Cairo and Luxor Short Breaks Holiday and Travel Pa...

Arrive at Cairo Airport where Tour Egypt  Travel® representative will meet, greet and assist you. Then transfer to your hotel. Our Egyptologist tour guide will provide you with a short brief about your Ancient Egypt tour itinerary along the way to the hotel. Arrive at your hotel to check in and have an overnight. 

Overnight: a Cairo hotel

After having breakfast in the hotel, Tour Egypt Travel® private Egyptologist tour guide will pick up in the morning by a luxury air-conditioned vehicle to pay a visit Giza Necropolis that contains the Great Pyramids of Giza. Stand before the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), along with the smaller pyramids of Khafre (Chephren) and Menkaure (Micerinus) as well as the Great Sphinx of Giza guarding Khafre Pyramid. The tour includes a visit to the granite temple beside Sphinx known as Temple Valley. Enjoy lunch at a local Egyptian restaurant. After lunch-time, move to visit one of the oldest museums in the world, the Egyptian Museum so as to have an unforgettable tour among the unique pharaonic masterpieces. Move from the museum to Old Cairo so as to the Islamic Saladin Citadel of Cairo and the famous alabaster mosque of Mohamed Ali. Take lunch in a local restaurant after which you will visit Old Cairo Islamic areas. From Islamic to Coptic areas where you see the Hanging Church then Ben Ezra Synagogue (also El-Geniza Synagogue or Synagogue of the Palestinians) which is considered to be among the Jewish heritage in Egypt. Eventually, have a shopping opportunity in one of the oldest bazaars in the Middle East, Khan El Khalili built in 1382. At the end of this majestic day tour, transfer to Giza Railway Station; take your sleeper train to Luxor where dinner will be provided and have an overnight.

Overnight: Sleeper train

Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Tour Egypt Travel® Private Egyptologist tour guide will take you to a full awe-inspiring day tour by a private air-condition vehicle. Today you will discover the west bank of Luxor by visiting the Valley of the Kings where powerful and noble Pharaohs were buried. Then move beneath Deir el Bahari to visit Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, one of the Egyptian incomparable monuments. On the way back to Luxor east bank you will visit the Colossi of Memnon, a twin statues depict Amenhotep III. Lunch will be served in a quality Egyptian restaurant. After lunch-time, visit the Temple of Karnak, the greatest example of worship in history built as a dedication to Amon. Then move to the Temple of Luxor built by Amunhotep III during the 18th Dynasty. By evening, you will be transferred to Luxor Railway Station to catch your sleeper train back to Cairo. Dinner will be served on board where you will have an overnight.

Overnight: sleeper train

Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Have breakfast on board. Upon arrival, your tour manger will meet and assist you in Giza Railway Station to travel from Cairo to Alexandria by a private air-conditioned vehicle for approximately 3 hours for around 250 Kilometers to Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt. Take a tour among Montaza Palace grounds/gardens overlooking the Mediterranean Sea then move to Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library of Alexandria). From the library, go to the historical archaeological site Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa and Pompey's Pillar (column) which is one of the best known monuments in Alexandria. At the end of this tour day in the Pearl of the Mediterranean, you will transfer back to Cairo to have an overnight in one of Cairo hotels.

Overnight: a Cairo hotel

Meals: breakfast, and lunch

After check-out, you will be transferred by your tour manger to take you to Cairo International Airport to catch a flight back home.

Meals: breakfast