11 Days Cairo, Nile Cruise & Red Sea Tour

Welcome to Egypt

Cairo Top Tours airport agent will be waiting for you bearing a signboard with your name at Cairo International Airport to transfer you to your hotel by an exclusive air-conditioned vehicle. Upon arrival at the hotel, your tour guide will review your Cairo, Nile Cruise & Red Sea Tour itinerary with you to confirm all pick-up times of your Egypt Travel Packages and he will assist you with a smooth and quick check-in.

Spend your 1st evening at leisure or you can book an optional tour to the Sound and Light Show at Giza Pyramids area!

Overnight in Cairo hotel.

A Welcome Drink at the hotel.

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel for the first day in Cairo, you are now passionate to meet with your Cairo Top Tours private Egyptologist who will accompany you through the tours in Giza to make it easy to learn about the Great Pyramid of King Cheops and his successors Chephren and Mycerinus, and also to help you to take the most memorable photos of the sites while you enjoy a camel ride at Giza Pyramids area (optional activity). Then you will be taken to see the famous Sphinx that has been guarding the necropolis for more than 4500 years with its popular figure of a man-headed lion,

After learning the way the pyramids were built you will continue to the Valley Temple of King Chephren, to know more facts about mummification in ancient Egypt. Every pyramid complex used to have a valley temple, a mortuary temple, and a burial tomb which is the pyramid itself, the pyramid complex of King Khafre is the only mostly preserved among all the monuments on the site, the valley temple was used for the rituals before the burial of the pharaoh took place.

The tour to Giza Pyramids includes a panoramic tour to view all Giza pyramids together and make unforgettable photos.

Move to the site where Memphis used to be, the ancient capital of the pharaohs during the age of the pyramids or the new kingdom to visit the open-air museum to see the alabaster sphinx statue of Ramses II.
After flavorous lunch you will proceed to Saqqara, one of the most valuable sites of antiquities and discoveries in Egypt, in Sakkara you will visit the Step Pyramid Complex and the first building in the world completely made out of 6 stone bases above each other ( the pyramid of king Djoser ). You will have access to the Pyramid of Teti as well as one of the tombs of the Nobles from the inside (Kagemni tomb).

We will drop you off at your hotel to spend the night in Cairo.

Included meals: Breakfast and lunch

Enjoy the open buffet breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, and then resume your Egypt Tours Packages as you will be accompanied today by your private tour guide to visit The Egyptian Museum, to see the biggest number of Egyptian antiquities all over the world in one place distributed in the 2 floors of the museum and to see the most valuable royal treasure we found intact, the treasures of the golden King Tutankhamen.

After completing your Egyptian Museum tour, you will enjoy the excursion in Coptic Cairo, beginning with the Hanging Church which is built suspended over the towers of the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon, and the church of Abu Serga where you are going to see the crypt in which the holy family spent around 3 months during the persecution they were dealing with. Now continue the Coptic Cairo tour to visit Ben Ezra Synagogue, according to Jewish tradition it is probably the site where the basket of baby Moses was picked up from the Nile by the Pharaoh's daughter.

Your lunch will be served in a local restaurant then you will proceed with your personal driver and guide to see the Citadel of Saladin and enter the Alabaster Mosque from inside to get a panorama of the old mosques, domes, and minarets that are seen through of Islamic Cairo which is very interesting among all of our Cairo trips. The mosque was built by Mohamed Ali in 1805 influenced by Turkish architecture.

you will be transferred to your Islamic Cairo trips, to explore the walls and the gates of Fatimid Cairo and the old streets, you will have a unique Cairo shopping tour experience in Khan El Khalili Bazaar.

In the evening you can enjoy an optional tour to have dinner on the Nile cruise in Cairo!

Included meals: Breakfast and lunch

Enjoy your buffet breakfast at the hotel, and then Cairo Top Tours tour leader will transfer you to Cairo Airport to take your flight to Aswan.

