A beautiful tour package starting from the beautiful city of Luxor, passing by the most beautiful temples on the way to Aswan.
Enjoy the experience of sailing on the Nile River and smelling the African breeze and fragrance. Every day on the Nile cruise is different from the others, with the places you will visit and the menus changing daily.
The four-day cruise includes the following attractions, in order of day:
On the first day: Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, and the Colossi of Memnon, Karnak and Luxor Temples
On the second day: Edfu and Kom Ombo Temples
On the third day: Abu Simbel Temples and a Nile felucca trip
On the fourth day: Aswan visits, the High Dam, Philae Temple, and the Unfinished Obelisk
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Upon arrival in Luxor airport/Station/Hotel, Get a smooth and comfortable pickup as agreed in advance. Go directly to start your tour to visit the highlights of the East bank of Luxor which include.
Valley of the kings
There is the Valley of the Kings, which was the final residence of the great kings who were buried with their valuables, which were unfortunately stolen in successive eras.
The royal tombs still contained many secrets and writings that accompanied the pharaoh on his last journey to the underworld to be sanctified after his death.
The tombs of the Valley of the Kings were decorated with amazing writings and drawings in colors that are still in very good condition.
It contained many rooms that were designated for storing things and tools that the pharaoh would need in eternal life, as well as the burial chamber that was designated for the coffin and mummy of the pharaoh.
Hatshepsut Temple
The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut is located on the outskirts of the Green Valley, behind which lies the Western Desert. The temple was built in the heart of the mountain and consists of three floors, each floor representing a period of Queen Hatshepsut’s rule over Egypt.
The temple was built on the ruins of the temple of King Mentuhotep II the Great, who united the northern and southern parts of the Egyptian kingdom under the rule of one pharaoh.
Current excavations are still revealing many beautiful monuments and tombs, as well as the famous cache found next to this temple, which contained many mummies of the pharaohs of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties. This cache was found by the Abdul Rasoul family, famous for excavating antiquities.
Colossi of Memnon
You will meet the famous two huge statues for the pharaoh Amenhotep III in the way to the Valley of the kings.
In this area, there was a great temple belong to this great pharaoh but unfortunately was destroyed because of an earthquake took place in Egypt.
A very nice place to take amazing and memorable photos
After finishing your day tour, You will be transferred back to your Nile cruise to have your lunch and dinner on board and to get ready to enjoy the sailing time towards Edfu city.
The Temple of Karnak
This temple is considered as the biggest temple in the planet as it was built over 245 acres and many of the Egyptian Pharaohs shared their love to the triangle gods Amun with his wife Mut and their son Khonsu bu building their shrines and pylons there.
Huge amount of information that you will hear from your tour guide and so many interesting stories about the legends of this temple.
The Luxor Museum
That will be our next stop where you will see vast collection with a very organized presentation of the beautiful masterpieces from different eras of the old Egyptian temples and tombs.
The Mummification Museum
Definitely you heard a lot about the secrets of the mummification processes of the dead bodies of the old Egyptians kings and nobles. Now you will see it live and you will enjoy watching the tools and the materials such as Oils and Salts, that have been used in this process from A to Z.
The Temple of Luxor is our last sightseeing
This temple was mainly used for the new pharaohs have been crowned and to proved their right to be the legal king of the kingdom. Many kings built their own shrines in this temple such as Tutankhamun. Luxor temple at night is very charming especially during the sunset and highly recommended to visit during this time of the day.
After finishing your day tour, You will be transferred to your Nile cruise to check and to get your cabin to relax after a beautiful start.
Meals included: Lunch and dinner on board
Enjoy your breakfast on board with a great scenery to the River Nile. After breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up from your Nile cruise to visit the temple of Horus in Edfu.
The Temple of Edfu, or the Temple of Horus, is the second largest temple in ancient Egypt, after the Temple of Karnak, located in the city of Edfu in Upper Egypt on the west bank of the Nile. The temple was dedicated to the main god Horus, who was identified as Apollo according to the Greek interpretation. It is one of the best preserved shrines in Egypt.
The temple was built during the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 237 and 57 BC. The inscriptions on its walls provide important information about the language, mythology and religion of the Hellenistic period in Egypt.
Then back to the Nile cruise to have your lunch on board and start again the sailing towards Kom Ombo city to visit the temple of God Sobek
This temple was built during the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor, but its decoration was not completed until the Roman era, during the reign of Emperor Tiberius. We also see in this temple the same characteristics that we find in other Ptolemaic Egyptian temples in terms of design, architecture and decoration.
However, this temple has a special feature that resulted from the local worship in the place, as people worshipped two local gods, Sobek and Horus with the falcon head. Despite the difference in origin and character of these two gods, they lived side by side for many centuries without mixing or combining with each other.
After finishing your day tour, You will be transferred back to your Nile Cruise and have your dinner on board.
Early morning at 5 AM, Your tour guide will make sure that you have your breakfast box from the reception as it will be prepared for you before you travel to Abu Simbel.
Enjoy a smooth and comfortable journey from Aswan to Abu Simbel to enjoy visiting one of the most great temples in Egypt
Abu Simbel Temples
Abu Simbel temple is an archaeological site located on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 290 km southwest of Aswan. It is one of the “Nubian Monuments,” a UNESCO World Heritage Site, extending from the river from Abu Simbel to Philae (near Aswan).
The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountains during the reign of King Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, as a permanent monument to him and Queen Nefertari, commemorating his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. However, in 1960, the entire complex was relocated to an artificial hill made of a dome structure, above the reservoir of the Aswan High Dam.
After finishing your visit, You will be transferred back to Aswan and will be dropped off at your Nile Cruise to enjoy your lunch on board.
Then, Your guide will pick you up to enjoy a One hour sailing with a felucca in the River Nile and get closer to the rocky islands and sail around Kitchner island and Elephantine island.
After finishing your visit, You will be transferred back to your Nile Cruise to enjoy your evening on board.
After having your breakfast. You will make the check out process from the Nile cruise, Then your tour guide will pick you up to visit the famous highlight of Aswan city including.
Temple of Philae.
Considered as one of the most beautiful Ptolemaic temples and is located on Agilkia Island. It is one of the most famous temples that UNESCO saved from drowning after the construction of the High Dam, which flooded many places with water after its construction.
Philae Temple was located before its rescue on Philae Island, which was drowned after the construction of the High Dam. The name Philae means (beloved) in ancient Greek. The temple was dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, the protective goddess, and inside the temple there are some buildings dedicated to the worship of the goddess Hathor, the goddess of music.
The High Dam.
It was built by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser that aimed to control the Nile floods that used to come annually and drown many agricultural lands. The High Dam is considered one of the facilities of great benefit because of the control it achieved in the Nile waters, so that Egypt became an agricultural country with different types throughout the year, and it also protected Egypt from the dangers of flooding.
The unfinished obelisk.
It is located in an ancient quarry used by the Pharaohs to extract very hard flint stones to build giant and strong temples that are not affected by the factors of time. There is the obelisk that was not completed due to some technical defects and the impossibility of its use, and it was intended for Queen Hatshepsut. This obelisk was supposed to be in the Karnak Temple, but it was left as it was, giving us a good idea and telling us that the Egyptian obelisks were cut from a single stone block.
After finishing your tour, You will be transferred to Aswan airport/Hotel/Train station.
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