11 Days Egypt All Inclusive December Tour

Your Egyptian journey opens the moment you touch down at Cairo International Airport. Our representative is waiting to greet you, help with the arrival formalities, and see you into a private air-conditioned car for the transfer to your hotel. After check-in the evening is yours to rest and ease into the rhythm of Egypt before the days of discovery ahead.

• Meals: —
• Overnight: Cairo

After breakfast, set out with your private guide for the Great Pyramids of Giza and the watchful Sphinx, the last survivor of the ancient world's seven wonders. Enjoy time for pictures and an optional camel ride across the plateau.

Continue to the Grand Egyptian Museum, the vast new home of Egypt's antiquities overlooking the pyramids, where the complete Tutankhamun collection is displayed together for the first time. Lunch is served before you return to your hotel.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Overnight: Cairo

Transfer this morning to the airport for the short flight to Aswan. On arrival you visit the High Dam, the engineering feat that reshaped modern Egypt, before a boat carries you to the island temple of Philae, dedicated to the goddess Isis and rescued stone by stone from the rising waters. Board your Nile cruiser for lunch and settle in as the river drifts past.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Overnight: on board the cruise

As the ship sails south, a horse-drawn carriage brings you from the dock to the Temple of Horus at Edfu, among the best-preserved temples in all of Egypt. Cruising on to Kom Ombo, you visit the unusual double Temple of Kom Ombo, shared between the crocodile god Sobek and Horus the Elder. Meals are served on board as you continue upriver.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Overnight: on board the cruise

Cross to the West Bank, the great necropolis of Thebes. Descend into the painted royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, admire the terraces of Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari, and pause beneath the towering Colossi of Memnon. An optional sunrise hot-air balloon flight over the monuments is available for early risers.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Overnight: Luxor

After breakfast, tour Luxor's great East Bank monuments — Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple — before a private vehicle carries you across the Eastern Desert to Hurghada on the Red Sea coast (roughly four hours), where you check in to your beach resort.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Overnight: Hurghada

A free day on the Red Sea. Relax on the beach, unwind at the resort, or add an optional boat trip to snorkel or dive among the coral reefs and tropical fish for which Hurghada is famous.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Overnight: Hurghada

A free day on the Red Sea. Relax on the beach, unwind at the resort, or add an optional boat trip to snorkel or dive among the coral reefs and tropical fish for which Hurghada is famous.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Overnight: Hurghada

After breakfast you disembark and transfer to the airport for the flight to Cairo, where our team greets you again and escorts you to your hotel. The remainder of the day is free to relax or explore the city at your own pace.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Overnight: Cairo

Spend the day in historic Cairo. Visit the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, then the medieval Citadel of Salah El-Din crowned by the landmark Alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali. Round off the afternoon wandering the lanes and stalls of the Khan El Khalili bazaar.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Overnight: Cairo

After a final breakfast, check out and transfer to Cairo International Airport for your onward flight, carrying home the memories of a journey through five thousand years of history.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Overnight: —