12 Days To Cairo, Luxor, Aswan and Petra Tour

Tour Details

Highlights

• Giza pyramids
• Egyptian Museum
• Old Cairo
• Luxor
• Aswan
• Petra Tour

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival Cairo – Welcome to land of the Pharaoh’s

Your tour manager will meet and assist you at Cairo International Airport and then he will escort you to the hotel by an air-conditioned coach. At hotel the tour manager will assist with a smooth check-in and review your holiday itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for each tour.

Overnight in Cairo.

Day 2: Pyramids and Cairo Sightseeing

Breakfast at your hotel  and then met by your personal guide who will accompany you to Giza Plateau to visit one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus, famous Sphinx, and Valley temple facing the great statue.

Lunch at a good quality local restaurant. Then transfer to enjoy the Egyptian Museum. Continue to Coptic Cairo to visit the Hanging Church , Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Mosque of Amr Ibn Alas . Back to Hotel

Overnight in Cairo

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

Day 3: Fly  from Cairo to Luxor – Nile Cruise Tour

Check out from hotel in the morning then transfer to Cairo Airport for a flight to Luxor where you will be met and assisted, then taken by an air-conditioned vehicle to board your Egypt Nile cruise to check in.

After lunch on board, enjoy a visit to the impressive Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple. Dinner  on board Nile cruise.

Overnight on Cruise

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 4: Luxor Nile Cruise Excursions

After breakfast on your Nile cruise, take an excursion to the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, Valley of the Kings, then to mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom Pharaoh Hatshepsut in the 15th century BC. Head to the Colossi of Memnon.

After lunch, you will sail to Edfu enjoying a leisurely dinner on board.

Overnight on Nile Cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 5: Luxor Nile Cruise Tours

After breakfast on Nile Cruise, visit the well-preserved Ptolemaic Temple dedicated to Horus at Edfu.

Sail to Kom Ombo to see the unique Temple of Sobek, dedicated to Sobek the crocodile god, and

Horus the falcon-headed god , Then enjoy your lunch on board  ,during Continue sailing to Aswan.

Dinner on board Nile Cruise.

Overnight on Cruise

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 6: Aswan Nile Cruise Tours

After breakfast on Nile cruise, enjoy a day’s sightseeing in Aswan. Start with the High Dam and the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt, the Unfinished Obelisk, proceeding to the beautiful Temple of Philae, which is devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor.

Dinner and overnight on Nile Cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 7: Fly Aswan to Cairo

Disembark from your Nile cruise after breakfast, then transfer to Aswan Airport for your return to Cairo where you will be met and assisted at the airport then taken to your hotel.

Optional tour to enjoy Abu Simbel temples, which were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari.

Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast

Day 8: Free Day in Cairo

Breakfast at your hotel, and today you have the choice of having a free day in Cairo or join our most valuable optional tour to the second capital of Egypt, Alexandria visiting one of the most important defensive strongholds, not only in Egypt, but also along the Mediterranean Sea coast, Qaitbay Citadel, built in the 15th century by Sultan Qaitbay on the spot where Alexandria’s ancient lighthouse once stood, then move on to the new and much acclaimed Alexandria Library.Also visit the Roman cemetery cut out of the rock, the Catacombs. Return to your hotel in Cairo.

Overnight in Cairo

Meals: Breakfast

Day 9: Cairo – Flight to Amman

Welcome to Jordan Breakfast at the hotel with free time at your leisure, then you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your flight to Amman by our representative with A/C car.

Your tour manager will meet and assist you upon your arrival at Amman International Airport. After that, you will be transferred to your hotel in Amman by a private air-conditioned vehicle for check-in.

Upon arrival at the hotel, he will do your check in and give you detailed information concerning your tomor’s trip.

Overnight in Amman.

Meals: Breakfast

Day 10: Wadi Rum Jeep tour – Petra

Overnight Enjoy a tour of the protected area of Wadi Rum in Jordan. Here still Bedouins live in a traditional way, and by 4×4 Jeep tour, you discover canyons, sand dunes, and Nabatean rock inscriptions. Then transfer to your hotel in Petra .

overnight in Petra

Meals: Breakfast.

Day 11: Petra Visit – Amman

Enjoy this Petra Short Break. After breakfast enjoys a tour of the red rose city Petra, the biggest attraction of Jordan. Petra was first established around the 6th century B.C. by the Nabataean Arabs, a nomadic tribe who settled in the area and founded a commercial empire. Pass the canyon, the so called Siq, to see the most beautiful monument: the Treasury.

Continue via the Street of Facades to the Royal Tombs and Pharaoh’s Castle then you will be transferred to Amman hotel .

overnight in Amman

Meals: Breakfast.

Day 12: Amman – Fly Back Home

Your tour manager will pick you up from your hotel and drive to Amman Airport for departure.

Meals: Breakfast.

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.