Depart on your overnight flight to Cairo.

Arrive Cairo and transfer to your deluxe hotel.

Visit the Giza plateau beginning your day at the inscrutable Sphinx, the giant man/beast that has puzzled mankind for generations, and see the fabled Great Pyramids of Giza. Enjoy a camel ride with the Great Pyramids as a backdrop before heading to the Egyptian Museum, the world’s greatest repository of ancient artifacts. See the incredible treasures of King Tutankhamon, exquisitely carved statues, and splendid carved sarcophagi. See Tahrir Square where Egypt’s Revolution began. End the day exploring the Khan el Khalili Bazaar. (B)

Morning flight to Aswan (optional air excursion to Abu Simbel) and embark your five-star Nile cruise boat. Afternoon visit the Aswan High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk and exquisite Philae Temple. Evening Nubian folk show. (B,L,D)

Sail to Kom Ombo and tour the temple shared by two gods, Sobek and Haroeries. Be sure to see the mummified crocodiles and the Nilometer where the priests determined taxes. Afternoon visit to the best preserved temple in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu. (B,L,D)

Cruise to Luxor. Explore Luxor Temple with its Avenue of Sphinxes, and massive Karnak Temple with its soaring hypostyle hall and labyrinthine passageways. (B,L,D)

Cross to the West Bank and visit the incomparable Valley of the Kings to tour the tombs of ancient Pharaohs of Egypt. Explore Queen Hatchepsut’s Temple and the Colossi of Memnon. Late morning flight to Cairo and spend the afternoon on a walking excursion through Coptic Cairo, Old Cairo’s Roman fortress of Babylon, with the Ben Ezra Synagogue and the historic Hanging Church. (B)

Morning return fight to the USA. Welcome home! (B)
Please note : Nile Cruise may operate in Reverse Direction.