8 Days Nile Cruise Luxor to Luxor

Day 1: Cairo, Luxor Optional Luxor Full Day

Early morning flight from Cairo to Luxor, arrival and transfer to your luxury Nile Cruise where you will spend the next 7 nights / 8 days, rest of the day is free at your leisure or choose our optional tour (Luxor Museum & Habo City and Rammasuem Temple $85 P.P) The Luxor Museum, is built on two levels with a ramp leading from the ground floor to the upper floor and contains artefacts from around the Theban area. Many of the free-standing granite statues depict kings, queens, and high-status officials who left their images in the Theban temples. Tutankhamun of course is well-represented by some of the objects from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings which are not currently on display in the Cairo Museum. Included among these is the famous majestic head of a cow goddess, of resin and gilded wood, which is one of the first items the visitor will see when entering the museum. There are exhibits of funerary stelae, offering tables, papyri, tomb furniture, a cartonage mummy-case and many small statuettes and shabtis. In glass cases in the centre of the upper floor are smaller objects such as jewellery, funerary and ritual items and artefacts from daily life. The Ramesseum, this temple is built by Ramesses II. It was rival to his temple in Abu Simbel. Sadly enough, this once-a-great mortuary temple is in ruins. The debris though is still interesting, so romantic and inspiring. Madinat Habu, in ancient times Madinat Habu was known as Djanet and according to ancient belief was the place were Amon first appeared. Both Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III built a temple dedicated to Amon here and Later Rameses III constructed his larger memorial temple on the site, back to you Nile Cruise in Luxor for overnight. ( L, D )


Day 2: Luxor, Esna

After breakfast, visit Karnak and Luxor Temple, a centuries-old city of pylons, hypostyle halls, colossal statues, shrines and obelisks, back to the Cruise for lunch, sail to Esna, overnight. ( B, L, D )


Day 3: Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo

Visit Esna Temple, the temple now stands in the middle of the modern town at a level about nine meters below that of the surrounding grounds. Sail to Edfu and Visit Edfu Temple, also known as the Temple of Horus, the falcon-god, (237 B.C.) considered the best-preserved temple in Ancient Egypt and the second largest after the Temple of Karnak. Sail to Kom Ombo and Overnight in Kom Ombo. ( B, L, D )


Day 4: Kom Ombo, Aswan, Optional Sound & Light Show

Sail to Aswan. P.M. Visit the High Dam, Unfinished Obelisk and Philae Temple. Evening you may choose our optional tour (Sound & Light Show at Philae Temple -A14 - $40 P.P), overnight in Aswan. ( B, L, D )


Day 5: Aswan, Optional Abu Simbel

Morning free at your leisure or you may choose our optional tour (Abu Simbel tour) Situated 280km south of Aswan. The two temples of Abu Simbel are the most magnificent temples in the world visit to Abu Simbel. Back to Aswan, P.M. Felucca Ride. Overnight in Aswan. ( B, L, D )


Day 6: Aswan, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Luxor

Early sail to Kom Ombo and Visit Kom Ombo Temple (the Ptolemaic Temple of Sobek & Haroeries), sail to Edfu. Sail to Luxor & Overnight. ( B, L, D )


Day 7: Luxor, Optional Sound & Light Show

Visit The West Bank, including the Valley of the Kings, the funerary temple of Queen Hatshipsut at Deir El Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon, back to the cruise for lunch, evening you may choose our optional (Sound & Light Show - $40 P.P), overnight in Luxor. ( B, L, D )


Day 8: Luxor, Cairo

Breakfast and check out from your Nile Cruise, transfer to Luxor airport for your flight back to Cairo. ( B )