5-Day Egypt History and Architecture Tour with Cairo and Luxor

• Meet your guide upon arrival at Cairo Airport. The representative will assist you through passport control formalities and luggage identification and portage, then transfer you by private A/C car from the airport to your hotel.

Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: N/A

• After breakfast at the hotel, around 8:30 am, you will be picked up from your hotel to start your full-day tour with your Egyptologist guide.
• Visit the Giza Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerions. Cheops is the most colossal ever built.
• Travel to the Sphinx, a massive funerary complex guarded by the legendary lion body with the face of King Chephren.
• Enjoy lunch at a local deluxe restaurant based on a full meal for each person, but beverages are not included.
• Proceed to the Sakkara Pyramids. See the earliest monumental stone structure in Egypt, a stepped pyramid built for King Zoser (c. 2650 BC). This pyramid is considered the first stone structure in the world.
• End your day with a visit to Memphis City, founded in 3100 BC by King Mena, and the first capital of ancient Egypt.
• See the colossal statue of King Ramses II and the Alabaster Sphinx, located in the middle of the garden area in Memphis City, and then transfer back to your hotel.

(Optional) 40 $ P.P Dinner Cruise including transportation, dinner, Belly Dancer, Tanura Show.

Overnight at your hotel.

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch at a Local Restaurant

• Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. At 3:30 am, transfer to the domestic airport to take your flight to Luxor.
• Upon arrival in Luxor, meet and assist the local representative before starting 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.
• Take an excursion to the Necropolis of Thebes on the eastern bank.
• Cross the Nile and drive to the Valley of the Kings, where you will visit the tombs of various dynasties and the Temple of Deir El Bahari.
• On the return journey, stop at the Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic seated statues representing Amenophis III facing the Nile. Then visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
• On the East Bank, proceed by carriage or bus to Karnak, a series of temples built during different reigns.
• Start at the Avenue of Sphinxes and 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 Scarabeus of Amenophis III, and the Sacred Lake.
• At 4:00 pm, transfer to your hotel in Luxor.
• Check in and rest before going back to the East Bank to visit Luxor Temple.
• At 6:00 pm, you will be picked up from your hotel to start your evening visit to Luxor Temple, where the lights at night inside the ancient temple create a unique atmosphere.
• Stop at Luxor Temple to see its courtyard and the granite statues of Ramses the Great.
• At 9:00 pm, transfer back to your hotel.

Overnight in Luxor

Meals: Breakfast

• After breakfast at the hotel, around 6:00 am, transfer to Luxor Airport to take your flight to Cairo.

• Upon arrival in Cairo by 8:00 am, meet the local representative.

• Depart in an A/C car to start your full-day tour with a visit to 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 Tutankhamen collection of treasures, gold, and jewellery, which remained enclosed in his tomb for over 3,500 years before being discovered in the 1920s during the excavation.

• Visit the old part of Cairo, as Egypt was one of the first countries to embrace Christianity.

• Explore the Church of Abu-Sergah and St. Berbara, the Hanging Church, and the old Jewish Ben Ezra Synagogue.

• End your day tour with a visit to Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Shops in this district are legendary for fine brassware, copper, perfumes, leather, silver, gold, antiques, and more.

• Around 5:00 pm, transfer to your hotel.

Overnight in Cairo

(Optional) 40 $ P.P Sound & Light Laser Show at Pyramids area

Overnight stay in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast

• Have breakfast at the hotel.

• At 12:00 pm (noon), check out and, according to your requested time, the representative will transfer you to the airport and assist you through the final departure formalities.

Meals: Breakfast