7 Days Egypt Christmas Trip Cairo with Nile Cruise 2023/2024

Arrival

Arrival to CAI

Welcome to great history, where you can stroll through breathtaking details and experience big events. Take advantage of our well-organized pick-up service, which is timed to coincide with the arrival of your flight. All airport formalities are handled by your private tour director; you ride in comfort in a private car driven by a pleasant captain, and your luggage is taken on. You arrive at your Cairo hotel with the help of your tour manager.

Relax; your tour manager will take care of the hotel check-in procedures.

Cairo Pyramid Day Tour – Egyptian Museum

Pyramids of Giza Tour

Prepare to begin your once-in-a-lifetime trip with breakfast at the hotel. Meet up with your personal Egyptologist and travel in style in a private vehicle. We can see how eager you are to get closer to these Egyptians as you soak up the charm of the Egyptian streets at the time. The following scene will make you think.  History is beckoning you to get closer.

Continue walking until you reach the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khufu. Take in history as it unfolds throughout time. Every step on the Giza Pyramid Plateau road transports you back in time as if you're riding a time machine. It's as if you're rewinding time.

Penetrate via The Pyramid of Khafre and Menkaure. After that, greet this pharaonic guard that has been in existence in the land of the pyramids since 2558 BC. It is the Sphinx.

There's a nice surprise in store for you! You will not only encounter three pyramids, but also six additional pyramids that are exclusively available to the Queens. You have the option of entering one or both of them. From the Panorama Spot, you can pose in front of the famous Pyramids of Giza for a spectacular shot of ancient history. Meanwhile, the Queens can visit the three Great Pyramids and the six Pyramids.

Take a few moments to relax and eat your lunch. Then proceed to a dazzling valuable treasure and wander through bronze, gold, and other eye-catching priceless antiques that date back to the glorious ancient Egyptian civilization. Similarly, inside the pyramid-shaped building, you'll find a massive sculpture of Ramses II saluting you.

Egyptian Museum Tour

This sculpture guides you to where you’ll discover a delightful collection of King Tut's treasures. It is the Egyptian Museum, Here you'll find more than 100.000 unusual artifacts.

Aswan

Aswan Day Tour

Have breakfast and get ready to tour Aswan and learn about its rich history while admiring its natural beauty. Your hotel check-out is facilitated by your coordinator.

He or she also assists you with all airport formalities and travels with you to Cairo Airport for a domestic trip. When you arrive at the airport, your personal Egyptologist will be waiting for you.

The High Dam is a good place to start your Aswan day tour. What an incredible sight to view the water rushing through Egypt's highest rock-filled dam to irrigate all of the country's homes. In a similar vein, Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake, is directly in front of you.

After seeing this massive modern structure, a pharaonic engineering site awaits to reveal secrets about one of Egypt's old civilization's architectural marvels. Certainly, at the entrance to each temple sits The Obelisk, a massive single column that dates back thousands of years and absorbs the sun's rays in a magnificent way, illuminating the entire temple.

These obelisks were built to enormous proportions and placed in strategic positions. They were then lifted to stand in perfect harmony with the sky, which dates back thousands of years! This is incredible! The incomplete Obelisk site narrates all of your questions, with the pharaoh's lines illustrating everything that comes to mind.

The Osiris procession proceeded amid the Pharaohs' kings, queens, and nobles' grandiose honors and waiting. You can take a water taxi from Philae port to sail on the same road. It's a magnificent experience to immerse oneself in that majestic setting that transports you to ancient Egypt. Similarly, the Philae temple appears miraculously in the middle of the Nile River. The Jewel of the Pharaonic Temples is the name given to this location. Three civilizations' information and secrets can be found here.

Nile Cruise check-in

Continue on with your tour guide and check into your 5-Star Nile boat from Aswan to Luxor. Enjoy your lunch on the sundeck of the Nile cruise while sunbathing and swimming in the pool. Then wrap out your day with a stroll through Aswan's streets.

Meanwhile, You can sail by a felucca to tour Aga Khan Mausoleum & Kitchener Island, What a great opportunity!

Visit Kom Ombo Temple 

Kom Ombo Temple and Nile Cruise Sailing

At the Nile Cruise Board, you may have a sumptuous breakfast. Today, you'll learn about the ancient Egyptians' travel experiences. exactly the same way they used to. So you sail through the Nile, surrounded by verdant flora on the Nile's banks. The Kom Ombo Temple is located in the Nile Valley, surrounded by fields. Meanwhile, travel back in time and relax on a magnificent Nile cruise.

