Nile Cruise
4 Nights Nile Cruise ( Luxor / Aswan )

Day 1:

Embark to your Nile cruise - accommodation on Nile cruise on full board start with lunch end with breakfast Embarkation, visit Karnak & Luxor temples then lunch on board cruise P.M. Visit valley of kings, queen Hatshepsut temple at Deir El Bahari & Colossi of Memnon .Once a year, on the occasion of the Festival of Opet, in the second and third month of the flood season, a solemn procession would transport the sacred barque of the god from the temple of Karnak to the temple of Luxor, called Ipet-resit, or ‘Private Chambers to the South (of Amun)’. Dinner. Overnight in Luxor .

Day 2:

Breakfast, sail to Edfu via Esna lock Edfu is a longer trip (105 km from Aswan) but it houses the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt which is essential viewing for archaeological enthusiasts. Dedicated to Horus, the falcon-headed god, it was built during the reigns of six Ptolemies. Lunch . & dinner on board Captain Welcome Cocktail party. Overnight in Edfu

Day 3 :

Breakfast, visit the temple of Horus in Edfu, sail to Kom Ombo, lunch & visit the temple of two gods Sobek and Haroeris, Kom Ombo and Edfu are both easily accessible from Aswan, by day cruise, felucca, bus or taxi. Arriving by boat at the Temple of Haroeris and Sobek, near Kom Ombo, is recommended: . sail to Aswan Galabia Party.Diner, Overnight in Aswan .

Day 4:

Breakfast, ( Optional tour to Abu Simbel by private air-conditioned motor coach ) then visit Philea temple - Philae Temple was also dismantled and reassembled ( on Agilika lsland about 500m. from its original home on Philae Island) in the wake of the High Dam. The temple, dedicated to the goddess lsis, is in a beautiful setting which has been landscaped to match its original site. Its various shrines and sanctuaries, which include a temple of Hathor, a Birth House and two pylons, celebrate all the deities involved in the lsis and Osiris myth. a magical experience as floodlit buildings are silhouetted against the volcanic rocks and water surrounding them., High Dam,The world-famous High Dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the1960s. Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt and, together with the old Aswan Dam, lunch P.M. sailing by felucca around the Kitchener's Island and view of Agha Khan Mausoleum Take a felucca to the Mausoleum, atop a hill at the southern end of the west bank. The Agha Khan use to spend every winter in Aswan and was buried here in this magnificent mausoleum, modelled on the Fatimid tombs in Cairo.. Nubian folkloric show with dinner. Overnight in Aswan .

Day 5:

Disembarkation after breakfast .
 

Program Includes:

• 4 Nights in Nile Cruise on full board accommodation ( Lunch , Dinner & Breakfast ).

• All transfers in the program by air-conditioned car .

• All Sightseeing in Cruise with professional Egyptology English speaking guide .

• All Entrance fees during sightseeing in Cruise .

• All Service Charge & Taxes.

Program Excludes:

• Abu Simbel Tour by motor coach .
  
  N.B.
  The Nile Cruises have the right to change the schedule, program and sailing hours for reasons beyond our control, such as water level, opening of bridges, long queues of boats at locks, …….etc during the Cruise.