5-Day Nile Cruise trip in Luxor to Aswan

Meet your guide in Luxor to start your Egypt Nile Cruise trip with the top tourist attractions on the east bank of the Nile River. Start with Karnak Temple. The Karnak temple complex is the biggest temple not only in Egypt but in the world. After you visit Karnak temple, you will join your guide to check-in at your Nile cruise and then enjoy the lunch on board the cruise. 

Later on, you can rest for a while before you start the visit to Luxor temple at night. Luxor temple will be your night visit to see how amazing it is when the temple is lit at night. Luxor was built by Amenhotep III for Amon ka mut. Although Luxor Temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the best Luxor attractions.

Meals: Lunch, dinner

Enjoy your breakfast on board the Nile Cruise, then join your guide to Luxor day tours on Luxor West Bank to explore some of the top Luxor attractions. Start your trip with Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings is one of the most visited places in Egypt after the Giza Pyramids and Abu Simbel temples. Explore the burial place of the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun's tomb. 

After that, you can visit the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, which is one of the most amazing temples on Luxor West Bank in the Deir El Bahari area. Ancient Egyptian agriculture, the Divine Birth of Hatshepsut, and the Punt expedition are among the temple's distinctive reliefs. Then you can tour Memnon Colossi. At the end of your tour on Luxor's west bank, you will return to your Nile Cruise and begin sailing to Edfu City via Esna Lock.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Enjoy your early morning coffee then depart to Horus temple with horse carriages for about 15 minutes. Upon arrival, you will start your tour of Edfu Temple. You will explore the highest Pylon in Egypt and learn more about ancient Egyptian festivals, especially the good union between Hathor of Dendera and Horus of Edfu. Finally, the Edfu temple is a great source of the way they constructed a temple in ancient Egyptian civilization. 

Once you finish your tour, you will go back to the Nile cruise for breakfast and enjoy the rest of the day sailing to Kom Ombo City. Explore Kom Ombo temple by the Nile side and enjoy the ruins of the only double temple in Egypt. Once you finish your tour to Kom Ombo, you can visit the Crocodile Museum, then back to the cruise for dinner and sailing to Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Enjoy your morning coffee at the Nile cruise bar before you start your Aswan day tours to Abu Simbel temples in Nubia. The drive through the New Valley or Toshka Project and the breathtaking desert vista takes about three hours. 

Abu Simbel is a significant historical site in Egyptian Nubia, close to Sudan. The great Ramesses erected two enormous temples there. At the end of your Abu Simbel tour, you will go back to your Nile Cruise for lunch, then start your Aswan attractions tour with your guide. 

You will explore Aswan High Dam which was built 70 years after the Aswan Low Dam and 3 km to the south of it. In the 20th century, the High Dam, one of the biggest embankment dams in the world, was regarded as an engineering marvel. 

After that, you can visit the unfinished obelisk, Philae Temple, which is located between Aswan Dam and Aswan High Dam on Agilkia Island instead of Philae Island.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

After having your last breakfast on board, the Nile cruise, you will check out and your guide will transfer you to anywhere in Aswan to end your 4 Nights of Nile Cruise Luxor to Aswan.

Meals: breakfast