Best 4-Days Nile Cruise Luxor to Aswan including Abu Simbel by Plane from Cairo

Day 1: Cairo Airport Transfer, Arrive Luxor and Luxor East Bank

Egypt Gift Tours driver will pick you up at the lobby of your hotel in Cairo or Giza around 4:30 am (available to change subject to the flight schedule) to transfer to Cairo airport to take your morning flight to Luxor. You will need to use the flight tickets, we sent you via WhatsApp or email to check in and get your boarding card at Cairo airport. Once your arrive at Luxor airport and pick your luggage, go outside through the exit door where you will find our representative holding a sign with your name to be transferred by A/C car to your 5 stars Nile Cruise to check in before lunch. Have lunch on board.

Then, around 2:30 pm meet your tour guide at the cruise reception to start your tour by visiting the largest temple ever; Karnak temple built through 2000 years, covering an area of about 63 acres. Listen carefully to the stories and legends to be told by your tour guide. Marvel at the sheer size of the Great Hypo-style Hall, take photos between the huge columns and obelisks.

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.

Meals included: lunch and dinner.

Accommodation: Overnight in Luxor.

Note: If your arrival to Luxor is so early, so we might start the tour directly 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.

Day 2: Luxor West Bank Tour and Navigation to Edfu

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-meter-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 at Edfu.

Day 3: Edfu Temple and Kom Ombo Temple-Aswan

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.

Meals included: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Accommodation: Overnight in Aswan

Day 4: Abu Simbel Trip (Sharing a group), Philae Temple and Departure transfer

Check out around 4 to 4:30, 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 and be ready to discover with your guide the highlights of Aswan and listen to the story of the Nubian immigration.

Start your tour to visit Philae temple; the Greco Roman Temple dedicated to goddess Isis using a small motorboat to get there.

Later on, you will be transferred to Aswan Airport your evening flight from Aswan to Cairo. Once you arrive at Cairo airport and pick your luggage, go outside the arrival hall where you will find our driver holding a sign with your name to transfer to your hotel in Cairo or Giza.

Meals included: breakfast.

Accommodation: No accommodation Included.

Optional Tours:

• Other languages are available with extra 150$ USD per person upon your request.
• Abu Simbel temples, private tour (120$ USD per person, starting from 2 Travelers, and 180$ USD for the single person )
• Hot Air Balloon In Luxor (100$ USD per person).
• Nubian Village by motorboat (50$ USD per person)