10-Day Egypt Heritage Tour with Nile Cruise and Hurghada Stay

• Meet your tour guide upon arrival at Cairo Airport and transfer to your hotel.

• Have breakfast at your hotel in Cairo and then visit the following places:

• Giza enclosure and its pyramids - Spend three hours on the Giza Plateau discovering some of the most outstanding monuments in the world, including the only surviving wonder of the ancient world, the pyramid of King Cheops. Nearby stand two more large pyramids: that of Khafre, son of Cheops, and that of Menkaure, grandson of Cheops. This is also where the most famous sculpture in the world is located - the Sphinx of Giza.
• Valley Temple - Known as a great mark of ancient Egyptian civilization, it is living proof of how important the Fourth Dynasty was in the history of Egypt and civilization itself.
• Egyptian Museum of Antiquities - The richest museum of monuments in the world, home to masterpieces of the pharaonic era, the treasure of Tutankhamun and many statues showing Egyptian wealth in different materials.

• Return to the hotel.

• Have breakfast and get ready to visit the Saladin Citadel, a huge fortress located east of Cairo that dates back to medieval times and Sultan Saladin.
• Continue to Old Cairo and the Coptic Quarter. It is a very rich neighbourhood with the oldest Christian monuments in Egypt. You can visit one of several churches, such as the Church of Al-Moallaqa, if time permits.
• Go to the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, the most famous market in Cairo, known for its special medieval Egyptian market atmosphere.
• Visit the Sakkara necropolis (optional tour), one of the most important sites 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 B.C.
• Board the train to Aswan from Giza train station. It is a train with double cabins with two beds, and the journey lasts approximately 13 hours.

Have dinner and breakfast on the train.

• Arrive in Aswan and visit Philae Temple. Its 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 and dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, goddess of music, love and joy. Her worship spread throughout the Mediterranean until the temple was closed in 430 A.D.
• Have lunch and get ready for a felucca ride for Nile sightseeing.

Overnight in Aswan.

• Head out early for a visit to Abu Simbel city to see its temples. The colossal temples of Abu Simbel were built by Ramses II of the XIX Dynasty. Abu Simbel is an archaeological site in Nubia, southern Egypt, made up of remarkable Egyptian temples. This is an optional tour.
• Transfer to the cruise, get ready for lunch and sail to Kom Ombo. Have tea in the afternoon and visit Kom Ombo Temple, known for its special design divided between two triads of six divinities: Sobek, the crocodile god, with his wife and son, and Haroeris. You can also enter the museum of crocodile mummies 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. This 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 Luxor Temple, dating from the New Kingdom of the pharaohs, including Tuthmosis III, Ramses II, Amenophis III and Alexander the Great, beside 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 discovered so far in the enclosure.
• Visit the Temple of Deir el Bahary. It is the funerary temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut from 1480 B.C., with a very rare design of two ramps and three terraces set against the cliff of the Theban limestone mountain.
• Stop at the Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic statues 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 the greatness it once possessed.
• Transfer to your Hurghada hotel by air-conditioned car, where you will have lunch and dinner.

• Enjoy a free day in Hurghada.

• Head to Cairo from Hurghada by bus in the afternoon.

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