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9 Days · Egypt

Egypt – Land of the Pharaohs

Destinations

Cairo · Aswan · Nile Cruise · Luxor

Duration

9 Days / 7 Nights

Inclusions

Flights + Hotels + Nile Cruise + All Tours

From

$1,990 / person

Trip Highlights

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Great Pyramids & Sphinx

Walk the Giza Plateau, marvel at the Great Sphinx & descend into the Valley Temple

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Full-Board Nile Cruise

3 nights sailing the legendary Nile — Aswan, Kom Ombo, Edfu & Luxor, all meals included

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Valley of the Kings

Enter the royal tombs of Ancient Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs in the cliffs of Thebes

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Egyptian Museum & Luxor

World’s greatest collection of pharaonic treasures & the awe-inspiring Karnak Temple Complex

Your Route — Egypt 🇪🇬

Departure

Flight

Cairo

2 Nights

Giza Pyramids

Day Tour

✈️ Domestic

Aswan

Board Cruise

Kom Ombo

Cruise Stop

Edfu

Cruise Stop

Luxor

1 Night Hotel

✈️ Domestic

Cairo

1 Night

Flight

Departure

Day by Day

Your Full Itinerary

Day 1

Departure — Night on Board

✈️ International Flight

Depart for Cairo, Egypt

Your journey to the Land of the Pharaohs begins at your home airport. Board your overnight flight to Cairo International Airport — the gateway to one of the world’s oldest and most extraordinary civilisations. The mysteries of Ancient Egypt await.

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Day 2

Arrival in Cairo — Welcome to the Mother of the World

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Cairo International Airport → Your Hotel

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Arrival Day — Free Afternoon

Arrive in Cairo — First Steps in Ancient Egypt

Arrive at Cairo International Airport and transfer to your five-star hotel on the banks of the Nile. The rest of the day is yours — explore the bustling streets of the Egyptian capital, visit a local ahwa (coffee house) for mint tea and shisha, or simply gaze from your hotel at the silhouette of the Pyramids on the western horizon. Dinner is on your own this evening.

Day 3

Great Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx · Egyptian Museum · Khan el-Khalili Bazaar

Arrival Day — Free Afternoon

Arrive in Cairo — First Steps in Ancient Egypt

Included · Afternoon

Egyptian Museum — Tutankhamun's Golden Treasures

The Egyptian Museum houses the world’s largest collection of pharaonic antiquities — over 120,000 artefacts spanning 5,000 years of civilisation. The centrepiece is the breathtaking collection of Tutankhamun — his solid gold death mask, golden throne, alabaster canopic jars, and the intact treasures of his largely undisturbed tomb, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. An experience that changes how you understand ancient human achievement.

Included · Evening

Khan el-Khalili Neighbourhood & Historic Bazaar

Explore the medieval labyrinth of Khan el-Khalili — Cairo’s most famous and atmospheric bazaar, established in 1382 and still operating in the shadow of the great Al-Hussein Mosque. Wind through alleyways of gold and silversmith shops, perfume sellers, spice merchants, and artisans hand-painting papyrus and glass. The ancient scents of oud, cinnamon, and saffron fill the air as the muezzin’s call echoes across the rooftops of Islamic Cairo.

Optional Add-On

Cairo by Night — Tahrir Square, Zamalek & Traditional Dinner

A scenic evening walk through Cairo’s most beautiful districts — Tahrir Square, the elegant island suburb of Zamalek, the illuminated Cairo Tower, and the Opera House precinct — before dinner at a traditional Egyptian restaurant. End at the legendary Mirror Café for Egyptian coffee and sweets.

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Cairo → Aswan

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Day 4

Cairo → Aswan — Aswan Dam · Granite Quarry · Felucca Sail · Board Nile Cruise

Included · Guided City Tour

Aswan — High Dam, Granite Quarry & Unfinished Obelisk

Fly to Aswan — the southernmost city of Egypt and one of the most historically significant sites in the ancient world. Begin with a visit to the remarkable Aswan High Dam — an engineering achievement that tamed the Nile and transformed Egyptian agriculture. Continue to the ancient Granite Quarry where workers 3,500 years ago began carving the largest obelisk ever attempted — abandoned unfinished when a crack appeared in the granite, it still lies in place, offering extraordinary insight into pharaonic construction methods.

Arrival Day — Free Afternoon

Traditional Felucca Sail on the Nile

Board a traditional Egyptian felucca — a narrow wooden sailboat unchanged in design for millennia — for a serene afternoon drift on the Nile among Aswan’s famous cataracts. Watch daily life unfold along the riverbanks as Nubian villages, botanical islands, and desert cliffs glide past. Then board your Nile cruise ship — your luxurious floating home for the next three nights — for dinner and the first night on board.

Day 5

Kom Ombo — Twin Temples of Haroeris & Sobek · Crocodile Mummy Museum

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Included · Morning Excursion

Twin Temples of Kom Ombo — Sobek & Haroeris

Sail to the remarkable site of Kom Ombo, where a unique double temple dedicated simultaneously to the crocodile-headed god Sobek and the falcon-headed Haroeris rises dramatically above the Nile’s western bank. Each deity has its own entrance, hypostyle hall, and sanctuary, making it one of the most unusual religious monuments in all of Egypt. Discover the ancient Nilometer — a stone gauge used for over 3,000 years to measure the crucial annual Nile flood.

