7 Nights Nile Cruise Luxor to Aswan Tour

Tour itinerary

• Day 1 Luxor Nile Cruise

  Your expert archeologist guide will meet you upon arrival to Luxor to start your half day tour of Luxor East Bank to explore Luxor attractions. You can start the Luxor tour with the Karnak temple complex which is the biggest temple not only in Egypt but in the world. After you visit Karnak temple, you will join your guide to check-in at your Nile cruise and then enjoy the lunch on board the Cruise. Later on, you can rest for a while before you start the visit to Luxor temple at night. Luxor temple will be your night visit to see how amazing when the temple is lighted at night.

  Meals: Lunch, dinner

• Day 2 Nile Cruise

  Enjoy your breakfast on board the Nile cruise then you can walk Luxor city to visit the market area or simply relax on sundeck and enjoy the view around you. Afternoon and around midday, the Cruise will start sailing towards Edfu City via Esna Lock and overnight at Edfu City.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 3 Edfu, Aswan

  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, the Edfu temple is a great source of the way they constructed a temple in ancient Egyptian Civilization. Once you finish your tour, you will go back to the Nile cruise for breakfast and enjoy the rest of the day sailing to Aswan.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 4 Aswan Attractions

  Enjoy your breakfast on board the Nile Cruise then be ready to join your guide for your Aswan day tours to some of the best Aswan attractions. Starting with Aswan High Dam, the High Dam was built 70 years after the Aswan Low Dam, and 3 km to the south of it, it creates a reservoir, Lake Nasser, for irrigation and agricultural purposes. Then you will explore the Unfinished Obelisk, which is a huge obelisk that was left unfinished in the granite quarries. After that you will visit the Philae temple, Philae temple is located between Aswan Dam and Aswan High Dam on Agilkia Island instead of Philae Island, the temple witnessed the last written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Demotic language on its walls.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 5 Aswan - Abu Simbel

  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 is a very important historical site near Sudan in Egyptian Nubia including 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. Walk with your guide to visit the Kom Ombo temple by the Nile side and enjoy the ruins of the only double temple in Egypt. Once, you finish your tour to Kom Ombo, you can visit the Crocodile Museum then back to the cruise for dinner and sailing towards Edfu city.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 6 Edfu - Luxor

  Enjoy a free day at your leisure on board the Nile Cruise and do not forget to watch the cruise when crossing Esna Lock on the way to Luxor.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 7 Luxor West Bank

  After having your morning breakfast on board, you will join your guide for some of the best Luxor attractions on the west bank of the Nile River. You will start the Valley of the Kings. Explore the burial place of the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom including Tutankhamun tomb. You can visit three tombs included in the ticket and your guide will recommend three of them. For example, KV2 - Ramses IV, KV1 - Ramses VII, KV6 - Ramses IX, and KV14 - Tausert and Setnakht. Meanwhile, Tutankhamun tomb is an extra charge tomb. With our Nile River Cruise tours, you will enjoy the Hatshepsut temple, it is one of the most amazing temples on Luxor's west bank in El Deir El Bahari area. After that you will enjoy exploring Memnon Colossi.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

• Day 8 Disembarkation

  Enjoy your last breakfast on board before you check-out and your guide will transfer you to anywhere you like in Luxor to end your 7 Nights Nile River Cruise Luxor to Aswan including Abu Simbel.

  Meals: breakfast