5 Days – 4 Nights
Luxor & Aswan
Hotel
Private Tour
Our licensed Egyptologist Tour guide will wait you at your hotel transferring you by private air-condition vehicle in order to check in at Cairo Airport being ready to take your flight to Luxor.
After your arrival at Luxor Airport you will join the tour guide to begin your interesting tour by a private A/C vehicle.
The Luxor tour will start from The East Bank Of The Nile where is the center of the town and the most popular temples as Karnak Temple & Luxor Temple.
Karnak Temple consists of many temples that were built over a number of years.You can see through your visit their see The Avenue of Sphinxes, The Hypostyle, The Hypostyle Hall, filled with 134 gigantic stone columns ,The Great Court,Rameses the 3rd chapel,Thutmosis the 2nd Hall ,The Sacred Lake & Two oblisks belongs to Queen Hatshepsut and king Thutmosis 1st .
Luxor Temple ,That dates from around 1392 BC.It is close to the Nile laid out parallel to the river bank .This temple has been in almost continuous use as aplace of worship as The Hypostyle Hall of the temple was converted into A Christian Church during the Christian Era.
After that we will visit the Birth ROOM , The Chapel of Alexander The Great, The Sanctuary ,Pylon of Ramses the 2nd and Court of Ramses the 2nd .
The Colossi of Memnon Consisting of two massive monumental statues that represent King Amenhotep III, looking towards the Nile river.
After the ending of this great tour you will be transferred to your Cruise accommodation.
Overnight in Cruise
Your tour guide will be waiting for you at the cruise, ready to transfer you by private A/C vehicle to visit The WEST Bank “Great capital of Egypt during Newkingdom”.So you will visit Valley Of The Kings as it’s rock-cut tombs were excavated for the pharaoh’s and powerful nobles .
It is also site of Royal burials since around 2100 BC & has 63 magnificent royal tombs where we can access to see the tombs with it’s wonderful wall paints.
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut ,is one of the most mortuary temples that ‘s appears in painted reliefs decorating the walls & columns.It’s construction took 15 years oh her regin.
Tombs Of Pharaoh’s as it.s considered the best preserved tombs to be found in the valley & had identical design descriping The Journey To Afterlife.
Necropolis Of Thebes which is the most popular archeological site in Upper Egypt & you tour guide will take you on a brief trip around it.
The Nest stop will be at the Temple Of Deir El Bahari, One of the most charachterisic temples in the whole of Egypt due to its design and decoration.
Once the tour is completed you will be transferred in comfort back to the cruise.
Overnight in cruise.
Our licensed Egyptologist Tour guide will Join you to visit one of the most beautiful and preserved temples in Upper Egypt {Edfu Temple or Temple of god Horus}.It dates back to Ptolemaic era and its size reflects the relative prosperity of that time.
This temple dedicated to Falcon God Horus and Hathor of Dandera as it was the center of several festivals sacred to Horus.Each year “Godess Hathour travelled south from her temple at Dendera to visit God Horus at Edfu” which was considered the sacred marriage.
Then back to the cruise to sails to Luxor, while you can enjoy the top decks amazing views of the Nile river.
Lastely, the cruise sails to Komombo Temple which dates to the Greco-Roman century and it is featured with its marvelous setting directly overlooking the Nile.This temple dedicated to 2 gods”God sobek & God Horus”
In the evening the cruise has a Galabya party.
Overnight in cruise.
Our licensed Egyptologist Tour guide will join you during the visit of visit The High Dam of Aswan which is one of the most important achievements & symbole of the revolution era “1952”.Today it provides Egypt with water,electricity and secures the country from the risk of the destructive inundation of the Nile River.
THE NEXT STOP will be at Philae Temple that located on Philae island,in the middle of the Nile river.The ancient Egyptians built an magnificent temple for the Goddess ISIS &it has a huge pylons decorated with beautiful scenes
Once the tour is complete you will be transferred in comfort back to the cruise.
Overnight in cruise
Enjoy breakfast on the cruise, then you will be transferred to the airport in time for your departure.
Once arrived in Cairo, your guide will take you to your hotel.
