Five (5) days (4) nights on Radamis luxury Nile Cruise.
Embarkation from Luxor to Aswa

Two (2) nights at the Ramses Hilton hotel         

• Four (4) transfers in Cairo
• One (1) transfer in Aswan
• One (1) transfer in Luxor
• All transfers by A/C private coach with driver & English Speaking HLO Tours representative.

• One and half a days of tours in Cairo as per the enclosed itinerary
• Nile Cruise program includes visits to: Aswan, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Esna & Luxor
• All entrance fees except fees to the Solar Boat Museum at the Pyramids, the Mummies room at the Egyptian Museum and King Tut’s Tomb are not included.
• All tours by private A/C coach with driver and English speaking guide.

8:00A – 9:25AM

Day 01
Fri
July 4

USA / Cairo, Egypt

Depart the USA from New York to connect with Egypt Air non-stop to Cairo, Egypt. Overnight onboard the airplane.  Dinner and breakfast served en-route.  D, B

Cairo

11:30AM: On arrival at Cairo International Airport you will be met and transferred to Movenpick Pyramids hotel (Located by the Pyramids Area)

Cairo has been the largest city in Africa for centuries. Modern Cairo encompasses many former cities & their monuments. Five thousand years of culture are concentrated here through a city that is a living index to ancient civilization.  Welcome dinner. Overnight in Giza.

CAIRO:  Pyramids, Sphinx, Sakkara & Memphis (Full day tour)

AM: After breakfast, your Egyptian adventure begins in Giza, where you will tour one of the seven and only remaining wonders of the ancient world, the famous Great Pyramids of Giza.  Then proceed to visit the Solar Boat Museum: a cedar woodcraft boat, built to take the Pharaoh through his journey to the afterworld.  You will also visit the legendary Sphinx, a sacred symbol of the union of the strongest physical with the highest intellectual power on earth.  After lunch at a countryside restaurant, proceed to Sakkara, where you will see the Step Pyramid of King Zoser, history’s first stone building.  You will continue next, to Memphis, the ancient capital city of Egypt.   Return to hotel for overnight.   BB, L

Cairo / Luxor / Nile Cruise

AM: Transfer to Cairo International Airport for your early flight to Luxor. Arrive Luxor where you will be met & transferred by private coach & driver to your deluxe Radamis 1 Movenpick Nile Cruise.

Luxor: is the world’s greatest open-air museum, filled with awe-inspiring monuments of ancient civilization.  As Weset, it was the capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom; as Thebes, it was described as “The hundred - gate city”.  Later, it was named Al Oksor, meaning  “City of the Palaces”.  Testaments to a desire for immortality, built for eternity in sandstone and granite, the temples, tombs, and palaces still stand, surrounded by souks.  Rest of the day at leisure. Overnight on board. BB, L, D

The cruise program will be as follows (Subject to change: Check-in for lunch. After lunch visit the Eastern bank of the Nile, which includes:  The Temple of Luxor with it’s huge papyrus columns which was dedicated to the God Amon and Karnak Temple which consists of several temples of great beauty. Afternoon tea. Dinner. Overnight in Luxor on board.     BB, L, D

Nile Cruise / Luxor / Edfu

Visit the western bank of the Nile.  See the City of the Dead, the Valley of the Kings and Queens (including the tombs of King Tut) and Temple of Hatshepsut.  Also visit the two colossal statues of Memnon.  Return to the cruise boat. Sail to Edfu. Lunch on board. Free time.  Afternoon tea.  Dinner on board.  Overnight in Edfu.     BB, L, D

Day 06
Wed
July 9

Nile Cruise / Edfu / Kom Ombo / Aswan

Visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu by Caleche.  Sail to Kom Ombo.  Lunch on board. Visit the Temple shared by two gods in Kom Ombo. Afternoon tea during sailing to Aswan. Dinner on board. Overnight in Aswan.   BB, L, D

Aswan is small enough to walk around and has the most beautiful setting on the Nile . . . Stroll along the Corniche or explore the souk full of scent and colorful spices, perfumes, scarves and baskets.

Nile Cruise / Aswan

Visit the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk at the Granite Quarries and board your motor launch to visit Philae Temple. Lunch on board. Sail on the Nile by Felucca (small sailing boat) around Kitchener’s island.  Afternoon Tea. Dinner on board.  Overnight in Aswan.  BB, L, D

Nile Cruise / Aswan / Cairo

After breakfast disembark your Nile cruise boat. Transfer to Aswan airport for your short flight to Cairo.   Arrive Cairo where you will be met and transferred to your hotel for overnight.   BB

CAIRO: Egyptian Museum, The Citadel & Khan El Khalili bazaar

AM: Buffet breakfast, your day begins with a guided tour of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, one of the world’s most famous museums. The magnificent collections of antiquities include 27 Mummies, Sarcophagi, and 250,000 objects of art, and date as far back as 5000 years.

PM: After lunch on your own, you will proceed to the exotic Khan El Khalili Bazaar for a taste of modern Egyptian artifacts.  Khan El Khalili is one of the world’s best-known oriental bazaars, a bazaar largely unchanged since the 14^th century. Spices, perfumes, Gold & Silver, carpets, brass & copperware, leatherwork, glass and mashrabia are still fashioned by craftsmen practicing skills passed down from generation to generation.  Overnight in Cairo.  BB

Day 10
Sun
July 13

Cairo / USA

4:45AM - Wake Up Call

5:30AM - Luggage outside your room door & Buffet Breakfast at the Coffee Shop.

6:15AM - Departure transfer to Cairo airport for your Egypt Air 10:00AM flight to the   New York (JFK)

3:00AM – Arrive JFK where you will connect with your domestic flight home.  

Welcome Home with a lifetime of memories from Egypt!!!