Cairo and the Nile Easter Tours 8 Days 7 Nights

After breakfast, meet your Egyptologist guide and start your tour with a visit to the Giza Plateau. Explore the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramid of Khafre, the Pyramid of Menkaure, and the Great Sphinx while learning about their history and the ancient Egyptian civilization.

Continue to the new Grand Egyptian Museum to explore its collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and learn more about the history of the Pharaohs. After the tour, return to your hotel in Cairo for an overnight stay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Check out from Cairo Pyramids Hotel after breakfast, then you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your flight to Luxor, where a Cairo Top Tours representative will meet and assist you.

Your guide will transfer you from Luxor Airport to your 5-star MS Royal Viking Nile Cruise.

After lunch on board, begin the East Bank tour to Karnak Temple the largest man-made temple the world has ever known, and you will also be visitng the majestic Temple of Luxor beautifully illuminated at night. 

You will have your lunch abroad the cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast will be served on your Nile cruise.

You will cross the Nile to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III renowned as the Colossi of Memnon, then visit the Valley of the Kings, where 62 New Kingdom pharaohs were buried, including the famous Tutankhamun and the legendary Ramesses II, the tombs were cut from the mountain. The Pharaohs' palace was elaborately decorated with paintings and filled with treasures they planned to enjoy in the afterlife, then continue the tour to visit Hatshepsut's Temple known as El Deir El Bahary, the first female ruler in written history.

After lunch, you will sail to Edfu while enjoying dinner and spend the night on the Nile cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

You will be taking your breakfast on the Nile Cruise, then our representative will accompany you to visit the well-preserved Ptolemaic-era Temple dedicated to the falcon-headed God Horus, the temple of Edfu.

Then you will sail to Kom Ombo to visit the captivating Temple of Kom Ombo, which is built on a traditional plan with entrance pylon, forecourt, hypostyle hall, and surrounding chambers leading to the sanctuary, an invisible division down the middle of the temple separates two doorways, corresponding forecourts, and colonnaded halls, leading to corresponding sanctuaries, one is dedicated to Horus, the other to Sobek.

After that, lunch will be served on board, then we will sail to Aswan.

Enjoy your dinner and spend the night on the Nile cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy your breakfast on the Nile cruise. After that your Egyptologist guide will accompany you to visit the famous High Dam, This great dam was built between 1960 and 1971 by the second president of Egypt his name Nasser, the High Dam increased Egypt's production of electric power and the floods could be controlled and the water could be stored for later release over multiple years. 

Then you will visit the magnificent Philae temple which is one of the most beautiful temples in Egypt, dedicated to Goddess Isis. It is an island-based temple complex, and it was located on Philae Island, but after the high dam was built, the Philae island became covered by the water because of the flood. Then the government transferred the temple to another island called Agilika Island.

Then proceed to the Unfinished Obelisk The largest obelisk ever made by the ancient Egyptians during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut, Even today it is located exactly where it was once semi-carved in solid rock, in the granite quarries near the city of Aswan.

Then you will be heading back to the cruise and dinner will be served.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast is served you will disembark from your Nile cruise. Our representative will transfer you to Aswan Airport for your flight back to Cairo.

Our representative will Meet you upon arrival at Cairo International Airport where he will assist you and then will be transfer you to your hotel.

You will be spending the night at the hotel in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast

On the last day of your Egypt tours during Easter, after taking your breakfast at the hotel, you can spend the day with free time at leisure or you can enjoy one of our Cairo Day Tours.

Then your Cairo Top Tours representative will take you to Cairo International Airport for your flight back home.

Meals: Breakfast