Upon arrival at Aswan airport, you will be met by our representative in Aswan and be transferred to embark on your Egypt Nile Cruise Tours before lunch. In the afternoon the tour guide will meet you in the lobby to take you on an amazing ride to sail on the river Nile by a Felucca boat around Kitchener's Island and Agha Khan Mausoleum. Afternoon Tea will be served aboard the Nile Cruise, Your delicious dinner is going to be served aboard the ship and a lovely Nubian Folkloric show will start after dinner. Overnight in Aswan above the water of the Nile.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Another breakfast will be served aboard the MS Mayfair Nile cruise, then start Aswan day tours by visiting the High Dam, which is built during the reign of the former president Nasser who led the revolution against the ottoman King Farouk, and the granite quarries to see the Unfinished Obelisk which was to honor the sun god Amun Ra and was made during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. In addition to the Temple of Philae, to learn about the interesting myth of Isis and Osiris which has been reused as a Coptic Church during the Roman era in Egypt. Then the guide will take you back to the Nile Cruise and it will start the sailing towards Kom Ombo, enjoy your buffet lunch during the sailing, after that visit the Temple of Kom Ombo. Sail to Edfu after you have spent the time at Kom Ombo. Enjoy afternoon tea and the wonderful scenes on the way, Captain's welcome cocktail ( semi-casual attire ). Amazing dinner will be prepared onboard and Discotheque music for entertainment after dinner.

Overnight on board in Edfu.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

You will have your good quality breakfast onboard the MS Mayfair Nile cruise, and take the horse carriage to visit the Temple of Edfu, built during the Ptolemaic Era and dedicated to the god Horus the son of Osiris and Isis, has some traditional Egyptian elements with a few Greek characters. Enjoy your lunch on board while sailing to Luxor and afternoon tea will be served on the upper deck of our Nile Cruise. Another fine dinner is also included onboard the boat and an Egyptian Galabya party will be arranged by the tour guides and all the groups and you will be kindly requested to participate.

Overnight on board in Luxor.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Disembark from MS Mayfair Nile cruise after taking your last open buffet breakfast aboard the cruise ship, and start your magnificent west bank of Luxor tour including the Valley of the Kings, it's a royal necropolis for pharaohs of ancient Egypt (the new kingdom) such as Tutankhamen and Ramses II, in addition to queens, and other elites of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties. We will also see the huge Colossi of Memnon, which was part of a mortuary temple located in Thebes (Luxor nowadays). The temple has now been destroyed but the statue of Amenhotep III endured. The statues, even after the destruction, seem to be impressive masterpieces. Visit the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, known as El Deir El Bahari temple.

Continue your East Bank of Luxor tour and explore the complex of Karnak temples, which is the largest ancient religious site in the world, and the temple of Luxor. After your Luxor day tours are over, you will be transferred by a modern air-conditioned vehicle to Hurghada. the drive takes about 3 hours driving. On arrival to Hurghada, you will be transferred to Marriott Hurghada resort in Hurghada overnight.

Included meals: Breakfast

Resume your Egypt Day Tours enjoying the breakfast at the Marriot Hurghada hotel -or similar- and you will have the possibility to spend your day freely as you want or you can experience one of Hurghada day tours and excursions. Overnight in the Hurghada hotel.

Included meals: Breakfast

On the 9th day of your Egypt Classic Tours, enjoy your breakfast at the hotel in Hurghada and you will have a leisurely day to relax or you can try one of the Hurghada day tours and excursions.

Overnight in your hotel in Hurghada.

Included meals: Breakfast

After eating your gourmet breakfast in the early morning at your hotel, then you will spend the day relaxing and enjoying the beauty of the Red Sea and the marvelous atmosphere of the amazing city of Hurghada.

Overnight in your hotel in Hurghada.

Included meals: Breakfast

On the last day of your Tours to Egypt, enjoy your breakfast then you are going to be transferred to Hurghada Airport to take your flight back to Cairo international airport for your final departure which will be from Cairo airport.

Included meals: Breakfast

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