8-Day Cairo and Nile River Easter Trips packages

After breakfast, you'll meet your private tour guide and head to the Giza Plateau to see the Great Pyramid of Cheops, one of the seven wonders of the world. The pyramid was built with over 2.6 million pieces of rock, each weighing 50 tons. You'll also see the middle pyramid of King Chephren and the pyramid of Mycerinus.

Next, you'll see the Great Sphinx of Giza, a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx with the head of a human and the body of a lion. You'll also visit the Valley Temple, a mortuary temple for King Chephren.

After lunch at a local restaurant, you'll head to the Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum with over 120,000 artifacts, including the treasures of King Tutankhamun.

Your guide will then take you to Old Coptic Cairo to see the Hanging Church, built on top of a 4th-century Roman fortress wall. You'll also visit the Church of St. Sergius, where the Holy Family is believed to have taken refuge, and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, where the box of Baby Moses was discovered.

Next, you'll explore Islamic Cairo, including a visit to Khan El Khalili, Egypt's most famous ancient market and bazaar. You can enjoy a cup of tea at El Fishawy Cafe, a popular coffee shop in the heart of the El-Hussein Area.

After a full day of sightseeing, you'll be taken back to your hotel for dinner.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, you'll check out of the Cairo Pyramids Hotel and be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your flight to Luxor. When you arrive, a Cairo Top Tours representative will meet and assist you.

Your guide will then drive you to your 5-star MS Royal Viking Nile Cruise. After lunch on board, you'll begin the East Bank tour by visiting the Karnak Temple, the largest man-made temple in the world. You'll also visit the majestic Temple of Luxor, which is beautifully illuminated at night.

You'll have lunch on board the cruise, and meals included this day are breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

You'll have breakfast on your Nile cruise before crossing the Nile to visit the Colossi of Memnon, two colossal statues of Amenhotep III. Next, you'll visit the Valley of the Kings, where 62 New Kingdom pharaohs, including Tutankhamun and Ramesses II, were buried in tombs cut into the mountain. The pharaohs' palaces were elaborately decorated with paintings and filled with treasures they planned to enjoy in the afterlife. You'll then continue the tour to visit Hatshepsut's Temple, known as El Deir El Bahary, the first female ruler in written history.

After lunch on board, you'll sail to Edfu while enjoying dinner on the Nile cruise. You'll spend the night on board the cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast on the Nile Cruise, our representative will accompany you to visit the well-preserved Ptolemaic-era Temple dedicated to the falcon-headed God Horus, the temple of Edfu.

Next, you'll sail to Kom Ombo to visit the captivating Temple of Kom Ombo, built on a traditional plan with an entrance pylon, forecourt, hypostyle hall, and surrounding chambers leading to the sanctuary. An invisible division down the middle of the temple separates two doorways, corresponding forecourts, and colonnaded halls leading to corresponding sanctuaries. One is dedicated to Horus, and the other is dedicated to Sobek.

After lunch on board, you'll sail to Aswan. Enjoy your dinner and spend the night on the Nile cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy your breakfast on the Nile cruise. Your Egyptologist guide will accompany you to visit the famous High Dam, built between 1960 and 1971 by the second president of Egypt, President Nasser. The High Dam increased Egypt's production of electric power and controlled floods while storing water for later release over multiple years.

Next, you'll visit the magnificent Philae Temple, one of the most beautiful temples in Egypt, dedicated to the goddess Isis. It is an island-based temple complex that was located on Philae Island, but after the high dam was built, the island became covered by water due to flooding. The government later transferred the temple to another island called Agilika Island.

After that, you'll proceed to the Unfinished Obelisk, the largest obelisk ever made by the ancient Egyptians during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. Even today, it is located exactly where it was once semi-carved in solid rock in the granite quarries near the city of Aswan.

Then you'll head back to the Nile cruise, where dinner will be served.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner.

After breakfast is served, you'll disembark from your Nile cruise. Our representative will transfer you to Aswan Airport for your flight back to Cairo.

Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport, our representative will meet you and assist you before transferring you to your hotel. You'll be spending the night at the hotel in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast.

On the last day of your Egypt tours during Easter, after having breakfast at the hotel, you'll have the option to spend the day with free time at leisure or to enjoy one of our Cairo Day Tours.

Later, our Cairo Top Tours representative will take you to Cairo International Airport for your flight back home.

Meals: Breakfast