Budget Best of Egypt

Day 1: 

Cairo: Arrival

Welcome to Cairo airport!  our representative will meet and assist you through immigration and customs formalities upon your arrival. He will then take you in our a/c vehicle to your hotel in Cairo. Hotel check-in and overnight.

Day 2

Cairo: Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Egyptian Museum

Breakfast at the hotel is followed by a full-day tour. In the morning you will visit  the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx: the most famous monuments of the world.

In the afternoon you will be taken to the Egyptian Museum: where thousands of artifacts are awaiting your visit. At the end of this exciting day, you will be driven back to your hotel.

Day 3

Alexandria: Qaitbay Citadel, Pompey’s Pillar, Montazah Gardens, New Alexandria Library 

Breakfast in your hotel transfer by our air-conditioned vehicle, to Alexandria.

Your trip to Alexandria includes the Citadel of Qaitbay, where the Mameluke Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay fortified the site, then you will visit the Pompey’s Pillar, the biggest memorial column in Egypt, made of red granite. Then visit Montazah Gardens, a private park where world leaders often meet. Finally, you will visit the New Alexandria Library, inaugurated on October 16, 2002, with shelf space for eight million books, with the main reading room on eleven levels.

Lunch will be supplied at a local restaurant in the middle of this exciting tour, and at the end of the exited day, you will drive back to Cairo.

Day 4

Cairo: Citadel with Mohamed Ali Mosque, Old Cairo Churches, Khan Khalili Bazaar

After breakfast, you will be taken to the Citadel of Saladin, and Muhammad Ali Pasha mosque.

Then proceed to the famous destination for Pilgrims Churches, including The Hanging Church, the Church of St. George the Martyr, 2 churches built into the walls of the Fort of Babylon; and the Church of Abu Serga (St. Sergius). 

At the end of this exciting day, you will be driven to your hotel to check-out and then driven to see the old market of Cairo (Khan El-Khalili) before being taken to Ramses railway station, where you will board the night sleeper train to Aswan, which departs at 20:25.
Dinner is served on the train. 

Day 5

Aswan: High Dam, Philae Temple

Around 08;15 you will arrive at Aswan train station. Our representative will meet and transfer you to your hotel for check-in.

In the afternoon you will be driven to see the High Dam, the world’s largest rock-filled dam, and then a short sail to the Temple of Philae moved to the island of Agilika after the waters of Lake Nasser flooded its original location. You will be transferred back to your hotel and overnight.

Day 6

Nile Cruise: Aswan (Free Day)

After breakfast, you will check out from Hotel and transfer to Nile cruise; your floating hotel for your next 3 nights.

Lunch on board and the rest of the day is free at leisure or any optional tours, dinner will also be served on board.

Optional Tour:

You can choose an optional tour to visit Abu Simbel to see these marvelous temples, which were originally carved out of a rocky mountainside by Ramses II.

Day 7

Nile Cruise: Kom Ombo & Edfu

Breakfast on board as the boat sails majestically towards Kom Ombo, where you will visit the Temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated to the gods Horus and Sobek.

After, you will be taken back to the boat for lunch while it sails onward to Edfu, visit the Temple of Horus.

Then you will be taken back to the boat, you will have plenty of time before departing Edfu and sailing through the Esna locks. After dinner, the boat will continue sailing towards Luxor.

Day 8

Luxor: (Westbank: Kings Valley, Queens Valley, Hatshepsut Temple, Memnon Colossi) + (Eastbank: Karnak & Luxor Temples)

Early breakfast, then visit the West Bank of Luxor: the tombs of the New Kingdom Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings; the tombs of princes in the Valley of the Queens; the magnificent temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El-Bahri ending with the Colossi of Memnon.

After lunch, you will visit the magnificent Karnak, Luxor Temples, and Theban Temples you return to the boat where you will have dinner.

Day 9

Luxor / Hurghada by Car

Breakfast on board, then checkout, and free day.

In the afternoon you will be transferred to Hurghada by our A/C vehicle. Check-in at the hotel upon arrival. Stay at leisure with opportunities for optional activities as snorkeling, diving, glass boat, fishing trips, safari, and lots of other water sports activities.

Day 10

Hurghada: Stay at Leisure

After breakfast, spend a full day for sunbathing, shopping, or taking some of the many activities available to you.

Day 11

Hurghada / Cairo by Car

Breakfast, you will check-out in the afternoon, and be transferred back to Cairo in our air-conditioned vehicle. Once arrived, you will check in at the hotel and rest for the rest of the day.

Day 12

Cairo: Final Departure

Your final day starts with breakfast at the hotel followed by check-out. You will then be transferred to the airport for your final departure.