8-day Cairo and Luxor Tour including River Cruise

Tour info

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1 week 1 day
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Why take this tour?

This classic 8-day tour introduces you to the main sites of Egypt while spoiling you with a higher standard of hotels, transport and cruise boat than our other Egypt tours. The tour starts with time spent in Cairo based in a 5-star hotel while you tour the Pyramids, Sphinx and the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. You then take a short internal flight to Luxor to enjoy a 4-night cruise through the Nile Valley on a 5-star cruise ship from Luxor to Aswan. En-route you'll visit the temples at Edfu and Komombo while watching typical rural Egyptian life pass you by from the sun deck of the boat. From Aswan you will visit the beautiful island temple of Philae and enjoy a felucca sailboat trip on the Nile before we fly you back to Cairo. We end in Cairo with a trip to the famous Egyptian Museum which holds the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb. This tour offers our most comfortable and luxurious experience exploring the treasures of Egypt.

What’s included?

  • Domestic flights

  • All hotel accommodation in 5-star hotels

  • 4-night 5-star Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan

  • All transport and transfers

  • 24-hour airport arrival & departure transfer service

  • Services of a local Egyptologist tour guide for all sightseeing tours

  • Meals as indicated in the itinerary

  • International flights

  • Visa fees

  • Travel insurance (compulsory)

  • Meals not indicated in the itinerary

  • Entrance fees (allow approx. US$135)

  • Tipping kitty (allow approx. US$45)

  • Drinks, snacks and other personal expenses (e.g. laundry)

  • Tour guide tips

  • Hotel gala dinners (see Tour notes)

  • Any other items not mentioned above

Things to know

Before you book

  • Duration: 8 days

  • Mobile tickets accepted

Cancellation Policy

    If you cancel at least 7 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.

Operated by:

Encounters Travel - Day Tours & Extended Tours

About operator:

We specialise in imaginative, adventurous, small group tours and travel-goers. What they have in common is a passion to go-a passion to encounter the vast diversity of our planet for real.We are a UK registered company, with full bonding and financial protection through ATOL and IPP. Our owners and directors have over 50 years of experience between them of arranging this type of travel, from driving overland expeditions and running travel companies both here in the UK and on the ground.

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