7-Day Nile Cruise and Ancient Egypt Tour with Giza and Luxor

• Meet your guide after arriving at Cairo International Airport and check in to your hotel.

• Have breakfast and head to the Giza enclosure and its pyramids. Enjoy a three-hour tour 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, those of Khafre and Menkaure. This is also where the Sphinx of Giza is located. Proceed to the Temple of the Valley.
• Head to the Memphis site in the afternoon, an open-air museum. The city was founded as the first capital of Egypt in the year 3100. See the Saqqara necropolis, which is one of the most important in the history of Egypt. Here, you can see the stepped pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser, the first pyramid built in the country in limestone in 2700 BC. (optional tour)
• Transfer to the Giza train station to board the train heading to Aswan. It is a train with double cabins (with 2 beds). The trip will last approximately 13 hours.

Dinner and breakfast on the train.

• Have breakfast on the train, arrive in Aswan, and visit the Philae Temple (optional). The name comes from an island in the Nile River, 11 kilometres south of Aswan. It was famous for the temples erected during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, dedicated to worshipping the goddess Isis, goddess of music, love, and joy, whose cult spread throughout the Mediterranean until the temple was closed in 430 AD.
• Have lunch on board. Enjoy felucca time in the afternoon and sightsee the River Nile.

Overnight in Aswan.

• Head for an early visit to Abu Simbel city to visit its temples. The colossal temples of Abu Simbel were built by Ramses II (XIX Dynasty). Abu Simbel is a site of archaeological interest made up of Egyptian temples in Nubia, southern Egypt. (optional tour)
• Transfer to the cruise, get ready for lunch, and sail to Kom Ombo. Have tea in the afternoon and visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, known for its special design divided between two triads of six divinities: Sobek, the god in the form of a crocodile, with his wife and son, and Haroeris. You can also enter the museum of crocodile mummies that were found in a cemetery on the western bank of the Nile.
• Sail to Edfu and have dinner on board.

Overnight in Edfu.

• Have breakfast on board and head to the Temple of Edfu. The temple dates from Ancient Egypt and is located on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Edfu, 120 km south of Luxor. During the Greco-Roman period, it was known as Apollinopolis Magna.
• Sail to Luxor and visit the Temple of Luxor, dating from the time of the New Kingdom pharaohs: Tuthmosis III, Ramses II, Amenophis III, and Alexander the Great, next to the Nile River.

Have dinner on board and stay overnight in Luxor.

• Have breakfast and check out from the cruise cabin, then move to visit the Nile Western Bank, including the most important necropolis in Egypt, the Valley of the Kings. You can enter three of the 63 tombs that have been discovered so far in the enclosure.
• Visit the Temple of Deir el Bahary. It is the funerary temple of Pharaoh Hatchepsut from 1480 B.C., which has a very rare shape of two ramps and three terraces in front of the cliff of the Theban limestone mountain.
• Stop at the Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic statues that were moved from Cairo to flank the entrance to the funerary temple of King Amenophis III. The temple was lost, but the statues remain as witnesses to the greatness the temple possessed in its time.
• Transfer to the Luxor train station to board the train heading to Cairo. It is a train with double cabins (with 2 beds). The trip lasts approximately 9 hours.

Have dinner and breakfast on the train.

• Have breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Cairo airport for your international flight to your next destination.