Welcome to Cairo, Egypt

Cairo Top Tours tour leader will be awaiting for your recieption at Cairo International Airport with a sign bearing your name. From the airport you will be transferred to your hotel by exclusive air-conditioned deluxe vehicle. At hotel Cairo top tours representative will assist with a smooth check-in and review your Egypt luxury vacations itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for each tour.

Overnight in Cairo.

Welcome Drink

Enjoy a hearty breakfast at your hotel in Cairo and then meet Cairo top tours Egyptologist guide who will accompany you to visit the Great Pyramid of Cheops and the pyramids of Chephren and Mykerinus, The Great Sphinx and the valley temple, our visit to the plateau includes a panoramic tour to view all Giza pyramids together and make tricky photos and Camel ride for 15 minutes in Giza and it can include Additional visit to the Solar Boat behind Cheops Pyramid (extra ticket on spot).
You will enjoy your amazing Lunch, and proceed to Saqqara to visit the step pyramid Complex and first building entirely made out of stone all over the world (Djoser Pyramid).The tour includes entrance to the pyramid of Teti which has the most spectacular interior of all the accessible pyramids and the tombs of the nobles at Sakkara to get a glimpse from the daily life in ancient Egypt with all its activities inscribed and painted on its walls and corridors.

Then Move to Memphis, the oldest capital of the pharaohs located about half an hour south of Giza at the site of the modern village of Mit Rahina, It is considered the capital for one thousand years and a very important religious and cultural center throughout the three thousand years of ancient Egyptian civilization to visit the open air museum famous for having the alabaster sphinx the second largest made out of an eighty tons block of marble and the fallen gigantic statue of Ramses the second. Back to your hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Optional tour to the sound and light show in Giza

Meals: Breakfast.Lunch

Transfer to Cairo Airport for flight to Luxor where you will be met and transferred to embark your 05 stars luxury Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile cruise. In the afternoon you will be accompanied for a wonderful tour to the East Bank of the River Nile in Luxor. Here you will see the captivating complex of Karnak Temples and Luxor temple which reflect the gloriuos Pharaonic history. Return to the ship for afternoon tea and dinner. Overnight in Luxor.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Take your enjoyable breakfast you will be transferred to the West Bank of Luxor to visit the Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut known as El Deir EL Bahari, and the Colossi of Memnon. Return to the cruise for lunch & afternoon tea while sailing to Edfu crossing the Esna Lock. Dinner on board. Overnight in Edfu.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy your breakfast on board then visit Horus Temple at Edfu. Return to the ship for lunch and sail to Kom Ombo. Upon arrival, visit the temple shared by the two gods Sobek and Haroeris. Return to the cruise and continue sailing to Aswan. Dinner on board Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile cruise.

Overnight in Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy your delicious breakfast on board the Nile Cruise you will visit the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk, and the majestic Philae Temple. Enjoy lunch and dinner on board. Overnight in Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Disembark from your Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile cruise after having your breakfast, free time in Aswan. Then you will be transferred to Aswan Airport for flight to Cairo.

Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast

Breakfast at the hotel in Cairo and then you will be escorted by your private tour guide to visit The Egyptian Museum, exhibiting the largest and the most precious collection of Egyptian antiquities all over the world and the only royal treasure that was found intact the Treasures of the golden pharaoh Tutankhamen whose tomb in the valley of the kings was uncovered in 1922 by the famous English archeologist Howard Carter.
Then moving to visit the Citadel of Saladin including Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque inside and get a panoramic view of Islamic Cairo with mosques, minarets and domes hundreds of years old and some above one thousand years old.

Continue to Coptic Cairo to visit the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon and The Hanging Church suspended above its ancient towers and the church of St Serguis which is also known as the Cavern church or the holy family church and it is built above the crypt where the holy family stayed nearly three months and the well from which the holy family got their water supplies,the tour extends to we visit Ben Ezra Synagogue said to be the site where the basket of Moses was picked up from the Nile by the Pharaohs daughter .

Continue driving to Islamic Cairo, exploring the walls and gates of the medieval city founded by the Fatimids and its old streets date back to the 10th century the walk end by having tea at Fishawy the oldest cafe in Khan El Khalili, Cairo’s old bazaar.

Optional tour to the sound and light show in Giza

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Cairo Top Tours Egyptologist guide will meet you at the hotel in Cairo then start the tour to Alexandria the shining pearl of the Mediterranean and the second largest city in Egypt, the city is named after its founder, the Macedonian leader Alexander the Great, who arrived to Egypt in 332 B.C. You will visit the following sights:

1. Pompey’s Pillar, one of the city’s major landmarks, a 30 m high column and is a single cut from pink granite.
2. Fort Qaitbay, the most important defensive strongholds, not only in Egypt, but also along the Mediterranean Sea coast, Qaitbay Citadel, built in the 15th century by Sultan Qaitbay.
3. Catacombs, the largest roman cemetery in Egypt, consisting three layers tombs and chambers cut out of the rock under the ground.
4. The Bibliotheca of Alexandria. It was not only an important ancient library but also the center of learning and scientific research for the ancient world and a destination for scholars from all over the Mediterranean..
5. Memorial of the unknown soldier of Alexandria, the statue of Alexander the great, drive along the sea boulevard (the Cornish) to see the whole city passing over bridge of Stanly land mark of modern Alexandria.
6. ending by the visit to Montazah palace an architectural marvel that sees the Mediterranean from its 4 corners at the end of the sea boulevard.

Late afternoon drive back to Cairo. Overnight in the hotel

Breakfast, transfer to Cairo International Airport for final departure.

Meals: Breakfast