8 Days Egypt Pyramids Tour with Nile Cruise Moves You Over the Past Thousands of Years.
8 Days Egypt Pyramids Tour with Nile Cruise gets you the chance to be in the embrace of the events of the 4th Dynasty of the old ancient Egyptian kingdom. Away from the hustle and bustle of life, you will travel to where you will be in the arms of history. There, you can feel that as if you ride a wave of history. This wave that comes from an extraordinary history transfers you to the original story of building the pyramids. But How!
Uncover the facts beyond Giza Pyramids!
Walk on historical sands at where the pharaohs had walked to build the only survivor of the ancient world wonders. It is the Giza Pyramids plateau. From this point, you can follow the historical events and develop the theories up to building the pyramids. As a result, you will live the original story and uncover the facts of building the pyramids. Our 8 Days Egypt Pyramids Tour with Nile Cruise gets you the chance to walk with these majestic historical events. That is how you will feel as if you are in ancient Egyptian time.
So, you will not just see the pyramids, but you will live their history! Not just the pyramids, but there are a lot of facts and secrets that will run in front of your eyes about majestic events and great historical eras.
Actually, You will Go Through Beyond That. You can cross through secret pharaonic roads that transfer you to where you can attend the whole mummifying process. Also, you can see by your own eyes the burial rituals for the kings. Also, you will walk through dazzling treasures. The itinerary of the 8 Days Egypt Pyramids Tour with Nile Cruise below gets you an accurate illustration. Enjoy!
Trip Summary
Tour Starts: | Cairo |
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Tour Ends : | Cairo |
Trip Duration : | 8 Days / 7 Nights |
Accommodation : | Included |
Tour Category : | Egypt Budget Travel - Egypt Standard Tours - Egypt Travel Deals 2025/2026 - Nile Cruise Tours |
Trip Theme : | Egypt Cultural Tours - Egypt Educational Tours - Egypt Group Tours - Egypt Nile Tours - Egypt Private Tours - Family Friendly Tours |
Cities to Visit : | Cairo - Giza - Aswan - Luxor |
Tour Difficulty : | Easy |
Available for Handicap : | Yes |
Group Size : | 4 to 15 persons |
Style : | Comfort - Educational - Enjoyment- Culture |
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Itinerary
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Day 1
Arrival in Cairo
Arrival Day
Sure, along your travel time, you think in the view of the pyramids and how these giant masterpieces still alive and accompany Egypt's sky since thousands of years ago! You arrive at the land of this majesty. Welcome to the cradle of civilization.
Firstly, meet our coordinator to facilitate all the airport procedures. This coordinator holds a sign bearing your name to get to know him/her easily.
Comfortably, go out of the airport to find a lavish private vehicle that waits for you, driven by a friendly chauffeur, to transfer you to your luxury hotel. Your coordinator helps you in the hotel check-in. Get your rest to begin your tour amid the history the next day.
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Day 2
Cairo Pyramid Day Tour – Egyptian Museum
Pyramid Day Tour and Egyptian Museum Visit
Firstly, get your breakfast meal at the hotel and be ready to begin your fascinating tour. Meet your private Egyptologist to go to the private air-conditioned vehicle. At the time, you are immersed in the charm of the Egyptian streets and eager to get closer to these Egyptians, a scene will appear that can confuse your thinking. It is the view of the pyramids. History is calling you to come closer.
Proceed till be in front of the great pyramid, the Pyramid of Khufu. Go with the years of history. Yes, each step in the Giza Pyramid Plateau road means that you go through the historical time as if you are riding a time machine. Cross through The pyramid of Khafre and Menkaure. Then saluted that pharaonic guard who has been in the land of the pyramids since 2558 BC. It is the Sphinx.
There, a great surprise awaiting, as you do not meet just three pyramids, but there are other six pyramids dedicated to the queens. You have the opportunity to enter one or two of them. A magic photo with great history is waiting for you to be in a scene with the nine pyramids, sphinx, and Mortuary Temple in the Panorama Pyramid.
Then, get your rest and have your lunch meal. Then, proceed to a dazzling treasure to walk through gold, bronze, and amazing priceless artifacts come from the majestic ancient Egyptian civilization. where you find the Whole charming collection of Tut treasure and more than 100.000 rare artifacts. It is the Egyptian Museum.
Finally, come back with a private vehicle to the hotel and enjoy a comfortable night.
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Day 3
Saqqara Complex & Memphis - Dahshour Pyramids
Saqqara Complex Tour
Firstly, get your breakfast meal at the hotel and meet your Egyptologist. This day you will be in the ancient Egyptians minds while they were thinking in the theory of building the pyramids. Secrets and facts you will live today.
Then, meet your Egyptologist and go to the 1st stone structure in humanity. It is Saqqara Pyramids. You are in where the ancient Egyptians had thought in building a tomb in the form of a high structure. So, they developed the one-step tombs, which you can see in the Saqqara complex too, too many steps, which resulted in establishing Dojesr Pyramid.
