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Nile River Cruises in Egypt | Nile Cruise Egypt

If you are planning to visit Egypt, you should consider adding Nile River cruises in Egypt to your bucket list, as it is a unique experience during trips to Egypt that is not comparable to anything else to do in Egypt.

Egypt Nile River cruises are one of the classic tours in Egypt, which all travelers would like to sail on the Nile River during Christmas tours in Egypt or with the best weather during Easter tours in Egypt.

Covering most of the day trips to Luxor in addition to the trips to Aswan, that is why Nile cruises through Egypt are destined to be the best tours in Egypt for those seeking culture, Egyptian history, and luxury accommodation while sailing through the Nile Valley.

Along the Nile, the east and west banks of the Nile River are filled with archaeological sites, monuments, and temples. Huge pillars flank the enormous temples with their amazing statues of the kings and pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

Luxor City, the Largest Open-Air Museum

Luxor is undoubtedly the richest place where you can find almost 1/3 of the world's monuments, making it an open-air museum. The Temple of Luxor, one of the most interesting temples built during the New Kingdom by King Amenhotep III, but King Ramses II and the golden king Tutankhamun added many additions.

Karnak Temple and the Avenue of the Sphinxes

The Temple of Karnak, which is separated from the Temple of Luxor by a passage flanked by sphinxes and known as the Avenue of the Sphinxes, is as big as a small town when viewed from above while taking a hot air balloon ride in Luxor. The temple was dedicated to the triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonso, Egyptian deities who had been worshipped among numerous gods and goddesses of the ancient Egyptian religion.

Luxor West Bank Attractions

Not far away, on the other side of the Nile (West Bank), are the colossal statues of King Amenhotep III known as the Colossi of Memnon, gigantic seated statues of the king that are not very well preserved.

Queen Hatshepsut's Temple of Deir El-Bahari at the foot of the mountain reflects how great and powerful this queen was, considering that 3,480 years ago, an entire empire was ruled by a woman.

Valley of the Kings and Deir El-Madina

The Valley of the Kings is a royal necropolis that replaces the kings of the New Kingdom, in addition to the enormous pyramids that were built during the Old Kingdom, such as the great pyramid of King Cheops, the pyramids of Chephren and Mycerinus in the Giza necropolis. Kings such as Tutankhamun used highly skilled laborers and craftsmen to cut their burial tombs through the lower part of the mountain to prevent them from being robbed, and the area also has a city for the craftsmen who lived and were buried in the place known as Deir El-Madina.

The Temple of Horus and the Temple of Sobek

Other temples between Luxor and Aswan, such as the temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated to the local crocodile god Sobek, and the temple of the falcon god Horus in Edfu, are great examples of the importance of religion to the ancient Egyptians, even after Egypt had been conquered by Alexander the Great, who is the founder of the city of Alexandria. Alexander the Great, who is the founder of the city of Alexandria, had to prove his loyalty to the Egyptian gods in order to gain respect and be welcomed by the ancient Egyptians, so he visited the Temple of the Oracle in the Siwa Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert to secure his divinity by the god Amun-Ra. The excursion to the Siwa Oasis from Cairo can be easily arranged with Cairo Top Tours.

Types of Nile Cruises in Egypt

There are two types of Nile cruises in Egypt, a 5-day Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan and a 4-day Nile River cruise from Aswan to Luxor.
The cruise from Aswan to Luxor on the Nile usually departs on Fridays, while cruises from Luxor to Aswan on the Nile start every Monday.