Overview:

Egypt's vast wealth of antiquities take centre stage here: Karnak, the Pyramids and Sphinx, Tutankhamun's treasure, and the ubiquitous hieroglyphics.

Countries Visited

Egypt

An expert Insight professional multilingual Egyptologist/Tour Director, will smooth your way throughout your journey. They are your ‘travelling concierges’, expert guides, consummate organisers and friends in a foreign land.

Enjoy the unique comfort of Insight's luxury air-conditioned 40 seat coach with extended leg room and on-board restroom. It's business class comfort.

Personal radio headsets, gives you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights without missing any of your local expert’s fascinating insights and commentaries (Available on groups for 8 or more).

Baggage handling everywhere, with seamless and prompt delivery to your door at every hotel. Hotel and restaurant tips included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. Plus we include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.

Insight Flourishes - from time to time, your Tour Director will enchant you with local tidbits, each representing authentic food or beverages unique to the destination.

Included airport transfers at scheduled times on arrival and departure days.

7 night Nile cruise on the MS Miriam or MS Giselle (or similar) including cruise boat gratuities.

Scheduled air travel between Cairo and Luxor.

Services of Insight's Representative in Egypt.

Smaller vehicles without toilet facilities may be used.

Cruising: Join the fun at an Egyptian dinner and galabeya party.
Luxor: Visit a working bakery and witness the local artisans creating authentic Egyptian bread.
Aswan: Like Winston Churchill and Agatha Christie before you, enjoy the sunset and high tea in colonial English-style at Aswan's famous Old Cataract Hotel.
11 Buffet Breakfasts (BB), 1 High Tea (AT) and 1 Welcome Drink (WR); plus 7 lunches (L), 6 Dinners (D) and 1 Signature Evening (SE) all with bottled water, tea or coffee while cruising. 26 Dec departure enjoy a festive Celebration Dinner for New Year's Eve. This will replace one of the included meals.
Cairo: Gaze upon the most recognisable symbols of ancient Egypt: the full-faced funeral mask, gold coffin, gilded throne and precious jewellery – Tutankhamun’s treasures.
Giza: If only these walls could talk! Oh, but they do at the audio visual Sound & Light Show at the Great pyramids.
Karnak: Stand amid a vast forest of columns in the largest temple complex known to man.
Aswan: On a traditional Nile felucca, meet the captain and learn the art of sailing this ancient Nile craft.
Philae Island: Board a motorboat to the temple complex.
Giza: Meet the enigmatic Sphinx and venture deep inside one of the pyramids, to the chambers where the Pharaohs went to meet their Gods in the afterlife.
West Bank: Embark on an experience with an Egyptologist to visit the Temple Hatshepsut and royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Cairo Marriott: The luxurious Cairo Marriott is conveniently located on Gezira Island in downtown Cairo. The central section was once the Gezirah Palace built for the Khedive Isma'il Pasha in 1869. Facilities include health club, whirlpool and sauna.
Cruising: Cruise the Nile in style aboard your traditional Nile cruiser with its spacious cabins, bars, shops, lounge, restaurant and swimming pool.