Follow your Egyptologist to these one-stop tombs in the Sarabium Saqqara. There, you can see the magic of 26 Pharaonic sarcophagi amid unique architecture from the 3rd century BC. Then, proceed at where the pharaonic minds developed up to Saqqara Pyramid. Each terrace in the Saqqara Pyramid is smaller than what is located under it to take shape closer to the pyramid.
Close to Saqqara pyramids, you find the 1st capital had set in ancient Egypt. You are amid a large open museum that narrates secrets about this great civilization. Feel as if you are an ancient Egyptian and walk through this pharaonic city. You are going through the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt and Old Kingdom era ( 2613-2181 BCE) in Memphis.
Dahshour District Tour
Get your rest and have your lunch meal.
From this steps pyramid and Memphis, transfer to where the ancient Egyptians had thought to develop the architecture theories to build the explicit form of the pyramid. It is not in the Giza Pyramids Plateau, but you will be in the heart of the cause of building the magic of Giza Pyramids. You are in Dahshour District, the original story of building the pyramids in history.
Then, proceed to where you find a pyramid that takes a wrong angle. It is the first attempt at building a pyramid. But the theory was wrong, and from this mistake, the right pyramids had been built. So, what about this mistake and how the ancient Egyptians had avoided it in the following pyramids! You can see the historical events running towards your eyes in the Bent Pyramid to transfer you to see by your own eyes the 1st correct built pyramid in history. It is the Red Pyramid. From this huge right pyramid, the Giza pyramids had come to the world.
So, you can walk with history step by step in Dahshour District. After this fabulous day, go to your hotel to get a rest. Finally, you have the opportunity to enjoy a free night at Cairo streets. This night tour gives you the chance to discover the puzzle of how Paris overlooks the Nile since the era of Khedive Ismail.
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Day 4
Travel to Aswan and Luxor Tours- Aswan Day Trips
Aswan City Tour
Firstly, get your breakfast meal and be ready to travel to the charm Aswan to meet great history amid this fabulous unique nature. At first, let your coordinator helps you in the hotel check-out.
He/she accompanies you to the Cairo airport for a domestic flight and facilitates all the airport procedures. Once you arrive at the airport, you can find the private local Egyptologist awaiting you.
From the High Dam, you can begin your Aswan day tour. How amazing when viewing the water that runs through this highest rock-fill dam globally to irrigate each home in Egypt. While in front of you is the largest artificial lake. It is the Nasser Lake.
From this huge modern project, a pharaonic engineering site is waiting for you to reveal secrets about one of the architectural miracles of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The obelisk, which is a giant one-single column that stands high at the entrance of each temple from thousands of years ago, collects the sun rays to magically illuminate the entire temple.
How these obelisks had cut with these huge sizes and carried to their recent locations then raised to stand highly accompanying the sky from thousands of years ago! The Unfinished Obelisk Site narrates all these inquires where you find the pharaoh's lines illustrate all that comes to your mind. They had drawn these lines, you see there, by their hands to establish this giant obelisk.
Philae temple Visit
In which the Osiris procession had passed amid the majestic waiting of the Pharaohs kings, queens, and nobles, you can ride a water taxi from Philae port to sail on the same road. It is a great experience to immerse yourself in that majestic scene that brings to your mind from ancient Egypt. Then, you find the Philae temple magically appearing in the heart of the Nile River. Facts and secrets of three civilizations are here in this temple that is called the jewel of the pharaonic temples.
Then, follow your tour guide to check in your Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor. Get your lunch meal on the Nile Cruise Sundeck to enjoy the sun and the pool. Then complete your day tour in Aswan at the Aswan streets. You have the opportunity to sail by a felucca to visit Aga Khan Mausoleum & Kitchener Island.
Come back to your Nile Cruise and enjoy a Galabia Party & Nubian festivals. Finally, have your dinner meal and enjoy your sleeping time in your lavish room.
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Day 5
Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor Sailing – Kom Ombo Temple Visit
Kom Ombo Temple Visit
Firstly, get your breakfast meal at the Nile Cruise Board. This day you live the experience of the ancient Egyptians when they were transferring. The same as them, you sail through the Nile while the green plants surround you at the Nile banks, as the farms are everywhere in the Nile valley. While you live a time from history and enjoy the luxury of your Nile Cruise, you arrive at Kom Ombo Temple.
In a Nile curve located in the Kom Ombo City, the ancient Egyptians had established a great temple for God Sobek. This curve was where the crocodiles lived, but now there are no crocodiles. Walk with the history to Kom Ombo Temple to find yourself amid a complete pharaonic hospital with the original ancient Egyptian medical instruments for surgeries. The vibrant decorations show you all the surgical procedures that had happened and how they wounded their healings.
Then, come back to your Nile Cruise to get your Lunch meal and complete the charm of the sailing till arriving at Edfu Temple. Your night is in Edfu City. Finally, have your dinner meal.
