Transport

All arrival-departure transfers 4 transfers in Cairo 2 transfers in Luxor Transportation in an air-conditioned tour vehicle

Guide

All Sightseeing tours with an English Speaking licensed Egyptologist tour guide including excursions during Nile Cruise

Others

All Entrance fees Camel ride at the Pyramids

Meals

31 Meals: 13 breakfast, 11 lunches and 7 dinners

Accommodation

5 nights accommodation at Steinberger El Tahrir Square/Nile view rooms at Hilton Zamalek Hotel or similar 7 nights Nile cruise aboard 5-star Nile Cruise: 7 nights aboard Jazz Cruise/M/S Iberotel Crown Empress Nile Cruise 1 night accommodation at Radisson Blu Hotel or similar

Not included:

Optional

Abu Simbel Tour by BUS (3 hours each way): $200 (to be paid at the time of booking)

Others

International Airfare Domestic Flights Cairo Luxor/Luxor Cairo Visa fee (if applicable) Trip Insurance Meals not mentioned in the itinerary Extra drinks with meals Tips for your tour guide and driver

Flights

Domestic flights: Flight from Cairo to Luxor Flight from Luxor to Cairo

Insurance

Trip Insurance is not included

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Day 1 Day 1: Wed: Arrival In Cairo
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Wed: Arrival In Cairo

Welcome to the land of the Pharaohs! Flo Tours Representative will be waiting for you at Cairo International Airport and transfer you to your hotel. The day is free at your leisure!!
Day 2 Day 2: Thu: Great Pyramids, Sphinx, Memphis & Sakkara [B,L]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Thu: Great Pyramids, Sphinx, Memphis & Sakkara [B,L]

This morning, we drive to the Giza Pyramids in the Giza Plateau, home of Egypt’s signature attractions: the Great Pyramids, proclaimed by the Greeks to be among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. The largest among these is the Great Pyramid of Cheops, probably built more than 2,600 years before the time of Christ. Standing 480 feet tall, this is the last of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world still standing. Little is known of Cheops, you’ll also see the inscrutable and mysterious Sphinx, known in Arabic as Abu-al-Hol (“the Father of Terror”) and carved almost entirely from one piece of limestone.

After lunch, continue to Memphis, founded around 3,100 B.C., is the legendary city of Menes, the King who united Upper and Lower Egypt. Early on, Memphis was more likely a fortress from which Menes controlled the land and water routes between Upper Egypt and the Delta. Having probably originated in Upper Egypt, from Memphis he could control the conquered people of Lower Egypt. However, by the Third Dynasty, the building at Saqqara suggests that Memphis had become a sizable city.

Proceed to Sakkara site, Sakkara is one section of the great necropolis of Memphis, the Old Kingdom capital and the kings of the 1st Dynasty as well as that of the 2nd Dynasty. are mostly buried in this section of The Memphis Necropolis. It has been of constant interest to Egyptologists. Three major discoveries have recently been made at Sakkara, including a prime minister tomb, a queen pyramid, and the tomb of the son of a dynasty-founding king. Each discovery has a fascinating story, with many adventures for the archaeologists as they revealed the secrets of the past.
Day 3 Day 3: Fri: Old Cairo Tour & The Citadel [B,L]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Fri: Old Cairo Tour & The Citadel [B,L]

Today, we will experience the Spiritual Cairo tour and explore some of the early religious monuments of Cairo. You’ll visit the El Muallaqa Church, dating to the late fourth and early V Century. This basilica was named for its location on top of the south gate of the Fortress of Babylon. Muallaqa means “suspended or hanging.” Destroyed in an IX Century earthquake, the church became the center of the Coptic (or Christian) Church of Egypt from the time it was rebuilt in the eleventh century until the XIV Century.

Make a stop at the Ben Ezra Synagogue, built sometime between the sixth and IX Centuries A.D. The temple contains a Jewish Heritage Library, containing documents found here in 1896 that describe the economic and social conditions of Jews under Arab rule as well as descriptions of relations between various Jewish sects.

Stop for lunch, Continue Cairo tour with a visit to The Citadel of Mohamed Ali (the Fortress of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi), built in 1183 and overlooking the city from the Muqattam Hills. The structure, with its domes and minarets, looks over aeveral important buildings, including the Alabaster Mosque. Its domed interior, used by Moslems for daily prayers, is a spectacular sight of twinkling lights and beautiful mosaics.
Day 4 Day 4: Sat: Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Khan El Khalili [B,L]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Sat: Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Khan El Khalili [B,L]

Start your Cairo tour by visiting the world-renowned Egyptian Museum Antiquities. Accompanied by your certified Egyptologist Program Director, you’ll stroll through the halls highlighting each historical period of this ancient land. Marvel at the glittering treasures of King Tutankhamen, unparalleled in their variety, exquisite beauty, and sheer weight in gold. Seeing this treasure of more than 1,700 fabulous items buried with a young and relatively unimportant king, who can even imagine what the tombs of great and long-lived pharaohs must have contained?

After lunch at local restaurant, proceed to the largest traditional shopping bazaar in the world, the Khan-el-Khalili Bazaar. In the tiny alleyways, there are hundreds of shops where you can watch gold and coppersmiths, brass makers, and fortunetellers at work. Look also for leather goods and woodwork inlaid with camel bone and mother-of-pearl. Bargaining, Arab-Style, is the norm here, and practiced as a national pastime.
Day 5 Day 5: Sun: Alexandria Tour [B,L]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Sun: Alexandria Tour [B,L]

Start your over day excursion to Alexandria accompanied by an English speaking Egyptologist. Visit National Museum, and The Catacombs. Stop for lunch, and then explore the well-preserved ruins of the Roman amphitheater, which in Ptolemaic times was part of a vast pleasure garden known as the Park of Pan. Built between the II and IV Centuries A.D., it is the only known Roman Theater remaining in Egypt. Continue to the Alexandria Library. Alexandria ancient library was the most famous in all antiquity, attracting scholars from all over the ancient world it was here that Euclid discovered geometry, and Eratosthenes measured the earth circumference. See the Fort of Qaitbey from the outside. In 1480, the sultan Qaitbey built the fort on the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world then return to Cairo.
Day 6 Day 6: Mon: Cairo - Luxor - Cruise [B,L,D]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Mon: Cairo - Luxor - Cruise [B,L,D]

Early morning flight from Cairo to Luxor. Arrive at Luxor and transfer to your luxury Nile Cruise where you will spend the next 7 nights / 8 days. Free day at leisure, or you may enjoy our optional tour (Half-day visit to the Temple of Dendara), lunch box will be provided from the cruise, built by Romans and Greeks and dedicated to Hathor-goddess of maternal and family love. The temple complex contains birth houses, a Coptic church, the Hathor Temple, and a Hypostyle Hall. One of the celebrated features of the temple is an astronomical ceiling beautifully decorated with vultures, winged disks, and the union between Hathor and Horus. Paintings on the ceiling also represent the two halves of the sky with its northern and southern constellations, the hours of day and night, the sun and moon, and the symbols of the zodiac. You`ll return to the ship late afternoon, rest of the day is free, dinner, entertainment and overnight in Luxor.

Evening you may choose our optional (Sound & Light Show L14), overnight in Luxor.
Day 7 Day 7: Tue: Luxor - West Bank [B,L,D]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Tue: Luxor - West Bank [B,L,D]

As the sun rises over Luxor, so can you, aboard an optional hot-air balloon ride. The sights, sounds, and sheer spectacle of seeing these antiquities from the sky will surely make for a morning you`ll remember forever. Back to the cruise for Breakfast.

Visit the West Bank, including the Valley of the Kings, with its many tombs chiseled deep into the Cliffside. From the 18th to the 20th Dynasty, the Memphis area and pyramid-style tombs were abandoned in favor of the West Bank of the Nile in Thebes. Several great leaders as well as many less important rulers are buried here, and more tombs are being discovered even today. This is where Howard Carter discovered the treasures of Tutankhamen and was struck "dumb with amazement" when he beheld its "wonderful things" in 1922.

Proceed to the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon, back to the cruise for lunch, sail and overnight in Edfu.
Day 8 Day 8: Wed: Edfu - Kom Ombo [B,L,D]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Wed: Edfu - Kom Ombo [B,L,D]

Sail to Edfu and Visit Edfu Temple, also known as the Temple of Horus, the Falcon-God, (237 B.C.) considered the best-preserved temple in Ancient Egypt and the second largest after the Temple of Karnak. Sail to Aswan.
Day 9 Day 9: Thu: Aswan [B,L,D]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Thu: Aswan [B,L,D]

Sail to Aswan, visit the High Dam, located near Aswan, the world-famous High Dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s. It contains 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The Dam is 11,811 feet long, 3215 feet thick at the base and 364 feet tall. Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt and, together with the old Aswan Dam built by the British between 1898 and 1902, about 4 miles down river, and wonderful views for visitors. From the top of the two-Mile-Long High Dam you can gaze across Lake Nassar, the huge reservoir created when it was built, to Kalabsha temple in the south and the huge power station to the north.

Last stop will be at the Philae Temple Philae Temple was dismantled and reassembled (on Agilika Island about 550 meters from its original home on Philae Island) in the wake of the High Dam. The temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis, is in a beautiful setting which has been landscaped to match its original site. Its various shrines and sanctuaries, which include The Vestibule of Nectanebos I which is used as the entrance to the island, the Temple of the Emperor Hadrian, a Temple of Hathor, Trajans Kiosk (Pharaohs Bed), a birth house and two pylons celebrate all the deities involved in the Isis and Osiris myth. The Victorian world fell in love with the romance of the Temple.

Sail around The Botanical Garden by Felucca, overnight in Aswan.

