General

Get face-to-face with Egypt’smost iconic antiquities, including Karnak, the Pyramids and Sphinx, Tutankhamun’s treasure, and the ubiquitous hieroglyphics.

?INSIGHT EXPERIENCES
Luxor: Enjoy listening to stories of village life from its local residents when you visit a family home for a tasting of authentic Egyptian sun bread.
Ride a traditional Nile felucca.

?TOP RATED HIGHLIGHTS
Travel with return flights to Luxor.
Visit Karnak Temple Complex • Luxor Museum • Temple of Hathor in Dendra
• Luxor Temple and Luxor Museum • High Dam and Granite Quarries of Aswan • Philae Island • Temple of Isis • Kom Ombo Temple • Valley of the Kings and Temple Hatshepsut on the West Bank • Pyramids of Giza • Egyptian Museum.
See the Hypostyle Hall • Colossi of Memnon • Statue of Ramesses II and
Alabaster Sphinx in Memphis • Sakkara’s Step Pyramid of Zoser I • The Sphinx •
Giza’s Sound & Light Show • Cairo Citadel and Great Alabaster Mosque

AUTHENTIC DINING
Egyptian dinner and galabeya party on the Nile cruise • Colonial-style high tea in Aswan.

Explore the splendors of Egypt on this 12-day tour. Cruise down the Nile with a stop at the Old Cataract Hotel, where Winston Churchill and Agatha Christie once dined, for a traditional high tea. Continue down the Nile to Luxor, where you will see the Valley of the Kings, where pharaohs — including the famous Tutankhamun — are buried. Later, break bread with a family in Geziret Bahirat, who will regale you with tales of local life. In Cairo, see the oldest pyramid in the world, the Step Pyramid of King Zoser, before traveling to see one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Pyramids of Giza. Here, stand face-to-face with the towering sphinx and later, see a sound and light show dance across the stones.