9 Day Cairo Alexandria Luxor Edfu Kom Ombo Aswan Abu Simbel
9 Day Cairo Alexandria Luxor Edfu Kom Ombo Aswan Abu Simbel
Tour Details
- Tour Duration
9 Day
- Tour Destination
Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simple
- Tour Type
- Tour Availability
Scheduled tour
Tour Overview
The Classic 9-Day Egypt Tour of Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Aswan, and Abu Simbel. Nine days of non-stop magic will see you visiting and exploring many of Egypt's top ancient attractions.
From the imposing Pyramids of Giza in Cairo to the massive rock-cut temples of Abu Simbel, this tour has it all. Visit the tomb of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of Kings near Luxor, and discover so many other sites of antiquity that you'll never forget
Tour Itinerary
Day 01: Cairo Int. Airport – Cairo On
Upon arrival to Cairo Int. Airport, you will be met with our English-speaking representative who will help and assist you in all formalities and transfer to your hotel, overnight Cairo.
Meals Included
No meals
Day 02: Pyramids – Memphis & Sakkara
Breakfast at the hotel. Then you will be met by our English Egyptologist tour guide to start your first-day tour by visiting the Pyramids of Giza “Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure”, the place the greatness has been embodied in three pyramids with a limestone statue of Sphinx guarding the whole area. Then proceed to one of our local restaurant to have your lunch.
After that, you will proceed to the city of Sakkara, the place you will be so excited by exploring The Step Pyramid of king Djoser. This pyramid has a very nice story when king Djoser asked his chief Architect Imhotep to create something different so that the king could be buried. As a result, the well-known Architect creates the Step pyramid, which surprised the king so much since it was considered to be a new achievement in this period.
Finally, we will drive towards Memphis, the place you can visit The Open Air Museum including the marvelous monuments of King Ramses II. After finishing your day tour, you will get back to your hotel in Cairo overnight.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 03: Egyptian Museum – Citadel & Khan El Khalili
Breakfast at the hotel. Our English-speaking guide will meet you at the hotel to accompany you to start your second-day tour in Cairo. Your tour today is completely different and more exciting, as the best of our monuments are awaiting you.
Start your tour with The Egyptian Museum, which is considered to be one of the most important museums in Egypt housing the Pharaonic monuments including those of the well-known king Tutankhamun. Then you will have your lunch meal at one of our local restaurant.
After Lunch, you will be transferred to the Old Cairo area, the place you can visit the Citadel of Salah El-Din, which played a very important role in protecting Egypt, as it was considered the seat of power for more than 700 years.
Then proceed to one of the most interesting and old markets in Egypt, Khan El-Khalili, which consider one of the most stunning bazaars in the Middle East.
After finishing your day tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Cairo overnight.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 04: Flight to Luxor – Full Day West & East Bank of Luxor
Check out from your hotel after breakfast. Then our representative will meet you at the hotel to transfer you to Cairo airport to take your flight to Luxor.
Upon arrival at Luxor airport, transfer to Visit the West Bank of Luxor. Start your magical tour in Thebes, the sacred land by exploring the wet bank of Luxor including the Valley of the Kings, which considers the royal cemetery of the Theban kings and rulers of ancient Egypt, and the place where our Pharaohs were buried, “Enter the tomb of King Tut Ankh Amun”.
Then proceed to visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari. This temple is considered one of the most fantastic examples of Architecture in ancient Egypt because it was totally carved inside the mountain.
At the end of the tour, you will visit Colossi of Memnon, which is belonging to king Amenhotep III. Lunch at a local restaurant.
Then you will discover the East bank of Luxor including the Karnak Temples Complex, which is the largest structure ever built in the history of mankind. The principal building is that of the god Amun Ra since it was considered the house of god on the earth, the earlier structure date back to the middle kingdom, but there are some references that refer to the earlier buildings as old as the 3rd dynasty.
Later on, you will proceed to visit the Temple of Luxor, which was built by one of the kings of the 12th dynasty and completed by the well know king Ramses II. This temple was located in the heart of ancient Thebes and, like Karnak, was dedicated to the main/chief god Amun Re. After finishing your day tour, you will be transferred to your hotel in Luxor for check-in & overnight in Luxor.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 05: Day Trip to Edfu, Kom ombo and Aswan
Check out from your hotel after breakfast, then our tour guide will pick you up to enjoy a day tour to the Temple of Edfu, the place you will visit the majestic temple dedicated to Horus which is considered by most to be the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt. According to the Egyptian myths, it was the location the place the falcon-headed god Horus revenged the murder of his father Osiris by killing Seth.
