Circuit de 8 jours au Caire, à Louxor et à Assouan

Before you meet your unique tour guide and embark on one of Cairo day tours to the 4500-year-old pyramids of Giza, enjoy a delicious breakfast in the hotel's main restaurant.

After that, you will visit The Giza Pyramids are a must-see attraction, featuring the Great Pyramid of Cheops, the pyramids of King Chephren and Mycerinus, and the renowned Great Sphinx. A camel ride is available for a panoramic view. The Valley Temple of King Chephren is a stunning granite structure. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo houses the world's largest collection of Egyptian artifacts, including the intact tomb of the Golden Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

The tour then proceeds to Coptic Cairo where stops include the historic sites of the Hanging Church and the Church of St. Sergius, both of which are known for their beauty, as well as the ancient Roman citadel of Babylon. Sergius, often referred to as the Church of the Cave or the Church of the Holy Family, was constructed over the crypt where the Holy Family waited for about three months by the well from which they drew their supplies of water. Your tour of Coptic Cairo continues when we arrive at the Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is thought to represent the location of the fortress from which the daughter of the pharaoh retrieved Moses' box from the Nile.

Following lunch, you will be transported to the Islamic Cairo neighborhood where you will witness the walls and gates of the medieval city built by the Fatimid king Badr Al Gamali as well as the ancient, winding lanes lined with vibrant shops that date back to the 10th century. When visiting Islamic Cairo, you'll go to great lengths to have a cup of mint tea at Al-Fishawy, one of the oldest coffee shops in Khan El Khalili Bazaar is a historic marketplace.

Meals: breakfast, lunch

After checking out of your hotel in the early morning hours following breakfast, you will be taken to the Cairo airport for your flight to Luxor, where our representatives will meet and assist you as usual on any of our Egypt day tours or Egypt tour packages before taking you to the 5-star Steigenberger MS Minerva for your Nile cruise.After your first meal on board, go out on a tour of Luxor's eastern shore to see the Karnak Temple, the biggest man-made religious complex in the world and the former administrative hub of a great kingdom like Egypt. Visit the majestic Luxor Temple as well, which will be exquisitely illuminated at night, to experience its full grandeur and reflect on how affluent the ancient Egyptians must have been 3800 years ago to dare to erect such enormous monuments just for the purpose of worshiping their Ancient Egyptian deities.

After completing your tour of the eastern shore of Luxor, you will be transferred back to the ship and then dinner will be served.

After a delicious buffet breakfast on board your Nile cruise ship, your Egyptologist tour guide will take you to Luxor's west bank to see two enormous statues of Amenhotep III known as the Colossi of Memnon. You'll also be amazed by the Valley of the Kings Necropolis, which contains the tombs of more than 62 New Kingdom pharaohs, including well-known figures like Tutankhamun and the great Ramsesll. The tombs are elaborately carved into the mountain, lavishly painted, and loaded with treasures that the pharaohs intended to enjoy in the future upon their resurrection. Visit the Temple of Hatshepsut, also known as El Deir El Bahari, as part of your ongoing Luxor day excursions. She was the first female pharaoh of Egypt and is commemorated in this temple.
After a pleasant lunch, you will sail to Edfu where dinner and entertainment on board await.

Overnight on board the Nile cruise.

Optional Luxor hot air balloon tour

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
 

Visit the well-preserved falcon-headed temple of Edfu, a Ptolemaic temple dedicated to the god Horus, after another oriental breakfast at the Nile Cruise's main restaurant. Visit the fascinating Kom Ombo Temple, which is devoted to the crocodile-god Sobek, by sailing to Kom Ombo. Enjoy lunch on board, travel to Aswan before dinner, and spend the night on your luxurious Nile cruise ship.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
 

You will eat breakfast while cruising the Nile. After that, your guide will show you the High Dam, an engineering marvel and the most significant project in modern Egypt, the magnificent temple of Philae, which is dedicated to the goddess Isis and is beautifully situated on an island. You can get to the temple by taking a relaxing motorboat ride. then you will drive to the largest known obelisk in the granite quarries in Aswan, the Unfinished Obelisk, Back to the cruise, Enjoy your dinner on board and overnight on board.
Optional Abu Simbel Tour

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
 

Disembark the Steigenberger MS Minerva Nile cruise liner after breakfast, then travel to the Aswan airport to catch your flight back to Cairo. You will be met and welcomed by our personnel at Cairo International Airport before being driven to your hotel, where you can enjoy the remainder of the day as you like.

Spend the night in the Cairo hotel.

Dining: Breakfast
 

Buffet breakfast at the hotel and leisure time Enjoy one of the daily Cairo sightseeing tours before being taken to the airport for your last departure.

Meals: Breakfast