5-Day Heritage Tour of Cairo, Giza and Luxor by Sleeper Train

• Meet your tour guide at Cairo International Airport and head to the hotel for check-in. At the hotel, the tour manager will walk you through the itinerary and confirm the pick-up times for each day.

Overnight in Cairo.

• Have breakfast at your hotel and meet your tour guide to visit the Giza enclosure and its pyramids. This will be a journey of approximately three hours on the Giza Plateau to discover some of the most outstanding monuments in the world, including the only wonder of the ancient world that still exists today - the Pyramid of King Cheops. Next to it stand two more large pyramids: that of Khafre, son of Cheops, and that of Menkaure, son of Khafre and grandson of Cheops. This is also where the most famous sculpture in the world is located - the Sphinx of Giza, dating to the time of Khafre, with a human head and a lion's body.
• Head to the Valley Temple. In the enclosure are six satellite pyramids: three next to that of Cheops and three next to that of Menkaure, built for wives and daughters. Those who are not overwhelmed by closed spaces can access the interior of a pyramid. They may choose between the pyramid of Khafre or Menkaure for only 100 L.E. For those who want to enter the pyramid of Cheops, the price is 440 L.E. Tickets are bought at the ticket offices at the main entrances of the enclosure, and only Egyptian currency, the pound, is accepted.
• Stroll through a papyrus gallery to see how ancient paper was made. Then enjoy lunch at a local restaurant in Cairo.
• Proceed to the Egyptian Museum of Cairo in the afternoon.
• Transfer to Giza train station, according to the decided time, to board the train to Luxor. It is a train with double cabins with two beds. The trip lasts approximately 9 hours.

Have dinner and the next day's breakfast on the train.

• Visit the eastern shore of Luxor with your tour guide and see Luxor Temple, dating from the New Kingdom of the pharaohs: Tuthmosis III, Ramses II, Amenophis III and Alexander the Great, next to the Nile River. You can also see the 2,500-metre-long Avenue of Sphinxes, dating back to the 4th century BC and the reign of Nectaneb II, which connected Luxor Temple with Karnak Temple, which you will visit later. Karnak is the largest temple of worship in the world, covering about 23 hectares, with 22 centuries of construction from the 20th century BC until the 2nd century AD. All of this was dedicated to the cult of the city's main triad: Amon Re, Mot and Khonsu.
• After lunch at a local restaurant, head back to the hotel for check-in.
• Head out to enjoy a felucca ride.

Night at Luxor hotel.

• Enjoy a relaxed breakfast and set out to visit the western bank of the Nile, including the most important necropolis in Egypt - the Place of Truth, the Valley of the Kings. You can see three tombs out of the 63 discovered so far in the enclosure. The tombs are well preserved, with colours and very interesting texts describing the afterlife and the king's journey to paradise. Your guide will choose the best three tombs currently open for your visit.
• Visit the temple of Deir el Bahary, the funerary temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut from 1480 BC. It has a very unusual design, with two ramps and three terraces set against the cliff of the Theban limestone mountain. You can still see colours on the temple walls, and there is a more deeply carved section inside the mountain containing the sanctuary of the holy place.
• Head to see the temple of Medinet Habu, built for King Ramses III. Stop in front of the Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic statues that were moved from Cairo to flank the entrance to the funerary temple of King Amenophis III. Although the temple was lost, the statues remain as witnesses to its former greatness. You will also discover the legend of Aurora and Memnon and learn why they are called the Colossi of Memnon.
• Transfer to Luxor train station to board the train heading to Cairo.

Dinner and the next day's breakfast on the train.

• Transfer to Cairo Airport for your flight to your next destination.