Overview
Travel Egypt. From the towering Great Pyramids in Cairo to Alexandria, it flaunts a rich historical backdrop of Greco roman dating back to the 4th century. Embark on a sleeper train towards Aswan city. Experience an authentic glimpse of life in the Nubian village. Bring your travel to life with comfortable lodgings, and luxurious Nile Dahabiya Sailing, on a three-day trip to Kom Ombo, Edfu. Explore the valley of kings and Karnak temple complex in Luxor the ancients capital of Egypt . We have tailored this trip by using the least harmful means of transportation for the environment, and carbon offset the unavoidable aspects of the journey. Your trip is defined to deliver an "experience of a lifetime", showcasing the region's hidden gems you cannot find in guidebooks.
Itinerary
Day 1 Thursday Welcome to Egypt
Arrival, Meet your Tour Manager before customs clearance, who will assist and an escort you to your Hotel, check-in ,receive your room key and stay overnight
Day 2 Friday Pyramids of Giza, Grand Egyptian Museum
After Breakfast, your guide will pick you up to visit the pyramids with the worlds-famous tombs of Cheops, Chefren, and mykerinos, as well as sphinx; you will be privileged to watch some of the first fascinating sceneries. After completion, The Great Egyptian Museum at the Cairo Gate on the Giza Plateau (next to the Pyramids) became the jewel of Egypt's new crown and one of the world's largest, most modern, and most famous museums. The Museum will house more than 50,000 artefacts, including all the personal holdings of the Golden King Tutankhamun, all gathered for the first time in one place.
Note: The Great Egyptian Museum is scheduled to open in2022 ; if it is not open alliteratively, you will visit the Egyptian national Museum Afternoon; you will get a chance to see numerous pharaonic eras, including the Tutankhamun exhibition in our Egyptian National Museum trip.
Meals Included; Breakfast & Lunch
Day 3 Saturday: Alexandria
After breakfast, our representative will take you to the train station to start your trip like a local. The train dep at 08:00 am and arrives in Alexandria at about 10:30 . You will take a taxi to the attached address. Your local host will be waiting for you (we will provide you with a local phone to communicate with your host). At about 12 noon. A recommended local driver will pick you up to visit Citadel and the Bibliotheca Alexandria. The cost of the car is about 350 Egp Egyptian pounds, equivalent to approximately 19 dollars, not including entrance fees. Lunch and dinner at Pablo Restaurant and Cafe, Stanley branch overlooking the sea; cost per meal as per your choice from the menu will not exceed the equivalent of 15 dollars per person.
Day 4 Sunday Alexandria
Today you can enjoy breakfast like the locals with a great sea view overlooking the famous Stanley Beach. The cost of breakfast will not exceed 10 dollars at locally known Pablo Restaurant. After breakfast, visit El Menzah Park Kom El Shoqafa and the Jewellery Museum as on the previous day; you will use the car with a local English-speaking driver. Excluding entrance fees, Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Pablo Restaurant Glim Bay Branch The meal cost, according to your choice from the menu,
If you are a seafood lover, then Alexandria is definitely the city for you. For an authentic local experience, we went to El-Lul Restaurant in the El Max area approx, a 40-minute drive. We had a local driver who took us to this restaurant, a unique local dining experience that is incomparable. We paid for 2 kilos of fish, calamari and shrimp 800 EGP ( about 56 $ ) and 180 LE for transportation. You first choose the type of freshly caught fish, choose the cooking method, then wait at your Seaview table and enjoy the beautiful view in front of the lighthouse.
Day 5 Monday Alexandria - Aswan
Today you can enjoy your free time in Alexandria, walk along the sea or go shopping, in the afternoon, you will catch your sleeper train to Aswan
Dinner and Breakfast on the train, Flight style tray
Day 6 Tuesday Nubian Village, Tour of Aswan
Upon arrival in Aswan, a local driver we'll pick you up from the Railway Station and drive you on the jetty to take a boat to Nubian Village; check in at your Local guest House and enjoy your free time on the island. in the afternoon, you have the opportunity to book a local felucca ride on the Nile around the island for 2 hours with an overview of the famous hotel of the old Cataract and visit the botanical gardens island
Meals Included: Breakfast
Day 7 Wednsday Aswan Tour
In the morning, you will have a guided tour of Aswan's dams. The English built the first dam in 1898 -1902, the largest dam in the world, but Russia built a new significant high dam in 1960-1971. Next, visit Philae temple, the temple of Isis and Hathor. It was saved and restored on the island of Agilkia because of water overflow when the High Dam was constructed.
Abu Simbel Optional
you have the opportunity to book a trip to Abu Simbel, where you'll drive there (approx. 4 hours). As part of a guided tour (by a local expert guide in Abu Simbel), you'll visit the impressive rock temples of Abu Simbel. After sightseeing (approx. 1.5 - 2 hours), you'll return to Aswan. Overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast.
Day 8 Thursday Start your Dahabiya Adventure
Today you start your Nile adventure by Sailing on a Dahabiya. "The Dahabiya is a large luxury sailboat with a shallow sailing bottom, used by the royal family in ancient times, as well as aristocrats, famous people on their luxurious voyages, as well as aristocrats and the legendary Nile Draft. When the trip is against the wind, a tractor with a long strap is used to lead the journey so that the sound of the tractor does not reach the Dahabiya. We will start sailing at about noon on the way to Kom Ombo; we will have to stop at harbiab Island if time is available.
Meals included: Soft All Inclusive starts with Lunch.
Day 9 Friday: sailing to Esna / Luxor
Today you will visit Esna Temple and sail to Luxor. Later in the evening, you will have a guided tour of the illuminated Luxor temple. and overnight
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on board
Meals on Board: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 10 Saturday Luxor
In the morning, you will start a guided tour to the West bank, visiting tombs in the famed Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut temple, and the mighty Colossi of Memnon. Then you head to your Hotel, check in, and have free time.
Meals Included: Breakfast
Day 11 Sunday Cairo
In the morning, you will Arrive Cairo; your tour manager will take you to your Hotel.
PM, you have the opportunity to book a Half Day Guided tour of Old Cairo.
Day 12 Monday FLY Home
After Breakfast, transfer to the airport to catch your final flight back home.
Included : Transfer & Sightseeing
- Transfer Airport Hotel in Cairo
- Transfer to Rail Way Station
- 1st class seating train to Alexandria
- Final Departure transfer to Cairo International Airport
- Full Days Pyramids, Egyptian Museum with Lunch
- Full-Day Guided Tour in Aswan
- Full Day Guided Tour of Luxor West Bank, Karnak and Luxor Temple
- Guided Tour of Kom Ombo, Edfu Temple
- Entrance Fees
Meals
- 11 Breakfast -2 Lunches 3 Dinner
Certificate
- Certificate for 100% offset the generated remission of this trip, not including your international flight
Superior Accommodations 4*++
- Cairo: at Radisson Blu or similar on BB
- Alexandria: Homestay with Locals on BO
- Aswan: Nubian Eco Lodge Nile View on BB
- Luxor : Night Stigenbergure Achti or Similar Nile View rooms on BB
- Alex/Aswan : Sleeper Train on HB
- Nile Cruise : Luxury Dahabiya Miret or Similar on SAI
Meals Arrangment
Not Included:
- Visa Upon Arrival
- Sightseeing with Locals in Alexandria
- Sightseeing With Locals in Luxor or Aswan