8 Day Best of Egypt Tour – Cairo & Nile Cruise

DAY 1 – Arrival in Cairo for Best of Egypt Tour

When you arrive at the airport in Cairo for your Best of Egypt Tour, your assigned tour manager will meet you, and we will also have one of our drivers waiting outside to drive you to the hotel where you will be staying while you are in Cairo, the Egyptian capital. Once at the hotel, your tour manager will ensure a smooth check-in and then he will discuss your travel itinerary with you, and also confirm a pick-up time for the morning. After that, you will have the rest of the day for yourself.

Included: Free Welcome Drink

DAY 2 – Giza Pyramids, Coptic Cairo, Islamic Cairo Tour and GEM

After a delicious breakfast at your hotel, your Egyptologist guide and driver will meet you to begin your day of exploring Egypt’s most iconic sites. First, journey to the Giza Plateau, where you’ll marvel at one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Pyramids of Giza. While at this legendary site, you’ll also visit the Sphinx and the Valley Temple, both remarkable landmarks within the ancient necropolis.

After your pyramid tour, enjoy lunch at an authentic Egyptian restaurant. Next, continue to the New Grand Egyptian Museum, also known as the Giza Museum, located about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the pyramids. This extraordinary archaeological museum currently offers limited access, allowing you to explore the Main Galleries, Grand Hall, Grand Staircase, commercial area, and exterior gardens as part of a pre-opening experience.

Your journey through Egypt’s history continues with a visit to the historic Egyptian Museum in Downtown Cairo, home to the world’s largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the treasures from King Tutankhamen’s tomb discovered in 1922.

Following this, venture to Coptic Cairo to see the famous Hanging Church and the historic Ben Ezra Synagogue. Finally, head to Islamic Cairo, where you’ll have time to explore the lively Khan el Khalili Bazaar, Egypt’s oldest and largest marketplace, bustling with vibrant shops and open since the 14th century.

When you’ve soaked up the unique atmosphere of the bazaar, your guide and driver will return you to your hotel, leaving you with the evening to relax and reflect on a day filled with Egypt’s ancient and cultural wonders.

Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch

DAY 3 – Fly to Luxor, Cruise Embarkation and East Bank Tour

The next phase of your Best of Egypt Tour begins today, so at the confirmed time, which be shortly after breakfast, you will check-out from your hotel, and you will then be transferred to the airport where you will be boarding a short flight to Luxor. When you land in Luxor, you will once again be met by one of our tour representatives who will then escort to the area where you will be boarding a 5-Star Nile cruise ship for your cruise to Aswan.

After embarkation, enjoy a good lunch on board the ship, and then our Egyptologist tour guide will take you and a small group of our other clients to see two remarkable ancient attractions on Luxor’s West Bank. Visit the vast Karnak Temple Complex and the impressively well-preserved Luxor Temple, and then you will return to the ship.

Enjoy a nice relaxing dinner aboard the ship, and enjoy the first night of your cruise on the Nile at Luxor.

Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch

DAY 4 – Luxor West Bank Tour and Sail to Edfu

After breakfast today, our tour guide will once again escort you and your small group on a tour, this time to the West Bank. During this particular tour, you will visit three incredible timeless monuments: Valley of the Kings; the mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, and the Colossi of Memnon.

Valley of the Kings is the ancient royal necropolis where the tomb of King Tutankhamen was discovered. There are also another 61 tombs at this site, so there is plenty to see before you move on to Hatshepsut’s magnificent rock-cut temple which was constructed during the 15th century BC. After exploring this temple, you will then visit the Colossi of Memnon on the way back to the cruise ship.

Once everyone is back on board the boat, it will begin sailing along the Nile to Edfu and lunch will be served. The remainder of the day is then yours to enjoy as you wish. End this day of your Best of Egypt Tour on the Nile at Edfu.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

DAY 5 – Horus Temple, Kom Ombo Temple and Sail to Aswan

Today, after breakfast, you will leave the ship again with our tour guide, and you will be taken to see the Temple of Horus which is the best preserved ancient Egyptian temple ever discovered in Egypt. Following your trip to this temp, you will return to the ship and it will then sail to Kom Ombo where you will once again leave the ship to visit another astonishing ancient monument, the Kom Ombo Temple. This complex was originally dedicated to two different gods simultaneously: Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world, and Haeroris the falcon-headed god.

After your visit to this ancient temple, you will head back to the boat in time for lunch which will be served while it is sailing on the Nile to Aswan where you will spend this night of your Best of Egypt Tour on the water.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

DAY 6 – Aswan Monuments Tour and Leisure Time

This morning your tour guide will take on another tour after breakfast, and you will visit the Aswan High Dam; the Unfinished Obelisk, and the magnificent ancient Temple of Philae. This remarkable ancient temple was moved from its original location to its current location in order to save it from the flooding of Lake Nasser when the Aswan High Dam was built.

Following your tour, you will return to your Nile cruise ship, and you will have the rest of the day to relax and unwind. Enjoy the final night of your Luxor to Aswan cruise in your cabin on the Nile at Aswan.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

DAY 7 – Fly to Cairo and Free Time

Enjoy one last breakfast aboard the Nile cruise ship, and then it will be time for you to disembark so that we can get you to Aswan Airport in time for your flight back to Cairo. When you land in Cairo, your tour manager will once again meet you at the airport, and then escort you to the hotel where you will be spending the last night of your vacation in Egypt.

There are no tours or excursions scheduled for this day, so you will be free to enjoy the remainder of the day as you wish.

Meals Included: Breakfast

DAY 8 – Best of Egypt Tour Ends and Departure

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel, and then at the agreed time, your tour manager will arrive, and he or she will then accompany you to Cairo International Airport in time for your flight out of Egypt. Your Best of Egypt Tour has now come to an end, so we will bid you farewell and wish you a safe and pleasant onward journey.

Meals Included: Breakfast