Drive to Koum Oumbo city and visit the Temple of Koum Oumbo, standing on high grounds overlooking the Nile. It differs from other temples because of its double entrance, each one is dedicated to divinity: “Haroeris” with his falcon head and ” Sobek ” with his crocodile head. The Temple of Kom Ombo was built in the honor of two deities the crocodile-headed Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world, and Haroeris, or the ancient falcon-headed Horus. Also, Kom Ombo’s importance lies in its huge sugar cane.
Arrive in Aswan, lunch at a local restaurant.
Tour High Dam and Philae Temple: Discover the great city of Aswan, including The High Dam, which has been erected by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1960 AD to protect Egypt from the Nile flood.
After that, you will enjoy sailing on the Nile River by motor boat till reach Agilika Island, the place you will visit the Temple of Philae, which was erected during the Greco-Roman period and was dedicated to goddess Isis (mother of god Horus).
At the end of your day, you will transfer to your hotel in Aswan for check-in & overnight in Aswan.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 06: Day Tour to Abu Simbel \ Fly Back to Cairo
Breakfast box from your hotel and check out. Later on, you will be transferred by a private A-C van to Abu Simbel. The original site was known as Meha in ancient times and was first documented in the 18th Dynasty when Ay and Horemheb had rock-cut chapels hewn in the hills to the south.
Upon arrival, you will proceed to visit Abu Simbel Temples, which were built by king Ramses II. The first temple (the biggest one) was built by Ramesses II and was dedicated to the famous god Rahorakhty. While the second temple (the smaller one) was dedicated to the king himself and his beautiful wife queen Nefertari.
After finishing your day tour, you will drive to Aswan airport to fly back to Cairo. Upon arrival at Cairo airport, you will meet our rep who will transfer you to your hotel & overnight in Cairo.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 07: Alexandria City Tour
Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo. After that, you will be met with our Egyptologist tour guide who will accompany you on such a stunning tour to Alexandria.
You will start your Alexandria city tour by exploring one of the main sources of knowledge in the ancient world, “The Alexandria Library”. The site of which is the original site of the old Pharaoh.
Later on, you will be transferred to have your lunch meal at a local restaurant.
After lunch, you will proceed to visit The Roman Amphitheatre, which is considered to be one of the most famous monuments belonging to the Greco-Roman period.
Continue your Alexandria city tour by visiting Pompey’s pillar, which was erected in 292 AD. In the end, you’ll be transferred to visit Sultan Qaitbay Citadel (from the outside) which is considered to be one of the most famous sightseeing in Alexandria.
After finishing your day tour, we will drive back to Cairo. Arrive in Cairo and proceed to your hotel there overnight.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 08: Islamic & Coptic Cairo Tour
Breakfast at the hotel. Then you will start your tour to visit Islamic and Coptic Cairo. This tour is very important as you will discover the greatness of the history of Egypt. You will discover Islamic history and the other Coptic one.
You will visit Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque; it is the oldest intact, functioning Islamic monument in Cairo. It also survives as a rare example of the era and architecture of the classical period of Islam, i.e. the ninth and tenth centuries, for it was dominant in the Islamic world.
Then proceed to the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, which is considered stylistically the most compact and unified of all Cairo monuments. The building was constructed for Sultan Hassan bin Mohammad bin Qala’oun in 1256 AD as a mosque and religious school for all sects.
Then you will visit El Refa’i Mosque, which is separated from the mosque of Sultan Hassan by a pedestrian street. Take your lunch at one of our local restaurants.
After that, you will start your Coptic Tour, you will start with the Hanging Church, (The Church of the Virgin Mary), built into the walls of the Water Gate of the Roman fortress. It is possibly the oldest Christian church in Egypt, dating to around the 4th Century.
Then you will visit the Church of St. Sergius, (Abu Serga), which legend has it is built atop one of the sites the place the Holy Family rested on their flight from Herod.
Continuing on this path brings one first to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is Egypt’s oldest and dates to the 9th Century. After finishing this wonderful and memorable tour, you will get back to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 09: Cairo Int. Airport – Final Departure
Check out after breakfast. Our representative will pick you up. Transfer to Cairo international airport for final departure.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Tour Inclusions
Includes
- 5* hotel in Cairo for 6 nights
- 5* hotel in Luxor for 1 night
- 5* hotel in Aswan for 1 night
- Plane
- Private Air-Conditioned Vehicle
- Horse carriage at Edfu
- Taftaf at Valley of the Kings
- Motor Boat to Philae Island
- 8 breakfasts, 7 lunches
- Domestic Flight Tickets (Cairo-Luxor & Aswan-Cairo)
- All sightseeing tours in Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Aswan, and Abu Simbel & Alexandria
- English Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to all sites as stated on the itinerary
- All transfers by a modern air-conditioned vehicle
- Sightseeing tour to Abu Simbel by a modern air-conditioned bus
- Portage when needed
- All service charges and taxes
Exclude
- International Airfare.
- Entry visa to Egypt.
