5 Days Nile Cruise from Luxor to Aswan

In the morning, we will pick you up from your hotel or any location of your choice in Luxor in a modern, air-conditioned vehicle to explore the East Bank of Luxor, including:

Karnak Temple:

The great temple complex of Karnak is an extraordinary open-air museum that was the capital for the religious worship of deities in Upper Egypt from 2055 BC until the Ptolemaic era in 100 AD. It contains the most extensive collection of temples and statues of ancient Egypt.

Temple of Luxor:

The ancient Egyptian home of celebration was created in 1400 BC during the reign of Amenhotep III and completed by Ramses II. It is the famous home of the festival of Opet to honor the divine powers of the pharaohs, and only the light of the heavenly moon at night can reveal its beauty and ancient secrets.

Overnight Cruise

Meals: Lunch – Dinner

Breakfast will be served on board, and then you will be escorted to discover the sites of the West Bank, including:

Valley of the Kings:

During the New Kingdom (1570-1070 BC), ancient royalty sought to immortalize their names and pass into the afterlife, so 20 royal tombs filled with gold treasures, artifacts and enchanting decorations emerged alongside their mummies, such as those of Ramesses VI, Amenhotep I, Seti I, Tutankhamun and more in the Valley of the Kings.

Temple of Hatshepsut:

One of the intoxicating architectural creations of the ancient Egyptian empire is the Temple of Hatshepsut, which showcases the importance of Queen Hatshepsut (1507-1458 BC). The design of the temple is a true work of art built in the classical architectural style of the New Kingdom.

Colossi of Memnon:

The Colossi of Memnon were built by Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1386-1350) in Cairo, then moved to stand at the entrance to the city of Luxor, standing 18 meters (60 feet) high and weighing 720 tons each.

Overnight on Cruise

Meals: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Breakfast on board, then your Egyptologist will accompany you to walk around the Temples of Edfu and Kom Ombo:

Edfu Temple:

Edfu Temple is one of the few temples built in Egyptian history between 237 BC and 57 BC in the Ptolemaic era to be the official home of the sky god Horus, merging Greek and ancient Egyptian architectural design in the most captivating way.

Temple of Kom Ombo:

The unique double temple of Kom Ombo, the home of the crocodile god, is located across the bank of the Nile and was built in Greco-Roman times between 205 BC and 180 BC.

Overnight Cruise

Meals: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Enjoy your breakfast in the morning, then continue your Nile River cruise visiting Aswan. Highlights:

Aswan High Dam:

Between 1960 and 1970, a mighty Aswan High Dam was created to control the Nile floods, provide increased water storage for irrigation and generate large amounts of electricity.

The Unfinished Obelisk:

Intended to stand at the entrance to the temple of Karnak by order of Queen Hatshepsut, but, unfortunately, it cracked during construction. It is 42 meters high, weighs 1200 tons and can reveal how ancient Egyptian craftsmanship was performed.

Temple of Philae:

The legendary home of the goddess of motherhood and healing Isis, wife of Osiris, the ruler of the underworld, the Philae Temple was built between 380 BC and 362 BC by King Ptolemy II to showcase an ancient legend.

Overnight on Cruise

Meals: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

In the morning, have breakfast and check-out from your Nile cruise, then we will transfer you to any location within Aswan to finish your 5 days Nile River cruise. We hope you enjoy your experience with us.

Meals: Breakfast

The Egyptian visa is mandatory for all visitors for tourist purposes, either through ports or airports.

The Egyptian visa has 2 types, one is a single entry visa, valid for 30 days in the country and expires after 3 months, there is also another visa with multiple entries, valid for 3 months but also requires a departure from the country every 30 days.

Requirements for entry

1. ordinary passport valid for 7 months (diplomatic passport requires an advance visa).
2. travelers for tourist purposes must have a hotel reservation or their place of stay in Egypt ,in case of organized trips with travel agencies the staff of the agency who remain present at the airports will take care of it.

To all our travelers of aviaral travel we have our itineraries and routes with the visa always included so we save hassle and inconvenience.

When entering Egypt, no vaccinations are required, although depending on the season and flight of arrival, a yellow fever vaccination certificate is sometimes required from countries considered to host the disease.

Preparing a suitcase to Egypt is very simple, depending a lot on the climate and customs.
Egypt is a country throughout its history was civil, never took a religious system, although this system arrived in 2011 but did not last more than a year, but even so the social classes are very marked and is usually the middle class, and humble quite preserved, as much of the archaeological sites are in areas of humble class and middle class, with which

For women it is advisable to wear women’s clothing to Egypt with short or long sleeves without necklines and long pants or shorts not so sexy, but also in hotels, cruise you can wear the clothes you want, in the sea areas are very western cities in which one can wear what he wants, when entering the mosques usually does not cover the head but in some mosques if they ask for it

For men the clothes of men in Egypt although they are not similar to Western men but still does not carry any offense any form of dress of man.

