Guide

Private tour guides show you around attractions such as historic monuments, cultural centers, and beauty spots, and provide them with background information to help them make the most of their visit. Typical responsibilities include: undertaking research and planning tours preparing and giving presentations offering sightseeing advice according to the tour itinerary. organizing and leading excursions problem-solving translating and interpreting

Meals

•Daily Breakfast at the hotel (Served buffet). •Lunch in Cairo will be at a local restaurant throughout the tour and will include (Grilled Chicken-Koftaa-rice-salads) •Lunch & dinner in Luxor will be on board and an open buffet •Lunch in Aswan will be including ((Grilled Chicken-Koftaa-rice-salads) 8 Breakfasts. 8 Lunch 4 Dinner 2 light dinner at the sleeping train 2 breakfast at the sleeping train

Others

4 nights’ accommodation in Cairo with breakfast (open buffet) 4 nights’ accommodation Nile Cruise in Luxor-Aswan with breakfast-lunch-dinner Professional Egyptologist guide Hotel pickup and drop off in Cairo Hotel pickup and drop-off in Luxor-Aswan. Lunch through the tour

Accommodation

04 nights accommodation at 4 stars hotel (Barcelo Cairo Pyramids - Swiss Inn golf or Similar) with free WIFI 04- nights accommodation at 5 stars Nile River Cruise ( Ms/ Royal Beau Rivage -Royal Elite -Champllion or Similar) Be aware that all accommodations are subject to availability and can be changed up to 2 weeks before the departure date. Egypt Direct Tours guarantees a similar standard of hotels and Nile River cruise, Final accommodation details will be provided to you with your finalized travel documents.

Hygieneprotocol

1- Face masks provided for travelers 2-Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff 3-Social distancing enforced throughout the experience 4-Gear/equipment sanitized between uses 5-Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized 6-Temperature checks for travelers upon arrival 7-Face masks provided for guides & driver

Transport

All transportation is by professional, experienced drivers. All transportation by deluxe car-coach-minivan or Bus. Free Pick-up from Cairo International Airport Motorboat Hantour Drop off at Cairo International Airport Transfer to Railways and drop off

Not included:

Flights

international flight tickets

Others

Beverages Visa Entry Gratuities (recommended) International flight tickets Entrance fees are excluded and good to know that the whole entrance fee is about 170 U$ per person. Train tickets Cairo/Luxor/Aswan/Cairo

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Day 1 Arrival To Cairo International Airport
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Arrival To Cairo International Airport

Arrive at Cairo International Airport, meet and assist by your representative-, transfer by deluxe private car to your hotel, check in, and overnight at the hotel.

Meal plan: N/A

Good to Know:

Check-in time at the hotel in Cairo at 14:00

Early Check-In is subject to availability

Arrival & departure instructions

Are the pickup and drop-off available all day?

Yes the pickup and drop off is available 24 hours a week (24/7)

How can find your representative at Cairo Airport?

When you arrive at Cairo Airport after collecting your luggage, and stamping your passports, please proceed to the exit door, our driver - representative, will wait for you with the welcoming board.
Day 2 Great Pyramids , Sphinx And City Of Sakkara
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Great Pyramids , Sphinx And City Of Sakkara

Breakfast at your hotel and Starting at 9:00 am meet your guide in the hotel lobby to Start your full-day tour visiting the Giza Pyramids where you will visit the Great Pyramids - Cheops, Chephren & Mykerinos then Visit the Valley Temple where the Priests Mummified the dead body of King Chephren Also there you will have a close-up look at The Sphinx - The legendary guardian that stands by the huge funeral complex with its lion body and the head of king Chephren. (2:30 hrs time Spent) Lunch is included in between visits at Local restaurants based on a Full Meal for each Person but Beverages are not included (1 Hr time Spent) Then Visit Sakkara, located only 27 km southwest away from Cairo. Visit the Step Pyramid (Built for King Zoser), it is considered an important part of the process of the pyramid evolution, which was made from the simple mastaba to its widely known form. (2 hrs Time Spent) At the end of the Tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Meal plan: Breakfast-Lunch

Duration of the tour from 9:00 Am to 4:00 Pm

Optional excursion to add

Half-day tour to the city of Memphis
Day 3 Egyptian Museum – Citadel Of Sala Din - Old Cairo-Amr Ibn Alass Mosque, Transfer To Giza Railways
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Egyptian Museum – Citadel Of Sala Din - Old Cairo-Amr Ibn Alass Mosque, Transfer To Giza Railways

Breakfast and at 9:00 Am will be meeting your guide at the hotel lobby and start your full-day tour by visiting the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. It displays the largest and most precious items of Egyptian art in the world.

