Met at the airport and taken to your hotel. Depending on your arrival time, an easy first walk and dinner. Overnight in Cairo.
Cairo, the Nile & the Red Sea — 9 Days
9
Days
Overview
Three Egypts in nine days, and enough time in each to tell them apart. Cairo for the beginning of everything, the Nile between Luxor and Aswan for the middle of it, and the Red Sea at the end because you will have earned the quiet.
The river section is done under sail on a dahabeya, not on a floating hotel. That means a handful of cabins instead of a hundred, moorings at sandbanks where the big boats cannot stop, and a pace set by the wind. Temples are visited when the light is good and the crowds have gone, not when the timetable says.
Private throughout, with an Egyptologist who travels with you rather than meeting you at each gate.
Slower, or differently — always possible. Tell us how you like to travel and we will rebuild the day around it.
Trip Highlights
Tour Itinerary
Day 1 :
Arrival in Cairo
The pyramids and the Sphinx in the morning, then the new museum below the plateau with the complete Tutankhamun collection. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 3 :
To Luxor and the East Bank
Morning flight south. In the late afternoon, Karnak as the light softens, and Luxor Temple after dark. Overnight in Luxor.
Day 4 :
The West Bank, then aboard
The Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut’s temple in the cool of the morning. In the afternoon you board the dahabeya. Overnight on board.
Day 5 :
Under sail to Esna
A full day on the water with a stop at Esna, where the temple of Khnum sits below the level of the modern town, its ceiling newly cleaned. Overnight moored on a sandbank.
Day 6 :
Edfu
The best-preserved temple in Egypt, built for Horus over a hundred and eighty years. Sailing on in the afternoon. Overnight on board.
Day 7 :
Kom Ombo and on to Aswan
The double temple shared between Sobek and Haroeris, then the last stretch of river into Aswan. Overnight on board or ashore.
Day 8 :
Aswan, then the Red Sea
Philae, moved island by island to save it from the rising lake, and a felucca among the granite boulders. Transfer to the Red Sea coast in the afternoon. Overnight on the coast.
Day 9 :
Departure
A morning by the water before your transfer to Hurghada airport.
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