Seven days along the Nile. Cairo's Giza pyramids and the Egyptian Museum, a flight south to Aswan's Nubian villages and the Philae Temple, a classic 3-night Nile cruise to Luxor, and the Valley of the Kings with Tutankhamun's tomb. 5,000 years in a week.
Arrive Cairo (CAI). Transfer to your Giza or Zamalek hotel. Evening: a pyramids-view dinner at a rooftop with the 4,500-year-old silhouettes floodlit. Optional sound-and-light show at Giza.
Dawn at Giza โ the Great Pyramid of Khufu (146 m, 2.3 million blocks), Khafre with its cap of original limestone, Menkaure, and the Sphinx carved from a single block. Solar Boat museum. Lunch overlooking the plateau. Afternoon: Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square โ Tutankhamun's gold mask, mummy room, Rosetta Stone replica. (Grand Egyptian Museum now partially open at Giza.)
Morning: Salah El Din Citadel, Mosque of Muhammad Ali (alabaster mosque). Coptic Cairo โ Hanging Church, Ben Ezra synagogue. Khan el-Khalili bazaar for copper, perfume oils, shisha pipes, a mint tea at El Fishawy cafe (open 24/7 since 1797). Evening flight to Aswan.
Morning: High Dam, Philae Temple of Isis (relocated island by island from the flooded original), unfinished obelisk in the granite quarries. Afternoon: board your Nile cruiser. Felucca sailboat ride at sunset past Kitchener's Island and the Nubian villages on the west bank.
Morning sailing. Visit Kom Ombo โ the double temple shared between crocodile-god Sobek and falcon-god Horus. Crocodile Museum with mummified crocs. Lunch as the boat sails. Afternoon: Edfu's Temple of Horus, best-preserved temple in Egypt. Evening: captain's dinner and a galabeya (traditional dress) party.
Dock at Luxor. West Bank morning: Valley of the Kings โ three royal tombs included, with Tutankhamun's extra. Hatshepsut's terraced temple at Deir el-Bahari, Colossi of Memnon. Afternoon East Bank: Karnak Temple (largest religious structure ever built), Luxor Temple. Sound-and-light at Karnak in the evening.
Optional pre-dawn 3-hour flight or drive to Abu Simbel โ Ramses II's two colossal rock-cut temples (moved block by block when Lake Nasser rose). Return to Luxor. Fly Luxor-Cairo-home, or extend with Red Sea beach days at Hurghada or Sharm el-Sheikh.
Egypt is wonderful most of the year, but our experts will guide you to the best season based on weather, festivals and crowd levels.
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Island of temples, terraces and tides.
