8 days

Private

By train

By night

Instant confirmation

About this activity

Day 1: Arrival Cairo

Your driver will pick you up from the airport according to your flight's arrival time

Overnight in Cairo

Meals: welcome drink

Day 2: Pyramids of Giza (B,D)

Your guide will pick you up at 9am. Start a fantastic excursion to the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus. Then proceed to visit the Great Sphinx, which dates back to the time of Chephren, and visit the Valley Temple. Continue your tour at the most interesting museum, the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo. At 8pm, you will be transferred to Giza railway station for the sleeper train to Aswan.

Overnight: Sleeper train

Day 3: Embark/ Aswan Sightseeing (B,L,D)

Your driver will pick you up from the train station and take you to the port. Embark your Nile River cruise ship and have lunch on board. Then enjoy visiting the world famous High Dam, and the Unfinished Obelisk.

Overnight on cruise ship

Day 4: Kom Ombo / Edfu (B,L,D)

Sail to Kom Ombo while having breakfast, then visit the Temple shared by two gods Sobek and Haeroris in Kom Ombo. Enjoying lunch on board, sail to Edfu, and visit the temple of Horus Temple in Edfu. Then your ship will sail on to Esna.

Overnight on cruise ship

Day 5: Luxor optional West Bank (B,L,D)

Sail to Luxor while having breakfast on board.

Overnight on cruise ship

Day 6: Luxor East Bank / Train to Cairo (B,D)

Breakfast, then disembarkation. With your guide, visit the Karnak temple & the Luxor temples at the East bank of the River Nile

At 6pm, you will be transferred to Luxor railway station for sleeper train to Cairo.

Overnight: Sleeper train

Day 7: Back to Cairo (B)

Breakfast aboard sleeper train, then an optional tour to Alexandria (12 hours, including 3-hour drives to and from Cairo). You could visit Qaitbay Citadel from outside, the new Alexandria Library, the Roman cemetery cut out of the rock, and the Catacombs.

Overnight in Cairo

Day 8: Final Departure (B)

Depending on your flight's departure time your driver will take you back to the airport.

Included

2 nights in Cairo Bed & Breakfast
Steigenberger Pyramids hotel 5* New Building Deluxe Pool view room or similar Oasis Pyramids hotel 4* or similar
3 nights superior 5*+ Nile Cruise on full board
2 nights sleeper train on half board
Meet & Assist by our airport representative help in Visa
Guide will meet you in Cairo airport accompany you to hotel
6 transfers any time by A/C vehicle 24/7 hours
Meals as per itinerary (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner)

Not included

Entrance fees (approx. LE 585 per person total for all monuments)
Optional tours
Gratuities
Water or drinks in hotels & cruise ships

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Egypt has a lot of activities, Guide will advise some extra optional excursions covering rest of Egypt tours, Our optional excursions are just recommendations to help our costumers to see the most remarkable sightseeing. Which doesn't mean that we enforce them to pay extra money.
Adult pricing applies to all travellers
Hotels & Cruise ships not provide Water through their meals, Only tea or coffee
TV shows not working in ship through sailing for weak signal
Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
You MUST confirm and obtain any visa requirements prior to border crossing. All visa requirements are the sole responsibility of the traveller
Private tour excludes Hotels, Trains, Nile Cruises, Meals B.L.D.
Private tour means Private guide & Vehicle Only for Viator costumers, 2-9 adult tour mean sharing two families same tours or transfers.

Features

Tourism

95% Cultural

60% Aquatic

25% Nightlife

25%

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Private 7-Night Egypt Explorer Tour including Sleeper Train and Nile Cruise from Cairo