Egypt is one of the countries that is receiving a lot of climate change as many parts of the world but still it is advisable in summer cotton clothes and in winter 3 layers because Egypt goes through 3 phases of temperature during the day, during the early morning quite cold, then gradually feel warmer and during the night is quite cold especially in the north of the country.

Despite its dry environment but due to its very varied nature between desert, fertile valley (the valley of the Nile River and its delta) 2 seas which are the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, and mountains, the climate of Egypt changes from one area to the other.

But it is united in that the country does not receive much rain in much of its territory except in the north in the winter months between November to March, Egypt rarely receives snow and it is usually in the east both in Sinai and the cities of the delta that is usually quite humid.

The summer months in Egypt are from April to October while the winter months are usually from November to March.

Due to climate change, Egypt was also one of the countries suffering from climate change that was on the one hand positive and on the other negative, formerly the summer of the Pharaonic country was quite hot that reached 50 degrees both in the south and in the desert territory, today Egypt has been 2 years with a summer much lighter with about 40 degrees or 39 in the hottest months (July and August) and the winter of this country dawned much longer and colder than before, the north of this country in the coldest months of winter was 8 or 7 degrees while the south was about 15 degrees or 12 at some times of the day, but on the other hand the country does not yet have sufficient infrastructure to receive rain in the north and is an additional charge to the regime now established.

The currency of Egypt is the Egyptian pound, it maintained a high purchasing power until the 50’s until for some time in its history it became almost equal to a pound of gold, from the 60’s due to the political situation after having received a military coup in the 50’s, and the constant wars, the Suez crisis, the war of the 6 days, the war of 69 and finally the war of Yum Kippur, the Egyptian currency received many blows that caused its devaluation, it became almost 7 pounds in exchange for the dollar, and 9 pounds in exchange for the euro.

The pound continued to bleed because of the political situation after 2 revolutions known as the first Arab war, and the regime established in Egypt faced the strongest economic crisis in the history of the millenary country, it was forced to devalue the currency, since then the pound began to lose much value against the dollar that reached 15.5 Egyptian pounds, and against the euro that reached 19 Egyptian pounds.

Today, despite the economic situation, Egypt’s economy is considered one of the best growing economies in the world, but the country still has many obstacles and problems to solve.

You can pay with all types of credit cards in Egypt, although American Express is not preferred due to its high commission (it is not advisable to pay with credit cards in unfamiliar places in Egypt).

The Egyptian currency is the Egyptian pound, it was devalued some years ago by the economic crisis that Egypt suffered during the time of the first Arab will see, under much the value of the Egyptian pound before the dollar and the euro,

It is always advisable to change money in Egypt that the exchange rate is always better than there, all hotels usually have banks to change money but there are ATMs to change money and exchange houses near the archaeological monuments.

The price against the Egyptian pound

1. Dollar at 31.15 Egyptian Pound
2. Euro at 34.12 Egyptian pounds

Formerly, the best season was from November to April, but due to climate change, the season was extended from September to April, with a bearable summer for certain nationalities.

Although apparently the Egyptian world is more masculine, but it was very noticeable the role that women play in Egyptian society, something was manifested in the last elections in Egypt. I carried out female coutas in the parliament of Egypt and the government, that answers the question that the woman being alone can easily make a trip to Egypt

At present there are so many guides on the market about Egypt that one more may seem unnecessary however I hope that ours will be interesting, it is different in the sense of the topics it reveals, it also points out the sites to try to understand the purpose for which these sites were intended ,to vary the vision about the destination and choose the package that suits us this destination ,it also contains some itineraries of ours apart from the itineraries that are on our website.

The Egypt guide is arranged in an interesting way starting with its index, most important cities, then some interesting articles about certain sites that we focus to present to you in a way that deserves, then it shows our way of dividing the travel packages benefits, it also tells about our insurances and how to travel safe both health insurance, cancellation and luggage.

Throughout its history even during the time of wars Egypt has been a safe destination, and according to its world ranking it had a good security ranking worldwide and that because security itself is an objective of the regime established in Egypt, after enough demonstrations, political situation, radical economic measures, police presence is seen in the country, also the system ,perhaps inspires many people discomfort but in reality the Egyptian country is establishing various systems of tax collection ,devaluing the currency to change the system from a left socialist system to capitalist and that requires the state to be attentive to various needs especially the security and the humble class of the country and its need.