It exhibits a rare collection of over 250,000 genuine artifacts that date as far back as 5000 years, including an exclusive exhibit dedicated to Tutankhamen - A collection of treasures, gold, and jewelry that were buried in his tomb for over 3,500 years before they were discovered in the 1920s when his tomb was excavated. Lunch between the visit to a local Egyptian restaurant.

continue your visit to the Citadel it was fortified by the Ayyubid ruler Salah al-Din (Saladin) between 1176 and 1183 CE, to protect it from the Crusaders.[1] Only a few years after defeating the Fatimid Caliphate, Saladin set out to build a wall that would surround both Cairo and Fustat, then we will move to visit the Coptic area where you can see the church of Abu-Sergah and ST, Barbara, the hanging church, the old Jewish synagogue-Ben Ezra.

Return to your hotel (maybe be hotel will change, is subject to availability) have a shower, and prepare your luggage to be ready around 6:30 P.m. to drop you at Giza Railways Station to ride the sleeping train to Luxor (Approximately 12 Hours).

Meal plan: Breakfast-Lunch

Duration of the tour from 9:00 Am to 4:00 Pm

How can book your train tickets

Option 1: we can buy a ticket for you (a photocopy of your passport is required)

Option 2: Can book a ticket online (we will notify an online link)
Day 4 Luxor (East Bank)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Luxor (East Bank)

Arrival at Luxor Railways station approximately at 6:30 Am, meet and assist you by Our representative, then transfer you to 5 Stars Nile Cruise for Embarkation (noon midday) lunch at 1:00 P.m., after lunch, at 2:00 P.m. will meet your guide and start your tour by visiting The East bank of Luxor where you will visit Karnak and Luxor Temples, return to the cruise, Dinner on Board, overnight Luxor

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Important questions:

1- When do I have to stop & drop off from the train?

Have to stop In Luxor RailWays

2- What time does the train arrive at Luxor station?

Supposed to arrive at 6:05 Am but sometimes delay

3-How can I find my guide or representative?

When you arrive at Luxor railways, have to disembark from the train and will find your representative holding a welcome board and waiting for you in the front of the station.

Good to know

If you will arrive early at Luxor Railways, you will start a tour and then return to Cruise for embarkation.

Embarkation time on Cruise around noon Midday

Early embarkation is subject to availability.

Lunch onboard around 1:00 Pm

Dinner onboard around 8:00 Pm
Day 5 Luxor City-West Bank - Edfu
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Luxor City-West Bank - Edfu

Breakfast around 7:00 Am, and at 8:00 Am you will be meeting your guide and starting your day by visiting the west bank of Luxor, the great Valley of the Kings where generations of pharaohs & Nobles were buried in splendid crypts cut into the cliffs and guarded by the huge colossi of Memnon. You will then visit the temple of Queen Hatchepsut., return to the cruise, lunch at 1:00 P.m. at 2:00 pm sailing time (Cruise sailing from Luxor City to Essna City) around 8:00 P.m. cruise ship crossing lock and sailing to Edfu City. overnight on board in Edfu

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Optional

Hot air balloon (extra supplement)

Good to Know

Breakfast around 7:00 Am

Lunch onboard around 1:00 Pm

Tea time around 4:00 Pm

Dinner onboard around 8:00 Pm
Day 6 Edfu Temple -Kom Ombo Temple
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Edfu Temple -Kom Ombo Temple

Breakfast at 7:00 Am, and at 8:00 Am pick a time to visit Edfu, you will discover the huge temple dedicated to the god Horus by horse carriage and tour it with your guide, return around 10:00 Am, sailing from Edfu city to Kom Ombo city, 1:00 Pm lunchtime, 5:00 Pm pick up time to visit the magnificent unusual double temple dedicated to the god Sobek and the god Haroeris. at 7:00 Pm will return to the cruise, Sailing time from Kom Ombo city to Aswan City, dinner at 8:00 Pm, arrive in Aswan city around 11:00 Pm overnight in Aswan,

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Good to Know

Breakfast at 7:00 Am

Lunch at 1:00 Pm

Dinner at 8:00 Pm

Galabia party at 9:00 Pm
Day 7 Aswan City - Abu Simbel Temple
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Aswan City - Abu Simbel Temple

Early breakfast (Breakfast box) and will meet your guide around 3:30 Am to move by sharing an A/C bus to cross 350 K/M to Visit the Temple of Abu Simbel and return at noon to your Nile River cruise, will have lunch on board and Dinner, overnight.

