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Cheap Egypt Holiday to Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel 11 Days with Sleeping Train Sightseeing & Tour Guided

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Egypt

Flight:

Not included

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Tour id:

144076

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  • Operator:

    Egypt Direct Tours

  • Length:

    11 days

  • Group size:

    15 pax

  • Age:

    16 to 85

  • Difficulty:

    Difficulty levels:
    • Relaxing
    • Easy
    • Moderate
    • Serious
    • Heart-pumping
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Road to Egypt, spend an unforgettable vacation in 11 days, this tour allows you to discover the pharaonic history, where will watch the landmark from the city of Cairo -Luxor to Aswan, enjoy your time with a private professional guide who will explain to you all sites and will reply to your questions, sail aboard a cruise, as it gently plies the Nile, explore The Valley of the Kings. also, will enjoy the sleeping train and you will have time to watch Egyptian life when you pass on every city during your journey from Cairo to Luxor and Aswan.

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We are currently offering up to 50% savings on this adventure for departures up to December 2026. You have one free amendment on either the departure date, or to switch to another Egypt Best Holidays adventure (you will pay the price difference if applicable). Amendments can be made up to 55 days before your departure date. After an amendment fee would apply. All our tours include a FREE transfer from either Luxor Airport, local railway station, or hotels at the beginning and end of your adventure with us. Your well-being is our priority, and we ensure health and safety measures are in place for your peace of mind.

Tipping in Egypt 

Despite how commonplace tipping is in Egypt, it can still seem confusing to understand how much to tip for which services. Though common advice says to tip 10 percent to 15 percent of your total tour budget, it may not always be obvious how much to tip for a service — or even when to tip at all.

How much to tip while traveling?

  • Driver: 2-3$ per day per couple
  • Guide: 5-6 $ per day per couple
  • Cruise ship: 3 $ per person per night. 

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Tour program

Day 1

Arrival to Cairo International Airport

Arrive at Cairo International Airport, meet and assist by your representative-, transfer by deluxe private car to your hotel, check in, and overnight at the hotel. 

Meal plan: N/A

Good to Know:

  • Check-in time at the hotel in Cairo at 14:00
  • Early Check-In is subject to availability 

Arrival & departure instructions

Are the pickup and drop-off available all day?

Yes the pickup and drop off is available 24 hours a week (24/7)

How can find your representative at Cairo Airport?

When you arrive at Cairo Airport after collecting your luggage, and stamping your passports, please proceed to the exit door, our driver - representative, will wait for you with the welcoming board.

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Start point

Cairo International Airport (CAI), Airport Rd, Al Shorouk, Al Qahirah 11, Egypt

00:00 - 00:00

Breakfast at your hotel and Starting at 9:00 am meet your guide in the hotel lobby to Start your full-day tour visiting the Giza Pyramids where you will visit the Great Pyramids - Cheops, Chephren & Mykerinos then Visit the Valley Temple where the Priests Mummified the dead body of King Chephren Also there you will have a close-up look at The Sphinx - The legendary guardian that stands by the huge funeral complex with its lion body and the head of king Chephren. (2:30 hrs time Spent) Lunch is included in between visits at Local restaurants based on a Full Meal for each Person but Beverages are not included (1 Hr time Spent) Then Visit Sakkara, located only 27 km southwest away from Cairo. Visit the Step Pyramid (Built for King Zoser), it is considered an important part of the process of the pyramid evolution, which was made from the simple mastaba to its widely known form. (2 hrs Time Spent) At the end of the Tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Meal plan: Breakfast-Lunch

Duration of the tour from 9:00 Am to 4:00 Pm

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Optional excursion to add

Half-day tour to the city of Memphis

Breakfast and at 9:00 Am will be meeting your guide at the hotel lobby and start your full-day tour by visiting the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. It displays the largest and most precious items of Egyptian art in the world.

It exhibits a rare collection of over 250,000 genuine artifacts that date as far back as 5000 years, including an exclusive exhibit dedicated to Tutankhamen - A collection of treasures, gold, and jewelry that were buried in his tomb for over 3,500 years before they were discovered in the 1920s when his tomb was excavated. Lunch between the visit to a local Egyptian restaurant.

continue your visit to the Citadel it was fortified by the Ayyubid ruler Salah al-Din (Saladin) between 1176 and 1183 CE, to protect it from the Crusaders.[1] Only a few years after defeating the Fatimid Caliphate, Saladin set out to build a wall that would surround both Cairo and Fustat, then we will move to visit the Coptic area where you can see the church of Abu-Sergah and ST, Barbara, the hanging church, the old Jewish synagogue-Ben Ezra.

