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EGYPT TOUR FROM THE NILE RIVER TO THE PYRAMIDS (LXR-SPX) LUXOR (1) & NILE RIVER CRUISE (4) & CAIRO (1)
DAY 1 ISTANBUL – LUXOR
Meeting at the designated time in front of the Pegasus Airlines counter at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport, International Terminal; following check-in and passport procedures, we depart for Luxor on Pegasus Airlines’ scheduled flight. Following our arrival at Luxor International Airport, we depart for our hotel in our private vehicle waiting for us at the airport. Upon arrival at our hotel and completion of check-in procedures, overnight at our hotel.
DAY 2 LUXOR
Following breakfast, we depart from the hotel for the Luxor city tour. During the panoramic city tour, Avenue of the Sphinxes, Luxor Bazaar and the Mummification Museum are among the places to be seen panoramically. Free time after the city tour. Our guests who wish may join the Luxor and Karnak Temple Tour (90 Euros), which our guide will organize as an extra. On our tour, we set out to see the Karnak Temple, which is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is the largest ancient structure ever built in the world. Surrounded by 20-meter-high mud-brick-covered walls and containing many temples, this magnificent complex provides important information about Egypt’s history and mythology. As you explore this grand structure, whose construction took more than 2,000 years and where each pharaoh made more additions than the previous pharaoh had made to the temple, you will feel fascinated. After visiting Karnak Temple, we will visit Luxor Temple in Luxor, home to the world’s largest open-air museum, which was commissioned by the 9th Pharaoh in the name of Amun, the greatest of the ancient Egyptian gods. Following the temple visit, which resembles an open-air museum, we depart for our river ship. Overnight on our river ship.
DAY 3 LUXOR – EDFU
Free time following breakfast. Our guests who wish may join the Luxor Balloon Tour (150 Euros), which our guide will organize as an optional activity . Setting out from our river ship with the first light of day, on this tour you will be able to observe many temples in Luxor and even the Valley of the Kings from above in a hot-air balloon; free time will be provided afterwards. Our guests who wish may join the Valley of the Kings & Hatshepsut Tour & Colossi of Memnon (100 Euros), which our guide will organize as an extra. Our first stop will be the Valley of the Kings, home to magnificent tombs carved into the desert rocks in the ancient Egyptian civilization and filled with treasures by the pharaohs for their lives in the afterlife. We will also visit the tomb of King Tutankhamun here. We will then visit the Temple of Hatshepsut, one of the most striking monuments in Egypt. As we walk through the temple’s grand courtyards and admire the intricate hieroglyphic decorations, we will also learn about Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s famous female ruler who disguised herself as a man in order to claim the throne. We will then visit the Colossi of Memnon, two monumental statues representing Amenhotep III (1386–1353 BC) of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. These statues are located west of the modern city of Luxor and face east toward the Nile River. Following our tour, we return to our ship and have lunch. We then depart for Edfu. Lunch, dinner and overnight on our ship.
DAY 4 EDFU – KOM OMBO – ASWAN
Free time following breakfast. Our guests who wish may join the Edfu & Kom Ombo Temple Tour (80 Euros), which our guide will organize as an extra. Edfu Temple was built for the falcon-headed god Horus according to traditional Egyptian temple architecture. It is one of the best-preserved temples to have survived to the present day. At the end of the tour, we return to our ship and have lunch on board. Meanwhile, our Deluxe River Ship continues sailing toward Kom Ombo. Following our arrival in Kom Ombo, we will visit the Kom Ombo Temple, built in the 2nd century BC during the Ptolemaic Dynasty. It is the only temple in history shared by two gods; one side is dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and the other to the falcon god Haroeris. The temple was damaged over the centuries as a result of the flooding of the Nile River. Return to our ship after the tour. Our ship departs for Aswan. Lunch, dinner and overnight on our ship.
DAY 5 ASWAN
Free time following breakfast. Our guests who wish may join the Abu Simbel Tour with lunch (100 Euros), which our guide will organize as an extra. During our tour, we visit the Abu Simbel Temple, where one of the most important temple relocation operations in world history was carried out and which is protected under the UNESCO World Heritage List. Following our visit to this region, located in the southernmost part of Egypt, bordering Sudan and regarded as one of the places in Egypt that should be visited most after the Pyramids, we depart for a local restaurant for lunch. Following our meal, transfer to our river ship. Dinner and overnight on our ship.
DAY 6 ASWAN – CAIRO
Following breakfast, transfer to Aswan Airport. Flight to Cairo with a domestic airline. Following our arrival in Cairo, we begin our panoramic city tour. During our tour, the Old City center, Mohamed Ali Mosque, Sadat’s Mausoleum, Baron Palace, El Tahrir Square, the city center stretching along the Nile and Khan El Khalili Bazaar are among the places we will see. Free time after our tour. Our guests who wish may join the Giza Pyramids & Sphinx Tour (80 Euros), which our guide will organize as an extra. We will visit the Giza Pyramids, which include the Pyramid of Cheops, one of the 7 wonders of the world, and the Sphinxes, considered sacred in ancient Egyptian mythology and believed to have been built to protect the pharaohs’ tombs and pyramids using their magical powers. Following our tour, transfer to our hotel. Dinner and overnight at our hotel.
DAY 7 CAIRO
Free time following breakfast (check-out from the hotel will take place at 11:00 a.m.). Our guests who wish may join the New Cairo Museum Tour (70 Euros), which our guide will organize as an extra. Following our visit to this magnificent museum, opened to visitors in 2024 and housing more than 100,000 historical artifacts from the ancient Egyptian period, free time. Our guests who wish may join the optional activity of the Nile River Cruise with dinner and entertainment (60 Euros), which our guide will organize. On our boat, where we will have the opportunity to see Cairo illuminated along the Nile River, one of the longest rivers in the world, which divides Cairo in two and gives life to Egypt, we will both enjoy ourselves and have dinner. Following our tour, transfer to Sphinx Airport.
DAY 8 CAIRO – ISTANBUL
Following completion of baggage and check-in procedures, departure for Istanbul on Pegasus Airlines’ scheduled flight. Arrival in Istanbul and the end of our tour.
What's Included
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Not Included
- Visa fee and service charge "Visa at the Door: 25 USD"
- Travel health insurance
- International departure fee
- Meals not specified in the program
- Hotel extras and personal expenses
- Extra tours, extra tours along the route and optional activities
- Museum and archaeological site entrance fees
- All services not stated as included in the price
- Beverage packages to be purchased at the hotel and on the river
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