08 Days Tour to Egypt from USA

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

Meet your private Egyptologist after breakfast and drive to the Giza Plateau, where the pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus rise straight from the desert beside the eternal Great Sphinx. There is time for photographs and an optional camel ride before you head to the Valley Temple of Chephren.

The day continues at the Egyptian Museum, home to Tutankhamun's golden treasures and room after room of pharaonic masterpieces. A relaxed lunch follows 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

Disembark after breakfast to explore Luxor's East Bank — the sprawling Karnak Temple with its Hypostyle Hall and sacred lake, and the elegant Luxor Temple. In the afternoon you transfer to the airport for the flight back to Cairo, where you are met and taken to your hotel.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Overnight: Cairo

A free day in Cairo to relax or explore at your own pace. Optional excursions are available, from the pyramids of Saqqara and Dahshur and the ancient capital of Memphis to the churches of Coptic Cairo or a day trip to Alexandria on the Mediterranean.

• Meals: Breakfast
• 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
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