Return to your hotel (maybe be hotel will change, is subject to availability) have a shower, and prepare your luggage to be ready around 6:30 P.m. to drop you at Giza Railways Station to ride the sleeping train to Luxor (Approximately 12 Hours).

Meal plan: Breakfast-Lunch

Duration of the tour from 9:00 Am to 4:00 Pm

How can book your train tickets

Option 1: we can buy a ticket for you (a photocopy of your passport is required)

Option 2: Can book a ticket online (we will notify an online link)

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Arrival at Luxor Railways station approximately at 6:30 Am, meet and assist you by Our representative, then transfer you to 5 Stars Nile Cruise for Embarkation (noon midday) lunch at 1:00 P.m., after lunch, at 2:00 P.m. will meet your guide and start your tour by visiting The East bank of Luxor where you will visit Karnak and Luxor Temples, return to the cruise, Dinner on Board, overnight Luxor

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Important questions:

1- When do I have to stop & drop off from the train?

Have to stop In Luxor RailWays

2- What time does the train arrive at Luxor station?

Supposed to arrive at 6:05 Am but sometimes delay 

3-How can I find my guide or representative?

When you arrive at Luxor railways, have to disembark from the train and will find your representative holding a welcome board and waiting for you in the front of the station.

Good to know

  • If you will arrive early at Luxor Railways, you will start a tour and then return to Cruise for embarkation.
  • Embarkation time on Cruise around noon Midday
  • Early embarkation is subject to availability.
  • Lunch onboard around 1:00 Pm
  • Dinner onboard around 8:00 Pm

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Breakfast around 7:00 Am, and at 8:00 Am you will be meeting your guide and starting your day by visiting the west bank of Luxor, the great Valley of the Kings where generations of pharaohs & Nobles were buried in splendid crypts cut into the cliffs and guarded by the huge colossi of Memnon. You will then visit the temple of Queen Hatchepsut., return to the cruise, lunch at 1:00 P.m. at 2:00 pm sailing time (Cruise sailing from Luxor City to Essna City) around 8:00 P.m. cruise ship crossing lock and sailing to Edfu City. overnight on board in Edfu 

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Optional 

Hot air balloon (extra supplement) 

Good to Know

  • Breakfast around 7:00 Am
  • Lunch onboard around 1:00 Pm
  • Tea time around 4:00 Pm
  • Dinner onboard around 8:00 Pm

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Breakfast at 7:00 Am, and at 8:00 Am pick a time to visit Edfu, you will discover the huge temple dedicated to the god Horus by horse carriage and tour it with your guide, return around 10:00 Am, sailing from Edfu city to Kom Ombo city, 1:00 Pm lunchtime, 5:00 Pm pick up time to visit the magnificent unusual double temple dedicated to the god Sobek and the god Haroeris. at 7:00 Pm will return to the cruise, Sailing time from Kom Ombo city to Aswan City, dinner at 8:00 Pm, arrive in Aswan city around 11:00 Pm overnight in Aswan,

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Good to Know

  • Breakfast at 7:00 Am 
  • Lunch at 1:00 Pm 
  • Dinner at 8:00 Pm 
  • Galabia party at 9:00 Pm

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Early breakfast (Breakfast box) and will meet your guide around  3:30 Am to move by sharing an A/C bus to cross 350 K/M to Visit the Temple of Abu Simbel and return at noon to your Nile River cruise, will have lunch on board and Dinner, overnight. 

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner)

Good to know:

Moving time from Aswan to Abu Simbel is around 3:30 Am This is according to the instructions of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

Comfortable shoes are required

Sun hat is required

Comfortable clothes 

Disembarkation from the Nile River cruise after breakfast and start your day by visiting a high dam, unfinished obelisk, and Phila Island, In the afternoon will have your lunch at a local restaurant and transfer to Aswan Railways to join a sleeping train overnight. 

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch).

Arrival at Giza Railways, the train arrives around 6:00 Am, meet and assist you your representative, then transfer to your hotel, have a relaxing time and a free day

Meal’sMeal plan: Breakfast ( is served on the train  )

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Important questions:

1- When do I have to stop & drop off from the train?

Have to stop In Giza RailWays

2- What time does the train arrive at Giza station?

Supposed to arrive at 6:00 Am but sometimes delay 

3-How can I find my driver or representative?

When you arrive at Luxor railways, have to disembark from the train and will find your representative holding a welcome board and waiting for you in the front of the station.

