‎8 Days Egypt Best tour Cairo and Nile cruise from ‎Luxor

Upon landing at Cairo International Airport, your private Egypt tour representative will be ready and waiting to greet you at arrivals. From here you will be guided through every stage of the Egyptian customs process, from immigration to baggage claim, before transferring your party to your hotel in Cairo to get settled in.
Overnight at your hotel in Cairo.

Today’s Giza and Cairo day tour will be first activity of your Egypt tour package starting with Giza city then to Cairo after lunch break as following:

• Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza:
  You will discover the magnificent Sphinx standing proud in front of the Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure pyramids. While outside, seize the opportunity to explore the tombs of the pyramid builders nestled in the shadows of the great pyramid, and discover how they worked, lived, and received honorary burials at the site over four thousand years ago.
• Grand Egyptian Museum G.E.M: (opening soon)
  The Grand Egyptian Museum, the largest ever Museum. Throughout history, we have always been great builders, and the GEM is our next gift to you and future generations. Aligned with the pyramids two km away, GEM houses over 100,000 objects, including 3500 pieces from the golden king, Tut Ankh Amun. The artifacts, restoration labs, 3-D cinemas, and the latest technologies will bring ancient Egypt alive again.
• Egyptian Museum at Tahrir Square:
  The Egyptian Museum, founded on 1858, houses upward of 120,000 masterpiece objects which date back to different ages in Egyptian history. A visit to the Egyptian Museum will further your interest in Egyptian art and history.

At the end of the day, your personal driver will take you back to your Hotel with many amazingly memories of your Giza day tour with our private guide and modern vehicle.
Overnight at your hotel in Cairo.

As your adventure continues with the Nile cruise package, after breakfast your Go Travel Egypt representative will escort you to Cairo Airport for your flight to Luxor. After a quick one-hour flight, you will be met by your Luxor tour guide who will escort you to your room aboard the river Nile cruise ship.
Your Nile Cruise package from Luxor to Aswan for 5 days as following:

• The two Colossi of Memnon:
  They are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, since 1350 BCE are considered the gate way to the West Bank tour. you have secured an appointment with these two giant statues, always ready to meet you at the entrance.
• Valley of The Kings:
  Known as the Gate of the Afterlife, where tombs of the greatest kings of 18^th, 19^th, and 20^th Dynasties (New Kingdom period 3550 BCE). famous tombs lie down here such as: Tutankhamun, ThutmosI, II, and III, Ramses Iand II, Amenhotep III and IV, Seti II, Merenptah, sons of Ramses II, and many more.
• Temple of Queen Hatchepsut:
  Queen Hatshepsut “the foremost of all noble women” The “female king”, Her mortuary temple is the world-famous buildings and obelisks that she ordered constructed. visit the chapel of the god-headed Anubis, chapel of the primeval goddess. You will learn the story of her nephew, the future king, who chiseled her names out of her temple in a story of a family revenge.

At the end of the day, your personal driver & guide will take you back to your Nile cruise ship with many amazingly memories of your Egypt tour package with our private guide and modern vehicle onboard of luxury Nile cruise ship.
Lunch, Dinner and Overnight on board Nile Cruise.

As your adventure continues with the Nile cruise tour package, after breakfast you will be met by your tour guide who will continue private guidance of your Nile Cruise tours package as following:

• Karnak Temple:
  It took 2000 years to complete this complex, this place was full of life! Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Roman art and architecture add to style of the temple. The whole site has colossal statues, relief, obelisks and halls and, of course, the Avenue of the Sphinxes.
• Luxor Temple:
  Huge statues of Ramses II is the big mark, along with the scenes over the first pylon of warrior king upon his chariot. View the hieroglyphs showing that peace is achieved. Watch the celebrations of the Opet festival over the wall of the hypostyle hall. Next the temple of Alexander the Great was converted into a Church and is now a mosque. Also see the Birth and Coronation rooms too.

At the end of visits, we will take you back to your Nile Cruise with many amazingly memories of your Nile Cruise tour package.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Overnight on board of your Nile Cruise

Your Nile cruise tour package continues with private guidance as following:

• Horus Temple in Edfu:
  This place tells the story of legendary struggle between Horus and Set. See the chapel of Hathor goddess of music and motherhood, the great pylon, and the winged solar disc. Next, to the Pr Ankh or House of Knowledge, then the House of Beauty, two amazing architectural elements seen only here! Discover the scenes of the festival of the beautiful meeting between Horus of Edfu and Hathor of Dendara, see also the Sky Goddess Nut and her chapel, too.

• Temple of Kom Ombo:
  Horus “the falcon” and Sobek “the crocodile” are the two gods that were worshipped in this temple. There are unique scenes of purifications, offerings, medical tools and calendar. through axe of Horus, you may ask him about the secret of “the Eye of Horus.” find it in the crypts under the temple ground or marsh near the Crocodile Museum featuring crocodile mummies.

At the end of visits, we will take you back to your Nile Cruise with many amazingly memories of your Best ‎8 Days Egypt tour.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Overnight on board of your Nile Cruise

Today’s Aswan tours are in really beautiful city at the very south of Egypt continues your Nile cruise tour package with private guidance as following:

• Temple of Philae:
  Isis, known as goddess of love and beauty, was wife of Osiris and mother of Horus. This Temple tells the never-ending story of the history of the Pharaohs. Prayers still echoes through chapels of Imhotep, housing figures of Isis and gods. Next, enjoy the chapel of Hathor and kiosk of Roman Emperor Trajan.
• High dam of Aswan:
  The Nile River and its flooding has given life and fertility to the people over millennia. Worshipped by the Ancient Egyptians as a god named Habi, recently became a source of electrical power with the building of the Aswan Dam in 1910, followed by the High Dam that took 11 years of construction to complete in 1970. And its story to be told about Soviet-Egyptian Friendship.
• Tour by Nile Felucca around Elephantine Island & the Botanical Garden in Aswan:
  Botanical Garden has many types of subtropical, and rare plantings and trees such as the Royal Palm tree and the Sabal Palm tree named also as Lord Kitchener Island.
  Elephantine Island named Elephantine because Egyptians first saw the Elephant in this district. The island is considered a natural boundary between Aswan and Nubia.

At the end of visits, we will take you back to your Nile Cruise with many amazingly memories of your Nile Cruise tour package.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Overnight on board of your Nile Cruise

Today’s tour from Aswan is to an unforgettable huge temple you will see in your Nile cruise tour package with private guidance and transportation from Aswan and return as following:

• Temple of Abu Simbel:
  The temples considered to be miracle when it was built and another miracle as it was rebuilt 1960, saving it from flooding of Nasser Lake, King Ramses II had it constructed to show himself as a king and a god. His cartouches display this offering to himself as a god. When you enter its gates, there is a light that will go through the pillared hall with colossi statues of Ramses II and his scenes as a victorious king in the Battle of Kadesh. Most importantly, in his sanctuary, the holy of the holies, you may read the romantic letter from the king to be delivered to his beloved wife Nefertari inside her small temple there and see where the Queen will read it with the music of Hathor.

At the end of visits, our airport representative will escort you to Aswan airport for your return flight to Cairo, where you will be met by our Cairo airport representative who will take you to your hotel for check-in.
Overnight at your hotel in Cairo

After enjoying breakfast on your final day in Cairo, our representative will meet you in your hotel lobby 3 hours before your flight actual take off time.
From here you will be escorted to Cairo International Airport in plenty of time for your flight departing and leaving you with wonderful memories of Best ‎8 Days Egypt tour.