Wonderful 8 days trip to Cairo, Luxor and Aswan

Have breakfast at your hotel in Cairo. To start your Cairo day tours, your Egyptologist guide will pick you up from the hotel lobby.

The Great Pyramid of Cheops, the Pyramid of King Chephren, the third monarch of the 4th dynasty, and the Pyramid of King Mycerinus are all on the Giza Plateau, where you will be taken.

We'll also transport you to The Great Sphinx, which stands in for the necropolis's watchdog. The Valley of Temples of King Chephren will be our final destination in Giza; it was constructed from Aswan granite for the mummification of the king, and its colonnade is made up of 16 pillars that resemble the English alphabet's T.

We'll take you to the Valley Temple of King Chephren and the Sphinx. The Valley Temple of King Chephren, which was constructed from Aswan granite for the king's mummification, will be our final visit. The colonnade of the temple has 16 pillars that are each shaped like the letter T in the English alphabet.

Visit The Egyptian Museum to continue your Cairo explorations. It is home to a sizeable collection of ancient Egyptian statues and antiquities, and the sole undamaged royal treasure is that of the golden king Tutankhamun, whose tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered in 1922.

After that, you can take a Coptic Cairo Tour to see the old Roman fortification of Babylon and the so-called Hanging Church, which is perched above the fortress's towers. Following that, you will tour Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is thought to be the location where the basket containing baby Moses was discovered, the church of Abu Serga erected over the cavern where the holy family is claimed to have spent roughly three months and the well from which they were drinking.

You will eat lunch at a fine Nile-view restaurant before continuing your visit to Islamic Cairo and spending some time at Khan El Khalili, the country's first bazaar.

After breakfast, check out of your hotel in Giza, and your tour leader will meet you at the airport to drive you to Aswan, where you will meet our representative and board the enthralling Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile Cruise or a similar cruise.

You will enjoy your first lunch on board the ship after check-in, and you will meet your guide in the lobby to begin your amazing Luxor day tours by visiting the magnificent Temple of Karnak, which spans a large area. You will then continue your Luxor East Bank Tours to the Temple of Luxor, which is dedicated to the Theban Trinity (Amun, Mut, and their son Khonsu), and it is beautifully lit.

Your delicious dinner meal is going to be served onboard your Egypt Nile River Cruise and spend your first night in Luxor on the water of the eternal river.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

After enjoying your breakfast aboard the Nile cruise boat, you will enjoy the west bank of Luxor tour and cross the Nile to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III, which are renowned as the Colossi of Memnon. You will visit the Valley of the Kings, which is the royal cemetery of the New Kingdom Pharaohs including famous Tutankhamun and legendary Ramses the Second. The tombs in the Valley of kings are considered a UNESCO heritage site. Visit Hatshepsut's Temple, also known as El Deir El Bahari, which was constructed for Queen Hatshepsut, the first female monarch in recorded history, by renowned architect Senmout.

Enjoy your filling lunch as the cruise sails to Edfu so you may continue your delightful Egypt Christmas and New Year tours and stop at the interesting sights en route. On board the cruise ship, a second dinner will be served before the musical performance and entertainment. The second night is going to be spent at Edfu by the Nile.

Hot air balloon ride (optional tour)

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and Dinner.

During your breakfast on board your Egypt Nile River Cruise, you will be led off the boat to explore Edfu's well-preserved Ptolemaic Temple, which is devoted to the falcon God Horus. Returning to the cruise, which will keep heading south in the direction of Kom Ombo. As soon as the cruise reaches Kom Ombo, you will disembark once more to explore the fascinating Temple of Kom Ombo, which is home to the God Horaeris and the local crocodile God Sobek. After spending enough time at the temple, you will return to the ship to eat lunch before the cruise's final stop at Aswan.

Dinner will be served and you will spend the night on board MS Minerva Nile Cruise or a similar cruise at Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

After breakfast on board the Nile cruise, your private guide will take you on a sightseeing tour of Aswan. After visiting the High Dam, which is one of the largest dams in the world and a famous engineering feat, you will board a boat to the magnificent Philae Temple, the last place where ancient Egyptian gods were worshiped even after the spread of Christianity. The temple is located above a lovely island in the River Nile.

The journey goes on to the Aswan granite quarries where you can see the largest known Obelisk, which was presumably built by the great queen Hatshepsut but left unfinished to tell us the tale of how enormous monoliths were extricated from the quarry.

You will return to your spectacular Egypt Nile River Cruise after finishing the fascinating Aswan day tours. You will have your delicious meal on board and spend your final night in Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

After enjoying an oriental breakfast on board your Nile Cruise on your final day in Aswan, you will depart and meet our airport agent, who will drive you to Aswan Airport so you can catch your aircraft back to Cairo.

At the Cairo International Airport, you will be welcomed and assisted. Our tour leader will then transfer you to your hotel in Giza.

Overnight in Cairo hotel.

Meals: Breakfast

Breakfast will be served for the last time at the hotel with a free morning leisure or you can book one of our optional Cairo excursions, and later then you should get ready to be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your final departure from Egypt. With one of the most memorable Egypt Christmas tours 2023 you have ever spent.

Meals: Breakfast