Egypt Land of Pharaohs Tour Ancient History Experience

Have your breakfast at the hotel. Your private Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up to start your day tour. 

Visit the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is filled with artifacts from thousands of years of Egyptian history, including the mummies of powerful pharaohs and treasures from the Tomb of Tutankhamun.

Continue to visit one of the Ancient Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Pyramids. See the royal burial chamber of either Menkaure or Khafre Pyramids, the Valley Temple, and the Sphinx.

On your way, you will visit a papyrus institute where you will be taken on a journey through the craft using step-by-step demonstrations and extensive displays of papyrus artworks to view and have the chance to buy souvenirs. You can choose among hundreds of designs, including printing your name in hieroglyphics with scenes from ancient Egypt (the artworks are certified for using genuine papyrus).

Return to your hotel overnight.

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Aswan. 

Upon arrival in Aswan, you will be met by our representative and start your tour by a short motorboat ride to the Temple of Philae on the island of Anguilla.  The temple was dedicated to Isis, sister/wife of Osiris and patroness of the Ptolemaic rule.

Transfer to your hotel. 

Later, enjoy riding a felucca on the Nile to relax and enjoy the scenery in this traditional Egyptian sailboat. Return to your hotel overnight.

After breakfast, your private Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up to drive north along the Nile to Kom Ombo. Visit the Temple of Sobek, the crocodile-headed god of fertility and creator of the world.  The temple stands at a bend in the Nile where, in ancient times, sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the riverbank.

Continue to Edfu and visit the Temple of Horus, the most perfectly preserved of all the Nile Temples.  Horus, also known as Haroeris, was the falcon-headed solar war god. 

Continue to Luxor. Overnight at your hotel.

In the evening, a Horse carriage ride around the Cornish of Luxor, then passing by the Sphinx Road, the local market, and having the opportunity for photos in front of the Lighten Luxor Temple from outside.

After breakfast, cross to the West Bank of the Nile and visit the wondrous Valley of the Kings, a vast city of the dead where the magnificent tombs of 62 pharaohs have been discovered.  The tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated, and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs. Visit several of the tombs.  Next, visit the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.  This beautiful monument to the reign of the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs surrounding it.  

On your way back, stop at the famed Colossi of Memnon, two 66ft, 1-thousand-ton statues of Amenhotep III. 

Have lunch at a restaurant.

Later, visit Karnak Temple, called by some “the Temple of Temples.”  It is the largest place of worship ever built. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars covering an area larger than the whole of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Transfer to the airport for your flight back to Cairo.

Upon arrival at Cairo Airport, you will meet our representative and be transferred to your hotel overnight.

You will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight.