7 days Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor & Aswan Holiday Package

When you arrive at Cairo international airport, the Cairo Top Tours tour manager will assist you through passport control formalities, luggage identification, and portage.

You will begin your Cairo day tours from the airport, or maybe we can leave the luggage in the hotel before going on the tour to Giza Pyramids and the magnificent Sphinx:

Your tour guide will explain to you everything you need to know about the pyramids, and how scientists believe they were built in antiquity, and also will answer all your questions about Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus who were great Pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

You will be transferred also to visit the Pyramids of Saqqara:

Starting your sightseeing at the famed Step Pyramid of King Djoser, which was designed by the intelligent architect Imhotep, who made a revolution in the method of building the pyramids. The step pyramid had more of a purpose than just being a grave it was to facilitate life after death as they believed in being reborn.

Enjoy your delicious lunch during the tour, and then you will visit Dahshur Pyramids:

You will visit the Bent pyramid which still preserves most of the material of the outer casing in good condition to take some amazing pictures and enjoy the serenity of the archeological site. Your tour guide will take you to enter the Red Pyramid of king Senefru from inside, by the way, Snefru is the father of King Cheops who is the owner of the great pyramid in Giza. Dahshur area is a famous royal necropolis and the home of a number of royal Pyramids built for king Senefru the father of King Cheops the builder of the great pyramid.

The last site to visit today is Memphis:

The site of the capital of ancient Egypt was the King's residence and the political-administrative center for one thousand years and a very important center of cult and culture during the three thousand years of the ancient Egyptian civilization after the unification of upper and lower Egypt. You are going to see one of two colossal statues of Ramses II, the other one is going to be the masterpiece of the new grand Egyptian museum, as well as the great Alabaster Sphinx. This city was established by King Menes who unified Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 B.C.

At the end of the tour in the late afternoon, your personal driver and tour guide will take you to your hotel and help you to check in.

Spend your first night in Cairo.

Meals included for you: Lunch

Our licensed guide and personal driver will meet you after enjoying breakfast at the hotel to continue your Egypt Travel Packages. You will start the tour to Alexandria from Cairo. Alexandria is built in 332 B.C by the famous leader Alexander the Great who was a great king of the ancient Greek Kingdom. He established one of the largest empires in the ancient world, and it had become the Capital city of Egypt for almost 1000 years until the Arab conquest in the 7th century, and it remained the second biggest and most important city after Cairo.

When you arrive we will start our day tour in Alexandria by visiting the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, which was a private tomb of a rich Romanized Egyptian family that has been expanded in later centuries to become a burial for the common people of Alexandria. From there you will have a short drive to the great Pompey's pillar, which is the highest-standing pillar in Egypt built by the people of Alexandria in gratuity for the Roman Emperor Diocletian who diverted a portion of the annual tribute of corn and grain that Egypt used to send to Rome to the relief of the citizens.

Then you will be driven to the seaside to enjoy the views of the Mediterranean sea until you reach the Citadel of Qaitbay, which is established in 1477 A.D. on the ruins where the legendary lighthouse Pharos used to be standing.

Enjoy your seafood lunch in a fancy restaurant in Alexandria, and then move to the Modern Bibliotheca of Alexandria which is built of three buildings: the reading arena, the conference center, and the planetarium. On the way, you will get to see the main squares and the local markets of the city as well as the memorial of the 'unknown soldiers' and some modern statues of the politicians. Your private driver and tour guide will take you back to Cairo, you will stop mid-way to have some rest and drink coffee or tea.

Spend another night at the hotel in Cairo.

Meals included for you: Breakfast and lunch

Enjoy your delicious breakfast at the hotel in Cairo and then you will be escorted by your accredited Egyptologist to visit the Egyptian Museum and uncover more about the tiniest details of the most elaborate collection of Egyptian antiquities all over the world, including the golden mask and the coffins of King Tutankhamen.

After spending about 2 hours in the Egyptian museum we will start our interesting Islamic Cairo trips by visiting the Citadel of Saladin including Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque, which is built during the twelfth century by the Mamluk rulers to protect Egypt from the crusaders, then the Ottoman’s King Mohammed Ali built his famous mosque inside the fortress in 1830.

