Price: $1,050
Train Schedule: Friday-Sunday-Wednesday.
Cruise Schedule: Saturday-Monday-Thursday.
Cruise Type: 5 star Deluxe.
Pick up Time: 7 pm (Available to change)
Tour Type: Join Tours (Sharing a group)
Cruise Duration: 4-Days/ 3-Nights
Pick up Location: Cairo or Giza hotel.
Optional Tours: – Hot Air Balloon in Luxor. – Nubian Village in Aswan.
Tour Language: English, Arabic, Spanish (other languages available with extra charge upon your request).
Take an overnight sleeper train with meals from Cairo to Luxor, then relax on the deck of a 5 stars Nile Cruise ship sailing down the Nile. Enjoy watching the beautiful Nile Valley scenery and the real Egyptian life. Explore the highlights of the sightseeing in Luxor and Aswan, stop en the route to visit the pharaonic sites of interest such as; Edfu and Kom Ombo Temples. Discover one of the most impressive temples in Egypt by visiting Abu Simbel 285 km south of Aswan. Have fun and enjoy plenty of night entertainments of the belly dancing show, gallabiyah party, Nubian show or disco and more in 4 days/3 nights Nile Cruise every Saturday, Monday or Thursday from Luxor to Aswan. Full board, check in with lunch, check out with breakfast. Rounded-trip sleeper train tickets and door-to-door transport included. Water, drinks and entrance fees on your own expenses.
Note:
Egypt Gift Tours driver will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo or Giza around 6:30 PM to transfer to the train station to take your overnight sleeper train to Luxor. (the train takes about 10 to 12 hours).
Meals included: dinner and breakfast
Accommodation: Overnight sleeper train from Cairo to Luxor.
Our licensed tour guide will meet and assist you at Luxor railway station to be transferred by A/C car to your 5 stars Nile Cruise to check in before lunch. Have lunch on board. Then, start your tour by visiting the largest temple ever: Karnak temple built through 2000 years, covering an area of about 63 acres.
Proceed to visit Luxor temple, where ancient Egyptian, Christian, and Islamic features are exhibited. Admire its obelisk and statues. Back to the cruise, dinner on board and overnight in Luxor.
Note: If your arrival to Aswan is so early, so we might start the tour direct upon arrival since the cruise check-in time at 12:00 and we don’t want our guest to waste their time waiting at the lobby for check-in.
Meals included: lunch and dinner.
Accommodation: Overnight in Luxor on board the cruise.
Breakfast and start your remarkable day by driving to the West Bank to explore the Theban Necropolis by visiting the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaohs from the New kingdom carved their tombs in the mountains aiming to hide their treasure and protect their mummies.
Continue, to the Mortuary temple of the famous queen Hatshepsut at El Deir El Bahari.
End your tour in the West Bank by a photo stop in front of the gigantic statues of Memnon – two 17-metre-high statues on Luxor’s west bank. Carved from granite blocks, they represent the Pharaoh Amenhotep III and were once part of an impressive colonnade.
Return back to the Cruise by noon to have your lunch. Start sailing down the River Nile, afternoon tea on the sundeck. Cross Esna Lock and overnight in Edfu.
Meals included: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Overnight in Edfu on board the cruise.
After your breakfast, enjoy Horse Carriage ride with your tour guide to visit the temple of Horus at Edfu which is considered to be the most complete and the best preserved of all the Egyptian temples. Back to the cruise. Relax on the deck watching the unique landscape and admire the scenery of the Nile river while sailing to Kom Ombo. Lunch on board. Afternoon tea on the sundeck.
Late in the afternoon, stop at Kom Ombo city where to visit the unique double temple of Sobek, the crocodile God and Horus, the falcon God. Return to the cruise and have dinner followed by folkloric party operated by the cruise staff and tour guides. Continue sailing to Aswan for overnight.
Meal included: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Overnight in Aswan on board the cruise.
Check out around 4 to 4:30 am, your guide will pick you up for Abu Simbel trip (sharing a group in a bus or minibus), to visit one of the most impressive places in Egypt; the rock-cut temples of Abu Simbel with their unique design built for King Ramesses 2nd and his beloved Queen Nefertari.
Back to the cruise round 2:30 pm to pick your luggage be ready to discover with your guide the highlights of Aswan and listen to the story of the Nubian immigration. Proceed to visit Philae temple; the Greco Roman Temple dedicated to goddess Isis using a small motorboat to get there.
Later on, transfer to Aswan railway station to take your overnight train back to Cairo.
Meals included: breakfast on the cruise and dinner in the train
Accommodation: Overnight sleeper train back to Cairo.
Once you arrive a Giza or Cairo train station, you will find our driver holding a sign with your name to transfer to your hotel in Cairo or Giza. (please, provide us with your hotel name and address in Cairo or Giza for the drop off transfer)
Meals included: breakfast in the train
Accommodation: Not Included.
All Cabins Contain:
Prices are quoted in US Dollars per person per trip except during Christmas, New Year and Easter holidays.
Child pricing applies to children who share rooms with their parents (Max 1 Child in one Room).
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