Evening you may add the optional (Sound and Light Show A-14).
Day 10 Day 10: Fri: Free Day In Aswan [B,L,D]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Fri: Free Day In Aswan [B,L,D]

Morning free at your leisure or you may choose our optional tour to Abu Simbel. Situated 174 miles south of Aswan, exploring the magnificent monuments carved into solid rock 3,000 years ago. In a monumental feat of modern engineering, these massive temples were moved to their present location when construction of the Aswan High Dam in 1960 created Lake Nasser and flooded their original location. This extraordinary operation to save one of the world’s greatest treasures took years and the efforts of an international team of engineers and archaeologists. The two temples at Abu Simbel were built by Egypt`s great Pharaoh Ramses II (Egypt`s longest-ruling king) as a tribute to the deities and his favorite wife Nefertari. Four colossal statues, 60 feet high and directly facing the rising sun, are of the pharaoh himself, with his queen and daughters at his feet. More tremendous statues surround you as you enter the temple. And in the very depths of the temple, Ramses sits in state flanked by the gods to whom the construction is dedicated. Overnight in Aswan.
Day 11 Day 11: Sat: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna [B,L,D]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Sat: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna [B,L,D]

Early sail to Kom Ombo and Visit Kom Ombo Temple (the Ptolemaic Temple of Sobek & Haroeries), set dramatically on a hill overlooking a bend in the river. This Greco-Roman style temple (two temples) is unique, as it is Egypt`s only double temple-dedicated to both Sobek, the crocodile god, and Haroeris, the great, winged solar disk. Everything here is doubled and perfectly symmetrical along a central axis-twin entrances, twin courts, and twin colonnades. Sail to Esna for overnight.
Day 12 Day 12: Sun: Luxor - East Bank [B,L,D]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 12: Sun: Luxor - East Bank [B,L,D]

Sail to Luxor and start your Luxor tour by visiting the Luxor Temple, built by the two pharaohs, Amenhotep III and Ramses II. Ancient Thebes was a center of festivals, and the Temple of Luxor was the setting for the most important-the festival of Opet, designed to merge the ruler`s human and divine aspects. The temple was dedicated to Amun-Ra, whose marriage to Mut was celebrated annually, when the sacred procession moved by boat from Karnak to Luxor Temple.

Proceed Luxor tour to visit Karnak Temple, in ancient Egypt, the power of the god Amun of Thebes gradually increased during the early New Kingdom, and after the short persecution led by Akhenaten, it rose to its apex. In the reign of Ramesses III, more than two thirds of the property owned by the temples belonged to Amun, evidenced by the stupendous buildings at Karnak. Although badly ruined, no site in Egypt is more impressive than Karnak. It is the largest temple complex ever built by man and represents the combined achievement of many generations of ancient builders. The Temple of Karnak is three main temples, smaller enclosed temples, and several outer temples located about three kilometers north of Luxor, Egypt situated on 100 ha (247 acres) of land. Karnak is the sites modern name. Its ancient name was Ipet-isut, meaning "The Most Select (or Sacred) of Places". This vast complex was built and enlarged over a thirteen-hundred-year period. The three main temples of Mut, Montu and Amun are enclosed by enormous brick walls. Back to the Cruise for lunch. Overnight in Luxor.
Day 13 Day 13: Mon: Luxor - Cairo [B]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 13: Mon: Luxor - Cairo [B]

After breakfast, check-out and transfer to Luxor Airport for your flight back to Cairo. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel. The rest of the day is at your leisure or you may enjoy an optional hot-air balloon ride at sunrise in Luxor (4:00 am Pick-up):

Optional tour – Hot air balloon ride: As the sun rises over Luxor, so can you, aboard an optional hot-air balloon ride. The sights, sounds, and sheer spectacle of seeing these antiquities from the sky will surely make for a morning you’ll remember forever.

Back to the cruise, check out and transfer to Luxor Airport for your flight to Cairo, arrival and transfer to your hotel.
Day 14 Day 14: Tue: Cairo [B]
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 14: Tue: Cairo [B]

After breakfast, transfer to Cairo Airport for your departure flight.

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Itinerary of your trip 14 Day Grand Egypt Tour With 7 Nights Nile Cruise

Day 1: Wed: Arrival In Cairo

Day 2: Thu: Great Pyramids, Sphinx, Memphis & Sakkara [B,L]

Day 3: Fri: Old Cairo Tour & The Citadel [B,L]

Day 4: Sat: Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Khan El Khalili [B,L]

Day 5: Sun: Alexandria Tour [B,L]

Day 6: Mon: Cairo - Luxor - Cruise [B,L,D]

Day 7: Tue: Luxor - West Bank [B,L,D]

Day 8: Wed: Edfu - Kom Ombo [B,L,D]

Day 9: Thu: Aswan [B,L,D]

Day 10: Fri: Free Day In Aswan [B,L,D]

Day 11: Sat: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna [B,L,D]

Day 12: Sun: Luxor - East Bank [B,L,D]

Day 13: Mon: Luxor - Cairo [B]

Day 14: Tue: Cairo [B]

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