11-Day Egypt Pyramids and Nile Cruise Tour with Sharm El Sheikh

• Arrive at Cairo International Airport, where your tour manager will meet and assist you with the arrival procedures before escorting you to your hotel in an exclusive air-conditioned deluxe vehicle.

• Enjoy a welcome drink at the hotel. Your tour manager will ensure a smooth check-in and review your holiday itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for each leg of the tour.

Overnight stay in Cairo.

• Enjoy a hearty breakfast at your hotel.

• Meet your personal guide and set out to visit the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren, and Mykerinus. Also see the famous Sphinx and the Valley Temple facing this ancient wonder.

• Enjoy a scrumptious lunch at a good restaurant.

• Proceed to Sakkara and see Djoser, famously known as the first pyramid ever built.

• Visit Memphis, one of the first imperial cities in the world, which served as the capital of the Old Kingdom in 3100 BC. Walk around the famous necropolis.

• Transfer back to the hotel in Cairo for an overnight stay.

• After a delicious breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, be escorted by your private Cairo tour guide to the Egyptian Museum. Here, visit the Treasures Room of the child king Tutankhamen and see fascinating artifacts from Egyptian history. Additionally, you may also visit the Mummies Room at the museum, for which tickets are available on site.

• Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant.

• Visit Saladin Citadel and Mohamed Ali Mosque.

• Proceed to the Saladin Citadel, which served as the seat of the rulers of Egypt for 700 years between the 13th and the 19th centuries. Visit the Mohamed Ali Mosque located within its medieval fortifications.

• Transfer back to the hotel in Cairo for an overnight stay.

• Enjoy one last breakfast at your hotel in Cairo before checking out and transferring to Cairo International Airport for your flight to Aswan.

• Transfer to embark on your Nile Cruise and enjoy a scrumptious lunch on board.

• Visit the world-famous High Dam, the awesome Philae Temple, which is devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor, and the largest known ancient obelisk - the Unfinished Obelisk - located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt.

• Enjoy a hearty dinner on board and stay overnight in Aswan.

• You may enjoy an optional tour to one of Egypt's top tourist attractions, the Abu Simbel Temple, which was originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC as a lasting monument to Pharaoh Ramses II and his queen Nefertiti.

• Cruise to Kom Ombo and visit the temple shared by the two gods Sobek and Haeroris.

• Continue sailing to Edfu and stay overnight.

[Note: breakfast, lunch, and dinner included]

• Enjoy a hearty breakfast on board and visit the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt - the Horus Temple in Edfu.

• Cruise from Esna to Luxor and stay overnight in Luxor.

[Note: breakfast, lunch, and dinner included]

• Disembark from your Nile cruise after breakfast and visit the West Bank.

• Enjoy an excursion to the Royal Cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, the Valley of Kings, and the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom Pharaoh Hatshepsut approximately in the 15th century BC at El-Deir El-Bahari. Also visit the Colossi of Memnon.

• Enjoy a scrumptious lunch and pack up energy for your journey ahead.

• Transfer to Luxor Airport for your flight to Sharm El Sheikh.

• Arrive at Sharm El Sheikh Airport and transfer to your hotel in Sharm for an overnight stay.

• You may spend your day in Sharm El Sheikh at your own leisure, enjoying the Red Sea beach near your hotel and soaking up the sun, or taking part in aquatic sports offered here such as parasailing, diving, and snorkelling.

• All meals will be served.

• Enjoy a free day at your leisure. Alternatively, you may join an optional tour to the Monastery of St. Catherine, which is located in the heart of Sinai at the foot of Gebel Musa, or Mount Moses. Fronted by gardens and cypress trees, the monastery is owned and run by the Greek Orthodox Church. Its rich library houses the world's second-largest collection of illuminated manuscripts after the Vatican. Here, you will see the Burning Bush and a large number of antique works of art, including invaluable icons, beautifully carved doors, exquisite wall paintings, and other fine religious ornaments.

• Enjoy all three meals and stay overnight at your hotel in Sharm.

• Enjoy a fulfilling breakfast at your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh before transferring to the airport for your flight back to Cairo.

• Overnight stay in Cairo.

• Enjoy a hearty breakfast at your hotel in Cairo.

• Enjoy some free time at your own leisure before checking out of the hotel and transferring to Cairo International Airport for your final departure.