5* DLX Nile Cruise Ship and Ancient Egypt & Mystical Nile River Tour - 2026

Tour details

With 5*DLX River Ship

ANCIENT EGYPT & MYSTERIOUS NILE RIVER TOUR

Hurghada – Luxor – Edfu – Esna – Aswan – Abu Simbel – Cairo (1)

*** ALL TOURS & LUNCHES INCLUDED ***

*** FULL BOARD ACCOMMODATION ON BOARD ***

*** HALF BOARD ACCOMMODATION AT THE HOTEL***

TURKISH AIRLINES / 6 NIGHTS – 7 DAYS

16 MARCH 2026

 

DAY 01: ISTANBUL AIRPORT – HURGADA – LUXOR                                                                         
At Istanbul Airport International Departures Terminal, in front of the Turkish Airlines counter at 23:00 (the meeting 15 Mart will be at night). We meet, complete our check-in procedures, and then depart for Hurghada at 02:25 on Turkish Airlines flight TK702. Arrival in Hurghada at 04:45 local time. Upon arrival, we proceed with our private vehicle waiting at the airport first to the restaurant where we will have breakfast to start the day energized. After breakfast at the local restaurant, we depart from Hurghada to transfer to our ship in Luxor. After check-in procedures, we leave the ship to visit the Karnak Temple, the largest temple complex in Egypt. After touring the Karnak Temple, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and the largest ancient structure ever built in the world, we transfer to the ship and have lunch. After lunch, in Luxor, home to the world’s largest open-air museum, we will visit the Luxor Temple, built by the 9th Pharaoh in honor of Amon, the greatest of the ancient Egyptian gods. After our temple visit, which resembles an open-air museum, we return to our ship. Dinner and accommodation on board.
 
DAY 02: LUXOR – ESNA - EDFU                                                                                                  
After breakfast, we set off for our Valley of the Kings tour. After visiting the tombs of the kings, we will also see the Hatshepsut Temple, built in memory of the first female pharaoh, Hatshepsut. After touring Hatshepsut, the oldest of the mortuary temples belonging to Queen Hatshepsut, we return to our ship and have our lunch. The ship will head to Edfu. Dinner and overnight on board.
 
DAY 03: EDFU – KOM OMBO – ASWAN                                                                                          
After breakfast, we will visit the Edfu Temple, completed in 57 BC, the temple of Horus with a falcon head. We will head to Kom Ombo. Lunch on board. After lunch, on the banks of the Nile River, we visit the Kom Ombo Temple, the Temple of the Crocodile & Falcon God. The reliefs inside Kom Ombo, the only temple shared by two gods, Horus, the god of goodness, and Sobek, the god of evil, were erased by the Copts who later used it as a church. Stones from the temple, damaged by the flooding of the Nile and earthquakes, were reused in other constructions. Departure for Aswan. Dinner and overnight on board.
 
DAY 04: ASWAN – EBU SIMBEL – ASWAN                                                                                          
Today we will have our early breakfast as a packed meal. With our private vehicle, we head to Abu Simbel. Upon arrival, we tour the magnificent masterpiece, the Abu Simbel Temple. This temple was built by Pharaoh Ramses II in Southern Egypt to show his enemies how powerful he was and to express his love for his wife Nefertari. Carved into the interior of Mount Simbel, the temple was moved back after a 6-year effort led by UNESCO to save it from being submerged during the construction of the Aswan Dam. After this fascinating visit, we return to Aswan by private vehicle. Upon arrival in Aswan, we board our ship and have lunch on board. After lunch, we continue our tour with the Philae Temple, which was dismantled as part of the UNESCO Nubia Project before the dam was built and moved to Agilkia Island. Transfer to the ship after the tour. Dinner and overnight on board.
 
DAY 05: CAIRO                                                                                                                                            
After breakfast, we complete our check-out procedures from the ship. With our private vehicle waiting for us for the “Giza Pyramids Tour”, we transfer to the airport to make our Aswan – Cairo flight. Our first stop will be the Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinos, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and named after the pharaohs who built them. Built thousands of years ago and still preserving their mysteries, these 3 pyramids were designed so that there is a Pythagorean triangle among them. These pyramids, built years before Pythagoras, show that the Egyptians had highly advanced knowledge of mathematics and geometry. After touring the mysterious pyramids, we will see the Sphinx, with the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion, representing the rising sun and rebirth for the pharaoh. After touring the “living statue” Sphinx, which has a temple between its paws, we will have our lunch. After lunch, we will visit the workshop of handmade papyrus paper obtained from Egypt’s famous papyrus plant. After the workshop visit, we will tour the Sakkara Pyramid, also known as the Step Pyramid, located in Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. After touring the Sakkara Pyramid, considered the first great stone monument in the world, we return to our hotel. Dinner and overnight at our hotel.
 
DAY 06: CAIRO                                                                                                                                            
After breakfast, we will tour Cairo’s old city center, one of the oldest civilizations with 7,000 years of history, the fortress newly built by Saladin against the Crusades, the Mosque of Ottoman governor Mohamed Ali Pasha, and Khan El Khalili Bazaar. After having lunch at a local restaurant during our tour, we will go to the Grand Egyptian Museum, which opened magnificently on 01 November 2025. The museum offers a collection of 50,000 artifacts spanning from prehistoric times to the present day, and the personal belongings of Pharaoh Tutankhamun are also displayed in full. At the end of the tours, free time will be given for you to explore the city as you wish. We meet at the time determined by our guide and transfer to the airport. Rest until our flight time after passport and baggage procedures.
 
DAY 07: CAIRO – ISTANBUL AIRPORT                                                                                                   
In the early hours of the new day, depart for Istanbul at 02:15 on Turkish Airlines flight TK 687. Arrival at Istanbul Airport at 05:50 local time. End of our tour

What's included
  • Economy class flights with Turkish Airlines between Istanbul Airport – Hurghada // Cairo – Istanbul Airport.
  • Economy class plane tickets and airport taxes from Aswan to Cairo with local airlines
  • 5* DLX MS  4 nights 5 days on the ship  FRENCH BALCONY cabin category with FULL BOARD accommodation
  • 1 night in Cairo at a hotel in the specified category with Half Board accommodation
  • Breakfast in Hurghada on the first day
  • ALL TOURS specified in the program.
  • Entrance fees to museums and historical sites specified in the program
  • Lunches and dinners specified in the program
  • Airport taxes
  • Hotel taxes
  • All transfers.
  • Experienced Turkish-speaking Tour Leader Service.
  • Mandatory travel insurance (Professional liability insurance).
Not included
  • Ship service fee. USD 11 per person per day (Paid to the guide on the ship)
  • All kinds of personal expenses and hotel extras.
  • Foreign departure tax fund (You can pay it to the relevant banks or the finance counter at the airport).
  • City taxes
  • Domestic connecting flights.
  • Visa fee.  (Border Gate Visa) (25 USD) (Valid for our guests holding regular/burgundy passports of all age groups. Our guests with Green Passports DO NOT PAY)
  • Travel insurance package. For guests over 70 years old, 100% surprim is applied.(
Need to Know

Prices are per person in a double room.

Hotel check-in times are between 15:00 and 17:00 / Check-out times are between 10:00 and 12:00.

In cases where alternative hotels are provided for the same destination and/or only category information is provided, you can find out which hotels you will stay at 48 hours before the tour departure.

In some cases, due to high occupancy, the hotels you will stay at may change, but the hotel standard will remain the same.

In some hotels, beds may be provided as TWIN. However, a change may be requested from the hotel during your stay.

We kindly ask you to check the prices before making a purchase.