7-Day Egypt Ancient Cities Tour with Nile Cruise and Domestic Flights

• Pick up at Cairo Airport and transfer to your hotel.

• Spend the rest of the day at leisure.

• Visit the Giza pyramid complex, including the three great pyramids: Cheops, Chephren, and Menkaure.

• See the Great Sphinx, a reclining limestone statue of a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human.

• Proceed to the Egyptian Museum, which houses an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts.

• Transfer to Cairo Airport and take a flight to Upper Egypt - Aswan.

• Visit Philae Temple, an ancient pilgrimage centre for the cult of Isis, the Mother Goddess of Earth.

• Transfer to the Nile cruise boat for three nights on board. On the journey from Aswan to Luxor, stop twice to visit the following temples:

  • The Temple of Kom Ombo, an unusual double temple in Aswan. Its structures were constructed in such a way that they duplicate themselves for two sets of gods.

  • The Temple of Edfu, located on the bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt. It was once a cult centre of the falcon god Horus of Behdet (Edfu).

Visit the following archaeological sites:

• The Karnak Temple Complex, a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other ancient Egyptian structures.

• Luxor Temple, a large ancient Egyptian temple.

• The Valley of the Kings, where the rock-cut tombs of pharaohs were excavated.

• The Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

• The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut.

• Transfer to the airport and take a flight to Cairo.

• Transfer to your hotel in Cairo.

• Transfer to Cairo Airport and take your flight back home.