Pyramids, Nile Cruise, and Sharm El Sheikh Christmas Tour

After enjoying your breakfast at the hotel in Cairo, your private tour guide will meet you to begin your Cairo Day Tours to the famous Giza Plateau where you will witness the Great Pyramid of Cheops the only remaining monument of the seven man-made wonders of the ancient world and the pyramids of Chephren and Mycerinus, who were the descendants of Cheops and Snefru, founder of the 4th dynasty in ancient Egypt old kingdom and the Great Sphinx and the mummification temple or also known as the Valley Temple facing the imposing statue, our visit to the plateau includes a panoramic view to have a scenery view and take the best photo session during the Giza pyramids tour together and have a camel ride in Giza Pyramids (optional activity).

Now let's go to Saqqara Necropolis to visit the step pyramid Complex and the first building completely built out of stone all over the world (Djoser Step Pyramid). The tour includes the entrance to the pyramid of Teti which has the most magnificent interior amongst all the accessible pyramids and the Tombs of the Nobles at Saqqara which are built for the husbands of two daughters of King Teti to get an impression of the daily life in ancient Egypt with all its activities inscribed and painted on the walls and corridors of those 4000 years old tombs.

After lunch, get ready because we will go to Memphis the capital of the pharaohs for one thousand years and a very important religious and cultural center throughout the three thousand years of ancient Egyptian civilization to visit the open-air museum famous for having the alabaster sphinx the second largest made out of an 80 tons block of marble and the broken enormous statue of Ramses the second. You will back to your hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch. Dinner

Check out in the early morning and transfer to Cairo International Airport. Heading by plane to Aswan. Our local representatives will meet and transfer you to the Cruise. We will embark before lunch and you will enjoy your lunch aboard the boat. Start your Aswan day tours to visit the High Dam, which has been opened in 1971, and the Philae temple built on an astonishing island, then we will sail to Kom Ombo. Enjoy your afternoon tea and after that, you will visit the temple shared by the two gods Sobek and Haroeris. we will sail towards Edfu to see the most attractive temples in Egypt. Your dinner will be served aboard the cruise boat. At the end of the day, enjoy a disco party.

Overnight in Edfu.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch. Dinner

Breakfast will be served aboard your deluxe Nile Cruise then we are going to visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu, which is the most impressive monument dedicated to the worship of Horus the god of the sky and protector of kingship in ancient Egypt, the famous falcon god Horus. After that, you will cross the lock and sail to Luxor. Now enjoy your afternoon tea and dinner will be offered onboard. You will attend the Galabya party. 

Overnight in Luxor.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch. Dinner

Breakfast aboard the boat then you will start the west bank of Luxor tour by visiting the Valley of the Kings where you can go inside the tombs of various dynasties during the new kingdom, Then visit the Temple of Deir El Bahari, continue your East Bank of Luxor tour where you visit The Karnak Temple complex, built by many kings to be the throne of Amun-Re, the solar disk deity according to ancient Egyptian religion, and the Luxor Temple, at the temple of Luxor you will be impressed by the courtyard, gigantic columns and the granite statues of Ramses the Great. On the return, the journey stops at the Colossi of Memnon which are two gigantic sitting statues representing Amenhotep III facing the Nile, lunch on board the Nile Cruise, and stay the night reminiscing how great the Luxor day tours were.

Afternoon Tea and overnight in Luxor.

Optional (Hot air balloon ride in Luxor)

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch. Dinner

After enjoying your tasty breakfast, be ready for the Disembarkation. You will be transferred to Luxor Airport for a flight to Sharm and continue your Egypt Xmas Tours. Upon arrival at Sharm El Sheikh Airport, you will check in at your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh and overnight.

Meals: Breakfast

Now enjoy a free day in Sharm El Sheikh or join our optional tour to Ras Mohammed National Park which is both a terrestrial and an aquatic nature reserve. The 480 square kilometers protected area lies where the Gulf of Suez meets the Gulf of Aqaba in Sinai's southern extremity.

Overnight in Sharm.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Have a soothing free morning at leisure. or join an optional tour at 2:00 pm pick up from your hotel and drive to the Quad Bike Centre, about 15 minutes away. After short safety and driving instructions, start the Quad Bike adventure in Sharm. Drive across the sand dunes of the Sinai desert and admire the spectacular views. Free evening, overnight in the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Spend a free day in Sharm or join our optional tour to The Monastery of St. Catherine located at the heart of Sinai and on foot of the Gebel Musa, or Mount Sinai tours, where Moses received the commandments. Fronted by gardens and cypress trees, the monastery of Saint Catherine is owned and run by the Greek Orthodox Church. Its rich library houses the world's second-largest collection of illuminated manuscripts after the Vatican. You can see the Burning Bush and a large number of antique works of art: invaluable icons, beautifully carved doors, beautiful wall paintings, and other fine religious ornaments.

Overnight in Sharm.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Take your tasty breakfast at your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh and then you will go to Sharm El Sheikh Airport for your flight back to Cairo. Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast

In the early morning, enjoy your breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, and then you will be accompanied by your private tour guide to start your Cairo trip by visiting the Egyptian Museum, which contains the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities all over the world and the only royal treasure found intact the Treasures of the golden pharaoh Tutankhamen as included in all of our Christmas Tours in Egypt.

Now we will visit the Citadel of Saladin including Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque inside and get a panoramic view of the Islamic district of Cairo with mosques, minarets, and domes hundreds of years old and some above one thousand years old.

Proceed to Coptic Cairo tour and visit the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon and the Hanging Church hung above its ancient towers and the church of St Sergius with the crypt inside which the holy family stayed nearly three months and the spring from which they got their water supplies then we will visit Ben Ezra Synagogue said to be the site of the pharaoh’s palace where the basket of Moses was picked up from the Nile.

After lunch, we will go to enjoy Islamic Cairo trips and explore the walls and barriers of this antiquated city and its old streets date back to the 10th century the walk end by having tea at Fishawy oldest cafe in Khan El Khalili, Cairo’s old bazaar. at the end of the day, you will back to the hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After having your last breakfast in your hotel, our representative will pick up you and transfer you to Cairo International Airport for departure at the end of your 12 Days Pyramids, Nile Cruise, and Sharm El Sheikh Christmas Tours.

Meals: Breakfast