9 Day All Inclusive Egypt Cruise & Tour

Our journey begins as we board our overnight connecting flight to Cairo. Meals served on board.

Upon arrival in Cairo we travel to our hotel, where we enjoy dinner and retire for our first night in Egypt.

This morning after breakfast we return to the airport and board our flight to Luxor, where upon arrival we meet our guide to our cruise ship. We visit the Luxor Temple on the bank of the Nile (dating back to 1400 BCE) and the complex of temples at Karnak, including Amun Temple, the largest columnar structure ever raised and the largest religious building ever made.

We continue our exploration amid massive columns and inscrutable statues at Luxor's fertility shrine of the sun god. Horse-drawn caleches take us to the Avenue of the Sphinxes and Karnak's colossal wonders. We finish the day dining aboard as we sail across the sunset.

After breakfast, a ferry boat takes us across the river to the West Bank of the Nile to visit the fabled 60-foot Colossi of Memnon. We continue to the mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s only female pharaoh. Next we visit the Valley of the Kings, where we step from a dramatic landscape of sun, sand, and rugged mountain peaks into the dark silence of some of the sixty-four tombs discovered here to date. We return to our cruise ship for lunch.

Threading through the Esna Locks, we go ashore at Esna to visit the ornately hewn Temple of Khnum with its gracious, colonnaded vestibule. We then return to the ship where we enjoy dinner as we sail to Edfu.

This morning we explore the birth house at the Temple of Horus. In the afternoon we continue cruising the Nile, enjoying the poolside facilities of our luxurious barge en route to Kom Ombo. In the 2nd-century BC town of Kom Ombo, we see the spectacular temple dedicated to Horus the sun god and Sobek the crocodile god. Tonight, we enjoy dinner aboard, followed by a lively Galabeya (traditional Egyptian gown) party.

This morning we sail to Aswan and see the Aswan High Dam, one of the world’s largest embankment dams. We then head for the quarries of ancient Thebes and have a chance to walk on the Unfinished Obelisk, the largest known ancient obelisk.

After a relaxing lunch on board, we take a sailboat cruise to Elephantine Island and the Aga Khan’s mausoleum. Here the tombs reveal the colossal space concepts of the early Memphis architects. We have dinner aboard the ship.

This morning we are at leisure before we leave our cruise ship and head to the airport for our flight to Cairo. Upon arrival we travel to our hotel for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, we begin our tour by visiting the Pyramids of Giza, built in the 3rd dynasty in approximately 2690 BC. The Great Pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the most intact. In front of the Pyramids we find the Sphinx; carved from a single piece of stone, this colossal creature incorporates a lion with a pharaoh’s head, thought to be a portrait of the Pharaoh Chephren. We also enjoy a camel ride before visiting the Papyrus Institute.

In the afternoon we visit the famous Egyptian Museum and its many antiquities from Egypt’s Pharaonic Era, dating back some 50 centuries and including the fabulous treasures of King Tutankhamen. We then return to our hotel for dinner.

This morning we begin our journey home, reveling in our unforgettable experiences in Egypt. Our hearts are full; we walked in the lands of the Bible, and we will never be the same (Numbers 6:24–26).

Today we visit Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt. Founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, Alexandria was the capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt. We explore the catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa and the Hall of Caracalla. We see the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, once the tallest buildings in the world in 279 BC. We finish the day at the famous Library of Alexandria, where a copy of every published book in the world is kept, making it one of the world’s greatest literary sites. We return to our hotel in Cairo for dinner and overnight.

This morning we drive to Memphis to see the Colossus of Ramses and the Sphinx of Memphis (an alabaster statue lasting 3.5 millennia and weighing 90 tons!). Next we visit the step pyramid at Saqqara, Egypt’s oldest pyramid at 4,700 years old, then on to the Imhotep Museum. We return to our hotel with time to relax or explore the area on our own before dinner and overnight.

This morning we begin our journey home, rejoicing in our unforgettable experiences in Egypt. Our hearts are full; we walked in the lands of the Bible, and we will never be the same (Numbers 6:24–26).