4-Day Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor with Abu Simbel

• Our licensed tour guide will meet and assist you at Aswan railway station, airport, or hotel, then transfer you by A/C van to your 5-star Nile Cruise for check-in before lunch. Have lunch on board.
• Then, start your tour by visiting the High Dam, completed in 1960 to protect Egypt from flooding and generate electricity.
• Proceed to visit Philae Temple, the Greco-Roman temple dedicated to the goddess Isis, using a small motorboat to get there. Later, return to your cruise for dinner, a folkloric show, and an overnight stay in Aswan.

Note: If your arrival in Aswan is early, we will start the tour directly upon arrival since the cruise check-in time is at 12:00, and we do not want our guests to waste time waiting in the lobby for check-in.

• Around 4:00 to 4:30, pick up your breakfast box from the reception and be ready to meet your guide to start the tour to Abu Simbel Temples (sharing a group). Drive for about 3 to 4 hours to visit one of the most impressive places in Egypt: the rock-cut temples of Abu Simbel, with their unique design built for King Ramesses II and his beloved Queen Nefertari. Return to the cruise around 2:30 pm for lunch, then begin sailing to Kom Ombo Temple.
• Enjoy the views of the Nile Valley while sailing to Kom Ombo city, where you can visit the dual temples of Sobek, the crocodile god, and Horus, the falcon god. Return to the cruise for dinner, then continue sailing to Edfu for an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, enjoy a horse carriage ride with your tour guide to visit the Temple of Horus at Edfu, considered the most complete and best-preserved of all the Egyptian temples. Return to the cruise, relax on the deck, watch the unique landscape, and admire the beautiful scenery of the Nile River while sailing to Luxor. Cross Esna Lock, enjoy lunch on board, and have afternoon tea on the sundeck.
• Late in the afternoon, arrive at Luxor dock and transfer to visit Luxor Temple on the East Bank of Luxor, where ancient Egyptian, Christian, and Islamic features are exhibited. Dinner on board and a belly dancing show. Overnight in Luxor. Note: If your cruise arrives by 3:00 or 3:30 p.m., then you have a chance to visit both Karnak and Luxor Temples on the East Bank of Luxor.

• Breakfast and check-out, then start your remarkable day by driving to the West Bank to visit the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaohs of the New Kingdom carved their tombs into the mountains, aiming to hide their treasures and protect their mummies.
• Then continue to the Mortuary Temple of the famous Queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahari. Listen to your guide tell her exciting story and learn how she managed to rule as a sole female pharaoh.
• End your West Bank tour with a photo stop in front of the gigantic 17-meter statues of Memnon. Lunchtime in a local restaurant is optional.
• Drive back to the East Bank to see the largest temple ever built: Karnak Temple, constructed over 2,000 years and covering an area of about 63 acres. Later, transfer to Luxor railway station, airport, or Luxor hotel.