9-Day Egypt Highlights Tour from Cairo with Nile Cruise

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Day 01

Arrival in Cairo

• Get picked up from Cairo Airport and transferred to your accommodation.

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Day 02

Saqqara, Serapeum and Dahshur

• Visit the Djoser Pyramid, an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, northwest of the city of Memphis.
• See the Serapeum, a temple dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria.
• Explore Dahshur, including the Bent Pyramid, the Red Pyramid, and the Abu Gorab locality.

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Day 03

Giza Pyramids and Egyptian Museum

• Enjoy free time to enter the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and the Egyptian Museum.
• Go on a Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor.

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Day 04

Aswan, Philae and Kom Ombo

• Transfer to your Nile cruise embarkation before lunch.
• Visit Philae Temple of Goddess Isis, then sail to Kom Ombo and pay a visit to the temple.
• Sail to Edfu for an overnight stay. (Lunch, Dinner).

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Day 05

Edfu and the Temple of Horus

• Visit Edfu, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with approximately sixty thousand people. Edfu is the site of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus and an ancient settlement, Tell Edfu.

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Day 06

Valley of the Kings and West Bank of Luxor

• Visit the Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings. It is a valley in Egypt where, for nearly 500 years, rock-cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom.
• Explore the Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned in Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
• Lastly, go to Queen Hatshepsut Temple, a mortuary temple built during Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.

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Day 07

Karnak, Avenue of Sphinxes and Luxor Temple

• Pay respects to the Karnak Temple Complex, which comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, towers, and other buildings near Luxor, as well as the Avenue of Sphinxes.
• Visit the Chapel of Amenhotep I and the Chapel of Sekhmet. Also, visit Luxor Temple.

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Day 08

Abydos and Dendera Temples

• Explore Abydos Temple with the hieroglyphs of the "Helicopter and the Submarine," the Osirieon with the pillars bearing the "Flower of Life," and Dendera Temple with the crypt. The temple was built by Pharaoh Seti I. The temple is also notable for the Abydos graffiti, ancient Phoenician and Aramaic graffiti found on the temple walls.

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Day 09

Departure from Cairo

• Departure from Cairo.