Explore Egypt Private Tour. Cairo, Alexandria, Luxury Nile Cruise.

Explore Egypt Private Tour.

Explore the secrets of the Ancient World. Imagine stepping out of your air-conditioned van and stepping onto stone that were place there over 4000 years ago! Imagine cruising the Nile and leaving your beautiful room for the top deck where you can sunbathe by the pool like Cleopatra and Mark Antony, watching the fresh beautiful Nile flow by.

Amazing Global Travel will give you the keys to deciphering the secrets of this beautiful land and give you the journey that will take you back thousands of years. Amazing Global Travel will customize a complete private tour for you. If you are by yourself or with a group of 100 you will get the same amazing service and customization.

You will travel with your very own Egyptologist private tour guide, who will take you through the ruins of a civilization long gone, but show you how they lived, what they believed and explain the images on the temples, tombs, and secret chambers.

You will stay at the best luxury hotels: Four Seasons Cairo with a view of the Nile, the Royal Family Winter Palace in Luxor on the Nile, and the Luxury Cruise ship. When you step out of your pampered hotel you will take in the wealth of ancient Egypt and its treasures.

Itinerary

Day 1- Arrival Meet and Assist.

Arrive to Cairo International Airport, you will be met by our representative who will assist you to get your visa, then will escort you through immigration, luggage, and on to your air-conditioned bus for the Le Meridian Pyramid, Pyramid View room.

Day 2- Saqqara, Memphis, Giza.

After breakfast you will meet your guide in the lobby and start your tour to the great pyramids of Giza, you will take a camel ride into the desert with amazing pictures of the pyramids behind you (voluntary of course), we will see the sphinx and boat museum. Then a drive to what is left of the ancient capital of Egypt: Memphis where we will see the statue written about by the poets Shelley and Smith called Ozymandias. We will also see a huge sphinx made entirely of alabaster. Then we will head to Saqqara for the first pyramid built by the architect Imhotep called the Step Pyramid, we will explore its underground hidden chambers, visit the pyramid of Unas, and a mastaba of one of the noblemen. After this full day we will return to Le Meridian Pyramids, Pyramid view room. Meals B & D.

Day 3- Visit the Egyptian Museum and Old Cairo.

Cairo. After breakfast this morning we will head to the Egyptian museum with the largest collection of exclusively Egyptian artifacts including the gold and golden mask of King Tut. We will also visit the royal mummy room with all the ancient pharaoh’s whose tombs and temples you just visited. Then we will drive to Old Cairo to visit the oldest churches, synagogues, and mosques in Cairo. Finally ending back Le Meridian Pyramids, Pyramid view room. Meals B & D.

Day 4- Fly to Luxor and tour Luxor museum, discover luxor Market by horse carriage.

Luxor and Cruise. After breakfast this morning we will take the 1 hour flight to Luxor where we will check in at the Sonetsa Saint George . We will take a horse and carriage ride to Luxor Museum and enjoy a meal at a local restaurant and back to our hotel  Sonesta Saint George Royal Club room. Meals B & D.

Day 5- Tour valley of the queens, Nobles tombs.

Today we have a tour to the Valley of the Queens, that includes queen’s tombs, and King’s sons Tombs with the beautiful colors. we will lunch at a local restaurant and then go to the Valley of the Nobles. The tombs here are not as spectacular but the drawings are of everyday life and interesting to see how they lived and worked. Many of them are newly opened and they are still discovering tombs in this area. Back to the hotel Sonesta Saint George Royal Club room. Meals B & D.

Day 6-  Tour Karnak and Luxor temples.

Luxor. After breakfast we will check out of our amazing cruise boat and visit the Luxor East bank. We will stop at the largest temple complex in the world, the 64 acre Karnak temple with its oldest parts from 2000 BC and added onto for 1200 years of pharaoh’s dynasties. Then we will follow the avenue of the Sphinx to Luxor Temple, much smaller but just as interesting with remnant of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome and even Coptic and Islamic era building. We will then head to Our Luxury Nile cruise Ms Sonetsa Saint George. Meals B. L & D.

Day 7-   Tour valley of the kings, Hatsheput  Temple and village of the workers.

After breakfast today and head to the Valley of the Kings where you will see tombs looking like they were just carved and painted yesterday. The colors and skill will amaze you and your personal Egyptologist will explain the purpose and symbols of the journey to the afterlife depicted on the walls. As a special treat you will see the small but amazing tomb of King Tutankhamen with his mummy still residing there. We will then visit the Worker Village where you will see the life of the middle class who worked on the tombs, you will have a chance to visit their personal tombs, much smaller than the kings tombs but well preserved with amazing colors. We will then visit the mortuary temple of Queen Hatsheput and walk up the ramps where her priests paid homage for generations. Finally, on our way back to the cruise ship we will stop at the Colossi of Memnon, the huge statues of Amenhotep III. back to our Nile cruise Ms Sonetsa Saint George. Meals B. L & D.

Day 8- Edfu, komombo and Sailing Day.

After breakfast we will meet our guide who will take us on a horse and carriage ride to the Temple. Edfu Temple is the best preserved of temples in Egypt and dates to the Greek era in Egypt, 237 BC. This is the best example of a fully intact ancient Egyptian temple with the sacred boat still in the holy of holies. We will be back to the cruise ship by lunch and enjoy the afternoon Sailing to Komombo. once the boat dock there you will meet your guide in the lobby to  walk a few meters, that temple was built and dedicated to two gods Sobek the crocodile and Horus the falcon, back to the cruise to continue Sailing to Aswan for Over night. Ms Sonetsa Saint George. Meals B. L & D.

Day 9- Aswan high dam, and Phila Temple

After breakfast we will head to the Aswan High Dam for viewing of this architectural wonder, then on to the Philae Temple which is on an island moved from its original state because of the retention water of the dam. Philae Temple was dedicated to the goddess Isis and was in use up until the fourth century AD. After the temple we will go to the granite quarry where we will see the largest obelisk attempted to be quarried in one monolithic piece.  We will end our afternoon back at the cruise ship for lunch, later we will enjoy a sail boat ride ( Felucca ) then back to our  Luxury Nile Cruise Ms Sonetsa Saint George. Meals B. L & D.

Day 10-  Adventure to Abu Simble and fly back to Cairo.

Check out of the cruise to start you tour to Abu simble temple back to Aswan to catch your flight to Cairo, upon arrival meet and assist by our rep who will check in your five stars hotel. Fairmont Nile City Deluxe Nile view room. Meals B & L.

Day 11- Alexandria full day Tour.

Alexandria. After breakfast we will board our bus for the two hour drive to Alexandria where we will stop at the modern library. Then we will visit the Roman era catacombs, Pompei’s pillar, and amphitheater.  We will have a sea food lunch overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Then we drive back to our hotel in Cairo Fairmont Nile City Deluxe Nile view room. Meals B & L.

Day 12-  Cairo and Home. After breakfast you will be picked up for your final bus ride to the airport for your flight back home.