8 Days Nile Cruise Easter Holiday Package

Early in the morning, you will enjoy your breakfast at the hotel before our Egyptology guide takes you for a private tour to Sakkara, part of the massive necropolis of Memphis, to the burial site of the earliest pharaohs, where you will see the step pyramid of King Djoser.
Our next part of the tour will be the Giza Plateau: to visit the Great Pyramids, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, before we continue to the mysterious Sphinx, with a view to the valley temple.
You can visit the boat that transported the Pharaoh’s mummy across the Nile and then buried it at the foot of the pyramid for its journey to the afterlife. We finish our day tour and take you back to your hotel for a relaxed overnight stay.

Start the next day of the Nile Cruise Easter Holiday Package with your breakfast before we transfer you to Cairo airport for your flight to Aswan. Our REP will accompany you to the luxury Nile cruise ship, where you will spend the next four days of your holiday.
Upon check-in, we will take you on an exciting tour to High Dam (the world-famous Aswan Dam), a marvel of engineering built in 1960, before we continue to the granite quarries, where you still find the famous unfinished obelisk.
With a motorboat, we take you to Egilka Island to visit the majestic Philae Temple. For your relaxation, this afternoon is a felucca ride on the Nile in Aswan included.
We have an optional offer for you to have a final evening excursion to the sound and light show in the Temple of Philae or return for your remaining free time to your hotel in Aswan.

After you finish your breakfast, our tour guide will pick you up for the tour to Kom Ombo Temple, the crocodile-headed god of fertility and the creator of the world.
We will be back on board for your lunch cruise ship, and while we sail to Edfu, take your time to relax with the sun on the deck. After we arrive at Edfu, we explore the Edfu Temple of Horus.
Afternoon tea is served on the sun terrace, followed by dinner and overnight on board while we sail to Luxor.

Enjoy breakfast on board the cruise ship before we head to the West Bank of the Nile, where we visit the two Colossi of Memnon and the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs were discovered.
We continue the tour to Hatshepsut Temple in El Der El Bahary, dedicated to the only female pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut. This imposing temple rises from a series of terraces in the desert plain, merging with the steep limestone cliffs surrounding it.
Back on the ship, we serve your lunch, enjoy the afternoon tea, and relax with free time at leisure. Optional trip at night: escort us to the sound and light show in the temple of Karnak. Overnight stay will be on board of the cruise ship.

Our Egyptian guide will accompany you after breakfast to visit the Karnak Temple. Its old name is Ipet-Isut, which means “the holiest place”. The temple, or more precisely, the temple complex, was built over several generations of pharaohs. Inside the complex, there is the Huge Hypo Style Hall, which has an incredible number of giant pillars.
Before the last day of our Luxor trip ends, we will visit Luxor Temple, built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II, for rituals and festivals. We will transfer you to Luxor Airport for the flight to Cairo. There, we will take you with a direct transfer to your hotel in Cairo, where you will spend the rest of the evening and overnight stay.

Today, we start the full-day tour with a visit to the world-famous Museum of Ancient Egypt, built in the neoclassical style of the French architect Marcel Dourgnon. Here, you find the collection of more than 150,000 masterpieces from the pre-dynastic period, the Pharaonic period of the Roman era of Egypt. Look at the grave goods of the pharaohs, including the treasures of the child King Tutankhamun.
Optionally, you can visit the mummy room in the Egyptian Museum. Here, you will learn all about Egyptian civilization and the great art of mummification in ancient Egypt.
From the museum, we drive to the Citadel of Saladin, where the Mohammed Ali Alabaster Mosque is built inside. Here, you will have a great overlook of Cairo city.
Let’s go to the Christian heritage in Coptic Cairo, such as the hanging church, which is named after its location and until now works as the center of the Christian churches of Egypt.
You will also visit the Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the famous Jewish heritages in Cairo. The synagogue contains a Jewish library containing documents found in 1896.
From there, we take you to the hotel to spend your remaining free time and overnight in Cairo.Cairo.Cairo.

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel. With the best wishes for your flight home, we will transfer you to Cairo airport to finish your Nile Cruise Easter Holiday Package