Note

  • After a long trip by train, we have to give our travelers rest and relax to continue their tour.
  • Check-in time at the hotel in Cairo at 14:00
  • Early Check-In is subject to availability  

After breakfast, around 9:00 Am Start your private day tour to visit Ibn-Tulun Mosque was commissioned by Ahmad ibn Ţūlūn, the Abbassid governor of Egypt from 868–884 whose rule was characterized by de facto independence. The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque's construction start date as 876 AD and the mosque's original inscription slab identifies the date of completion as 265 AH or 879 AD. 

Continue to visit the innovative architectural components. Commissioned by a sultan of a short and relatively unimpressive profile, al-Maqrizi noted that within the mosque were several "wonders of construction". The mosque was, for example, designed to include schools for all four of the Sunni schools of thought: Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanafi, the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and Madrassa located near the Citadel in Cairo. Its construction began in 757 AH/1356 CE with work ending three years later "without even a single day of idleness". At the time of construction, the mosque was considered remarkable for its fantastic size and Hanbali. Return to your hotel.

Meal plan: (Breakfast-Lunch).

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Optional excursion to add

Moaz street & Azhar park 

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Breakfast at your hotel and your representative will meet you at the hotel lobby, will help you check out, and then will transfer you by deluxe cart to Cairo International Airport for the final Departure. 

Meal plan: (Breakfast)

Note:

If you have an early flight we will prepare a breakfast box.

Standard check out check-out from the hotel is 12noon:00 midday

Late check-out is subject to availability and is maximum till 2:00 Pm

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End point

Cairo International Airport (CAI), Airport Rd, Al Shorouk, Al Qahirah 11, Egypt

00:00 - 00:00

Tour Details

Accommodation

04 nights accommodation at 4 stars hotel (Barcelo Cairo Pyramids - Swiss Inn golf or Similar) with free WIFI

04- nights accommodation at 5 stars Nile River Cruise ( Ms/ Royal Beau Rivage -Royal Elite -Champllion or Similar)

Be aware that all accommodations are subject to availability and can be changed up to 2 weeks before the departure date. Egypt Direct Tours guarantees a similar standard of hotels and Nile River cruise, Final accommodation details will be provided to you with your finalized travel documents.

  • All transportation is by professional, experienced drivers.
  • All transportation by deluxe car-coach-minivan or Bus.
  • Free Pick-up from Cairo  International Airport  
  • Motorboat
  •  Hantour   
  • Drop off at Cairo International Airport  
  • Transfer to Railways and drop off 

International Flight tickets

  • 4 nights’ accommodation in Cairo with breakfast (open buffet)
  • 4 nights’ accommodation Nile Cruise  in Luxor-Aswan with breakfast-lunch-dinner
  • Professional Egyptologist guide
  •  Hotel pickup and drop off in Cairo
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off in Luxor-Aswan.
  • Lunch through the tour
  • Beverages
  •  Visa Entry
  • Gratuities (recommended)
  • International flight tickets
  • Entrance fees are excluded and good to know that the whole entrance fee is about 170 U$ per person.
  • Train tickets Cairo/Luxor/Aswan/Cairo

•Daily Breakfast at the hotel (Served buffet).

•Lunch in Cairo  will be at a local restaurant throughout the tour and will include (Grilled Chicken-Koftaa-rice-salads)

•Lunch & dinner  in Luxor will be on board and an open buffet

•Lunch in Aswan will be including ((Grilled Chicken-Koftaa-rice-salads)

8 Breakfasts.

8 Lunch

 4 Dinner

2 light dinner at the sleeping train

2 breakfast at the sleeping train

Private tour guides show you around attractions such as historic monuments, cultural centers, and beauty spots, and provide them with background information to help them make the most of their visit. 

Typical responsibilities include:

  • undertaking research and planning tours
  • preparing and giving presentations
  • offering sightseeing advice according to the tour itinerary. 
  • organizing and leading excursions
  • problem-solving
  • translating and interpreting

Good to know

Currency

EGP

Egyptian Pound

Egypt

Customer reviews

Overall

4.8

Itinerary

4.7

Guide

4.8

Transport

4.7

Accommodation

4.8

Food

4.5

Operator

4.7

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How can I book a tour?
You can order a tour on our website by selecting the desired dates and clicking the “Confirm dates” button. You can also contact our sales department by phone or email.
Which payment options are available?
We accept credit cards, bank transfers and other popular payment methods.
Can I change or cancel my reservation?
Yes, changes or cancellations are possible, however penalties may apply depending on the time before the tour starts.
What documents are required to participate in the tour?
You will need a passport with a valid visa (if required) to visit countries along the tour route.
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