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Details

Itinerary focusClassic Highlights

Group sizeStandard Group - 25 + people

Age rangeNo age restrictions

Flights and transportAll internal transport included (including local flights)

Start CityEgypt

End CityCairo

Travel Themes

Cultural
Nature & Wildlife
National Parks
Small Ship Cruise

Destinations

Egypt

Activities

Culture
Historic Sightseeing
History
Nature
River Cruise

Trip includes

Round-trip airfare from New York (JFK)
Airfare taxes, fees & fuel surcharges
Accommodations at deluxe hotels and cruise ship.
17 meals: 8 breakfasts (B), 4 lunches (L), 5 dinners (D)
Comprehensive sightseeing tours and entry fees
Experienced English-speaking Tour Director throughout
Transportation in an air conditioned bus

Itinerary

Day 1: Depart USA

Your fascinating journey to Egypt begins today with an overnight flight to Cairo.

Day 2: Arrive Cairo

Meals: Dinner Accommodation: Cairo Marriott Hotel Welcome to Cairo, both Egypt’s capital and its largest city! Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport, you will be met and assisted through customs and formalities, then transferred to your hotel. After some time at leisure, enjoy a welcome dinner!

Day 3: Cairo

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch After breakfast, visit the Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Built during the Third and Fourth Dynasties, these monumental undertakings stand as a marvelous testimony to the almost unbelievable skill and determi...

Day 4: Cairo/Aswan/Nile Cruise

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Accommodation: Movenpick Royal Lily Today, fly south from Cairo to Aswan. Upon arrival, transfer to your Nile cruise ship for your three-night cruise from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt. The Nile is one of the few rivers in the world wh...

Day 5: Nile Cruise: Kom Ombo/Edfu

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Today, sail to Kom Ombo to see the Ptolomaic Temple built for Horus the falcon god, and Sobek the crocodile god. The temple complex consists mainly of two temples running parallel with the traditional components of ancient Egyptian re...

Day 6: Nile Cruise: Edfu/Luxor

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner This morning, you’ll visit the Horus Temple in Edfu, the largest and most completely preserved Pharaonic, albeit Greek-built, temple in Egypt. Construction began on this extraordinary temple in 237 BC and was completed nearly 200 year...

Day 7: Luxor

Meals: Breakfast Accommodation: Sonesta St. George Luxor After breakfast, disembark the cruise and visit the West Bank of the Nile. Visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the second confirmed female Pharaoh of Egypt. Hatshepsut is generally thought of as one of the mo...

Day 8: Luxor

Meals: Breakfast This morning visit the ancient Temples of Karnak and Luxor. Built over several centuries by Amenhopis III, Tutankhamun, Ramses II and Alexander the Great, Luxor Temple is a graceful piece of architecture preceded by an avenue of sphinxes. Afterwards pr...

Day 9: Luxor/Cairo

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner Accommodation: Fairmont Nile City This morning, fly to Cairo. Arrive in Cairo and transfer to your hotel. This afternoon, visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, which houses the world’s largest collection of artifacts from the era of th...

Day 10: Cairo/USA

Meals: Breakfast Today, you will be transferred to the airport for your return flight.

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Dates & Availability

Price From $2,299

Price per day$230

Single supplement (single occupancy)$429

Last Updated: 4/17/2019

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Patricia

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amazing to see

Our Egyptologist guide, Dina, was a marvel. She enthused the entire trip with her knowledge and love of country. The trip exceeded my expectations, with the exceptio...

Donna

Mar 2020

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Loved the tour

Loved the tour, the guides, the hotels, the cruise ship & the food!! Great...

Marsha

Mar 2020

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another great experience with smarTours

"The Splendors of Egypt" was our eleventh SmarTorus trip. As usual, it was an incredible experience. We can't say enough about our tour guide, Soha. Besides being an...

Mar 2020

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great experience

Our trip to Egypt with Smart Tours was great. We traveled with a terrific group of well traveled people ranging in age from the 20s to the 80s! I'd be happy to see a...

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