4-Day Egypt Architecture and Culture Tour with Cairo, Luxor and Aswan

• As per your requested arrival time at Cairo Airport, a representative will meet you at the airport and transfer you by private A/C car to your hotel.

Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: N/A

• Have breakfast, meet your Egyptologist guide around 8:00 am, and get picked up from your hotel by private A/C vehicle.
• Start your full-day visit at the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. On display is a rare collection spanning 5,000 years of art, the largest and most precious collection of Egyptian art in the world. More than 250,000 genuine artefacts are presented, including an exhibit dedicated to the Tutankhamen collection of treasures, gold, and jewellery, which remained enclosed in his tomb for over 3,500 years before its discovery in the 1920s during the excavation.
• Visit the Great Pyramids - Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerions. Cheops is the most colossal ever built.
• Travel to the Sphinx, a huge funerary complex guarded by the legendary lion body with the face of King Chephren.
• Head over to the Citadel, which comprises a number of important monuments, including the Mosque of Suleiman Pasha, the Alabaster Mosque, Joe's Walls, and Mohamed Ali Pasha Palace.
• Explore Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Shops in this district are legendary for fine brassware, copper, perfumes, leather, silver, gold, antiques, and more.
• You will be transferred back to your hotel at the end of the day around 5:00 pm.

(Optional - not included) USD 40 per person dinner cruise including transportation, dinner, belly dancer, and Tanura show. Overnight in Cairo from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

Meals: Breakfast at the hotel & complimentary lunch at a restaurant with Pyramids view

• Around 4:00 am, transfer to the domestic airport to take your flight to Luxor.
• Upon arrival in Luxor by 6:00 am, the representative will meet you and begin your full-day tour to the West Bank to visit the Valley of the Kings, Deir El Bahari Temple, the Colossi of Memnon, and the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
• Enjoy an excursion to the Necropolis of Thebes on the eastern bank.
• Cross the Nile and drive to the Valley of the Kings.
• Explore the tombs of various dynasties, including the Temple of Deir El Bahari.
• Stop at the Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic seated statues representing Amenophis III facing the Nile, and visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
• Head towards the East Bank for a Karnak and Luxor Temple excursion. Visit Luxor Temple to see its courtyard and the granite statues of Ramses the Great.
• Proceed by carriage or bus to Karnak, a series of temples built during different reigns. Starting at the Avenue of Sphinxes, visit the Unfinished Propylon, the Hypostyle Hall with its 134 gigantic columns, the obelisks of Queen Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, the Temple of Amon adorned with lotus and papyrus designs, the Granite Scarbeus of Amenophis III, and the Sacred Lake.
• Transfer to your hotel in Luxor for check-in.

Overnight stay in Luxor.

Meals: Breakfast at the hotel

• Have breakfast at the hotel and check out at 7:00 am. You will be picked up from your hotel in Luxor and transferred to Aswan.
• Stop at Edfu and Kom Ombo Temple.
• Continue your day tour with a visit to Philae Temple.
• Transfer to Aswan Airport to take your return flight to Cairo.
• Arrive in Cairo by 10:00 pm to take your connecting flight departing at 2:00 am.

Meals: Breakfast at the hotel