Itinerary

Saturday, Day 1: Arrive Cairo

You will be met on arrival in Cairo and transferred to the Cairo Marriott Hotel.

Sunday, Day 2: Memphis & Cairo

This morning, after breakfast your guide will meet you at the hotel and you will set off to visit the Ancient Capital of Egypt at Memphis, the Step Pyramid and the Tombs of Sakkara. After lunch at a local restaurant, continue to the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and the Valley Temple. Cairo Marriott Hotel. Breakfast.

Monday, Day 3: Cairo

Today's activities include a visit to the Coptic Museum and Old Cairo and in the afternoon a tour of the Egyptian Museum. Cairo Marriott Hotel. Breakfast.

Tuesday, Day 4: Luxor

After breakfast transfer from the hotel to the airport for flight to Luxor. You check in to your luxury Nile cruise ship, the Mövenpick MS Royal Lily, and depart for tours of the Karnak and Luxor temples on the East Bank. Return to the ship for dinner and belly dance show. All meals.

Wednesday, Day 5: Luxor to Edfu

After breakfast visit the West Bank, the Valley of the Kings and Queens, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahari, and the Clossi of Memnon. Return to the ship for lunch and set sail for Edfu via the Esna Locks. There will be a welcome cocktail reception before dinner this evening. All meals.

Thursday, Day 6: Esna to Kom Ombo to Aswan

After breakfast you will visit the Horus Temple in Edfu. Return to the ship for lunch on board and sail to Kom Ombo. Here you will visit the Temple of the Two Gods, Sobek and Haeroris. Continue sailing to Aswan. Tonight there will be a Gallabia Party after dinner.

Friday, Day 7: Aswan

After breakfast visit the Aswan High Dam, the Temple of Philae, and the Granite Quarries to see the Unfinished Obelisk. After tea enjoy a sail on the Nile in a Felucca circumnavigating Kitchener’s Island. Dinner and overnight on ship. All meals.

Saturday, Day 8: Depart

Breakfast on board, check out and transfer to the airport for the flight to Cairo to connect with your flight home.

Optional Abu Simbal Excursion

You will be transferred to the Aswan airport for the short hop to Abu Simbal. Enjoy an unforgettable tour to the world-renowned site where Ramses II ordered two sun temples carved from the limestone mountains at Abu Simble, between 1290-1124 BC. At the Great Temple of Ra-Harakhte, the four famous colossal statues of Ramses II sit majestically over 20 meters high, staring out across the desert. Six massive standing statues front the Temple of Hathor, dedicated to the cow-headed goddess of love and built in honor of Ramses’ favorite wife, Queen Nefertari, each 10 meters high. In modern times the waters that would rise with the completion of the High Dam threatened the two temples of Abu Simble. A campaign to save them was organized by UNESCO, with the temples being cut into blocks, raised piece-by-piece, and reassembled in a new position higher up the hillside. The massive job took two years to complete, 1966-1968. This afternoon board your flight back to Aswan to meet your departing flights.

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