New Year Egypt With Nile Cruise

You will arrive at Cairo Airport and our company representative will be waiting for you to take you to the hotel in a private air-conditioned car.

• Dinner Time

After resting at the hotel, you can have dinner on a cruise down the Nile amidst songs, enjoying dancing and folk arts, and then return to the hotel to spend the night.

Early in the morning, you will eat breakfast and prepare with your private tour guide to move in a private air-conditioned car to the pyramids area to discover one of the seven wonders of the world:

• Giza Pyramids

The Pyramids of Giza are the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and are still the largest man-made structures in the world. They were built over a period of 20 years, beginning around 2560 BC, by the pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.

• The Great Sphinx

The Sphinx was builted by the ancient Egyptians as a guardian and protector overlooking the Giza Plateau, and the Sphinx was, as all the monuments of the Pharaonic era in Egypt. There is no doubt that the Sphinx makes you ask more than one question, and here we will explain everything related to the Sphinx.

• Lunch Time

Have lunch in one of the wonderful restaurants and then continue your enjoyable tour.

• The Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian Museum of Cairo is located in the center of the city, in Tahrir Square, in a neoclassical building designed by Marcel Dourgnon and opened in 1902. At the time of opening to the public had about 12,000 pieces, a fund that over the years grew significantly to reach today a figure close to 150,000 artifacts.

Finally, Travel to Aswan by sleeping train and enjoy dinner in your designated compartment on the train.

After arriving in Aswan and checking into the hotel, you will visit:

• The High Dam

The Aswan Dam, Egypt, is one of the most important engineering mega constructions of the 20th century. It was built to alleviate the annual floods and occasional droughts experienced by Egypt. It was built on January 11, 1960, and completed on July 21, 1970.

• The Unfinished Obelisk

The unfinished obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh of Egypt, is located in the granite quarries in Aswan in Egypt, where the pharaohs quarried blocks for the construction of temples, statues, obelisks, and pyramids. The interest of the site, the granite quarries, focuses on the area of the gigantic block of stone in the quarry, the unfinished obelisk of Hatshepsut, cut on all sides but one, three of its faces are separated.

• Philae Temple

The temple was rearranged on the island of Agilkia, which was on the island of Elephantine. The building of this temple consists of the mamisi, which is located in the middle, and the mobile one behind it. There are also two towers to the north and south. To the left of the small edifice is the main temple of the goddess Isis.

Finally, we drive you back to your hotel to spend the overnight.

Have breakfast at the hotel and then move with the guide to discover the most famous tourist attractions in Aswan:

• Abu Simbel Temples

Abu Simbel Temples is one of the jewels of Egypt, a huge sanctuary dedicated to the pharaoh Ramses II, which has ensured that the name of this Egyptian monarch has endured for more than 3,000 years. Although the Temple of Ramses is the best known of Abu Simbel Temples.

• Lunch Time

Have lunch in one of the restaurants overlooking the Nile River.

• Nile Cruise

Register for a fun Nile cruise and enjoy the peace and comfort.

Breakfast on board the Nile Cruise After breakfast, head to:

• Temple of Kom Ombo

The Temple of Kom Ombo was built in the Greco-Roman period from 205 to 180 BC at the time of King Ptolemy V with later additions during the Roman period. It is divided into two temples with two entrances, two hypostyle halls and two sanctuaries. It was dedicated to the god Sobek (the crocodile god) and the god ''Hor-wer'' which means Horus the great.

• Lunch Time

Have lunch in one of the restaurants overlooking the Nile River.

Finally, Back to onboard the Cruise spend the night and enjoy onboard disco.

It's a fun horse-drawn carriage ride to:

• The Temple of Edfu    

The Temple of Edfu is considered the best preserved temple of the Greco-Roman period in Egypt. On the walls of this temple we can see the scenes of the myth of the god Horus and how he defeated the god Set (the god of evil in ancient Egypt) when he avenged the murder of Osiris (the father of Horus).

• Lunch Time

Have lunch in one of the restaurants overlooking the Nile River.

Finally, Have dinner and take a rest.

Have your last breakfast on board To start your journey in Luxor:

• Valley of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings is located in the city of Luxor, on the West of the Nile River. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This large necropolis, near Luxor, contains more than 60 tombs of pharaohs and nobles of the New Kingdom, one of the most prosperous periods in the history of ancient Egypt.
Among the finds are the chambers of Tutankhamun, Seti I, and Ramses II. It even has an analog of the wives and relatives of the pharaohs, called the Valley of the Queens.

• Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut The funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, known as Deir el Bahari, name meaning "monastery of the north" and designed by its architect in the royal court, Senenmut, is "the wonder of wonders" of ancient Egypt: it stands on the west bank of the Nile and is partially excavated in the mountain behind which lies the Valley of the Kings.

• Colossi of Memnon

The Colossi of Memnon are twin statues representing Amenhotep III in a seated position. His hands rest on his knees and his gaze is directed towards the east, in the direction of the Nile River and the rising sun. The statues are carved in blocks of quartzite, brought especially from Giza and the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila, north of Aswan, including the stone bases.

• Lunch Time

Have lunch in one of the restaurants.

• Karnak Temple

The oldest structures at Karnak come from the Middle Empire: the white chapel of Sesostris I (1965-1920 BC), reconstructed in the open-air museum, and the foundations of what was the most sacred part of the 12th dynasty temple of Amun in the sanctuary of the sacred boat and the Courtyard of the Middle Empire (behind the sixth pylon).

You will have breakfast on the train and upon arrival your trip in Egypt will end and you will return to your home country with the most wonderful memories during your New Year's vacation.