11-Day Cairo, Nile Cruise & Red Sea Trip

On reaching the Cairo international airport, a Cairo Top Tours representative will meet you with a sign that has your name on it. Then they will drive you to your hotel in a personal air-conditioned car. Upon arrival to the hotel, you will be welcomed by the representative and will be helped with the fast and flawless check-in procedure.

On your opening day, you may have it easy or you may ask to view Sound and Light Show in the Giza Pyramids region.

On the following day, you are going to begin by having breakfast at the hotel, and then meeting with your own Egyptologist guide in Cairo Top Tours. They will show you the Giza Pyramids where they will give you details of the great pyramid of king Cheops and his successors Chephren and Mycerinus. The guide will also assist you to take memorable shots and you can also choose to have a camel ride (add-on activity) within the Giza pyramid locality.

Thereafter, you will see the famous Sphinx that has been taking care of the necropolis more than 4500 years. Then you will go to the Valley Temple of King Chephren where you will find out more about how mummification was conducted in ancient Egypt. Only the pyramid complex of King Khafre is largely intact and the valley temple was a place where pre-burial rituals were conducted.

The Giza pyramids sightseeing will provide you with the best scenery of the entire pyramids where you can capture memorable pictures.

Another attraction that you will visit is the open air museum located at the location of ancient capital of Memphis where you can position the statue of Ramses II which is made of alabaster.

In the afternoon you are going to Saqqara which is among the most useful archaeological sites in Egypt. In this case, you will be able to see the Step Pyramid Complex, the pyramid of King Djoser, and you will get a chance to enter the Pyramid of Teti and one of the tombs of the Nobles, like the tomb of the Kagemni.

The end of the day will see you back to your hotel in Cairo where you will spend the night.

Meals: Breakfast and lunch.

You will start your Egypt tour package in Cairo after having enjoyed an open buffet breakfast in your hotel in Cairo with the help of your own tour guide. The Egyptian Museum will be your first destination where you will get to see the largest Egyptian antiquities in the world in two floors. This involves the great royal treasures of King Tutankhamun which were found well preserved. The museum is filled with royal mummies, gigantic statues, royal golden treasures, and well made accessories of the Egyptian queens.

After visiting the Egyptian Museum, you are going to visit Coptic Cairo. There is a sightseeing visit to the Hanging Church, built on top of the towers of the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon and the Church of Abu Serga, where the crypt in which the Holy Family stayed during one of the persecutions can be seen. Your Coptic Cairo tour will also include the Ben Ezra Synagogue where the daughter of the Pharaoh is believed to have found the baby Moses in the Nile as it was in a basket.

You will be transported after having your lunch at a restaurant nearby and then a personal driver and guide will take you to the citadel of Saladin. A spectacular sight of the ancient mosques, towers, and domes that comprise the Islamic Cairo can be seen inside the Alabaster Mosque, which is why this is one of the most striking attractions in all Cairo excursions. The building was a mosque which was built with Turkish architecture by Mohamed Ali in 1805.

You will be then taken to your Islamic Cairo tour, in which you can have a tour of the walls, gates, and old streets of Fatimid Cairo. Moreover, you will shop with a local flavor at the Khan El Khalili Bazaar in Cairo.

You can spend the evening on a Nile cruise in Cairo, having dinner and having a tour.

Meals: Lunch and breakfast.

After enjoying your buffet breakfast at the hotel, you will be transferred to Cairo Airport by the tour leader from Cairo Top Tours to catch your flight to Aswan or Luxor, depending on the organization of your program.

Upon arrival at Aswan airport, a representative will greet you and take you to begin your Egypt Nile Cruise Tours before lunch. You will meet your professional tour guide, who will enable you to discover the great Egyptian civilization at the following sites:

One of the largest projects in Africa and the world, the High Dam protected Egypt from the massive floods of the Nile for years and formed the great and beautiful Lake Nasser.

The Unfinished Obelisk: This represents the intelligence of the Egyptians in creating a massive obelisk from granite stone.

The Temple of Philae: Also known as the Isis Temple, its walls contain scenes from the myth of Isis bringing Osiris back to life, surrounded by the Nile and beautiful nature.

After these visits, you will be transferred to your Nile cruise ship, where you will spend the night in Aswan, above the Nile River.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

You will then continue your East Bank tour in Luxor after having an open buffet breakfast which is your last at the cruise on the Nile. The places to be visited during this tour will include the Karnak Temple Complex which is considered to be the largest and oldest religious site in the world and the Temple of Luxor.

The tour should be stopped at the end of which a modern, air-conditioned vehicle will transfer you to Hurghada, which will take about three hours. When you get to Hurghada, it will bring you to your resort where you will stay overnight.

Meal: Breakfast.