The ancient Egyptians built a massive temple for the god Sobek on a Nile bend near Kom Ombo City. This curve was unquestionably a crocodile haven. There are currently no crocodiles in the area.

Continue on to Kom Ombo Temple, which is steeped in history. As a result, you'll find yourself in the middle of a magnificent pharaonic hospital complete with surgical instruments. The origins of these instruments can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians. The colorful decorations depict all of the medical procedures that took place, as well as how the patients healed their wounds.

Thank you for returning to your Nile Cruise. Take a break for lunch and continue sailing until you reach Edfu Temple. So, you're in Edfu City tonight. Take pleasure in your meal.

Visit Edfu temple

Edfu temple and Nile Cruise Sailing

Enjoy your breakfast while riding in a horse-drawn carriage to Edfu Temple. Take in that wonderful sensation! It's as if the pharaohs have just raised their hands from this temple. Above all, after Al – Karnak Temple, it is the second-largest temple and one of the best-preserved temples.

After that, return aboard your opulent Nile cruise and enjoy lunch while you continue to sail! Enjoy your crossing of Isna Lock.

Luxor arrives! Welcome! This city is home to one-third of the world's monuments. In the meantime, spend a happy free night strolling through Luxor's streets and exploring its bazaars. Take your dinner on the Nile cruise board after that.

Luxor Day Tour

West Bank of Luxor

Breakfast is served on board your Nile cruise. It's time to say goodbye to this incredible adventure. As a result, your Egyptologist will assist you with all of your departure formalities from the Nile cruise. Begin your day tour in the world's largest open-air museum. Luxor is the capital of the middle and new kingdoms, as well as the pharaohs' Theba.

Most importantly, you and your Egyptologist are now traveling to the realm of the pharaohs in search of the truth. Here! In the afterlife, the ancient Egyptians believed they would be gods! So let's have a look inside! The pharaohs believed that by using the solar boat at sunset, they could go with the sun and return as gods of the afterlife in the morning. You've arrived at the pharaonic secret route! Amid the beauty of the Valley of the Kings and The Valley of the Queens.

The mummies of the queens and kings had been put among sparkling riches and special inscriptions regarding the afterlife. You're definitely in here! Continue until you reach the Luxor Nile's west bank, where you will be rewarded with a stunning panorama.

A pharaonic masterpiece sculpted into an exquisite building sits in the bowels of a mountain. This is how Hatshepsut amassed her authority, which she used to successfully rule Egypt. It's the Temple of Hatshepsut. As a result, a hill twisted into three enormous terraces may be seen from here.

Just a few steps away from this temple are the Colossi of Memnon. These two colossal statues, which stand up to 20 meters tall, have been defying natural disasters since the 18th dynasty.

East Bank of Luxor

In the same vein, proceed to the opposite side to tour Luxor's most important masterpiece from the west side. Meanwhile, take a break, have your lunch, and prepare for our next destination to Luxor Temple. The sides of this beautiful temple hide a truth about Amenhotep III.

Events are rushing toward you! Is there something hidden behind this ruler? Did he have the legal authority to rule ancient Egypt? The rivalry between Hatshepsut and Thutmose III is vividly depicted right before your eyes. Consider Tutankhamun's (1336-27 BC), Horemheb's (1323-1295 BC), and Ramses II's eras (1279-13BC).

The Sphinx statues surround you from right to left as you walk on where the gods Amun, wife Mut, and Khonsu were transported amidst gorgeous pharaonic festivals after you leave this temple to a pharaonic road.

In the same way, you're now on your way to Karnak Temple. Karnak Temple remains the world's largest religious structure, requiring a complete record of ancient Egyptian religions. So, to reach the splendor of this temple, travel through its medieval mud-brick wall with its eight gates that surround Karnak and date back over 2000 years.

Finally, Transfer to Luxor Domestic Airport to fly to Cairo.

Then, arrive in Cairo and get assistance to check in for one night.

Departure

Departure Time

Firstly, breakfast at your hotel then, meet your coordinator, He/ She will escort you to Cairo airport. It's the end of an era! You've just returned home after making lifelong memories in the midst of ancient, beautiful history. Finally, the sense of fulfillment you're experiencing following your 7-day Egypt tour makes you want to stay a little longer! Be blessed until the next time.