Day 6 · EdfuEdfu and the sail to Luxor

   Morning. Breakfast on board, then your guide takes you into the Temple of Horus at Edfu, built between 237 and 57 BC and among the best preserved temples in Egypt. The entrance fee is included. Your guide reads the inscribed walls with you and shows how the temple is laid out from the pylon to the sanctuary.

   Afternoon. Lunch is on board, and the rest of the day is spent on the ship while it sails to Luxor. There is time on the sun deck and nothing to rush for.

   Evening. A long dinner on board. Cabins are vacated at 8:00 the next morning, so pack tonight and leave your luggage ready for the private vehicle.

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

   Overnight on the Nile cruise
7. 7
   Day 7 · LuxorLuxor and departure

   Morning. You leave the ship after breakfast, and your luggage goes into the private air-conditioned vehicle with you. The Valley of the Kings comes first, then Hatshepsut's terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari. Entrance fees are included, but the extra-ticket tombs (Tutankhamun, Seti I and Ramses VI) are not.

   Afternoon. Lunch is not included, and your guide helps you choose a place. Karnak follows, where the Great Hypostyle Hall has 134 columns and your guide explains what the carvings on them record.

   Departure. The private vehicle takes you to Luxor airport in time for your onward flight. We match the end of the day to your flight time, and your guide tells you in advance if one site has to be dropped.

   • 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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