8 Days Royal Tour Cairo and Nile Cruise Holiday

8 Days Royal Tour Cairo and Nile Cruise Holiday

Cairo and Nile Cruise Holidays a wonderful Nile Cruise Holidays with Cairo Tours, visit all the marvelous attractions in Cairo and board your Nile Cruise, Explore the magical beauty of the Nile River by booking Cairo and Nile Cruise Holidays, Visit Pyramids of Giza, the Egyptian Museum, then travel to Luxor, board your Nile Cruise, enjoy the marvelous sights between Luxor and Aswan, Book Cairo and Nile Cruise Holidays with us.
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Itinerary

Day 1: Cairo: Arrival

Stop At: Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Governorate
Welcome to Cairo airport! The first day of your tour begins when you are greeted by our representative who will meet you and assist you through immigration and customs formalities upon your arrival. After you have collected your luggage, he will then take you in our deluxe vehicle to your 5-star hotel in Cairo. Hotel check-in and overnight.
Duration: 30 minutes

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: 5 stars hotel in Cairo

Day 2: Cairo: Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Egyptian Museum

Stop At: Pyramids of Giza, Al Haram Str., Giza 12611 Egypt
Breakfast at the hotel is followed by a full day tour. In the morning you will be driven to see the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx: the most famous monuments of not only ancient Egypt but of the entire ancient world!
Duration: 3 minutes

Stop At: The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Midan El Tahrir Geographical Society Building, Cairo 11511 Egypt
In the afternoon you will be taken to the Egyptian Museum: gaze at the wonders of King Tutankhamen, including his golden death mask; stare upon the mummies of some of Egypt's ancient pharaohs ; lose yourself in the many rooms and galleries, where thousands of artifacts are awaiting your visit. At the end of this exciting day, you will be driven back to your hotel.
Duration: 2 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: 5 Stars Hotel in Cairo

Day 3: Flight to Luxor, Nile Cruise: Luxor (Karnak & Luxor Temples)

Stop At: Temple of Karnak, Karnak, Luxor Egypt
After breakfast, you will check-out from hotel and our representative will escort you to the airport for your flight to Luxor.

Upon arrival, you will be met and assisted by our representative who will transfer you to your cruise boat: your floating hotel for your next 4 nights.
After lunch, which you will have on board, you will visit the magnificent Karnak
Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Luxor Temple, Luxor 23512 Egypt
and Luxor Temples. Once your visit to these ancient Theban Temples is complete, you will return to the boat for your dinner.
Duration: 3 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 stars Nile Cruise in Luxor

Day 4: Nile Cruise: Luxor (Westbank: Kings Valley, Hatshepsut Temple, Memnon Colossi)

Stop At: Valley of the Kings, Luxor City, Luxor 85511 Egypt
Breakfast on boars . You’ll proceed to visit the Royal Cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, the Valley of the Kings
Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari, Kings Valley Rd Deir el-Bahari, Luxor 23512 Egypt
then to mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom during the 15th century BC.
Duration: 2 hours

Pass By: Colossi of Memnon, Thebes, Luxor Egypt
Travel on to the Colossi of Memnon. After this visit to the Theban "City of the Dead" you will be taken back to your boat for your lunch, and then you can watch as it departs Luxor and sails for Esna. As the Nile flows gently underneath you, dinner will be served.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 Stars Nile Cruise

Day 5: Nile Cruise: Edfu Temple

Stop At: Temple of Horus at Edfu, Adfo, Edfu Egypt
You can enjoy an early breakfast, while the cruise boat crosses the Esna lock to the city of Esna. Once the boat is moored you will visit the Esna Temple, which is located in the center of the town, and is dedicated to the gods Khnum, Neith and Heka. After the visit you will be taken back to the boat for your lunch while it sails onward to Edfu, home of the best preserved temple in Egypt: the Temple of Horus. After your visit to this superb temple you will be taken back to the boat in plenty of time before it departs Edfu, dinner being served as it sails majestically towards Kom Ombo.
Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Temple of Kom Ombo, Nagoa Ash Shatb, Kom Ombo 81611 Egypt
Having Lunch and then a visit to the Temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated to the gods Horus and Sobek.
Duration: 2 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 stars Nile Cruise

Day 6: Nile Cruise: Aswan ( Philae Temples and the High Dam )

Stop At: Temple of Philae, Island of Agilika, Aswan Egypt
Your last day of sailing upstream starts with breakfast, Start your day with visiting Philae Temples. This beautiful temple complex is one of the most picturesque in all of Egypt. It sits on Aglika Island just south of the old Aswan Dam and you must ride a water taxi to the island to get to theruins. The temple was moved to its current location following the construction of the High Dam, which threatened to submerge it permanently.

The careful reconstruction at the current site carefully completed, painstakingly preserving the original appearance and layout of the complex and even landscaping the island to match its former location.
Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Aswan High Dam, Manteqet As Sad Al Aali, Aswan Egypt
When construction began on the High Dam in 1960, it was the most heralded part of President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s effort to develop Egypt for all Egyptians. While the dam is certainly not the largest in the world, it is an impressive engineering feat nonetheless, over 360 feet tall and 12,500 feet across.
The dam was completed in 1971 and the huge reservoir behind it, named for President Nasser, finished filling in 1979.
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 stars Nile Cruise

Day 7: Nile Cruise: Aswan (Botanical Garden), Flight to Cairo

Stop At: Aswan Botanical Garden, Sheyakhah Oula, Aswan Egypt
You will have your final breakfast on the boat before you have to check-out.
You will then be taken to Aswan Botanical Gardens by felucca. After this, you will be transferred to Aswan airport for your flight back to Cairo (flight duration is about 1 hour only).
Once there; our representative will meet you and assist you with your luggage before transferring you to your hotel in Cairo for check-in.

Located on Kitchener’s Island, one of two islands in the Nile immediately adjacent to the city-center of Aswan, the Aswan Botanical Gardens offer a beautiful and unique escape from the city. The entirety of the island is landscaped with rare and exotic plants that were planted there by Lord Horatio Kitchener, who was gifted the island for his service as consul general of Egypt under British control.
Lord Kitchener’s passion for horticulture was expressed through his conversion of the island given into a garden. The Egyptian government later reclaimed the island and it has been maintained as the Aswan Botanical Gardens.
The only way to reach the island is by boat, either on one of the public ferries that run between Aswan, Elephantine Island, and Kitchener’s Island or by hiring a felucca.

Duration: 3 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: 5 Stars Hotel in Cairo

Day 8: Cairo: Final Departure

Stop At: Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Governorate
Today is your final day which starts with breakfast at the hotel followed by check-out. Our team will be picking you up from your hotel and transfer you to Cairo airport for your final departure back home.
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.