10 Days Palace Hotels in Egypt 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

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

Enjoy a relaxed day cruising the timeless Nile between the great sites, with full board served on deck as the palm-lined banks and villages slip past. Take in the scenery, join the onboard activities, or simply unwind and watch Egypt drift by.

• 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 fly to Luxor, ancient Thebes, and step aboard your five-star cruiser for lunch. In the afternoon explore the East Bank: the immense Karnak Temple complex with its forest of towering columns, then the graceful Luxor Temple, once joined to Karnak by an avenue of sphinxes. Return to the ship for dinner and your first night on the Nile.

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

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

Today you continue your Egyptian journey with breakfast before a day of guided sightseeing and free time, accompanied throughout by your private Egyptologist and private transfers. Full details are confirmed with your final itinerary.

• 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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