4-Day Egypt History and Culture Tour with Cairo, Giza and Luxor

• Meet your tour representative upon arrival at Cairo Airport, then transfer by private A/C car to your hotel.

Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: N/A

• Have breakfast, and around 8:00 am, get picked up from your hotel by a private A/C vehicle and your Egyptologist guide.
• Visit the Great Pyramids - Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinos. Cheops is the most colossal ever built.
• Next, get a close-up look at the Sphinx - a massive funerary complex guarded by the legendary lion's body with the face of King Chephren.
• Continue your tour to Saqqara, which is 27 km southwest of Cairo.
• Visit the Step Pyramid of Saqqara. The first proper pyramid was built for King Zoser, and it is considered the evolution of the pyramid from the simple mastaba to the pyramid in its known form.
• Visit Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt, where the Colossal Statue of Ramses II and the great Alabaster Sphinx are located.
• Stop for lunch at a local restaurant with a full meal for each person, but beverages are not included.
• Transfer to Cairo Airport to take the domestic flight to Luxor. The flight takes off at 10:45 pm and reaches Luxor at 11:45 pm.
• Upon arrival at Luxor Airport, meet the representative who will transfer you to your hotel in Luxor for check-in.

Overnight stay in Luxor.

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

• Have breakfast at the hotel, and at 8:00 am, meet your guide to start your full-day tour of the West Bank, visiting the Valley of the Kings, Deir El Bahari Temple, the Colossi of Memnon, and the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
• Go on an excursion to the Necropolis of Thebes on the eastern bank.
• Cross the Nile and drive to the Valley of the Kings to visit the tombs of various dynasties and the Temple of Deir El Bahari.
• Stop at the Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic seated statues representing Amenophis III facing the Nile. Then visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
• Continue with the Karnak and Luxor Temple excursion. Visit Luxor Temple to see its courtyard and the granite statues of Ramses the Great.
• Proceed 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 scarab of Amenophis III, and the Sacred Lake.
• Around 8:30 pm, transfer to the domestic airport to take your flight back to Cairo.
• Upon arrival, meet and assist the local representative, then transfer to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast at the hotel

• Have breakfast at the hotel and start your full-day tour of 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. Over 250,000 genuine artifacts are presented, including an exhibit dedicated to the treasures, gold, and jewellery of Tutankhamen, which remained enclosed in his tomb for over 3,500 years before its discovery in the 1920s.
• Visit the Citadel, which comprises a number of important monuments, including the Mosque of Suleiman Pasha, the Alabaster Mosque, Joseph's Walls, and Mohamed Ali Pasha Palace.
• Explore the old part of Cairo, as Egypt was one of the first countries to embrace Christianity. Visit the Church of Abu-Sergah and St. Barbara, the Hanging Church, and the old Jewish synagogue, Ben Ezra Synagogue.
• Next, visit Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Shops in this district are legendary for fine brassware, copper, perfumes, leather, silver, gold, antiques, and more.
• In the evening at 6:30 pm, get picked up from your hotel to attend Giza's Sound and Light Show, where you listen to ancient stories through sound and light effects.
• Around 7:30 pm, transfer to the airport and receive assistance with final departure formalities.

Meals: Breakfast at the hotel