Egypt Pyramids and Nile Cruise

Day 1 Arrival Cairo – Welcome to Egypt

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   Cairo

   Your tour manager from Sun Pyramids Tours will meet and assist you upon your arrival at Cairo International Airport then he will escort you to your hotel in Cairo by an air-conditioned deluxe vehicle. At hotel the tour manager will assist you with a smooth check-in and review your private budget vacation itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for your tours. Overnight in Cairo.
   Welcome Drink

Day 2 Cairo Sightseeing – Train to Aswan

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   Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu)

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel in Cairo before checking out, then your personal tour guide will accompany you to Giza Plateau to visit one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren and Mykerinus, famous Sphinx, and Valley temple facing the great statue.

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   The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   Have your Lunch at good quality local restaurant, then move to visit the Egyptian Museum. Continue your tour to Coptic Cairo to see Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Hanging Church.
   Later, you will be transferred to Giza train station to get the sleeper train from Cairo to Aswan. Dinner and breakfast will be served on board. Overnight inside your compartment.

Day 3 Aswan Nile Cruise Tours

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   Aswan High Dam

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   Upon your arrival at Aswan train station, you will be met and assisted by Sun Pyramids Tours representative who will transfer you to embark your Nile River boat.
   Enjoy Lunch on board, then you will be guided to visit the famous High Dam,

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   Temple of Philae

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   The awesome Philae temple, which is devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor, and the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt,

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   Unfinished Obelisk

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   the Unfinished Obelisk. Back to the cruise with Dinner on board and overnight in Aswan.

Day 4 Kom Ombo and Edfu Temples

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   Temple of Kom Ombo

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   By the morning you will enjoy Sailing to Kom Ombo while getting breakfast on board. Arrive Kom Ombo to visit the Temple shared by two gods Sobek and Haeroris in Kom Ombo.

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   Edfu

   2 hours

   Back to your Nile boat to sail to Edfu with lunch on board, after that move to visit the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt, Horus Temple in Edfu. Enjoy an afternoon tea during sailing to Esna. Dinner and overnight on board. 

Day 5 Luxor Nile Cruise Tours

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   Valley of the Kings

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   In the early morning you will sail to Luxor with enjoying breakfast on board, then set out from your cruise to visit the West Bank of Luxor, take an excursion to the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs,

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   Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   then to mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom Pharaoh Hatshepsut approximately in the 15th century BC,

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   Colossi of Memnon

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   at El-Deir El-Bahari and Colossi of Memnon.
   Back to the Nile Cruise and have Lunch on board. Enjoy an afternoon tea aboard the Nile boat. Dinner on board and Overnight in Luxor. 

Day 6 Luxor Nile Cruise – Train to Cairo

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   Luxor Temple

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   Breakfast aboard the cruise before disembarkation, and then you will be accompanied by your tour guide to see the Karnak temple and Luxor temple at the East bank of Luxor.
   Later you will be transferred to Luxor train station to get the sleeper train back to Cairo. Dinner would be served on board the sleeper train. Overnight in your private compartment. 

Day 7 Cairo Optional Excursions

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   Step Pyramid of Djoser

   4 hours Admission ticket not included

   Breakfast aboard sleeper train before arriving Giza train station, where you will be met and assisted by Sun Pyramids Tours representative who will transfer you to your hotel for free time at leisure( you will check into your room as early as possible).
   There are some optional excursions available in Cairo to visit Step Pyramid of King Zoser in Saqqara and Memphis. Overnight stay at your hotel in Cairo. 

Day 8 Cairo – Fly Back Home

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   Cairo

   4 hours

   Breakfast at the hotel in Cairo, with free time before your flight. Check out and then you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for final departure.
   Note:
   If the mentioned cruise or the hotel are not available, the company has the right to change to any cruise or hotel, as long as it is of same category.
   That the order of the days could be change according to cruise sailing dates keeping the sightseeing you will visit as it is.