Egypt Highlights 5 Days Cairo Giza Nile Cruise with Domestic flight to Aswan

Day 1 Cairo (Meals included: L)

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   Luxor Travels

   Day 1: Cairo (Meals included: L)
   Today you enjoy a guided tour of Cairo. Your first stop will be at Giza Plateau where you visit the Pyramids and see the mighty Sphinx. Then you will visit the Egyptian Museum, after which you will be transferred to your accommodation for an overnight in Cairo.
   Day 2: Aswan (Meals included: BLD)
   In the morning your friendly driver will pick you up from your hotel and transfer you to Cairo Airport for a flight to Aswan. Upon arrival in Aswan you begin a guided tour to visit Philae Temple and the two Aswan dams. After your tour you will be transferred to your cruise ship where you check in to your 3-nights Nile cruise. Rest of the day will be free at leisure on your cruise ship.

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   Pyramids of Giza

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   In the morning you will be picked up from your accommodation for a guided tour of Giza. Your first stop will be at Giza Plateau, where one of the remaining wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramids of Giza, still stands. You visit the Pyramids and enjoy panoramic views from the western plateau, then continue down the valley where the guardian of this Mortuary complex, the mighty Sphinx, stands with great pride.

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   Great Sphinx

   30 min Admission ticket included

   the guardian of this Mortuary complex, the mighty Sphinx, stands with great pride

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   The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   spanning a period of over 50 centuries. The Museum has the world’s largest and richest collection of Egyptian Antiquities, among them the priceless collection of King Tut

Day 2 Aswan (Meals included: BLD)

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   Temple of Philae

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   Upon your arrival at Aswan Airport (your Aswan hotel or port) you will be transferred to your luxurious cruise ship for a 3 night Nile cruise. After check-in, you will begin a guided day tour, starting with a boat trip to the Temple of Philae, which was built in honour of goddess Isis. After this visit you will go to the High Dam, an engineering miracle used as an embankment dam situated across the Nile River, built in the 1960’s to protect Egypt from annual floods.

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   Aswan High Dam

   20 min Admission ticket included

   . After this visit you will go to the High Dam, an engineering miracle used as an embankment dam situated across the Nile River, built in the 1960’s to protect Egypt from annual floods.

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   Nile River

   After your tour you will be transferred to your cruise ship where you check in to your 3-nights Nile cruise. Rest of the day will be free at leisure on your cruise ship.

Day 3 Kom Ombo and Edfu (Meals included: BLD)

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   Temple of Kom Ombo

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   After coming back from Abu Simbel, the ship will sail to Kom Ombo and Edfu. In Kom Ombo you will visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, which is dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek. After this visit you will sail toward Edfu. in the evening you will have dinner on board and spend the night at Edfu.

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   Temple of Horus

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   the Temple of Horus in Edfu, which is dedicated to Horus, the falcon-headed god. This relatively young pharaonic temple is well-preserved and therefore very impressive

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   Nile River

   You can spend the rest of the day free at leisure on your cruise ship.

Day 4 Luxor (Meals included: BLD)

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   Nile River

   As the ship sails on, you can enjoy the view while relaxing and watching the local life on the river and its banks from the sun-deck. On the way to Luxor you will pass the city of Esna. After arrival in Luxor you will start a guided tour of the East Bank with a visit of Karnak Temples

Day 5 Luxor West Bank (Meals included: B)

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   Valley of the Kings

   2 min Admission ticket included

   After breakfast on board, you will check out at 8:00 AM to start your day tour of the West Bank of Luxor. First you will be transported to the Necropolis of Thebes, the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of Luxor. This ancient necropolis is a must-see for Luxor travelers. It consists of tombs embedded in the mountain Thebes. Here, you visit 3 tombs of various dynasties. Your Egyptologist tour guide will be on hand to recommend and advise you as to which tombs to visit. After visiting the tombs you will be transported to the Temple of Hatshipsut

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   Tomb of Ramses III

   25 min Admission ticket included

   The tomb of Ramesses III, designated as KV 11, is a complex system in the Valley of the Kings. It has been known since antiquity,the wonderful decorations include colourful painted sunken reliefs featuring the traditional ritual texts (Litany of Ra, Book of Gates etc) and Ramses before the gods. Unusual here are the secular scenes, in the small side rooms of the entrance corridor, showing foreign tributes, such as highly detailed pottery imported from the Aegean, the royal armoury, boats and, in the last of these side chambers, the blind harpists that gave the tomb one of its alternative names: ‘Tomb of the Harpers’

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   Tomb of Ramases IX

   25 min Admission ticket included

   Tomb of King Ramesses lX was the third pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. His name prior to assuming the crown was Amonhirkhopshef. He was the fifth son of Ramesses III and was appointed to the position of crown prince by the twenty-second year of his father's reign when all four of his elder brothers predeceased his promotion to crown prince .

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   Tomb of Merenptah

   25 min Admission ticket included

   In Egyptian mythology, Ptah is the demiurge of Memphis, god of craftsmen and architects. In the or simply in its falcon form of the new deity, began to be placed in tombs to accompany and protect the dead on their journey to the West of Luxor .Tomb 8, which is located in the Valley of the Kings, was the burial place of the Pharaoh Merneptah and is the model of royal tombs Merneptah was a son of Ramesses II and Queen Isis-Nofret.the tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1903. Of coursethere is a material decrease in the number of lateral rooms, and a dramatic increase in the height of the corridors and rooms. He did away with the jogged axis used since the time of Horemheb and instead built the entire tomb on a single axis. Also, for the first time, the entrance was made considerably wider than earlier tombs .

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   Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   fter visiting the tombs you will be transported to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (Deir el Bahari), the only woman ever to reign over Egypt as Pharaoh. This queen was an ancestor of King Tutankhamun and belonged to the same dynasty.Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman ever to reign over Egypt as Pharaoh .

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   Colossi of Memnon

   20 min Admission ticket included

   the Colossi of Memnon, the two largest ancient statues in Egypt, which date back to the era of King Amenhotep III.

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   Nile River

   After concluding your itinerary in Luxor, you can be dropped off at any Luxor hotel or port.
   This tour includes domestic flight ticket from Cairo to Aswan, qualified Egyptologist tour guide, transport by air-conditioned vehicle, all entrance fees for the mentioned sites, port pick up and drop off, and meals as per itinerary