We will stop and bring you to have a nice lunch before Coptic Cairo trips, which is part of our Egypt Classic Tours, then we will go to the Coptic district to resume our excursions in Cairo and visit the remains of an ancient Roman fortress of Babylon that was built during the 1st century, above which an unusual church was built suspended on the towers known locally as the Hanging Church, after that, we will walk into the narrow alleys that will make you feel like walking in the old streets of Jerusalem to reach the church of St Sergius which was blessed by the presence of the Holy family when they flee to Egypt and stayed in Old Cairo nearly 3 months, and then we will finish our Coptic Cairo tour by visiting very old Jewish area in Cairo to see Ben Ezra Synagogue that was once a Christian church before being sold to one of the Jewish men.

We will also see Islamic Cairo, you will be taken to enjoy walking into El Moez Ledin Ellah street which is the oldest street in Fatimid Cairo and is considered an open-air museum of Islamic art and architecture until you reach the old Market and see Al Azhar mosque then take your Turkish coffee or a special mango juice while you having rest at El Fishawy the oldest cafe in Khan El Khalili.

We will take the car back to the hotel and stay the night in Cairo.

Meals included: Breakfast and lunch

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel and check out from your room and get ready at the lobby, because we will pick you up to move to the airport in Cairo to take your domestic flight to Luxor to complete your Egypt tours, When you reach Luxor we will be waiting for you at the airport and we will take you to check into the hotel and get some rest if possible, otherwise, we will begin our tour immediately to enjoy the west bank of Luxor tour, starting with the necropolis of the new kingdom pharaohs which is renowned all over the world as the Valley of the Kings. You will get the possibility to enter 3 marvelous tombs in the Valley of the kings then you will proceed to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut known as the temple of Deir El Bahari, which means the Northern Monastery. In addition to the Colossi of Memnon which is the only remains from the mortuary temple of King Amenophis III facing the Nile.

Your gourmet lunch will be served in a pleasant local restaurant in Luxor and we will resume the East Bank of Luxor tour, covering the breathtaking Complex of Karnak Temple built over the span of 2000 years by many different kings and rulers of ancient Egypt. Starting by the Avenue of the sphinxes flanking the passageway that connects the Karnak and the Luxor temples and you will see the Unfinished Pylon of King Nectanebo, the last Pharaoh of the 30th dynasty as well as the hypostyle hall which consists of 134 gigantic columns. Your guide will show you the largest standing Obelisk in Egypt built by Queen Hatshepsut inside the domains of the sun God Amun Re. you will also have full information about the temple of Amon decorated with lotus and papyrus designs as the emblems of the two lands of upper and lower Egypt and the Granite Scarab of Amenophis III and the amazing sacred lake which is the innermost part of the temple. Now we will take the car to visit the overwhelming Luxor temple, which is considered a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian architecture.

Spend your night in Luxor.

You can enjoy extra Excursions in Luxor to see the Sound and Light Show in Karnak Temple!

Meals included for you: Breakfast and lunch

You will obtain the checkout procedures from your hotel at 7:00 in the morning and you will be transferred to Aswan by land from Luxor which takes about 3 hours drive. Upon arrival, you will begin Aswan sightseeing to the Aswan High Dam, situated 6,5 km south of the Aswan Dam which was the cornerstone of the country's economic development envisioned by the late Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser. You will be taken to the boat guided by your tour guide to visit the Philae Temple. The monuments of Philae cover four major periods: the last part of the Pharaonic era, the Ptolemaic era, the Roman epoch, and the Christian period in Egypt. The principal monuments are those of the Temple of Isis, and her son Horus, the Temple of Hathor, and the Kiosk.

After the Aswan day tours are done, you will have a very appetizing lunch in Aswan, then we will take you to the hotel in Aswan to check in.

Overnight in Aswan

Meals included for you: Breakfast and lunch

After enjoying your breakfast, your Egyptologist will pick up you from your hotel to visit the temples of Ramses ll known as Abu Simbel temples, it is an immense rock-cut temple complex composed of two huge temples that were carved into the mountainside and were built during the reign of Ramses II for himself and his beloved wife. Return to Aswan around 13:00 pm then transfer to Aswan airport to take your flight back to Cairo

You will meet Cairo Top Tours representative when you arrive at Cairo airport and he will transfer you to the hotel in Cairo to check-in and spend the night in Cairo

Meals included: Breakfast and lunch

After taking your last gourmet breakfast at the hotel during your Tours in Egypt, you can enjoy one of our optional Cairo day tours. According to the agreed pick-up time, our representative will come and transfer you to Cairo International Airport for the final departure.

Meals included: Breakfast