- Any optional tours.
- Personal Spending.
- Tipping
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Tour Details
- Price From
1905 €
- Tour Duration
9 Day
- Tour Destination
Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simple
- Tour Type
- Tour Availability
Scheduled tour
Tour Overview
The Classic 9-Day Egypt Tour of Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Aswan, and Abu Simbel. Nine days of non-stop magic will see you visiting and exploring many of Egypt's top ancient attractions.
From the imposing Pyramids of Giza in Cairo to the massive rock-cut temples of Abu Simbel, this tour has it all. Visit the tomb of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of Kings near Luxor, and discover so many other sites of antiquity that you'll never forget
Tour Itinerary
Day 01: Cairo Int. Airport – Cairo On
Upon arrival to Cairo Int. Airport, you will be met with our English-speaking representative who will help and assist you in all formalities and transfer to your hotel, overnight Cairo.
Meals Included
No meals
Day 02: Pyramids – Memphis & Sakkara
Breakfast at the hotel. Then you will be met by our English Egyptologist tour guide to start your first-day tour by visiting the Pyramids of Giza “Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure”, the place the greatness has been embodied in three pyramids with a limestone statue of Sphinx guarding the whole area. Then proceed to one of our local restaurant to have your lunch.
After that, you will proceed to the city of Sakkara, the place you will be so excited by exploring The Step Pyramid of king Djoser. This pyramid has a very nice story when king Djoser asked his chief Architect Imhotep to create something different so that the king could be buried. As a result, the well-known Architect creates the Step pyramid, which surprised the king so much since it was considered to be a new achievement in this period.
Finally, we will drive towards Memphis, the place you can visit The Open Air Museum including the marvelous monuments of King Ramses II. After finishing your day tour, you will get back to your hotel in Cairo overnight.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 03: Egyptian Museum – Citadel & Khan El Khalili
Breakfast at the hotel. Our English-speaking guide will meet you at the hotel to accompany you to start your second-day tour in Cairo. Your tour today is completely different and more exciting, as the best of our monuments are awaiting you.
Start your tour with The Egyptian Museum, which is considered to be one of the most important museums in Egypt housing the Pharaonic monuments including those of the well-known king Tutankhamun. Then you will have your lunch meal at one of our local restaurant.
After Lunch, you will be transferred to the Old Cairo area, the place you can visit the Citadel of Salah El-Din, which played a very important role in protecting Egypt, as it was considered the seat of power for more than 700 years.
Then proceed to one of the most interesting and old markets in Egypt, Khan El-Khalili, which consider one of the most stunning bazaars in the Middle East.
After finishing your day tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Cairo overnight.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 04: Flight to Luxor – Full Day West & East Bank of Luxor
Check out from your hotel after breakfast. Then our representative will meet you at the hotel to transfer you to Cairo airport to take your flight to Luxor.
Upon arrival at Luxor airport, transfer to Visit the West Bank of Luxor. Start your magical tour in Thebes, the sacred land by exploring the wet bank of Luxor including the Valley of the Kings, which considers the royal cemetery of the Theban kings and rulers of ancient Egypt, and the place where our Pharaohs were buried, “Enter the tomb of King Tut Ankh Amun”.
Then proceed to visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari. This temple is considered one of the most fantastic examples of Architecture in ancient Egypt because it was totally carved inside the mountain.
At the end of the tour, you will visit Colossi of Memnon, which is belonging to king Amenhotep III. Lunch at a local restaurant.
Then you will discover the East bank of Luxor including the Karnak Temples Complex, which is the largest structure ever built in the history of mankind. The principal building is that of the god Amun Ra since it was considered the house of god on the earth, the earlier structure date back to the middle kingdom, but there are some references that refer to the earlier buildings as old as the 3rd dynasty.
Later on, you will proceed to visit the Temple of Luxor, which was built by one of the kings of the 12th dynasty and completed by the well know king Ramses II. This temple was located in the heart of ancient Thebes and, like Karnak, was dedicated to the main/chief god Amun Re. After finishing your day tour, you will be transferred to your hotel in Luxor for check-in & overnight in Luxor.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 05: Day Trip to Edfu, Kom ombo and Aswan
Check out from your hotel after breakfast, then our tour guide will pick you up to enjoy a day tour to the Temple of Edfu, the place you will visit the majestic temple dedicated to Horus which is considered by most to be the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt. According to the Egyptian myths, it was the location the place the falcon-headed god Horus revenged the murder of his father Osiris by killing Seth.
Drive to Koum Oumbo city and visit the Temple of Koum Oumbo, standing on high grounds overlooking the Nile. It differs from other temples because of its double entrance, each one is dedicated to divinity: “Haroeris” with his falcon head and ” Sobek ” with his crocodile head. The Temple of Kom Ombo was built in the honor of two deities the crocodile-headed Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world, and Haroeris, or the ancient falcon-headed Horus. Also, Kom Ombo’s importance lies in its huge sugar cane.
