10 DAYS EGYPT CAIRO, NILE CRUISE

• Start your morning in the ancient city of Cairo with a delicious breakfast served at your hotel. • The tour guide will take you to the Giza Plateau to marvel at one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Pyramids of Giza. Get a unique view of the plateau by walking or taking a camel over to the iconic Sphinx and Valley Temple. • After your pyramid visit, you’ll go for a traditional Egyptian lunch at a local restaurant. • Heading over to the Saqqara area, where you will visit the first pyramid ever built by King Djoser. • And then proceed to visit the Red Pyramid at Dahshour, which is well known as royal necropolis in Egypt • You will be taken to your hotel for leisure and overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel is the perfect way to start the day. • You will be picked up to visit the Egyptian Museum. Here, you can relish the magnificent ancient Egyptian artifacts and treasures. Then you will be taken to Old Cairo. This ancient area is a great place to explore Egypt’s fascinating past. The Citadel of Saladin is one of the oldest and most iconic sights in Cairo. It was built in 1176 by Saladin as a defensive fortress and is now home to a number of museums and monuments. And then you will have the chance to visit the Mosque of Mohamed Ali, another important site in this area, built in the early 19th century by the rulers of Egypt and Sudan. • Lunch will be served at an Egyptian local restaurant. • And then you will be driven through Old Cairo to the historic Islamic Cairo area to explore the vibrant, meandering, treasure-filled alleys of Khan El Khalili, Cairo’s oldest bazaar. • And as Egypt is a land of ancient culture and religious diversity, you will have the chance to visit The Hanging Church, which is a Coptic Christian church that was built in the 8th century CE and is located in the heart of Old Cairo. And the Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is located just a few blocks away in the Jewish Quarter, is the oldest synagogue in Cairo and has been in continuous use for over 1,000 years. • And once the visits come to an end, you will be transferred back to the hotel and stay overnight.

• After breakfast at the hotel, you will be transferred to Cairo Airport to fly to Luxor. • Upon arrival at Luxor Airport, our representative will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel, where you will be able to quickly check-in. • Spend the day at leisure and overnight at the hotel.

• After breakfast at the hotel, you will be picked up and assisted by our representative and transferred to the Nile cruise, where you will stay and rest for a while after a smooth check-in. • A rich lunch buffet will be served on board. • Our tour guide will pick you up for an afternoon visit to the magnificent Karnak Temple, which is an ancient Egyptian complex of temples and other structures at Thebes, regarded as the greatest example of Pharaonic architecture in Egypt and a beloved tourist attraction. Then you will visit Luxor Temple, which was built by Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Ramses II and contains many monuments and unique representations of ancient Egyptian gods. • Dinner on board and overnight on the Nile cruise

• Breakfast will be lovely served on board. • Our tour guide will pick you up and take you to the Western Bank, with its fascinating sights and histories. Here, you will have a guided tour of the Valley of the Kings (three tombs included), which dates to the 16th and 11th centuries BC and is the site of some of Tutankhamun’s treasures. You will also visit the Hatshepsut temple, which was built by Pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 15th century BC and was dedicated to the sun god Amun. Finally, your tour brings you to the Colossi of Memnon, a pair of towering statues that marked the entrance to Amenhotep III’s mortuary temple. • Back to the Nile cruise, and lunch will be served on board. • Enjoy the magnificent ancient Nile River as you sail from Luxor to Esna. • Dinner will be served on board and overnight. • Later, the tour guide will join you on the sundeck while you observe how the cruise will pass the lock of Esna and will explain the details of this operation.

• An early morning breakfast on board will set you up for the fantastic day ahead at the Temple of Edfu. Located on the west bank of the Nile, the Temple of Edfu was built in honor of Horus by the Ptolemaic dynasty in 57 BC and is by far the most well preserved of all the ancient Egyptian temples. • You'll be picked up by a horse-drawn carriage, and your tour guide will explain all the details of the temple you'll be visiting. • You'll be back on board and take a leisurely cruise to Kom Ombo, where a delicious lunch can be enjoyed as you take in the beautiful vistas along the Nile River. • The late afternoon stop at Kom Ombo will be a cultural highlight. The temple was built during the reign of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, and its twin design honors both the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Horus. • Your tour guide will take you through the architectural wonders of this historic site, with its court offering chambers, vestibules, and reliefs. • You'll board the ship again, and dinner will be served. The ship will then proceed on the voyage to Aswan, which is often regarded as the most beautiful city of the Nile!

• Start your journey to Aswan with a delicious breakfast onboard. • You will be picked up to see one of the city's major highlights, the High Dam. Built in the 1960s on the Nile River, the dam increases agricultural production and protects the country from floods. After admiring this marvel of engineering, you will have the chance to cross the Nile to visit Philae Temple. This ancient complex is filled with ancient structures and monuments dedicated to gods like Isis and Hathor, and this temple is the ideal place to try and understand aspects of ancient Egyptian civilization. • You will be back onboard to enjoy a delicious dinner and stay for the night.

• With the possibility of an optional trip to Abu Simbel, you will start your day with a delicious breakfast on board as you take in the sights and sounds of a stunning Nile cruise. • Our representative will be there to manage the check-out and transfer you to your hotel in Aswan, where you will spend the day at leisure and overnight.

Breakfast will be served at the hotel. • Then you will be taken to Aswan airport to catch the flight to Cairo, where you will be connected to your departure flight.