You are welcome to Cairo, the Capital of Egypt

Cairo Top Tours specialist tour leader will be expecting you inside your arrival terminal at Cairo International Airport before the luggage belt with a signboard bearing your name. Then you will be transferred to the hotel in Cairo, where you are going to have a short meeting with your tour manager to go through your Egypt Travel Packages itinerary and approve pick-up times for the tours. After that, he will help you with a smooth check-in and enjoy Cairo day tours in the early morning.

Overnight the first night in Cairo

Welcome Drink

Your tasty breakfast will be served in the main restaurant at the hotel before your meeting with your special tour guide who will guide you during your first Cairo Day Tours to the pyramids of Giza that were constructed 4500 years ago.

Start your sightseeing at the Great Pyramid of Cheops, which has taken longer than 20 years to be built, then continue to the pyramids of the kings Chephren and Mycerinus who relate to the same dynasty. You will go then to see The famous Sphinx, the man-headed lion who guarded the Necropolis for 450 decades. Now we will go to the high plateau to get a full view of the pyramids and capture amazing photos while enjoying a camel ride in Giza Pyramids (optional activity) before you will be taken to the Valley Temple of king Chephren that was dedicated to the mummification process of the Pharaoh which is made out of Aswan granite and is tiled with the beautiful white alabaster.

Your tour guide and private driver will take you then to enjoy The Egyptian Museum tour, which has the biggest and the most prized collection of Egyptian artifacts all over the world, especially the royal treasure that was found intact, the collection of the Golden Pharaoh Tutankhamen whose tomb in the Valley of the Kings was found in 1922 by the famous English archeologist Howard Carter.

Then the tour proceeds to Coptic Cairo to visit the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon and The Hanging Church that was built suspended above its ancient towers in a very great positioning, and the church of St. Sergius which is also recognized as the Cavern church or the holy family church, this church is built above the crypt where the holy family waited nearly 3 months by the well from which they got their water stocks, your Coptic Cairo tour extends till we visit Ben Ezra Synagogue that was believed to be the site of the castle where the box of Moses was pulled up from the Nile by the Pharaoh's daughter.

After lunch you will be transferred to the area of Islamic Cairo, to see the walls and gates of the medieval city founded by the Fatimid leader Badr Al Gamali, and the old narrow streets of colorful shops and date back to the 10th century. you will walk all the way to have tea mint in Al-Fishawy ( one of the oldest coffee shops in Khan El Khalili Bazaar ) during your Islamic Cairo trips.

Optional tour from our variety of tours in Cairo to the sound and light show in Giza

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Check out from the hotel in the early morning after having your breakfast, then you will be transferred to Cairo Airport to take the flight to Luxor where you will be met and assisted as usual during any of our Egypt Day Tours or Egypt Travel Packages by our representatives, then you will be taken to board your 5 stars Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile cruise. After having your first lunch meal aboard the boat, begin the East Bank of Luxor tour to Karnak Temple the largest man-made religious center in the world besides that it used to be the central place from where a huge empire like Egypt had been run. Visit also the magnificent Temple of Luxor which will be beautifully illuminated at night to see the grandeur at its peak and think about how prosperous ancient Egyptians were 3800 years ago to decide on building such enormous structures just for the worship of their gods of ancient Egypt.

After you finish your Luxor East Bank Tours, you will be transferred back to the boat then dinner will be served.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy a delightful buffet breakfast aboard your Nile cruise ship, and your Egyptologist guide will take you on the west bank of Luxor tour to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III which are recognized as the Colossi of Memnon, and then you will be surprised by the necropolis of Valley of the Kings, where more than 62 pharaohs from the New Kingdom were buried including famous names like Tutankhamen and the great Ramses the second, the tombs are cut from the mountain, Extravagantly decorated with fascinating paintings and filled in with wealth in which the Pharaohs were planning to enjoy in the hereafter after being resurrected. Your Luxor day tours continue to visit Hatshepsut Temple also known as El Deir El Bahary, she was the first female ruler in the history of Egypt.

Take your enjoyable lunch, you will sail to Edfu enjoy your dinner and entertainment onboard.

Overnight aboard the Nile Cruise.

Optional Luxor Hot Air Balloon 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Another oriental breakfast in the main restaurant of the Nile Cruise, visit the well-preserved Ptolemaic-era temple dedicated to the falcon-headed God Horus the temple of Edfu. Sail to Kom Ombo to visit the captivating Temple of Kom Ombo devoted to the crocodile, God Sobek. Lunch aboard the ship and sail to Aswan before dinner and overnight aboard your deluxe Nile Cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast is served aboard the Nile cruise boat in Aswan, you will have unusual Aswan day tours visiting the greatest project ever happened in the modern history of Egypt, the Aswan High Dam which protected Egypt from being flooded by the Nile water every year, the Granite Quarries to see the Unfinished Obelisk that was supposed to be used but unfortunately was never finished, the obelisk was built by Queen Hatshepsut of the new kingdom, continue Aswan excursions to visit the Temple of Philae that was built for the worship of goddess Isis, she was one of the ancient Egyptian deities and the main divinity of the whole region, Back to the cruise ship to enjoy your dinner and overnight.

Optional Abu Simbel Tour

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Debark from your Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile cruise after breakfast, then transfer to Aswan Airport for your return flight to Cairo, Meet and assist upon arrival at Cairo Airport by our representatives then you will be transferred to your hotel to spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Overnight in Cairo hotel.

Meals: Breakfast

Breakfast buffet at the hotel with free time at leisure or Enjoy one of Cairo Day tours, then you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your final departure.

Meals:  Breakfast

End of your tours in Egypt.

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