Arrive in Aswan, lunch at a local restaurant.
Tour High Dam and Philae Temple: Discover the great city of Aswan, including The High Dam, which has been erected by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1960 AD to protect Egypt from the Nile flood.
After that, you will enjoy sailing on the Nile River by motor boat till reach Agilika Island, the place you will visit the Temple of Philae, which was erected during the Greco-Roman period and was dedicated to goddess Isis (mother of god Horus).
At the end of your day, you will transfer to your hotel in Aswan for check-in & overnight in Aswan.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 06: Day Tour to Abu Simbel \ Fly Back to Cairo
Breakfast box from your hotel and check out. Later on, you will be transferred by a private A-C van to Abu Simbel. The original site was known as Meha in ancient times and was first documented in the 18th Dynasty when Ay and Horemheb had rock-cut chapels hewn in the hills to the south.
Upon arrival, you will proceed to visit Abu Simbel Temples, which were built by king Ramses II. The first temple (the biggest one) was built by Ramesses II and was dedicated to the famous god Rahorakhty. While the second temple (the smaller one) was dedicated to the king himself and his beautiful wife queen Nefertari.
After finishing your day tour, you will drive to Aswan airport to fly back to Cairo. Upon arrival at Cairo airport, you will meet our rep who will transfer you to your hotel & overnight in Cairo.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 07: Alexandria City Tour
Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo. After that, you will be met with our Egyptologist tour guide who will accompany you on such a stunning tour to Alexandria.
You will start your Alexandria city tour by exploring one of the main sources of knowledge in the ancient world, “The Alexandria Library”. The site of which is the original site of the old Pharaoh.
Later on, you will be transferred to have your lunch meal at a local restaurant.
After lunch, you will proceed to visit The Roman Amphitheatre, which is considered to be one of the most famous monuments belonging to the Greco-Roman period.
Continue your Alexandria city tour by visiting Pompey’s pillar, which was erected in 292 AD. In the end, you’ll be transferred to visit Sultan Qaitbay Citadel (from the outside) which is considered to be one of the most famous sightseeing in Alexandria.
After finishing your day tour, we will drive back to Cairo. Arrive in Cairo and proceed to your hotel there overnight.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 08: Islamic & Coptic Cairo Tour
Breakfast at the hotel. Then you will start your tour to visit Islamic and Coptic Cairo. This tour is very important as you will discover the greatness of the history of Egypt. You will discover Islamic history and the other Coptic one.
You will visit Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque; it is the oldest intact, functioning Islamic monument in Cairo. It also survives as a rare example of the era and architecture of the classical period of Islam, i.e. the ninth and tenth centuries, for it was dominant in the Islamic world.
Then proceed to the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, which is considered stylistically the most compact and unified of all Cairo monuments. The building was constructed for Sultan Hassan bin Mohammad bin Qala’oun in 1256 AD as a mosque and religious school for all sects.
Then you will visit El Refa’i Mosque, which is separated from the mosque of Sultan Hassan by a pedestrian street. Take your lunch at one of our local restaurants.
After that, you will start your Coptic Tour, you will start with the Hanging Church, (The Church of the Virgin Mary), built into the walls of the Water Gate of the Roman fortress. It is possibly the oldest Christian church in Egypt, dating to around the 4th Century.
Then you will visit the Church of St. Sergius, (Abu Serga), which legend has it is built atop one of the sites the place the Holy Family rested on their flight from Herod.
Continuing on this path brings one first to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is Egypt’s oldest and dates to the 9th Century. After finishing this wonderful and memorable tour, you will get back to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Lunch
Day 09: Cairo Int. Airport – Final Departure
Check out after breakfast. Our representative will pick you up. Transfer to Cairo international airport for final departure.
Meals Included
Breakfast
Tour Inclusions
Includes
- 5* hotel in Cairo for 6 nights
- 5* hotel in Luxor for 1 night
- 5* hotel in Aswan for 1 night
- Plane
- Private Air-Conditioned Vehicle
- Horse carriage at Edfu
- Taftaf at Valley of the Kings
- Motor Boat to Philae Island
- 8 breakfasts, 7 lunches
- Domestic Flight Tickets (Cairo-Luxor & Aswan-Cairo)
- All sightseeing tours in Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Aswan, and Abu Simbel & Alexandria
- English Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to all sites as stated on the itinerary
- All transfers by a modern air-conditioned vehicle
- Sightseeing tour to Abu Simbel by a modern air-conditioned bus
- Portage when needed
- All service charges and taxes
Exclude
- International Airfare.
- Entry visa to Egypt.
- Any optional tours.
- Personal Spending.
- Tipping
Tour Gallery
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