7-Day Egypt History Cruise Tour from Cairo with Nile Temple Visits

• Arrive at Cairo Airport and meet your tour guide.
• Transfer to the hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.

• Have breakfast at the hotel, then drive to the Giza complex.
• Visit the Great Pyramids of Giza, the only remaining landmark of the Old Seven Wonders of the World: the Pyramid of Cheops and the pyramids of Chephren and Mycerinus. Take a few pictures from the panoramic area.
• Travel to the Valley Temple and the Great Sphinx.
• Visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. Get a chance to see the collection of King Tutankhamen, including the famous golden mask of the boy king. Additionally, you can also visit the Mummies Hall, where you can see mummies of the ancient Egyptian kings.
• Drive back to the hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.

• Have breakfast at the hotel, then travel to Cairo Domestic Terminal to fly to Aswan.
• Meet your tour guide in Aswan, then travel to the High Dam, an engineering miracle built in 1960 to protect Egypt from the Nile's annual floods.
• Proceed to visit the Unfinished Obelisk, which shows the techniques used by the ancient Egyptians to cut obelisks.
• Travel to the majestic Philae Temple, which was built in honour of the goddess Isis, the chief deity of the island.
• Take a cruise ride to Kom Ombo and have lunch on board.
• Visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, which is shared by the two gods Sobek and Haroeris.
• Have dinner and attend a disco party on board.

Overnight stay on the cruise.

Note: The cruise sailing times are flexible. Therefore, the order of the itinerary might change from time to time. We assure you that you will visit all the mentioned sites; only the order may vary.

• Have breakfast on the cruise and arrive at Edfu.
• Visit the Temple of Edfu, a majestic temple dedicated to Horus, which is considered the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt. According to Egyptian myths, it was the place where the falcon-headed god Horus avenged the murder of his father Osiris by killing Seth.
• Hop back on the cruise and have lunch on board.
• Continue sailing to Luxor.
• Have dinner on board and attend a Galabya party, an ancient Egyptian costume party.

Overnight stay on the cruise.

• Have breakfast on board, then cross to the West Bank to visit the Valley of the Kings, where tombs were cut into the mountain for the New Kingdom pharaohs, who ruled over Egypt for almost 500 years between 1550 and 1080 BC.
• Proceed to visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, one of the most striking monuments in Egypt, built at the bottom of the Al Qurna mountain cliff. Queen Hatshepsut was the famous female pharaoh of Egypt, who posed as a male to gain the throne.
• Have a brief photo stop at the Colossi of Memnon, which mark the entrance to the ruined funerary temple of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC).

Get back on the cruise for dinner and an overnight stay.

• Have breakfast on board, then disembark from the cruise.
• Start the tour at Karnak Temple, the greatest cult temple in history, dedicated to the Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head, his wife Mut, and their son Khonsu.
• Continue to visit Luxor Temple, located at the other end of the Avenue of Sphinxes, which once connected Karnak and Luxor temples. The rear of the temple includes chapels built by Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt and Alexander the Great. Other parts of the temple were built by Tutankhamun and Rameses II.
• Then transfer to Luxor Airport for your flight back to Cairo.
• Arrive in Cairo and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight stay in Cairo.

• Have an early morning breakfast and transfer to the airport for your departure.