Highlights & Tour Itinerary
Highlights
- Private tour with your own guide.
- Take a trip to the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx.
- Explore the treasures of the Egyptian Museum.
- Admire the Luxor and Karnak Temples.
- Experience the highlights of Cairo.
Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Cairo Airport – Cairo Hotel
Welcome to Egypt! Our representative meets you before the passport control of Cairo International Airport. Transfer to your booked hotel by our private air-conditioned vehicle (accommodation throughout the tour not included). You will be informed about the pickup times for each day. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 2: Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Valley Temple – Egyptian Museum – Cairo Hotel
Enjoy an amazing tour to the iconic Giza Pyramids. Khufu's pyramid is the northernmost and largest of the three. In classical antiquity it was considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and is the only one to have survived. Khephren's monument can be easily identified by the casing stones that still cling to its pointed top. The much smaller pyramid of Mycerinus had not been completed by the time of the king's death. The Great Sphinx is part of the funerary complex of Khephren. Its impressive leonine body with the royal head is sculpted in an outcrop of the native limestone. Part of the face, including the nose, has been deliberately damaged. Tour to the Valley Temple. Back in Cairo visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities near Tahrir Square, which its rich collection of objects from Ancient Egypt. A highlight are the precious treasures of Tutankhamon, most famous king of the Ancient Egypt. The museum includes a Mummy Chamber with extra cost. Return transfer to your hotel in Cairo.
Day 3: Cairo Hotel – Flight to Luxor – West and East Bank – Luxor Hotel
Transfer to Cairo airport to fly in the morning around 1 hour to Luxor. After meet & assist at Luxor airport direct visit to the Valley of the Kings, the most famous concentration of royal tombs in Ancient Egypt. Enjoy a visit to Deir el-Bahari, where Queen Hatshepsut constructed her funerary temple. Continue to the Colossi of Memnon, once part of the temple of Amenhotep III.
Continue to the amazing Luxor Temple, the most sacred of sites. It faces the Karnak Temple, and was connected to it by a long processional avenue, flanked by rows of sphinxes on either side. Enjoy a wonderful tour to Karnak Temple. Three temples of Ancient Egypt claimed supremacy over all the others: the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, the Temple of Re-Atum at Heliopolis and the Temple of Amon-Re at Karnak. Only one can be seen today in Egypt, the Temple of Karnak. The Temple of Amon-Re was the melting pot of religion and politics. Transfer to your hotel in Luxor.
Day 4: Luxor Hotel – Flight to Cairo – Cairo Visit - Cairo Hotel
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Luxor airport to fly back to Cairo. Meet & assist at Cairo airport. Transfer to visit Saladin Citadel, located on the Muqattam hills. It was the seat of government and home of almost all rulers of Egypt. Enjoy visiting the Mohamed Ali Mosque which was erected within the walls of Saladin's Citadel. The alabaster Mohammed Ali Mosque built in 1824 is one of Cairo's landmarks. Continue to Old Cairo which has the remains of old Babylon's fortress walls partially surrounding the Coptic Quarter with its fascinating churches, the convent of St. George and the Ben Izra Synagogue. Then, tour to the Cairo's most famous bazaar, Khan El Khalili, located in the old area of Al Qahira. Transfer to your hotel in Cairo.
Day 5: Cairo Hotel – Cairo Airport
Depending on your departure time transfer to Cairo international airport to say farewell and board your flight.