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Day 6
Edfu Temple – Sailing to Luxor
Edfu Temple Visit
Firstly, get your breakfast and experience the suspense of riding a horse carriage to Edfu temple. You are right in your feeling that as if the pharaohs have just raised their hands out of this temple. It is one of the most well-preserved temples and the 2nd largest temple after Al-Karnak Temple.
Then, come back to your Nile Cruise and have your lunch while completing the sailing. Enjoy a great time crossing Isna Lock.
Arrive at Luxor, this city that includes one-third of the world monuments, and enjoy a free night at Luxor streets and visit its Bazaars. Finally, have your dinner meal on the Cruise Board.
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Day 7
Luxor Sightseeing Tours Day
West Bank Tour
Firstly, get your breakfast meal at the Nile Cruise Board, and say goodbye to this charming experience. Your Egyptologist facilitates all the check-out procedures out of the Nile Cruise. Begin your magic day tour amid the largest open-air museum globally. It is Luxor, Theba for the pharaohs, and the capital of the Middle and the New Kingdom.
Then, follow your Egyptologist to the land of truth for the pharaohs. There you walk in where the ancient Egyptians had thought that they would be gods in the afterlife. In which the pharaohs believed that they would go with the sun by the solar boat in the sunset to come with the sunshine as the gods of the afterlife. Go to the pharaonic secret road till find yourself amid the charm of the Valley of the Kings and The Valley of the Queens.
You are in where the mummies of the kings and queens had been placed amid dazzling treasure and unique inscriptions about the afterlife. Complete your way on the west bank of Luxor Nile to find a majestic view. It is a pharaonic masterpiece carved in the belly of a mountain to be an amazing architecture. That is how Hatshepsut narrated the power of her that ruled Egypt successfully and strongly. It is the Temple of Hatshepsut to view a hill carved into three large terraces.
In a few steps far away from this temple, you meet the Colossi of Memnon. These two gigantic statues challenge the time and nature disasters since the 18th Dynasty, standing highly with 20-meter.
East Bank Tour
From the west side, proceed to the other side to visit the most important masterpiece in Whole Luxor. Just get your rest and your lunch meal and move to Luxor Temple. You can find in the sides of this great temple a secret related to Amenhotep III. Had he had the right actually to rule ancient Egypt! What did this ruler hide! The events run towards your eyes. Even the conflict between Hatshepsut and Thutmose III is embodied in front of your eyes. Cross through the eras of Tutankhamun (1336-27 BC), Horemheb (1323-1295 BC), and Rameses II (1279-13 BC).
Leave this temple to a pharaonic road where sphinx statues surround you from right to left while you walk on where the gods Amun, wife Mut, and Khonsu were transported amid great pharaonic festivals. You are on your way to Karnak Temple. It is the largest religious complex that requires a complete record of the ancient Egyptian religions. Cross this historical mud-brick wall with its eight gates that surround Karnak since 2000 years ago to this majesty of this temple.
Then, have your rest and transfer with your Egyptologist to Luxor airport for a domestic flight to Cairo. Finally, get your dinner meal on board. You can easily find your coordinator at the airport to transfer you to your Cairo Hotel enjoy a comfortable sleep.
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Day 8
Travel Back To Home
Departure Day
Firstly, get your breakfast meal at the hotel and meet your coordinator, who accompany you to the airport. Come back home after creating unbelievable memories amid majestic history. Your experience in the embrace of history will make you feel that the 8 Days Egypt Pyramids Tour is the best 8 days you can spend in your life.
Inclusions
8 Days Egypt Pyramids Tour with Nile Cruise includes:
- Cairo airport arrival & drop-off, meet & assistance.
- Four nights’ accommodation at a hotel in Cairo with (Bed & Breakfast).
- An air-conditioned deluxe vehicle driven by a friendly driver accompanies you to all sites mentioned in the above itinerary.
- Well-English-spoken Egyptologist accompanies you to all tour sites in Egypt.
- 3 nights & 4 days accommodation Nile Cruise (Aswan to Luxor) with Full-Board (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).
- 2 Domestic Flight Ticket (Cairo to Aswan) (Luxor – Cairo).
- 7 Breakfast meals, 6 Lunch meals, and 3 Dinner meals.
- Bottled water, Dinner & Lunch meals in High-quality local Restaurants during your tours and transfers.
- Taxes and Services Charges
Exclusions
8 Days Egypt Pyramids Tour with Nile Cruise excludes:
- International Flight Tickets from home.
- Entrance Fees for All Sightseeing of your Pyramids Tour with Nile Cruise.
- Any fee is out of the mentioned sites in the above itinerary.
- Any meal is not mentioned in the above itinerary.
- Entry Visa to Egypt on Arrival.
- Snacks & Drinks of any kind.
- Your own calls and internet usage.
- Any Optional tours are out of the itinerary mentioned above.
- Personal spending.
Tour Attractions and Highlights
Giza
Luxor
Package Price
Start from $2165 $2382 / Person