Cairo Trip Overview
We mention all our information without any complicated details to make it more clear for our guests.
We never make the entrance fees including because it is depends on the guest ( Student or not ) and this days cheaper in some sites than before because COVID-19.
All our guides are qualified and experienced.
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Duration: 8 days
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
We mention all our information without any complicated details to make it more clear for our guests.
We never make the entrance fees including because it is depends on the guest ( Student or not ) and this days cheaper in some sites than before because COVID-19.
All our guides are qualified and experienced.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Cairo international Airport and overnight at your Hotel
Stop At: Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Governorate
Many flights arrive in Cairo midday or late, so you will not do much sightseeing on your first day of your trip there.
Depending on where you stay, it can take an hour, sometimes longer to get your hotel since our driver meet you at the Airport.
Overnight at your Hotel
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Giza, Saqqara and Memphis
Stop At: Giza, Giza, Giza Governorate
Giza:
Start at 8 am with a private Egyptologist tour guide visiting The Giza Pyramids are one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — and it is the only Wonder to survive to modern times.
Three great pyramids, six small pyramids and the Great Sphinx and collection of small tombs sit on the Giza plateau.
Top things to do there include a camel ride around the pyramids, seeing the Great Sphinx, going inside one of the pyramids and seeing the Solar boat.
Duration: 8 hours
Stop At: Saqqara (Sakkara) Pyramids, Al Giza Desert, Saqqara 12919 Egypt
It is here that you can see the famous Step Pyramid of Djoser and the oldest complete building complex in the world.
Stop At: Memphis and Sakkara, Saqqara 12919 Egypt
Memphis was the first capital of Egypt, where you visit the open air museum. Highlights of a visit here include the alabaster Sphinx and massive statue of Ramesses II.
We recommend spending a minimum of 3 h on the Giza plateau, 2 h on Saqqara and 2 h at Memphis.
This places opens at 8 am and closes at 5 pm, your private car will pick you to your Hotel again.
Overnight at your Hotel
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 3: Egyptian Museum, Khan El Khalili Bazar and Old Cairo
Stop At: Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Governorate
Done the Great Pyramids? Devote the day to Cairo’s other highlights on a private trip to the Egyptian Museum, Coptic quarter, Islamic Cairo and Khan El-Khalili bazaar, with a qualified Egyptologist guide.
Traveling between the sights by air-conditioned minivan, explore the Egyptian Museum, home to some 165,000 artifacts including Tutankhamun’s treasures.
Discover the historical mosques of Islamic Cairo, including the Mohamed Ali Mosque at the Citadel, and see the Hanging Church and more in Coptic Cairo.
Finish at the Khan El-Khalili with time to peruse the captivating lanes and stalls.
Private Cairo city sightseeing tour, with a qualified Egyptologist guide.
Explore the Egyptian Museum, home to the world’s largest collection of pharaonic antiquities.
View the highlights, including the funerary treasures of Tutankhamun.
See Islamic Cairo’s historical mosques, including the Mohamed Ali Mosque at the old Citadel.
Be ready at 7 Pm to catch your sleeping train to Luxor
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Sleeping train to Luxor
Day 4: Arrive Luxor and visit the East Bank
Stop At: Luxor, Luxor, Nile River Valley
Arrive Luxor and you will meet our representative who will waiting for you holding a sign with your name will transfer you to your 5 star cruise to check in.
Get your lunch at the cruise and some rest and be ready to start your adventure at Luxor with your Egyptologist guide and with a private car to visit:
Karnak Temple: is the second largest temple complex in the world. Enter through an avenue of ram-headed sphinxes, gaze up at the massive columns in the famous Hypostyle Hall, and visit the Karnak open air museum.
Luxor Temple: looks and feels like a smaller version of Karnak Temple, although this temple served a different purpose than many found in and around Luxor. This temple is not dedicated to one particular god or pharaoh. Instead, it may have been where many of the kings of ancient Egypt were crowded.
Feel free to go around Luxor this dat after finish your tour to the East Bank.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Luxury 5 stars Nile Cruise with Swimming Pool
Day 5: The West Bank
Stop At: Luxor, Luxor, Nile River Valley
After finish your breakfast be ready to move to visit the west bank.
Valley of Kings: is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. This is a royal burial ground, with exquisitely decorated tombs for the pharaohs who ruled Egypt between 1539 and 1075
BC. There are over 60 tombs in this small area, although only a handful are open a public.
Hatshepsut Temple, this temple with its three terraces and location in the cliffs of Deir el-Bahri, has a much different appearance than many other temples in Egypt. It is dedicated to Queen Hatshepsut one of the most powerful female rulers of ancient Egypt.
After finishing your tour back to the cruise to start sailing to Aswan
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 stars Nile Cruise
Day 6: Edfu Temple and Kom Ombo
Stop At: Aswan, Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Nile River Valley
On the way to Luxor the cruise will stop for few hours to let you visit by yourself two nice temples Edfu and Kom Ombo temple.
Enjoy the dinner on the cruise where you will accommodate your last night.
Duration: 5 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 Star Nile Cruise
Day 7: Aswan Sites and Abu Simple
Stop At: Aswan, Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Nile River Valley
Wake up at 4 am meet your representative to visit Abu Simble ..
Sitting on the bank of Lake Nasser, not far from Egypt’s border with Sudan, sit the twin temples of Abu Simble. These temples were built by Ramesses II over 3.000 years ago, to display the might of ancient Egypt. When the High Dam at Aswan was constructed in the 1960’s, the rising water levels threatened to flood the temples, both temples were painstakingly dismantled and then reassembled on higher ground.
Back to Aswan around 1:00 pm and start your trip to see The Unfinished Obelisk, the largest known obelisk in the world. It still sits in a stone quarry in Aswan since it cracked during the excavation.
The Philae Temple is one of the most beautiful temples in Egypt, and to get here, it’s a pleasant ride by boat on the Nile River.
In the afternoon feel free to visit the Nubian Village and then take your Sleeping train to Cairo.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 8: Cairo
Stop At: Cairo, Cairo, Cairo Governorate
Arrive Cairo early morning and you will find our driver waiting for you with a sign with your name.
Depends on your flight time he will drop off you to the airport to catch your flight.
Duration: 2 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