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Good to know:

Moving time from Aswan to Abu Simbel is around 3:30 Am This is according to the instructions of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

Comfortable shoes are required

Sun hat is required

Comfortable clothes
Day 8 Tour To Phila Island - Unfinished Obelisk -High Dam -Transfer To Aswan Rail Ways
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Tour To Phila Island - Unfinished Obelisk -High Dam -Transfer To Aswan Rail Ways

Disembarkation from the Nile River cruise after breakfast and start your day by visiting a high dam, unfinished obelisk, and Phila Island, In the afternoon will have your lunch at a local restaurant and transfer to Aswan Railways to join a sleeping train overnight.

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch).
Day 9 Arrival Giza Railway Station
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Arrival Giza Railway Station

Arrival at Giza Railways, the train arrives around 6:00 Am, meet and assist you your representative, then transfer to your hotel, have a relaxing time and a free day

Meal’sMeal plan: Breakfast ( is served on the train )

Important questions:

1- When do I have to stop & drop off from the train?

Have to stop In Giza RailWays

2- What time does the train arrive at Giza station?

Supposed to arrive at 6:00 Am but sometimes delay

3-How can I find my driver or representative?

When you arrive at Luxor railways, have to disembark from the train and will find your representative holding a welcome board and waiting for you in the front of the station.

Note

After a long trip by train, we have to give our travelers rest and relax to continue their tour.

Check-in time at the hotel in Cairo at 14:00

Early Check-In is subject to availability
Day 10 Islamic Tour ( Sultan Hassan - El Refai Mosques & Ibn Tulun )
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Islamic Tour ( Sultan Hassan - El Refai Mosques & Ibn Tulun )

After breakfast, around 9:00 Am Start your private day tour to visit Ibn-Tulun Mosque was commissioned by Ahmad ibn Ţūlūn, the Abbassid governor of Egypt from 868–884 whose rule was characterized by de facto independence. The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque’s construction start date as 876 AD and the mosque’s original inscription slab identifies the date of completion as 265 AH or 879 AD.

Continue to visit the innovative architectural components. Commissioned by a sultan of a short and relatively unimpressive profile, al-Maqrizi noted that within the mosque were several "wonders of construction". The mosque was, for example, designed to include schools for all four of the Sunni schools of thought: Shafi’i, Maliki, Hanafi, the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and Madrassa located near the Citadel in Cairo. Its construction began in 757 AH/1356 CE with work ending three years later "without even a single day of idleness". At the time of construction, the mosque was considered remarkable for its fantastic size and Hanbali. Return to your hotel.

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch).

Optional excursion to add

Moaz street & Azhar park
Day 11 Final Departure To Cairo International Airport
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Final Departure To Cairo International Airport

Breakfast at your hotel and your representative will meet you at the hotel lobby, will help you check out, and then will transfer you by deluxe cart to Cairo International Airport for the final Departure.

Meal plan: (Breakfast)

Note:

If you have an early flight we will prepare a breakfast box.

Standard check out check-out from the hotel is 12noon:00 midday

Late check-out is subject to availability and is maximum till 2:00 Pm

11 days tour

Cheap Egypt Holiday To Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel 11 D

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Itinerary of your trip Cheap Egypt Holiday To Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel 11 D

Arrival To Cairo International Airport

Great Pyramids , Sphinx And City Of Sakkara

Egyptian Museum – Citadel Of Sala Din - Old Cairo-Amr Ibn Alass Mosque, Transfer To Giza Railways

Luxor (East Bank)

Luxor City-West Bank - Edfu

Edfu Temple -Kom Ombo Temple

Aswan City - Abu Simbel Temple

Tour To Phila Island - Unfinished Obelisk -High Dam -Transfer To Aswan Rail Ways

Arrival Giza Railway Station

Islamic Tour ( Sultan Hassan - El Refai Mosques & Ibn Tulun )

Final Departure To Cairo International Airport

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