4 Nights Nile Cruise from Sharm El Sheikh
Luxor, Aswan
Duration
Luxor, Aswan
Destination
5 Day / 4 Night
Starting Price
$ 490
Tour Overview
With Magic Egypt Tours find best things to do in Sharm El Sheikh, fly from Sharm to Luxor for a 5-day cruise on the Nile. Onboard you can relax in luxury and enjoy the sights. Visit Karnak, Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Philae Temple, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Nile Valley along the way.
What's included
- Meet and assist service upon arrival & departure
- Assistance of our personal during your stay and excursions
- All transfers by a modern air-conditioned deluxe vehicle
- Accommodation on board 5 star cruise on full board basis
- All Nile Cruise excursions as mentioned in the itinerary
- Entrance fees to all sights between Aswan and Abu Simbel
- Egyptologist guide during your excursions
- All service charges and taxes
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary.
- Tipping.
- Any optional tours.
ITINERARY A
Magic Egypt Tours representative will pick you up from your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh and then transfer to Sharm Airport to take your flight to Luxor, where you will be met and assissted by our representative, then you will be taken by an air-conditioned vehicle to board your 5 star deluxe Nile cruise to check in. After lunch on board, enjoy a visit to the Karnak & Luxor Temples on the East Bank. After this tour back to your cruise. Dinner and overnight on board Nile cruise in Luxor.
After breakfast on your Nile cruise, our tour guide will pick you up to start your trip in the west bank where you will visit the famous historical sites including :
Valley of the Kings:
The final resting place of Egypt's rulers from the 18th to 20th dynasty, it is home to tombs including the great Pharaoh Ramses II and boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The tombs were well stocked with all the material goods a ruler might need in the next world. Most of the decoration inside the tombs still well preserved.
Hatshepsut Temple:
It is one of the most beautiful & best preserved of all of the temples of Ancient Egypt. The temple was built on three levels with two wide ramps in a central position joining the levels together.
Colossi of Memnon:
Two massive stone statues of king Amenhotep III are the only remains of a complete mortuary temple. The statues are made from blocks of quartzite sandstone which exist in Cairo then moved 700 KM to Luxor.
After that you will return to your ship for lunch and afternoon tea. While sailing to Edfu, stop en route to visit the Esna Temple. Dinner on board and overnight in Edfu.
After breakfast on board you will visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu, which is the most completely preserved temple in Egypt. Keep your camera ready to take photos with the huge statues of the falcon god. After that return to the ship and continue sailing to Kom Ombo. Upon arrival you will visit the double Temple of Kom Ombo, that dedicated to two gods Sobek and Horus. You can see there the remains of an ancient mummified Crocodile that was worshipped here before thousands of years ago. Then board the Cruise overnight and continue Sailing to Aswan. Dinner and overnight in Aswan.
After breakfast on board start your trip from Aswan to Philae Temple, which is dedicated to the goddess Isis and located on the island of Agilkia. The main Temple of Isis and its monuments were built between the 26th dynasty and the Roman Period. Then you will get to visit the High Dam, which created the world's largest freshwater lake, Lake Nasser, once it was completed. You will then be taken on a short trip on the eastern shore to visit the unfinished Obelisk, which located in the ancient granite quarries. After this tour back to your cruise. Dinner and overnight on board Nile cruise in Aswan.
Disembark from your Nile cruise after breakfast, then transfer to Aswan Airport to fly back to Sharm El Sheik .
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