Included · Museum Visit

Crocodile Mummy Museum, Kom Ombo

Adjacent to the temple, the Crocodile Museum houses dozens of mummified crocodiles — preserved as sacred offerings to Sobek — along with ancient crocodile eggs and hatchlings found in the precinct. A genuinely extraordinary and slightly eerie collection that brings ancient Egyptian religious practice vividly to life.

Optional Add-On

Island of Philae — Temple of the Goddess Isis

Day 6

Temple of Edfu · Temple of Luxor — Sail to Luxor

Included · Morning Excursion

Temple of Edfu — The Best-Preserved Temple in Egypt

Arrive at Edfu and take a horse-drawn carriage to the most complete and best-preserved ancient temple in all of Egypt — the Temple of Edfu, dedicated to the falcon god Horus and built by the Ptolemaic pharaohs between 237 and 57 BC. Its towering 36-metre entrance pylons, covered in hieroglyphic reliefs of cosmic battles between Horus and Seth, give an extraordinary sense of what all Egyptian temples once looked like before time and sand did their work.

Included · Evening

Temple of Luxor — Built by Amenhotep III & Ramesses II

Continue sailing to Luxor — the world’s greatest open-air museum and ancient capital of the New Kingdom pharaohs. Visit the breathtaking Temple of Luxor, constructed over centuries by some of Egypt’s most celebrated pharaohs. The 3,400-year-old Avenue of Sphinxes, the colossal seated statues of Ramesses II, and the perfectly preserved inner sanctum — illuminated at night in golden light — make this one of the most spectacular sights in the world.

Day 7

Valley of the Kings · Temple of Hatshepsut · Memnon Colossi → Hotel in Luxor

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Included · Full Morning Tour

Valley of the Kings — Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt

Cross the Nile to the West Bank — home of the dead in ancient Egyptian belief — to the Valley of the Kings, where for 500 years the pharaohs of the New Kingdom were buried in elaborately painted rock-cut tombs hidden beneath the desert cliffs. Enter three royal tombs, their walls still ablaze with the original colours of hieroglyphic spells from the Book of the Dead — painted to guide the pharaoh through the underworld to eternal life. It was here, in 1922, that Howard Carter discovered the largely intact tomb of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun — an event that electrified the world.

Included · Late Morning

Temple of Hatshepsut & Memnon Colossi

Continue to the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut — one of Egypt’s most remarkable rulers and the second confirmed female pharaoh — whose three-tiered temple cuts dramatically into the cliff face below towering limestone escarpments. Pause at the Colossi of Memnon — two enormous 18-metre stone statues of Amenhotep III, all that remain of what was once Egypt’s largest temple, guardian sentinels of the Theban plain for 3,400 years.

Optional Add-On · Evening

Karnak Temple Sound & Light Show

As darkness falls, visit the vast Karnak Temple Complex — the largest religious building ever constructed — for the spectacular Sound and Light Show, where the voices of the pharaohs narrate the story of Thebes as the temples and statues are dramatically illuminated. The final scene, with the Sacred Lake reflecting the illuminated forest of columns, is unforgettable.

Day 8

Karnak Temple Complex → Fly Back to Cairo — Final Night

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Included · Morning

Karnak Temple Complex — The Largest Temple in the World

Begin early at the Karnak Temple Complex — a 200-acre sacred precinct built, expanded, and embellished by over 30 different pharaohs over 1,500 years, making it the largest religious complex ever built by humanity. Walk the Avenue of Ram-headed Sphinxes, stand between the 134 soaring columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall, and discover the Sacred Scarab of Amon — said to grant wishes to those who walk around it seven times.

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Luxor → Cairo

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Free Afternoon in Cairo

Return to Cairo — Final Evening

Arrive back in Cairo with the afternoon free for any final sightseeing. We recommend a visit to the Saladin Citadel — the magnificent medieval fortress overlooking Cairo, home to the stunning Alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali — or the spectacular new Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau, the world’s largest archaeological museum built to house the treasures of Tutankhamun and his contemporaries.

Optional Add-On

Grand Egyptian Museum — Tutankhamun's Complete Treasury

The world’s largest archaeological museum, opened beside the Pyramids of Giza in 2023, was built specifically to house the entire 5,000-piece collection of Tutankhamun — now displayed together for the first time since the boy king’s burial 3,300 years ago. An unmissable final chapter to your Egyptian journey.

Day 9

Cairo — Departure

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Your Hotel → Cairo International Airport

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✈️ Return Flight

Depart Cairo — Fly Home

Enjoy a final Egyptian breakfast before your private transfer to Cairo International Airport for your return flight home. Nine days that span five millennia — from the last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World to the Valley of the Kings, from the sacred cataracts of Aswan to the mighty columns of Karnak. Egypt does not merely show you history. It makes you feel it. Maasalamah.

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