Cairo & Nile Cruise by Sleeper Train 8 Days Culture & Adventure.

Check-out after breakfast where your private Tour Guide will accompany you to your first pitstop in Cairo of your Egypt Vacation to visit the famous Pyramids in the area. Kicking off your Cairo Day tour with the famous Giza Plateau to visit the only remaining wonder from the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Also on the plateau are the pyramids of Khafre,  and the smallest Pyramid Menkaure  The plateau is as famous for the mysterious structure 'the Sphinx' as it is for the Pyramids, where you will visit the Valley Temple. Then have lunch at a local restaurant then move to the Grand Egyptian Museum, The Grand Egyptian Museum is the world's largest Archaeological Museum dedicated to a single civilization. The collection consisting of King Tutankhamun's tomb and tens of thousands of other rare and unique archaeological finds has found a new home in a museum built on the plateau of the pyramids of Giza. The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is one of the mega national projects that is considered to be a great addition to Egyptian tourism and international cultural and media tourism. It reflects the extent of Egyptian international cooperation, as it is considered one of the largest civilizational and archaeological projects in the world, and the largest museum in the world dedicated to one civilization, which is the ancient Egyptian civilization.

After that, you will visit the famous Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, a major souk in the Islamic district of Cairo, the bazaar district is one of Cairo's main attractions for tourists and Egyptians alike. Finally, we conclude the day with dinner during an overnight trip to Aswan onboard the Cairo Sleeper Train finalizing the first phase of your Egypt tour.

NOTE: if the Grand Egyptian Museum is not officially opened you will visit the Egyptian Museum at Tahrir

Enjoy your breakfast with a sunrise view from the train before arriving at Aswan, where you will be met by Look at Egypt Tours Representative who will transfer you to your Nile Cruise Boat and then be escorted by your Egyptologist tour guide for a day tour in Aswan.

You will begin this day of your Egypt Vacation by visiting the Aswan High Dam, built in the 1960s to provide much-needed electricity and irrigation for Egypt. Nubia, the area that was flooded, experienced the biggest and most thorough archaeological excavations that Egypt has known. Then we go to see the ‘Unfinished Obelisk’ which still lies in the granite quarries used to provide the main building material in ancient Egypt. It would have been the largest piece of stone ever handled but when a crack was discovered it was abandoned where it was being hewn. Cross by boat to Angelika Island, to see Philae Temple, one of the Nubian Temples rescued before the High Dam was built. Enjoy Philae’s long colonnades, towers, and reliefs which include the last surviving hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions in Egypt after which you will be transferred back to your Nile cruise with Overnight stay on board in Aswan.

Melas: Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner

After enjoying breakfast on board your Nile cruise in Aswan you sail to see Kom Ombo Temple. Of all the ancient temples in Egypt, this is the only one which is divided into two, to reflect that it is dual devotion to two Gods: Sobek, the Crocodile God of fertility; and the falcon-headed Horus, God of the protection Kom Ombo is also famous for the depictions of surgeon's instruments, giving us an early record of medicine and surgery in Ancient Egypt.

In the afternoon, you will continue your Egypt Vacation by sailing down the Nile to visit the huge Ptolemaic Temple of Horus at Edfu, which is the most complete and best-preserved of Egyptian Temples, consisting of many columns, halls, chambers, and chapels. Two statues of Horus flank the twin-towered entrance gate one of the truly magnificent items inside is an interesting inscription listing the titles of books (scrolls) held in the library. Finally, you will head back to your Nile cruise for dinner, and refreshing afternoon tea served on the cruise’s sundeck with an overnight stay onboard the Nile cruise concluding this day of your Egypt Tour.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Proceeding your Egypt Vacation by an excellent breakfast on board the Nile Cruise then you will be taken to the West Bank of the River Nile to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III or Colossi of Memnon.

Then visit the iconic Valley of the Kings, where many magnificent tombs were discovered (including the Boy King Tutankhamen), These tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the Pharaohs and here you will visit 3 tombs. ( The permitted amount of tombs to visit was determined by the Egyptian authorities to preserve them from the large flow of visitors and are rotated throughout the year, therefore, making confirming which tombs nearly impossible).

Continue your tour to visit El Deir El Bahari or Hatshepsut temple, this impressive temple is dedicated to Queen Hatshepsut the only female Pharaoh. Rising out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it. We then head back to the cruise for lunch and some afternoon tea on the ship with plenty of free leisure time and overnight stay onboard the cruise closing out the fifth day of your Egypt Tour.

Relax as you watch the beauty surrounding you on the banks of the Nile while having breakfast on board the Nile Cruise before continuing your Egypt adventure.

After which you will leave your Nile Cruise Boat to enjoy a visit to Karnak Temple, which is the world's largest ancient religious site. The Hypostyle Hall with its colossal granite columns is one of Egypt’s infamous landmarks. There will be free time to explore the different parts of the huge complex built during the reigns of various Pharaohs, then move on to the Luxor Temple which was built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for holding rituals and festivals that were dedicated to God Amun.

Later you will be transferred to the Luxor train terminal to board your Sleeper Train back to Cairo with a late dinner and overnight stay onboard.

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner

After enjoying your breakfast aboard the train before arriving at the Giza Train Station where you will be met and assisted by our representative, then transfer to your Cairo Hotel ( we will do our best to get your room early )

Optional excursions in Cairo, with free leisure time. Overnight stay at your Hotel in Cairo.

After a refreshing breakfast at your Hotel, you will be transferred to Cairo Airport for your return flight home.

Meals: Breakfast