3 Nights Nile River Cruise Aswan to Luxor

Tour itinerary

• Day 1 Aswan Nile Cruise

  Meet your guide wherever you are in Aswan like Aswan airport, train station, or Aswan hotel to start your Nile cruise at Aswan Luxor. You will have a smooth check-in then you will enjoy your lunch on board the Nile Cruise before you start your tour of Aswan attractions. Start with Aswan High Dam, the High Dam was built to regulate the flow of the Nile River to have more control over the water of the Nile. Then explore with us the Unfinished Obelisk, the unfinished obelisk is considered the largest known obelisk from ancient Egyptian Civilization. It is a huge obelisk that was left unfinished in the granite quarries. Then you can visit the Philae temple is located between Aswan Dam and Aswan High Dam on Agilkia Island instead of Philae Island. The temple was dedicated to goddess Isis and it was an ancient pilgrimage center for the cult of Isis for Egyptians and Nubians alike.

  Meals: Lunch, dinner

• Day 2 Abu Simbel / Kom Ombo Temple

  Enjoy your morning coffee at the Nile cruise bar before you start your way to Abu Simbel temples in Nubia. It takes around 3 hours to drive through the amazing desert view and Toshka Project or the new Valley. Abu Simbel temple, Abu Simbel is a very important historical site near Sudan in Egyptian Nubia includes two massive temples built by the great Ramesses. At the end of the tour, you will be back to the Nile Cruise for lunch and start sailing towards Kom Ombo city. Upon arrival, you will start your tour of the double temple of Horus and Sobek and explore the Kom Ombo temple. Once, you finish your tour to Kom Ombo, you can visit the Crocodile Museum then back to the cruise for dinner and sail to Edfu city overnight.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 3 Edfu Temple

  Early morning coffee then depart to Horus temple with horse carriages for about 15 minutes. Upon arrival, you will start your tour of the best-preserved temple in Egypt dedicated to Horus Behdity of Edfu Temple. Explore the highest Pylon in Egypt and learn more about ancient Egyptian festivals, especially the good union between Hathor of Dendera and Horus of Edfu. Once you finish your tour, you will go back to the Nile cruise for breakfast and enjoy the rest of the day sailing to Luxor via Esna Lock.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 4 Luxor - Disembarkation

  Enjoy your last breakfast on board the Nile Cruise before you start your full Luxor day tour of Luxor attractions. Start your day tour on Luxor west bank as follows. Start your day tour with the Valley of the Kings, Kings’ Valley is one of the most visited places in Egypt after the Giza Pyramids and Abu Simbel temples. You can visit three tombs included in the ticket and your guide will recommend three of them. For example, we recommend three of the following tombs KV2 - Ramses IV, KV1 - Ramses VII, KV6 - Ramses IX, and KV14 - Tausert & Setnakht. Meanwhile, Tutankhamun's tomb is an extra charge tomb.

  The next stop will be Hatshepsut temple, it is one of the most amazing temples on Luxor's west bank in the Deir El Bahari area. Senmut, Queen Engineer built the temple not far from Mentohotep temple with a new design like three terraces. The temple has unique reliefs like the Punt expedition, the Divine Birth of Hatshepsut, and agriculture in ancient Egypt. After that, you will visit the Memnon Colossi, these huge statues are among the best we found in the Mortuary temple of Amenhotep III. They are two huge statutes that once decorated the entrance of the temple and they still stand there till now.

  Lunch: Enjoy your lunch at a local restaurant before you finish your Egypt tour on Luxor east bank.

  Finish your tour with the Karnak temple, Luxor day tour cannot be completed without a Karnak temple complex visit as it is the biggest temple in the world. There is a lot to see inside like Ptah temple, Mut temple, Khonsu temple, and Hatshepsut Obelisk. Once, you finish your tour, your guide will drive you wherever you like to end your Nile Cruise package.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch