Day One
Friday - Departure

• Depart the U.S. to Egypt.

Overnight: Flight

• Arrive at Cairo International Airport.
• Welcome by our representative and assistance with arrival formalities.
• Transfer to the hotel and check in. (Transfer from airport to hotel is included.)
• Dinner at the hotel.

Overnight: Cairo

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Visit to the famous Cairo Museum.
• Visit to the Ibn Ezra Synagogue where the Cairo Geniza was discovered, uncovering Jewish scripts written between the ninth and nineteenth centuries.
• Visit the Mualka Church and the Coptic Church and Museum.
• Visit to either the Ibn Tulun Synagogue or the Sultan Hassan Synagogue.
• Dinner at a restaurant.

Overnight: Cairo

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel and depart for airport and early departure flight from Cairo to Luxor, considered the world's greatest open air museum, with magnificent ruins of monuments, temples and tombs.
• Arrive in Luxor and check in to cruise ship.
• Lunch aboard the cruise ship.
• Visit to the Karnak Temple.
• Visit the West Bank, the Valley of the Kings and Queens, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahary and the Colossi of Memnon.
• Visit the Luxor Temple.
• Afternoon tea on board.
• Dinner on board, followed by belly dancer performance.

Overnight: Cruise

• Sail to Esna.
• Breakfast on cruise ship.
• Lunch and afternoon tea on board.
• Captain's welcome cocktail party.
• Dinner on board.
• Evening: Disco on board.
  

Overnight: Cruise

• Breakfast on cruise ship.
• Morning at leisure.
• Lunch.
• Afternoon: Visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu.
• Return to the ship for afternoon tea and sail to Kom Ombo.
• Dinner and galabiya party on board.

Overnight: Cruise

• Breakfast on cruise ship.
• Visit the temple shared by the two goddesses, Sobek and Haroeis, in Kom Ombo.
• Visit the High Dam, the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae.
• Sail in a felucca on the Nile around Kitchener's Island and the Agha Khan Mausoleum.
• Afternoon tea on board.
• Dinner on board.
• Evening: Nubian folklore show.

Overnight: Cruise

• Breakfast on cruise ship.
• Check out and disembarkation.
• Flight from Aswan to Cairo for a day at leisure.

OR

• Optional tour to Abu Simbel to view the four 65-foot figures guarding the Temple of Ramses II. (Flight: Aswan-Abu Simbel-Cairo)
• Return to Cairo.
  

Overnight: Cairo

• Early breakfast at hotel.
• Morning tour of the necropolis of Sakkara (City of the Dead), home of Egypt's oldest pyramid, and to Egypt's ancient capital, Memphis, including the statue of Ramses II and the Zoser Pyramid.
• Visit to the Giza and Cheops Pyramids, as well as the Solar Boat Museum, located near the pyramids, and the Sphinx.
• Dinner on own.

Overnight: Cairo

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Depart for the Cairo Airport.
• Transfer to airport for flight home. (Transfer is included from hotel to the airport. Please allow a minimum of two hours for check-in.)
• Flight back to the U.S.